Europe Refinery Maintenance

European autumn refinery maintenance season is ramping up with several plants undergoing turnarounds in the next four weeks according to Bloomberg.

• In Germany, today the planned maintenance at BP’s 265Gelsenkirchen crude unit began, affecting 120kbpd. Maintenance is scheduled to end 14 Oct. The refinery is also planning a partial shutdown of another unit later this autumn.
• Tamoil’s Tarnoil Holborn refinery began its annual turnaround on 1 Sept limiting output by 105kbpd. Units started shutting down on 26 August and maintenance is scheduled to fully start on 11 Sept until 14 Oct.
• Shell’s Miro Refinery will start seasonal maintenance on 15 Sept until 31 Oct with planned works at the FCC and alky unit limiting output by 62kbpd.
• In the UK, Valero’s Pembroke refinery will start maintenance on 15 Sept with a full shut down of 220kbpd.
• Contractors working at UK oil refineries will be balloted on strike action, the GMB Union said last week. Members working for the likes of Altrad, Bilfinger and Balfour Beatty among others, will shortly be balloted on oil refineries which include Fawley, Valero and Stanlow with Scottish Refineries following later in the week”.
• In Sweden, Preem AB’s Gothenburg refinery will have works planned on 12 Sept until 11 Oct affecting 75kbpd.
• In Hungary, works are ongoing at MOL’s Szazhalmbatta refinery’s 70kbpd CDU unit. Works are scheduled to end on 25 Sept.
• In Belgium, the unplanned outage at Total’s Antwerp refinery amid a flaring event that halted the 70.4kbpd FCC unit are scheduled to end on 18 Oct.
• Spain’s Bilbao refinery is halting its G3 diesel desulphurization unit for planned maintenance for around 21 days according to a statement from Petronor last week.