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"refinery" Definitions
  1. a factory where a substance such as oil is refined (= made pure)

678 Sentences With "refinery"

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Houston's major refineries include the Marathon Galveston Bay refinery, Phillips 66 Sweeny refinery and Exxon Mobil's Baytown refinery, among others.
However, investor interest was seen in refinery stocks with Attock Refinery Ltd gaining 1.85 percent while Pakistan Refinery Ltd ended 3.39 percent higher.
The refinery will also perform work on other units at the refinery and continue the Star Project to tie together the Galveston Bay Refinery with Marathon's 86,000-bpd Texas City Refinery, across the street, the sources said.
Rompetrol Rafinare S.A. owns the Petromidia refinery, Vega refinery and Rompetrol Petrochemicals.
Rebels Refinery Capital Vices Skull Lip Balm, $7.99, available at Rebels Refinery.
The Meraux refinery is about 17 miles north of the Alliance refinery.
WHEELER: You don't get a small refinery exemption for the life of your refinery.
The Brooklyn refinery was the original refinery of the American Sugar Refinery Company, which had sugar and lumber investments in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and other parts of the Caribbean.
Urals is being supplied to Hungary's Mol Danube refinery and the Bratislava refinery in Slovakia.
Lipow estimates about 4.5 percent of refining capacity is still down, due in large part to shutdowns at Exxon's Beaumont refinery, Total's Port Arthur refinery, and Shell's Deer Park refinery.
The Salamanca refinery, the second-oldest Mexican refinery in operation, was inaugurated on July 30, 1950.
Bayernoil refinery complex, which also includes the Neustadt refinery, has an overall capacity of 210,000 bpd.
The Baytown refinery is the second largest in the United States and Exxon's largest U.S. refinery.
The Baytown refinery is the fourth largest in the United States and Exxon's largest U.S. refinery.
ExxonMobil Corp's Baytown, Texas, refinery; Royal Dutch Shell Plc's joint-venture Deer Park, Texas, refinery, and Phillips 66's Sweeny, Texas, refinery were operating normally on Tuesday morning, company representatives said.
Caltex's solitary oil refinery, the Lytton refinery in Brisbane, also suffered lower refining margins, down 18.6 percent.
The agreement includes output from the Ruwais Refinery, the fourth largest single site refinery in the world.
The refinery, currently Vietnam's only operating refinery, has a total capacity of 6.5 million tonnes per year.
The Hambantota refinery will be the second new refinery the island nation has planned in the country.
The refinery could fetch $500 million to $700 million, according to a person familiar with refinery valuations.
Those facilities may include BP PLC's Whiting, Indiana refinery and Phillips 66's Wood River, Illinois, refinery.
Gas oil from the Convent refinery used to make gasoline will be sent to the Norco refinery.
Sources said the Motiva Port Arthur refinery in Texas, the largest U.S. refinery, was considering a shutdown.
The Bukom manufacturing site includes a 500,000 barrels-per-day refinery, which is Shell's largest wholly owned refinery.
"Refinery runs were impressive considering that refinery maintenance was still heavy," said Nevyn Nah, analyst at Energy Aspects.
Ghana's only oil refinery, the Tema Oil Refinery, processes about 25,000 bpd of oil, far below its capacity.
The precise percentage varies somewhat from refinery to refinery depending on their configuration and the crudes they process.
The largest refinery in the U.S. in Port Arthur, Motiva's refinery, was shut down, along with Valero, Wednesday.
The Motiva refinery in Port Arthur, the largest U.S. refinery , could be down for a month, Lipow said.
Whether Rand Refinery, sub-Saharan Africa's biggest gold refinery, would also be allowed to continue operating remained unclear.
On top of heavy maintenance, fires broke out at facilities over the last few months, including at Valero's Port Arthur, Texas, refinery, Exxon Mobil Corp's Baytown, Texas, refinery and HollyFrontier's El Dorado, Kansas, refinery.
Phillips 66 operates three refineries in the U.S. Midwest, including its 306,000 bpd Wood River refinery in Roxana, Illinois; a 200,000 bpd refinery in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and a 146,000 bpd refinery in Borger, Texas.
The location of refinery was one of the contentious issues between the parties, with Shiv Sena opposing the refinery.
After profitable years in 2014 and 2015, Delta's refinery lost $125 million last year as refinery industry margins collapsed.
"This negatively impacts our refinery economics, but greatly helps reduce Delta's fuel cost," refinery manager Jeff Warmann wrote then.
The refining complex was formed by the merger of an Atlantic Richfield legacy refinery and a Gulf legacy refinery.
"We probably import more gasoline from that single refinery than any other single refinery around the world," he said.
Lyondell's refinery supplies dry gas to Shell's joint-venture refinery seven miles (11.25 km) east in Deer Park, Texas.
Sinclair operates an 85,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Sinclair, Wyoming and a 25,000 bpd refinery in Casper, Wyoming.
Vietnam has a shortage of refinery products, with Dung Quat refinery capable of supplying only 30 percent of domestic demand.
Loading is operating on schedule at Russian oil giant Rosneft's Achinsk oil refinery, TASS quoted a refinery spokesperson as saying.
Refinery crude runs rose 193,000 bpd as refinery utilization rates fell 0.6 percentage point to 89.1 percent of total capacity.
Refinery margins: Global refinery margins have been trending lower over the past year, suggesting that demand for oil was softening.
Reuters reported that the EPA granted its Wynnewood, Oklahoma, refinery a small refinery exemption and the benefit of that waiver.
The Philadelphia refinery is the largest refinery by capacity on the East Coast, crucial to the U.S. Northeast's gasoline supply.
The 190,000 bpd PBF Chalmette refinery and the 125,000 bpd Valero Meraux refinery are located 1.6 miles (2.5 km) from each other in the eastern suburbs of New Orleans and about 17 miles north from the Alliance refinery.
In addition to halting production of diesel from the refinery, the fire further disrupts an already delayed project by Motiva to combine the Convent refinery with the Motiva refinery in Norco, Louisiana, located 50 miles (80 km) away.
Sources said LyondellBasell Industries' Houston refinery was operating normally as was Marathon Petroleum Corp's Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas.
In addition to the refinery, Chevron is buying a terminal, land surrounding the refinery and a trading company owned by PRSI.
This is the very same state where you can find oil refinery upon oil refinery in and around the Houston area.
The refinery was shut nearly four weeks ago when Tropical Storm Harvey drenched the refinery located on eastern edge of Houston.
Aramco told one Indian refinery that it would deliver crude from other sources and had adequate inventory, a refinery source said.
The fire completely destroyed the alkylation unit at Philadelphia Energy Solutions Inc's oil refinery, the largest refinery on the East Coast.
The permits are for Exxon Mobil Corporation's Baytown Refinery and Baytown Olefins Plant as well as Pasadena Refining System's Pasadena Refinery, Motiva Enterprises Port Arthur Refinery and Southwestern Electric Power Company's Welsh Power Plant, according to the court filings.
Shell spokesman Ray Fisher said the storm did not affect operations at the Norco refinery and Shell's 211,270 bpd Convent, Louisiana, refinery.
Refinery crude runs rose by 85,000 bpd and refinery utilization rates fell by 0.1 percentage point to 89 percent of total capacity.
Tuesday's restart of Europe's largest refinery, Royal Dutch Shell's 404,000 bpd Pernis refinery in Rotterdam, is expected to support European gasoline exports.
Refinery crude runs rose by 292,2000 bpd, while refinery utilization rates rose by 22.2 percentage points to 91.1 percent of overall capacity.
Sinopec also operates in the vicinity the 440,000 bpd Zhenhai refinery, 270,000 bpd Shanghai Gaoqiao refinery and 250,000 bpd Yangzi Petrochemical Corp.
Valero's 000,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery and 89,000 bpd Three Rivers, Texas, refinery were both shut on Aug.
Decommissioning the FCCU is part of Shell's plans to link the Convent refinery with the company's 225,800 bpd refinery in Norco, Louisiana.
A nickel refinery in Taiwan is also going onto care and maintenance, while another smelter-refinery will close in Manitoba next year.
U.S. refinery margins rallied to a two-year high on Tuesday, while analysts FGE said Europe's refinery runs were on track for a six-year high for August before Europe's largest oil refinery went into an unplanned shutdown over the weekend.
Refinery runs have been partially limited as operations at the largest U.S. East Coast refinery, in Philadelphia, were curtailed following a massive fire.
It evaluated deals for LyondellBasell Industries NV's Houston refinery, with the Caribbean government of Curacao, and considered expanding its sole U.S. oil refinery.
Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical LLC (NSRP), Vietnam's second refinery, is scheduled to start up a 200,000 barrels per day complex in 2018.
Sources said the Motiva Port Arthur refinery in Texas, the country's largest refinery, was considering shutting down as water poured into the plant.
Before its closing, the refinery produced more gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other refined products than any other refinery on the East Coast.
The refinery is reducing output as Tropical Storm Harvey is headed to another landfall within miles (km) of the refinery, the sources said.
DUBAI, July 23 (Reuters) - Oman's Duqm Refinery has completed more than 25% of a $6 billion refinery project that will be able to process 230,000 barrels of crude per day when finalised, Duqm Refinery and Petrochemical Industries Co's chief executive said on Tuesday.
The new contract calls for refinery operators to learn to run different units of the refinery with some training, according to a union source.
He said the refinery would virtually eliminate fuel imports from other regions, adding "those who are importing today...they can buy from our refinery".
Last month, Sinopec's 200,000-bpd Luoyang refinery, PetroChina's 140,13-bpd Jinzhou refinery and a 200,000-bpd Liaoyang Petrochemical plant were shut for planned repairs.
Shell spokesman Ray Fisher confirmed the Norco refinery and the company's 221,270 bpd-Convent, Louisiana, refinery were operating, but did not discuss production levels.
Last month, Sinopec's 200,000-bpd Luoyang refinery, PetroChina's 13,000-bpd Jinzhou refinery and a 200,000-bpd Liaoyang Petrochemical plant were shut for planned repairs.
In Europe and Asia profit margins for making gasoline at an oil refinery are negative, meaning that a refinery is losing money producing gasoline.
Mr. Rincón himself went on to work in the same refinery, but then returned to his village when the refinery closed 303 years ago.
The Padur site is located about 5 km (3 miles) from the southwest coast and 40 km from Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd's refinery.
The ExxonMobil Baytown refinery, the second largest refinery, has had some flooding and also could be down for up to four weeks, he said.
Nagarjuna Oil Refinery Ltd rose as much as 19.05 percent after oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said the country would help revive the Nagarjuna refinery.
Trevino said almost all plants at Pemex's Ciudad Madero refinery have completed scheduled maintenance, while maintenance at its Minatitlan refinery has experienced some delays.
PBF Energy was securing scaffolding in preparation for high winds at its 190,000-bpd Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery, sources familiar with operations at the refinery said.
Recent outages included Valero Energy Corp's controlled shutdown of its Benicia, California refinery and Phillips 66's planned maintenance work at its Los Angeles refinery.
Refinery crude runs fell by 43,000 bpd and refinery utilization rates fell by 0.1 percentage point to 93% of total capacity, the EIA data showed.
The Padur site is about 5 km (3 miles) from the southwest coast and 40 km (25 miles) from Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd's refinery.
Marathon Petroleum Corp's 459,000 bpd Galveston Bay Refinery and 86,000 bpd Texas City, Texas refinery, remained in operation, according to the city's Emergency Management office.
The PES refinery imported 43.1 million barrels from Africa in 2018, second only to the Phillips 66 refinery in Linden, New Jersey among U.S. refineries.
Refinery crude runs rose by 18,000 bpd and refinery utilization rates fell by 0.2 percentage point to 86.4 percent of total capacity, EIA data showed.
Ongoing refinery maintenance in the second quarter such as Sinoepc's Luoyang refinery affected crude demand from state refiners that often favors Saudi grades as feedstock.
Refinery crude runs fell by 145,000 bpd and refinery utilization rates fell by 0.5 percentage point to 88.1 percent of total capacity, EIA data showed.
Operations were normal on Tuesday at Exxon Mobil Corp's 560,000 bpd refinery and Phillips 66's 265,000 bpd Sweeny refinery, spokesmen for the companies said.
In Europe and Asia profit margins for making gasoline at an oil refinery are negative, meaning that a refinery is losing money producing the fuel.
CDUs are the work horses of the refinery, doing the refining of crude oil coming into the refinery and providing feedstock for all other production units.
Supplies from Lukoil's Volgograd refinery to Azerbaijan, where the Baku oil refinery is undergoing maintenance, have also contributed to the increase in Russia's overseas gasoline flows.
Both Valero Energy Corp's 403,000 bpd Meraux, Louisiana, refinery and PBF Energy's 190,000 bpd Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery were also running as planned on Sunday, sources said.
Elsewhere, Hengyi Petrochemical has started trial operations at its new refinery and petrochemical facilities in Brunei, the fourth refinery to commence production in Asia this year.
CDUs do the initial breakdown of crude oil coming into a refinery, providing feedstocks for all other units in the refinery and producing unfinished motor fuels.
He said the refinery had generated strong cash flows over the past five years that far exceed the investment needed to keep the refinery running well.
Fuel production from the new refinery will balance Malaysia's gasoline supply and demand, and will allow it to export diesel from the new refinery, Arif said.
Once the world's largest refinery, the Limetree Bay Refinery on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, is undergoing a $2 billion overhaul expected to finish this summer.
Sinopec plans to close its 3.5 million-tpy Qingdao refinery on the east coast and will shutter a 5.2 million tpy crude unit at its Guangzhou refinery and an 8 million tpy crude distillation unit at its Jinling refinery, also on the east coast, they said.
The profit party could end soon, though, with refining officials saying margins are under threat from the start-ups at PetroChina's Yunnan refinery and CNOOC's Huizhou refinery.
Belarus Mozyr oil refinery is working at planned capacity while the Novopolotsk oil refinery is still operating at reduced capacity after the Druzhba oil contamination, Belneftekhim said.
Reliance's refinery in the western state of Gujarat is the world's biggest single-location refinery, with a capacity to process 1.36 million barrels per day of crude.
Idemitsu Kosan already holds a 35.1 percent stake at Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical LLC, which owns a 200,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Thanh Hoa province.
"They even agreed to help Sri Lanka to build a new refinery," Senaratne told Reuters when asked if Sri Lanka sought assistance to refurbish its current refinery.
ET. Refinery crude runs rose 414,000 bpd and refinery utilization rates rose 2 percentage points to 90.4 percent of total capacity, the highest rate seasonally since 2005.
Al Canal Sugar is owned by Dubai-based Al Khaleej Sugar Refinery, the world's largest port-based sugar refinery, and headed by Emirati businessman Jamal al-Ghurair.
The worst refinery disaster during this century happened during a restart, when a unit at what was then BP Plc's Texas City refinery exploded, killing 15 people.
Somewhere in there I deduced REFINERY, as in an oil refinery that "turns out barrels," a very good pun; and FOOTNOTES, also clever ("info from low places").
Until Exxon restarted a unit at its Baton Rouge chemical plant to take LPG from the refinery on Wednesday, the company was preparing to shut the refinery.
"They wanted the two refinery systems, especially considering that when Torrance goes down they just have that one refinery and they don't make anything back," Blair said.
The outage at Europe's largest refinery - Shell's 404,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) Pernis refinery in the Netherlands - comes just after a series of other disruptions, such as at Total's 230,000 bpd Leuna oil refinery and Greek refiner Hellenic Petroleum's 100,000 bpd Elefsina plant, and is boosting demand, Leszczynski said.
In addition to the refinery, Chevron acquired PRSI, a Petrobras subsidiary that operates the refinery and owns subsidiary PRSI Trading, which trades in crude and refined products markets.
The unions said the strike and blockade of the refinery to stop crude and products from leaving or entering the refinery will start at 0400 GMT on Tuesday.
Paraiso's oyster fishermen fear the refinery might harm the Mecoacan lagoon just a few miles from the refinery site, and their main source of subsistence for several generation.
"Refinery margins are improving globally because if that refinery can't operate then you'll have to compensate with higher runs elsewhere," Olivier Jakob of Petromatrix consultancy in Switzerland said.
"The pressure on refinery margins is a case of death by a thousand cuts... Refinery upgrades throughout the region are bumping up against softening demand growth," he said.
Gulf Energy is set to be the largest company float in Thailand since 2006 when Rayong Refinery raised 27.2 billion baht although Rayong Refinery has since been delisted.
On Thursday, energy industry intelligence service Genscape said the Flint Hills Corpus Christi refinery restarted its largest crude distillation unit, which feeds all other units at the refinery.
In Libya, the 120,000 bpd Zawiya oil refinery was working at only half its capacity due to the shutdown at the Sharara oilfield, according to a refinery source.
The company reported a 57 percent fall in petrochemical product sales while refinery product sales were up 46 percent, buoyed by steady production at its other refinery, Kralupy.
PetroChina will likely use the northeast China-based refineries of Jinzhou, Jinxi, Dalian, and the Guangxi refinery in southern China to produce VLSFO, said two PetroChina refinery sources.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Philadelphia Energy Solutions' 335,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery began permanently shutting its remaining refinery units on Monday, said a source familiar with plant operations.
They were not expecting more to follow suit, although the market remained saddled with supplies despite recent refinery outages in Taiwan and ongoing refinery maintenance in North Asia.
Zono said the new refinery will not jeopardise the Mossel Bay gas-to-liquid (GTL) refinery operated by CEF's subsidiary PetroSA, amid fears the plant could be shuttered.
Aramco also owns part of the Fujian refinery-petrochemical plant with Sinopec and Exxon Mobil Corp, and has plans to build a 300,000-bpd refinery with China's Norinco.
Curacao Refinery Utilities (CUR), the company that provides water and electricity to the facility, is expected to resume supply this month to prepare the refinery for its restart.
In a presentation in Tabasco state, where the refinery is due to be built, the government said the new oil refinery would process 340,000 barrels per day (bpd).
The refinery was ramping up production after the restart on Sunday of a vacuum distillation unit attached to the larger of two crude distillation units at the refinery.
The refinery expansion, part of the Bapco Modernisation Programme, will boost the capacity of the Sitra oil refinery to 360,000 barrels per day from the current 267,000 barrels.
Exxon Mobil Corp shut some units at its 369,024 barrel per day (bpd) Beaumont refinery while Valero Energy Corp reduced production at its 335,000 bpd Port Arthur refinery.
Refinery crude runs rose 200,000 bpd and refinery utilization rates edged up 43 percentage point to 93.9 percent of total capacity, their highest since January, EIA data showed.
The roughly 645,000-bpd Amuay refinery is currently operating at around 310,000 bpd, while the adjacent 310,000-bpd Cardon refinery is at 250,000 bpd, union leader Ivan Freites said.
"I'm concerned about the lack of benefits, and I'm concerned that a whole culture is being wiped out at this refinery," said Ryan O'Callaghan, head of the refinery union.
Delta's refinery at Philadelphia has already cut production by 16 percent, according to sources familiar with the plant's operations ("Delta cuts output at Philadelphia-area refinery", Reuters, July 5).
The mismatch between refinery additions that had been centered on diesel, and demand growth that has shifted to gasoline, was intensified by refinery closures over the past 15 years.
The refinery expects to boost production to at least the 257,2000 bpd capacity of the Unit 537 CDU that processes heavy crude oil at the refinery, the sources said.
The deal follows on from an agreement in February in which Aramco Overseas will take 50 percent of PRPC Refinery and Cracker from Petronas Refinery and Petrochemical Corporation (PRPC).
The Jeddah refinery is next to, and supplies feedstock and power to, a base oil refinery run by Luberef, a joint venture between Aramco and Jadwa Industrial Investment Group.
The United States' second-largest refinery, in Baytown, was shut down, and the largest refinery, in Port Arthur, was expected to make a final decision on shutdown on Tuesday.
In 2012, at the urging of the White House, Carlyle took a majority stake in a troubled Sunoco oil refinery near Philadelphia, the largest refinery on the East Coast.
Lavera Refinery A production shutdown started on Sunday night at PetroIneos' 22.4,21.7-barrels-per-day (bpd) Lavera oil refinery in southern France after CGT workers voted to stop output.
Lavera Refinery A production shutdown started on Sunday night at PetroIneos' 22.4,21.7-barrels-per-day (bpd) Lavera oil refinery in southern France after CGT workers voted to stop output.
"After assuming operation of the refinery, Marathon Petroleum discovered that, in numerous respects, the refinery and the terminals were not in compliance with environmental laws," according to the lawsuit.
On the demand side, refinery crude runs rose 126,000 bpd as refinery utilization rates jumped 1.4 percentage points to 93.2% of total capacity, their highest since January, EIA data showed.
ADEN (Reuters) - A fire at a refinery in Yemen's southern port city of Aden spread to a second storage tank on Saturday, injuring six people, sources at the refinery said.
"By establishing this strategically important oil refinery, the national economy will become independent from energy imports, and fuel and commodity prices will be stabilised," said Mongol Refinery in its statement.
SHIRAZ REFINERY 2 The plan to build a 120,000 barrels per day refinery near a national park in parched Fars Province drew opposition from residents and environmental activists, IRNA reported.
ISFAHAN REFINERY The oil refinery, which relies on drawing 8 million cubic metres of water a year from the Zayandeh river, has struggled to secure its needs due to drought.
On the demand side, refinery crude runs rose 126,000 bpd as refinery utilization rates jumped 1.4 percentage points to 93.2% of total capacity, their highest since January, EIA data showed.
The increase reflects the start up this year of a new privately owned refinery that will add to China's fuel surplus as record refinery output is exceeding fuel demand growth.
Source: NOAA Just one refinery, Phillip 66's 253,600 barrel Alliance, La. refinery, was fully shutdown ahead of the storm because it was located in an area under mandatory evacuation.
The Alliance refinery was shut on Friday due to the threat of flooding and a mandatory evacuation order in Plaquemines Parish, where the refinery is located along the Mississippi River.
It will shut half of the oil processing at its 103,500-bpd Lindsey refinery in Britain this year, and convert the 155,000-bpd La Mede refinery in France to biofuels.
The project will be Sri Lanka's first new refinery in 52 years after Iran built a 50,000 barrel-per-day refinery near the capital, Colombo, to blend Iran light oils.
MOSCOW, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Loading has been operating on schedule on Monday at Russian oil giant Rosneft's Achinsk oil refinery, the TASS news agency quoted a refinery spokesperson as saying.
The Alliance refinery was shut on Friday because of the threat of flooding and a mandatory evacuation order in Plaquemines Parish, where the refinery is located along the Mississippi River.
The nation's second-largest refinery was shutdown in Baytown, and the nation's largest refinery in Port Arthur was weighing shutting down with a final decision expected Tuesday, sources told Reuters.
The 240,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) Port Jerome - Gravenchon refinery near Le Havre port in northern France, and the 140,000 bpd Fos-sur-Mer refinery near Marseille in the south.
In addition to being one of Libya's main export grades, Sharara also feeds the 120,000 bpd Zawiya oil refinery in the west of the country, currently the largest operating refinery.
Aramco bought a 25 percent stake in a refinery in Fujian Province operated by the state-owned oil giant Sinopec, and the companies have joint refinery ventures in Saudi Arabia.
TRIPOLI, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Fuel and gas processing at Libya's Zawiya refinery were continuing normally on Monday despite a halt to loadings from El Sharara oilfield, two refinery employees said.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp's 335,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery cut production on Thursday because of flooding around the refinery, said sources familiar with plant operations.
Refinery crude runs rose by 414,000 barrels per day (bpd) and refinery utilisation rates rose 2 percentage points to 90.4 percent of total capacity, the highest seasonal rate since 2005.
ABADAN REFINERY The refinery, a major Iranian refinery, had to temporarily shut in 2018 after some water pipes were damaged because of a build up of salt due to falling levels of the Karoun river and rising salinity, said the refinery's head of public relations, Mohsen Kab Amir, according to Mehr news agency.
The two crude units currently at the Beaumont refinery are Units A and B. The last major expansion of a U.S. refinery was the 5-year, $10-billion addition of a crude distillation unit and other units at Motiva Enterprises Port Arthur, Texas, refinery which more than doubled its size to 603,000 bpd.
United Arab Emirates-based EGA also owns Guinea Alumina Corporation, a bauxite mine and alumina refinery development project in West Africa and is currently developing an alumina refinery in the UAE.
Varo Energy, a joint venture between the world's biggest oil trader Vitol and private equity firm Carlyle Group, owns a refinery in Cressier in Switzerland and the Bayernoil refinery in Germany.
The 187,000 bpd Puerto la Cruz refinery had been offline even before the sanctions were imposed in late January, while the 146,000 bpd El Palito refinery is operating at minimum levels.
Refinery crude runs USOICR=ECI rose by 210.9,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed, while refinery utilization rates USOIRU=ECI rose by 2.3 percentage points to 96.1 percent of total capacity.
Tesoro Corp, which operates two refineries in the region, said its 400-megawatt Watson cogeneration facility at its Los Angeles refinery utilizes natural gas to produce steam to operate the refinery.
Struggling to cope with oversupply from fuels, Asian refinery margins this week fell to their lowest seasonal levels since the financial crisis a decade ago, triggering plans for refinery run cuts.
Pipe degraded by corrosion caused a 2012 explosion at Chevron Corp's Richmond, California, refinery and a 2009 blast at the Silver Eagle refinery in Woods Cross, Utah, according to the CSB.
Pipe degraded by corrosion caused a 2012 explosion at Chevron Corp's Richmond, California, refinery and a 2009 blast at the Silver Eagle refinery in Woods Cross, Utah, according to the CSB.
"You can see that the refinery utilization is still pretty low in the Gulf Coast due to both scheduled and unscheduled refinery outages," said Andrew Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates.
A safety official at the Nghi Son refinery, not far from Son Tinh's predicted path, said the refinery is bracing for the storm but has no plan to suspend its operations.
Shell became the sole owner of the Convent refinery on Monday when it and previous refinery co-owner Saudi Aramco divided the assets of their Motiva Enterprises LLC [MOTIV.UL]joint-venture.
Aramco has been considering whether to shut the refinery for years because of age and environmental concerns as Jeddah's growth had meant the refinery was in the middle of the city.
LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell plans major maintenance involving 12 units at its 404,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) Pernis oil refinery in the Netherlands, the company said on the refinery website.
Gibraltar's statement said the vessel's detention related to the suspected destination of the cargo, Syria's Banyas refinery, which is owned by the Banyas Oil Refinery Company and subject to EU sanctions.
India's biggest oil refinery, owned by Reliance Industries, is in Gujarat, though a company official said the cyclone was expected to weaken by the time it reached the Jamnagar-based refinery.
One criticism of the refinery by potential buyers in 2016, when Lyondell put the plant up for sale, was the lack of space to expand within the refinery, the sources said.
See the results   REFINERY EXPLODES IN WISCONSIN: There was a big explosion at an oil refinery in northwestern Wisconsin Thursday, injuring 11 and forcing a major evacuation, the Associated Press reports.
The Co-op Refinery has a capacity to process 135,000 barrels of oil per day, and FCL has kept western Canada's third-largest oil refinery operating with replacement workers and managers.
A Refinery Development Master Plan (RDMP), launched in 2014 to double refinery output to over 2 million bpd within a decade, was confirmed last week by Pertamina's chief executive Nicke Widyawati.
But many of Indonesia's refinery projects have suffered set-backs, like the delay in the upgrade of a refinery in the central Java area of Cilacap from 348,000 to 143,000 bpd.
" Tesoro: "We are not recommending any refinery stocks. Period.
Rio also said it was reviewing Rusal's 20 percent stake in the Queensland Alumina refinery, Rusal's supply and offtake arrangements, bauxite sales to Rusal's refinery in Ireland and offtake contracts for alumina.
Rio has said it is reviewing Rusal's 20 percent stake in its Queensland Alumina refinery, Rusal's supply and offtake arrangements, bauxite sales to Rusal's refinery in Ireland and offtake contracts for alumina.
Refinery crude runs rose by 271,000 barrels per day as refinery utilization rates rose by 1.6 percentage points to 90.5 percent of total capacity, its highest since February, the EIA data showed.
"The...contracts will make it very clear that a concession contract will only be awarded to those who build a lithium refinery or associate themselves with an existing (refinery) project," he said.
Shell was reducing production on Thursday at its 225,800-bpd Norco refinery and Phillips 66 was considering temporarily shutting the 247,000-bpd Alliance refinery or placing it on standby, according to sources.
The 191,000 bpd Houston refinery will increase rates "as transportation and logistics infrastructure becomes more available," it said in a statement, while the 89,000 bpd Three Rivers refinery was ramping up operations.
Its European refining margins, while still volatile, increased early in the third quarter and its downstream business should benefit from restarting the Grandpuits refinery in France and the Leuna refinery in Germany.
While a modernisation of the Rijeka refinery is tentatively planned, the future of the Sisak refinery is uncertain and it may eventually be converted into a logistics centre or some other facility.
In 2014, Aramco brought online two refineries which added 800,000 bpd of refining capacity, in Yanbu on the west coast, the Yasref refinery and the Satorp refinery in Jubail in the east.
Tankers with Venezuelan crude sail up to the Citgo refinery, while tankers carrying fuels processed in the refinery head down to the Gulf of Mexico for delivery to gas stations in Venezuela.
ADNOC will be expanding its existing Ruwais refinery and will be building a new 400,000-600,000 bpd refinery there and the first phase of expansion will be in by 2024, he added.
ADNOC will be expanding its existing Ruwais refinery and will be building a new 400,000-600,000 bpd refinery there and the first phase of expansion will be in by 2024, he added.
Refinery crude runs fell by 361,000 barrels per day (bpd), EIA data showed, while refinery utilization rates fell by 0.7 percentage point to the lowest level since October 2017, the data showed.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc plans to increase staffing at its 218,200 bpd Norco, Louisiana, refinery west of New Orleans, as it prepares the refinery for high winds, said sources familiar with plant operations.
The refinery, in southern Dornogovi province will be capable of processing 1.5 million tonnes of crude oil per year, said Mongol Refinery, the state-owned company building the project, in a press release.
"The Indian guarantee is what put the odds in favour of the oil refinery being finally built, but the biggest worry here is whether the oil refinery can pay for itself," said Munkhdul.
Marathon Petroleum Corp shut down the 95,000 bpd crude unit at its 240,000 bpd refinery in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, refinery on Wednesday due to fire, according to a source familiar with the plant's operations.
At the refinery, convoys of military vehicles transporting armed soldiers could be seen approaching the facility, and inside the refinery gates uniformed soldiers could be seen inspecting tanker trucks both entering and leaving.
The country's Mozyr oil refinery is working at planned capacity while the Novopolotsk oil refinery is still at a reduced capacity after oil via the Druzhba pipeline was contaminated last month, Belneftekhim said.
The deadliest U.S. refinery explosion in the 21st Century took place on March 23, 2005, at the BP Plc Texas City refinery (now owned by Marathon), killing 15 workers and injuring 180 people.
In March, more than 900,000 bpd of refinery capacity will go offline in the Middle East, according to Energy Aspects, due in large part to work at Saudi Arabia's 400,000-bpd Yanbu refinery.
Earlier on Wednesday, sources said Delta Air Lines' Monroe Energy refinery near Philadelphia had decided to cut output by 10 percent at its 185,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery due to economic reasons.
Glencore's unit plans to provide feedstock for the refinery, which is expected to result in an annual production of about 2,000 to 2,500 tonnes per annum of cobalt in sulfate from the refinery.
The refinery, which has been looking for a new operator to run the refinery starting in 2019, restarted one of its crude distillation units and its thermal cracker, it said in a release.
Refinery crude runs rose by 400,000 bpd, EIA data showed.
State oil company Pemex operates a refinery in the region.
Refinery crude runs rose by 227,000 bpd, API data showed.
A Motiva spokeswoman declined to discuss operations at the refinery.
The refinery has a capacity of 330,000 barrels per day.
One other refinery reduced output and other were considering shutting.
The current national agreement for refinery workers expires on Friday.
Refinery crude runs rose by 251,000 bpd, EIA data showed.
Valero operates the 220,000 barrel per day Pembroke oil refinery.
Zawiya is home to a refinery and oil export port.
Refinery crude runs rose by 505,000 bpd, EIA data showed.
Its refinery in Gujarat is one of the world's largest.
She wants a new refinery built, probably with government support.
There has been a refinery on the site since 1870.
The refinery said three separate explosions erupted around 4 a.m.
Ownership of the refinery has also not yet been determined.
It also expects refinery utilization to decrease 0.6 percentage points.
Refinery crude runs fell by 75,000 bpd, EIA data showed.
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Refinery crude runs fell by 163,000 bpd, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs rose by 73,000 bpd, EIA data showed.
"The refinery is operating at almost peak capacity," he said.
The refinery can process 52,000 barrels of oil a day.
The Deer Park refinery also has a 70,000 bpd CDU.
Refinery crude runs fell by 182,000 bpd, EIA data showed.
A PRSI spokesman said the refinery complies with governmental regulations.
A 57,000 bpd coker remains in operation at the refinery.
Indian Oil has about 52 percent share in the refinery.
The refinery has also restarted its 40,000 bpd diesel hydrotreater.
PKN Orlen operates the only refinery in the Baltic states.
The company also shut a diesel hydrotreater at the refinery.
Refinery crude runs rose by 165,000 bpd, EIA data showed.
Power was restored to the refinery within a few hours.
Refinery crude runs rose by 169,000 bpd, API data showed.
Routine maintenance at the refinery was also conducted last year.
The site has been home to a refinery since 1870.
One other refinery reduced output and others were considering shutting.
"I own a refinery," he told Bloomberg News, in March.
The EIA began collecting the Midwest refinery data in 2010.
Refinery crude runs fell by 1,000 bpd, EIA data showed.
The Port Arthur refinery highlights the cost of pulling back.
Essar operates the chemical plant as well as the refinery.
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That processing capacity would make the new refinery Pemex's biggest.
He also owns a refinery in Louisiana, according to Forbes.
The refinery processes 110,000 barrels of crude oil a day.
The business was originally called Rock Island Oil & Refinery Company.
PBF spokesman Michael Karlovich declined to comment on refinery operations.
"We can have a refinery that is competitive," Pouyanne said.
Ryan O'Callaghan, head of the refinery union, criticized Wolf's position.
Refinery crude units produce the feedstock needed for other units.
Uganda received more than 2500 proposals to build the refinery.
And yet, Dongsong enjoyed unique advantages in the refinery competition.
Above, an oil refinery in Qatar's capital city of Doha.
India's Essar Oil in 2011 acquired Stanlow refinery from Shell.
That refinery is still in the process of restarting, however.
Exporting raw bitumen also would ship away potential refinery jobs.
Now many refineries are restarting, including the largest U.S. refinery.
Sources told Reuters ExxonMobil was shutting its Beaumont, Texas refinery.
It 190,000 bpd Ciudad Madero refinery was also undergoing maintenance.
He worked in the Asarco Refinery in Corpus Christi, Tex.
Exxon Mobil is closing its Beaumont refinery, Reuters reported Tuesday.
Husky shut down production at the refinery after the explosion.
That deal will put the refinery in Port Arthur, Tex.
Concern about the refinery shutdowns caused gasoline futures to surge.
The other three CDUs at the refinery restarted this week.
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Some of the price pressure will let up when the American refineries reopen and the Sturgeon Refinery near Edmonton, the first new refinery in Canada for 30 years, reaches full production sometime next year.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Pertamina appointed a consortium of partners to develop a new $10 billion refinery at Bontang, said Ardhy N. Mokobombang, director of refinery megaprojects and petrochemicals at the state-owned energy company.
Phillips 66 shut a crude unit at its Los Angeles refinery after a fire in March, while BP said its 227,000 bpd Cherry Point, Washington, refinery would shut for planned maintenance until April 13.
CAIRO - (Reuters) - A fire in Syria's Homs refinery was put out by civil defense and the refinery firefighting unit on Tuesday, shortly after a gas compressor in the 6th project exploded, state TV reported.
Yemen's 150,000 barrels-per-day Aden oil refinery resumed operations on Sunday after being shut for more than a year as the conflict in the country worsened, an industry official at the refinery said.
"Because an 'extension' requires a small refinery exemption in prior years to prolong, enlarge or add to, the three refinery petitions in this case were improvidently granted," according to the court's 99-page decision.
Reformers, which produce octane-boosting components mixed into gasoline, also were shut at Royal Dutch Shell Plc's Convent, Louisiana, refinery and Marathon Petroleum Corp's Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, over the weekend.
In Corpus Christi, the Flint Hills refinery, which can process 300,000 barrels a day, is expected to restart in the next few days, and 's similar-sized refinery is also getting ready to restart.
Philadelphia Energy Solutions' 335,000-bpd refinery was shut after a massive fire in June, and in February, Reuters reported that Delta Air Lines plans to sell its 185,000-bpd oil refinery in Trainer, Pennsylvania.
Lopez Obrador aims to boost Mexico's oil production by a third to 2.5 million barrels per day (bpd), as well as increase very low refinery processing rates and build at least one new refinery.
"We will continue to seek other efficiencies in all aspects of our business that will position (the Galveston Bay Refinery) to be cost competitive in our industry," refinery manager Rich Hernandez said in the memo.
The Naftan oil refinery in Belarus has begun making claims against Russian suppliers because of a fall in quality oil supplies last month, Belarus' Belta news agency cited a refinery official as saying on Tuesday.
Crude markets got off to a rousing start in the New York session as gasoline futures and gasoline refinery margins both surged from refinery outages, Venezuela buying and a reported drop in New York inventories.
Under the restrictions, Royal Dutch Shell Plc's Deer Park refinery became choked for crude oil and was within days of shutting down, while Lyondell Basell Industries was forced to cut production at its Houston refinery.
However, its European refining margins, while still volatile, increased at the start of the third quarter and its downstream business should benefit from restarting the Grandpuits refinery in France and the Leuna refinery in Germany.
"In light of the increasingly severe business environment, (JXTG) has decided to terminate refinery operations at the Osaka refinery," the company said in a statement, citing declining domestic demand as well as competition in Asia.
PARIS, Jan 8 (Reuters) - ExxonMobil France said on Wednesday that its Fos refinery was experiencing some problems shipping products because of picketing by striking union workers, but its Port Jerome-Gravenchon refinery was operating normally.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Refinery operations workers at Phillips 66's 285,000 barrel per day Bayway refinery in Linden, NJ, may go on strike if no agreement is reached ahead of their contract expiration on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Saudi Aramco has told one Indian refinery there will be no immediate impact on oil supplies as it will deliver crude from other sources and has adequate inventory, a source with the refinery said.
Some crude that reaches Mozyr is fed into a refinery there.
Refinery utilization rates rose by 2000 percentage points to 22.4 percent.
Last week, a catalytic reformer was shut at the Baytown refinery.
The Pasadena refinery produces mostly gasoline and distillates such as diesel.
"Hopefully in 2025 this refinery will be operational," Mokobombang told reporters.
Motiva said there was no fire at the refinery on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) (MRPL.
A number of refinery outages tightened gas supply in the market.
Workers at the refinery were off their jobs for six months.
Refinery utilization rates rose by 0003 percentage points, in the week.
BP operates a refinery at Kwinana producing fuels for Western Australia.
An oil refinery in Corpus Christi ahead of Hurricane Harvey's arrival.
SMB does have plans to build Guinea's first refinery, by 2022.
Safmar bought a controlling stake in the Afipsky refinery, Kommersant reported.
Chevron said its Pascagoula, Mississippi, refinery was monitoring the storm's progress.
In 2005, 15 people died from explosions at a Texas refinery.
The entire refinery runs without all units on all the time.
Refinery 29 has reached out to representation for Cyrus for comment.
Saudi Aramco has invested in a refinery in China's Fujian province.
Nghi Son refinery, not far from Son Tinh's path, was spared.
Exxon's 362,300 bpd Beaumont refinery is still offline due to flooding.
The national contract covers about 30,000 refinery and chemical plant workers.
Total U.S. refinery crude runs fell 171,000 bpd, EIA data showed.
Pakistan Refinery was incorporated as a public limited company in 1960.
But the small refinery exemption program is authorized under the law.
The neighboring 310,000 bpd Cardon refinery remains offline, the sources said.
Because they too have a refinery which is performing under par.
Further expansion of the Vietnam oil refinery is possible, he said.
Exxon sold its Torrance, California, refinery to PBF Energy last month.
The refinery was informed about the accident at about 3 p.m.
Motiva declined to comment on operations at the Port Arthur refinery.
Around 900 people work at the refinery, according to its website.
Shell operates a 156,000 barrels per day refinery in Martinez, California.
Refinery repairs have been particularly helpful in reducing prices in California.
The refinery is a joint venture between BP and Husky Energy.
A second oil refinery will start commercial production from next month.
The Lake Charles refinery has not itself been hit by Harvey.
Some think having Refinery in its portfolio can help Vice's image.
Refinery crude runs fell by 367,000 bpd, the EIA data showed.
This single refinery became the flagship location for the Broin Companies.
Because I feel like Refinery West has a ring to it.
A recent power outage at Exxon Mobil's refinery in Torrance, Calif.
Technical factors: This is geek-speak for refinery and pipeline constraints.
Sasol describes the refinery as a medium-sized technologically advanced plant.
The explosion also damaged a electrostatic precipitator (ESP) at the refinery.
The refinery has been financially struggling since then, Reuters has reported.
Part of the answer lies with the country's former oil refinery.
The refinery is the most expensive and complex of the projects.
Chevron said its Pascagoula, Mississippi refinery continues to monitor the storm.
Refinery utilization rates fell by 1 percentage points on the week.
"A refinery needs raw sugar in order to operate," he said.
The Total refinery is about 4 miles from the TPC plant.
DCU-2 is the larger of two cokers at the refinery.
His roti appealed to the workers at a nearby oil refinery.
In Ecuador, Rafael Correa conducted a $2.2bn upgrade to a refinery.
Refinery utilization rates fell by 1.5 percentage points in the week.
The signal was seen on the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn.
"The refinery was always a source of pride," Mr. Gonzalez said.
The other Mina Abdulla refinery units are operating normally, he added.
"It's extremely child-like," she told Refinery 29 over the phone.
It would also pile significantly more pressure on refinery profit margins.
It has also a small refinery to process some local oil.
Refinery utilization rates rose by 2.7 percentage points, in the week.
The cargo is now on its way to a Chinese refinery.
In January, Chevron agreed to acquire a refinery in Pasadena, Tex.
Refinery utilization rates rose by 1.2 percentage points in the week.
The refinery will be small by international standards, with most Chinese facilities each processing hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude per day, and India's Reliance Industries running one refinery at a record 1.2 million bpd.
Meanwhile, refinery operations at the HollyFrontier Corp Tulsa, Oklahoma refinery were temporarily shut down on May 22 and will remain shut until the risk of flooding has diminished, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
Kloza said the refinery fire could have a noticeable impact because it is a refinery that feeds the market for New York harbor gasoline, which is reflected in the price of RBOB futures on the NYMEX.
Gasoline and distillate stockpiles were down more than expected as refinery run rates increased, giving some hope as the energy industry reaches the end of refinery maintenance season and as driving demand is expected to rise.
Phillips 215 shut the 240,265 bpd Alliance, Louisiana, refinery on Friday due to the risk of flooding and a mandatory evacuation order for residents of Plaquemines Parish, where the refinery is located along the Mississippi River.
The Norinco deal could involve exploring the possibility of a greenfield refinery and chemical plant in Panjin, Liaoning province, while also upgrading an existing refinery and petrochemical facility in the same location, an industry source said.
Some of the loss can be attributed to the destruction of the 335,103 bpd Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery by fire near the end of June ("Old corroded pipe led to Philadelphia refinery fire", Reuters, Oct. 16).
Also for 2020, the company is planning projects to produce diesel fuels from renewable resources at the 120,200 bpd Rodeo, California, refinery in the San Francisco Bay area and at the 221,000 bpd Humber, England, refinery.
In southern France, riot police officers dismantled a blockade at a refinery in Fos-sur-Mer on Tuesday, and a second blockade, at a refinery in Douchy-les-Mines in northern France, was dismantled Wednesday morning.
Venezuela's biggest refinery, 645,000-barrel-per-day Amuay refinery, was operating at only 260,000 bpd with two of its five crude distillation units out of service, union leader Ivan Freites told Reuters, citing an internal report.
He repeated that the refinery would cost between $6 billion and $8 billion, and said that work for now was focused on preparing the ground at the refinery site and readying the framework for the tender.
Sources familiar with plant operations had told Reuters on Thursday the refinery was limping after shutting some units Exxon spokesman Jeremy Eikenberry said the refinery continues to operate, but declined to discuss the status of production.
The planned 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) coastal refinery in western Maharashtra state slated to commission in 2023, according to the website of Ratnagiri Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (RRPL), the joint-venture company executing the project.
Gasoline and heating oil crack spreads were stronger on Tuesday, in part after Royal Dutch Shell said its Pernis refinery in the Netherlands, Europe's largest oil refinery, will remain closed through mid-August following a fire.
"The plants were shut simultaneously on Sunday after the Bonny - Okrika crude supply line to the Port Harcourt refinery and the Escravos-Warri crude supply line to the Kaduna refinery suffered breaches," Nigeria's state oil company said.
Struggling to cope with an economic slowdown and oversupply from fuels, Asian refinery margins this week fell to their lowest seasonal levels since at least the financial crisis a decade ago, triggering plans for refinery run cuts.
He said the Philadelphia refinery is actually two refineries — one a legacy Atlantic Richfield refinery and the other a legacy Gulf operation, and it appears only one part may be damaged, leaving the other to continue operations.
Rio said it was reviewing Rusal's 20 percent stake in the Queensland Alumina refinery, Rusal's supply and offtake arrangements, bauxite sales to Rusal's refinery in Ireland and offtake contracts for alumina that are used at Rio's smelters.
EPA spokesman Michael Abboud declined to comment on whether the refinery received a waiver, but pointed out that the waiver program requires the agency only to consider the financial situation of the refinery and not its owner.
Next year Emirates Global Aluminium is due to launch an alumina refinery with 2 million tonnes annual capacity while PT Well Harvest Winning Alumina is expected to double capacity at its Indonesian refinery to 2 million tonnes.
SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI/SEOUL/LONDON (Reuters) - The first oil refinery shutdowns in India and Europe were announced on Friday while global refinery runs drop like a stone in response to plunging demand as countries worldwide implement lockdowns.
SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI/SEOUL/LONDON (Reuters) - The first oil refinery shutdowns in India and Europe were announced on Friday while global refinery runs drop like a stone in response to plunging demand as countries worldwide implement lockdowns.
"If the Marifu refinery became a 50-50 venture, half of the refinery would belong to Petrolimex with half of volumes exported and that would help us to reduce our supply capacity as well," he told reporters.
The minister did not give a timeline for setting up the refinery.
Gunvor's Rotterdam refinery has a capacity of 88,000 barrels per day (bpd).
For example, one refinery, Exxon's massive Baytown facility, was damaged by flooding.
Refinery utilization rates dropped 1.3 percentage points to 88.1 percent of capacity.
Refinery crude runs fell by 604,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
Husky purchased the refinery from Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP last year.
A Lyondell spokeswoman declined to discuss operations at the refinery on Friday.
Refinery crude runs fell by 20,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
State-owned oil company Pemex's Salina Cruz refinery is in Oaxaca state.
Commercial operations of a new refinery typically follow several months after testing.
Refinery crude runs rose by 786,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 352,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Mexican state oil company Pemex has a major refinery in Salina Cruz.
Earlier on Thursday, Pemex said its Salina Cruz refinery was operating normally.
Refinery crude runs USOICR=ECI rose by 46,000 bpd, EIA data showed.
It also owns a refinery and retail sites in Papua New Guinea.
Price controls have squeezed refiners' margins, prompting one refinery to suspend operations.
It owns a stake in Australian QAL, the world's top alumina refinery.
Refinery crude runs rose by 2.83,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs rose by 111,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Saudi Aramco also has refinery ventures in South Korea, Japan, and China.
Refinery crude runs rose by 117,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
President Trump's speech at the Mandan Refinery in North Dakota in September.
"This may support Middle East spot crude," an Asian refinery source said.
India could increase fuel imports slightly during the refinery shutdowns, Singh added.
The refinery was shut by a fire on the night of Sept.
It will be the second Gulf Coast refinery owned by the company.
It leaves the refinery without any ore to process, the spokesman said.
Refinery crude runs rose by 118,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs rose by 167,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
It is one of Aramco's largest new refinery projects outside the kingdom.
Refinery crude runs rose by 432,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
The police department said the fire was not at the Chevron refinery.
Refinery crude runs rose by 21.1,2584 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 47,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
FCCU 2 is the smaller of two cat crackers at the refinery.
AMLO hopes to cut fuel prices once the new refinery is built.
Refinery crude runs rose by 287,6463 barrels per day, API data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 51,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
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Refinery crude runs fell by 10,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs rose by 49,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 220,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Prices of compliance credits have plummeted on news of the refinery exemptions.
Chevron employs nearly 3,500 people at its Richmond refinery, municipal data shows.
"This incident will not significantly impact any refinery units," the company said.
The refinery can run a variety of cheaper high-sulfur crude oils.
Refinery crude runs fell by 100,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 233,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 470,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 901,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
In China, official statistics showed refinery crude oil use hit a record.
The refinery will be converted into an asphalt-fuelled electric power plant.
The company operates one refinery, the 143,000-bpd Sodegaura facility near Tokyo.
An industry source said the tainted shipment was transported to that refinery.
Refinery crude runs fell by 35,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
The refinery, closed since 2013, runs on the grades allocated to Glencore.
The decline was driven by lower crude imports and higher refinery runs.
The refinery will be Chennai-based Accord's first foray into oil refining.
Motiva also said restarting the refinery would depend on flood waters receding.
CDT on Tuesday in preparation for idling or completely shutting the refinery.
By Wednesday morning, several areas of the refinery were flooded, they said.
Refinery crude runs fell by 22003,230 barrels per day, API data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 65,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Media outlets, including VH1, BET, Refinery 29, and Modern Farmer, took note.
As of last Thursday, US refinery capacity is still down 12.8 percent.
Its oil refinery on Bukom island can process 500,000 barrels per day.
A fire at a LyondellBasell Industries refinery darkened Houston skies Friday morning.
Refinery crude runs rose by 85,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
Lyondell's refinery, which sits on higher ground, remained in operation during Harvey.
Tesoro spokeswoman Destin Singleton said operations at the refinery were not affected.
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Quebec is home to the second largest zinc refinery in North America.
A Lyondell spokeswoman declined to discuss operations at the refinery on Monday.
Refinery crude runs fell by 2000,215 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs rose by 100,000 barrels per day, the data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 174,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 21991,21.9 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
The Salina Cruz refinery has a capacity of 330,000 barrels per day.
Ethanol and farm groups have sued the EPA over the refinery exemptions.
Refinery crude runs rose by 224,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 237,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 51,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
The Galveston Bay Refinery overhaul is scheduled to finish March 10-11.
Media observers are questioning the merits of combining Refinery and Vice, though.
Amlo's refinery plan is similar to Trump's emphasis on the coal industry.
Adding to the woes, refinery maintenance has taken some buyers temporarily offline.
Refinery crude runs dropped by 209,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
PDVSA products from the installations of the Isla refinery have been confiscated.
Refinery crude runs rose by 81,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Exxon sold the Torrance refinery to PBF Energy Inc in July 2016.
Refinery has 14 including WPP, Stripes Group, Scripps Networks, and Turner Broadcasting.
This is second power outage to hit a Louisiana refinery this month.
SPRC operates a 165,000 barrels-per-day refinery in eastern Rayong province.
About one-third of the nation's oil refinery production could be impacted.
Aramco is also in talks with Sinopec on a refinery in Qingdao.
Refinery crude runs fell by 0003,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
That facility is integrated with a refinery on the Red Sea coast.
The company also processes Permian oil at its El Paso, Texas, refinery.
The last hurricane to flood the refinery was 2012's Hurricane Isaac.
Refinery was onboard because it was a very easy and quick shoot.
Refinery crude runs rose by 2000,1.43 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 194,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs rose by 166,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 22,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
The ripple effects of ongoing OPEC cuts will also affect refinery output.
"We are talking about a refinery that will be operating for decades."
Refinery crude runs fell by 94,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
Refinery crude runs rose by 118,000 bpd last week, the EIA said.
Refinery executives said forged bars had also been reported in other countries.
The refinery has crude on-hand to continue operating for several days.
Refinery crude runs rose by 160,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 67,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
Refinery crude runs dropped by 195,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
Refinery crude runs rose by 423,1833 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Lyondell had hoped to restore full production to the refinery by Wednesday.
Refinery crude runs rose by 2000,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 289,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
PSLA-8 is one of two 90,000 bpd CDUs at the refinery.
On top of that, it owns our country's largest refinery in Texas.
Talking about tax fairness at North Dakota's Mandan refinery is especially strange.
Refinery crude runs fell by 9,20163 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs rose by 210.5,0003 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Nearly a third of the nation's refinery capacity is along the Gulf.
Refinery crude runs fell by 282,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
Dung Quat refinery, Vietnam's first of its kind, became operational from 2009.
Refinery crude runs fell by 25,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 496,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
French oil producer Total owns a 43.8 percent stake in the refinery.
Refinery crude runs fell by 56,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
Refinery crude runs rose by 32,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
That was Valero's refinery, with a capacity of 335,000 barrels per day.
Refinery crude runs rose by 74,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 24,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
Refinery crude runs rose by 464,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
An Exxon spokeswoman declined to discuss operations at the Baton Rouge refinery.
Refinery crude runs rose by 519,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Gasoline futures had settled up 4 percent overnight following refinery closures stateside.
The Obama administration had denied the refinery an exemption, according to Reuters.
Even a small payload could disrupt a refinery, power transformer, or dam.
The Baton Rouge refinery is the fourth largest in the United States.
Refinery crude runs rose by 376,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 393,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Refinery crude runs fell by 176,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Analysts said the deal could help PDVSA by keeping the refinery operating.
Refinery crude runs rose by 251,000 barrels per day, EIA data showed.
Bin Salman also signed a $10 billion refinery and petrochemical project deal.
Refinery crude runs rose by 178,000 barrels per day, API data showed.
An unplanned shut down of Switzerland's only oil refinery exacerbated the problem.
Senator Elizabeth Warren earlier this month in a letter to the EPA questioned the agency's decision to grant a small refinery waiver to an oil refinery owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, a former adviser to President Donald Trump.
CONCERN ABOUT REFINERY Romero said about $2.1 billion had been set aside next year to finance the new $8 billion Dos Bocas refinery, a project ratings agencies see as adverse to putting the ailing company back on track.
The area has seen strong refinery runs this summer as a supportive 3:2:1 crack spread, an indicator of refinery profit, incentivized refiners to run at full tilt, said Matt Smith, director of commodities research at ClipperData.
Workers at the 335,000-bpd Isla refinery on the nearby island of Curacao operated by PDVSA said on Friday that the refinery had begun restarting its catalytic cracking unit, which could boost fuel supplies in the coming days.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A blast on Monday at South Africa's Natref oil refinery injured 11 people and forced the shutdown of operations close to the 108,000 barrel per day facility but production at the main refinery continued, Sasol said.
Its operations include a joint refinery with Royal Dutch Shell in Jubail known as SASREF; a venture with Exxon Mobil in Yanbu known as SAMREF; and its YASREF refinery, which is a venture with China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec).
However, workers at two of the refineries that had been on strike - Total's Donges refinery in the northwest and Exxon Mobil Corp's Fos-sur-Mer refinery in the south - voted to suspend their action pending salary talks, Defresne said.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A fire on Monday at Phillips 66's 260,000 barrel per day (bpd) Westlake, Louisiana, refinery began when a heater tube failed on hydrogen unit being shut down at the refinery, said sources familiar with plant operations.
Refinery margins in Asia have come under pressure from higher crude costs and soft demand growth, with the profit for a Singapore refinery holding around $3 a barrel in May, well below the 365-day moving average of $4.34.
Rosneft won a bid to develop the Tuban refinery after it "demonstrated its superiority for partnering with Pertamina," Pertamina CEO Dwi Soetjipto said at the signing ceremony, noting that the project would be Indonesia's first new refinery since 1997.
The lawsuit, entered into New York Southern District Court on Friday, just days before PES, the largest refinery in the East Coast, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following a fire that damaged its 335,000 barrel-per-day refinery.
This year, Exxon Mobil Corp embarked on a multi-billion dollar refinery expansion and Chevron Corp added a second Gulf Coast refinery as the two largest U.S. oil companies take advantage of record production out of Texas shale fields.
This is due to the refinery maintenance in Indonesia and Vietnam, Asia's two largest gasoline importers, as well as the prolonged shutdown of a gasoline unit in Ruwais refinery in United Arab Emirates (UAE) after a fire in January.
Royal Dutch Shell had said it was "proactively shutting units down" at its Puget Sound refinery in Washington state due to the incident and Phillips 66 said it was adjusting operations at its Ferndale refinery, also in Washington state.
COLOMBO, May 16 (Reuters) - Iran has agreed to build a new oil refinery for Sri Lanka in addition to upgrading its ageing 1003,000 barrel per day (bpd) state-owned refinery, Sri Lankan cabinet spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said on Wednesday.
The 645,000-barrel-per-day Amuay refinery was operating at some 300,000 bpd while adjacent 310,000-bpd Cardon refinery was at around 100,000 bpd, according to Ivan Freites, a union leader and fierce critic of state oil company PDVSA.
Total said on Thursday it plans to restart its 220,000 bpd Donges refinery after workers there voted to end the strike, and said 62 percent of workers at the 101,000 bpd Granpuits refinery also voted to end strike action.
The Pascagoula refinery is closest to the landfall location currently forecast for Gordon.
Tlahuelilpan, population 20,000, is just 8 miles (13 kilometers) from Pemex's Tula refinery.
Separately, Rosneft said it would use Venezuelan crude to supply the Vadinar refinery.
The day before he planned to return to the refinery, he went home.
The flaring triggered messages on social media of a fire at the refinery.
Wood River Refinery is undergoing planned maintenance, Phillips 66 spokeswoman Melissa Ory said.
It already has sold its stake in the Dakota Prairie refinery joint venture.
Refinery crude runs rose by 85,000 barrels per day (bpd), API data showed.
The refinery, operated by Calumet Superior LLC at the time, was fined $21,000.
Reuters reported earlier this year that the owners were shopping the refinery complex.
The non-regulatory federal agency investigates serious chemical accidents such as refinery fires.
While end-year refinery activity tends to increase, this was larger than expected.
Refinery utilization rates rose by 3.4 percentage points to 96.4% of total capacity.
Russia's Urals also came under pressure despite the end of seasonal refinery maintenance.
The Galveston Bay Refinery was the site of a bitter strike in 2015.
Operations at the Petkim plant and SOCAR's STAR refinery were continuing, it said.
This meant only certain plants in the refinery would be stopped, he clarified.
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The potential delay to the refinery comes at a crucial time for Pemex.
BP said it expected "significantly higher" refinery maintenance activity in the second quarter.
Rosneft's Germany's refinery Schwedt has refused to take dirty oil, according to traders.
The government has also leaned on producers to invest in local refinery facilities.
PBF Energy Inc's Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery planned to remain in operation, sources said.
Marathon Petroleum Corp declined to discuss operations at the company's Garyville, Louisiana, refinery.
The refinery could remain shut for an extended period, Reuters reported on Friday.
Phillips 66, owner of a refinery in Linden, New Jersey, was up 1.4%.
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On Tuesday, a Petrobras sign in front of the refinery was covered up.
These guys are all veterans of the battle to take the Baiji refinery.
We know of refinery shutdowns and (crude oil) production that has come down.
No change in operations were planned at the Chalmette refinery, the sources said.
Gulf Coast market sources said they expected the Marathon refinery to keep operating.
We have some people who have spent their whole careers in the refinery.
On Friday, a fire at an oil refinery in Iran killed seven workers.
"Getting an idled refinery up and running could be very expensive," he said.
"Imports down, exports likely up and refinery utilization at yearly highs," he said.
The refinery accounted for 1% of CSX's annual shipping volume, the company said.
Refinery utilization rates rose by 0.3 percentage points to 94.2% of total capacity.
The sources said FCCU 1 was not profitable for the refinery to operate.
Prices in the region have risen as supply falls due to refinery closures.
I have to build a portable refinery to make resources suitable for building.
The storm is not expected to affect the refinery-dense Gulf of Mexico.
The company's refinery margin fell more than 50 percent to $9.83 per barrel.
All other employees and contractors working at the refinery have been accounted for.
Pertamina is expected to select a partner for the refinery project in October.
More than 600 union refinery workers will be laid off on Aug. 25.
Refinery utilization rates rose by 0.8 percentage point to 89.1 percent of capacity.
Two other CDUs at the refinery have a combined capacity of 180,000 bpd.
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The refinery gross margins was below Wells Fargo's estimate of $17.62 per barrel.
Refined oil products already in storage will further undercut refinery profits, he said.
Total is a partner in the Ras Laffan refinery and also sells lubricants.
The 166,000 barrel-per-day refinery experienced a temporary power outage on Jan.
Refinery utilization rates fell by 0.3 percentage point to 94.4% of total capacity.
One of the two, the Advantage Atom, is waiting near its Amuay refinery.
Last week, the 645,000-Amuay refinery restarted one of its crude distillation units.
"What we see is a refinery where they (the partners) participate," he said.
"Imports down, exports likely up and refinery utilisation at yearly highs," he said.
The refinery, which is owned by SOCAR, will halt production from Oct 2000.
Exxon spokeswoman Sarah Nordin confirmed that the Beaumont refinery was overhauling some units.
On average, Pemex uses about 3,000 full-time workers to operate each refinery.
We don't know how much it's worth after it goes through that refinery.
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Others said the refinery closures would lead to a rise in crude inventories.
Rogers also has a cane refinery in Vancouver and a beet processing facility.
Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Total and Sasol are among the major refinery operators.
It may be mid-week at the earliest before the refinery resumes production.
Refinery closures during Harvey could spike fuel prices and ripple across the economy.
A BP spokesman declined on Monday to discuss operations at the Whiting refinery.
The others are Exploration and Production; Marketing and Services, and Refinery and Chemicals.
Unplanned maintenance continues at the Wilmington portion of Tesoro's refinery near Los Angeles.
For the moment, the Chinese source said, the refinery deal was going forward.
Refinery utilization rates fell by 21.7 percentage points to 86% of total capacity.
A Shell spokesman said operations were stable on Tuesday at the Convent refinery.
PBF spokesman Michael Karlovich declined on Monday to discuss operations at the refinery.
Refinery utilization rates fell by 21 percentage points to 0003% of overall capacity.
" Valero: "I am not a big believer in the refinery stocks right here.
Dobrovic later said there was no imminent plan to close down the refinery.
Salamanca is Pemex's fifth-largest refinery and can process 220,000 barrels per day.
Royal Dutch Shell shut down Europe's largest refinery following a fire, Reuters reports.
Since 1977, only one new refinery has been built in the United States.
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Marathon's smallest refinery is a 23.33,000 barrel per day plant in Canton, Ohio.
"The Beaumont refinery is being considered as part of that evaluation," she said.
Dangote will consider listing the oil refinery once it comes onstream, Edwin added.
Vice insiders were told that Refinery would maintain its editorial integrity and autonomy.
The refinery and chemical plant share the safety flare system at the complex.
" Refinery 29 wrote that it "remains terrifying until its climactic, exorcism-filled end.
If refinery capacity increases or demand falls, refiners could see their margins fall.
Marathon's smallest refinery is a 23.33,000 barrel per day plant in Canton, Ohio.
Typically, any unexpected outage at the refinery boosts margins for Asian oil products.
It also opened a new refinery to reduce dependence on imported oil products.
India's biggest oil refinery, owned by Reliance Industries, is also based in Gujarat.
Shell said operations were stable at its Deer Park refinery on the channel.
Designed by an artist, Mark Reigelman, a new playground resembles a sugar refinery.
Refinery profits are healthy, and a company like Valero might pursue an acquisition.
Motiva declined on Monday to discuss the status of units at the refinery.
Refinery crude runs rose by 1.1 million barrels per day, according to EIA.
In 2016, 75 percent of oil processed at Lotos's refinery came from Russia.
That transition left the future of the 209,000 barrel-per-day refinery uncertain.
Three of the four CDUs at the refinery were shut by the fire.
The refinery processed around 2 million tonnes of oil in January to November.
Hundreds of union activists had surrounded the refinery then, effectively shutting it down.
He did say operations were continuing at the refinery and adjoining chemical plant.
Also, a hydrocracker remains shut at the refinery for repairs, the sources said.
That accounts for one-sixth of Belarus's normal refinery throughput, Reuters calculations showed.
Beyond the farm, a Chevron refinery pumps plumes of smoke into the atmosphere.
Refinery stocks, on the other hand, caught a bid from surging gasoline prices.
Gasoline prices shot up because of refinery shutdowns in the greater Houston area.
The 600,000 barrel-a-day refinery is the largest in the United States.
Teachers, hospital staff, oil-refinery workers and even lawyers promised to join in.
Dollar strength and the onset of refinery maintenance season also weighed on futures.
A coking unit has also been shut at the refinery, the sources said.
Refinery crude runs rose by 2000,000 barrels in the last week, EIA said.
A CNV spokesman reiterated that the refinery was running at 65 percent capacity.
Concurrently, unplanned -- and planned -- refinery maintenance tightens the number of gasoline stocks available.
Latin American buying has helped drive strong export flows and bolster refinery margins.
The last time it built a major refinery was about 25 years ago.
The refinery has the capacity to process 63,000 barrels of oil per day.
Investments into refinery upgrades in places like India and Russia also cut supply.
But the oil industry hasn't built a new refinery in over thirty years.
Refinery crude runs rose by 303,000 barrels in the last week, EIA said.
The Caribbean nation's government owns the other 51% of shares in the refinery.
The refinery 30 miles northeast of San Francisco has been operating since 1915.

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