Spring Shoulder Season Watch
WTF is the spring shoulder season? Anyhow it causes gasoline (petrol) prices to jump due to reduced refinery capacity. You must do the maintenance on a refinery or *boom*. But is this year different somehow?
Valero completes refinery shutdown
Valero extends Delaware City shutdown until early May
<< "Valero has decided to conduct additional boiler inspections and related boiler maintenance work at Delaware City during the current shutdown," said Bill Day, a spokesman for the refinery which has total throughput of 210,000 bpd. >>
Total refinery starts shutdown; duration uncertain
<< "We didn't expect the downturn to be so low," Benezit said then of the economy. >>
Brazil Petrobras Manaus Refinery Production Halted -Strikers
<< "Production had to be shutdown at the Manaus refinery because there were no workers available to operate it at an emergency level," said Maluzio Ferreira, spokesman for Brazil's oil workers union, FUP. >>
Oman Sohar Refinery RFCC Unit In Unscheduled Shutdown -Source
<< Oman's Sohar Refinery Co. has shut down the residue fluid catalytic cracking, or RFCC, unit, at its 116,400-barrel a day refinery for unscheduled maintenance due to technical problems, a person familiar with the situation said Sunday. >>
Czech Unipetrol plans shutdown at refinery
<< Czech refiner Ceska Rafinerska said on Friday it would shut its Kralupy unit in mid-April due
to upgrades and maintenance works. >>
Conoco sees small impact from Bayway fire
<< ConocoPhillips said on Tuesday there was minimal impact from a brief Saturday fire at its Bayway refinery in Linden, New Jersey, and said planned maintenance work was still ongoing at the plant. >>
Recession to hit East Coast refineries hard: study
<< U.S. East Coast refineries will take the hardest hit from the decline in production due to a recession-driven slide in gasoline demand, according to a study by consulting firm Wood Mackenzie released on Monday. >>
Valero completes refinery shutdown
Valero extends Delaware City shutdown until early May
<< "Valero has decided to conduct additional boiler inspections and related boiler maintenance work at Delaware City during the current shutdown," said Bill Day, a spokesman for the refinery which has total throughput of 210,000 bpd. >>
Total refinery starts shutdown; duration uncertain
<< "We didn't expect the downturn to be so low," Benezit said then of the economy. >>
Brazil Petrobras Manaus Refinery Production Halted -Strikers
<< "Production had to be shutdown at the Manaus refinery because there were no workers available to operate it at an emergency level," said Maluzio Ferreira, spokesman for Brazil's oil workers union, FUP. >>
Oman Sohar Refinery RFCC Unit In Unscheduled Shutdown -Source
<< Oman's Sohar Refinery Co. has shut down the residue fluid catalytic cracking, or RFCC, unit, at its 116,400-barrel a day refinery for unscheduled maintenance due to technical problems, a person familiar with the situation said Sunday. >>
Czech Unipetrol plans shutdown at refinery
<< Czech refiner Ceska Rafinerska said on Friday it would shut its Kralupy unit in mid-April due
to upgrades and maintenance works. >>
Conoco sees small impact from Bayway fire
<< ConocoPhillips said on Tuesday there was minimal impact from a brief Saturday fire at its Bayway refinery in Linden, New Jersey, and said planned maintenance work was still ongoing at the plant. >>
Recession to hit East Coast refineries hard: study
<< U.S. East Coast refineries will take the hardest hit from the decline in production due to a recession-driven slide in gasoline demand, according to a study by consulting firm Wood Mackenzie released on Monday. >>