OUSTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - BP Plc (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research) was beginning a massive overhaul on Thursday of the gasoline-producing unit at its Los Angeles-area refinery, according to sources familiar with refinery operations.
Up to 4,000 contract workers are expected to be employed in the two-month overhaul of the 103,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking (FCC) unit at the 265,000 bpd refinery in Carson, California, the sources said.
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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an 14 (Reuters) - Independent refiner Tesoro Corp (TSO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said it expects combined throughput in the first quarter to be 545,000 to 595,000 barrels per day.
Throughput rates at its Golden Eagle refinery would be hurt by the planned commissioning of its new delayed coker, the western U.S. refiner said in a statement.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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HOUSTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Leading independent U.S. refiner Valero Energy Corp (VLO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said Tuesday combined throughput from its U.S. refineries in 2008's first quarter would fall about 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) below 3.1 million bpd capacity.
Much of the decline will be due to planned and unplanned work at two of Valero's Gulf Coast refineries,
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:52 am Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe's largest oil company, said it has cut supply of raw material to the coker unit at its Deer Park, Texas, refinery after the unit malfunctioned, resulting in flaring of gases.
The unplanned unit shutdown resulted in emissions of more than 1,000 pounds of carbon monoxide and more than 35,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide into the air, Shell said in the filing to the state air quality regulator. Other gases including nitrogen oxide and propane were also flared, according to the filing.
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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HOUSTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said minor maintenance planned for 11 days at its 150,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Los Angeles-area refinery in Torrance, California, was not expected to affect prouction.
The work is scheduled to begin on Monday and last through Feb. 22,
HOUSTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - An instrumentation problem is suspected in causing an upset on a sulfur unit at the ConocoPhillips (COP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) 247,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Sweeny, Texas, according to a notice filed with state pollution regulators
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:03 am Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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Crude oil rose to a one-month high after Valero Energy Corp. shut its Delaware refinery because of a storm-related power failure yesterday and cold weather moved across the northern U.S.
Valero, the biggest U.S. refining company, said it is starting units at the Delaware City plant today. Citgo Petroleum Corp.'s Lake Charles, Louisiana, refinery is starting units after a ``partial power failure'' yesterday.
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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CALGARY, Alberta, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc's refinery in Alberta is running at reduced rates, forcing the company to ration fuel to its own Western Canadian retail network and to commercial customers, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
There is no indication yet when the 98,000 barrel a day Scotford refinery near Edmonton will be back at full rates, Shell spokeswoman Jana Masters said.
Reuters _________________ Civilization is a personal choice.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:26 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
Several explosions in Mcook Texas on shell pipeline. No source just straight from a phone call from our crew on location. _________________ There will come a day when we would have wished to do a little evil for a greater good.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:47 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest oil company, said its Beaumont, Texas, refinery flared, or burned chemicals into the air, because a wet gas compressor was shut down
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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HOUSTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Tesoro Corp's (TSO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) 95,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Kapolei, Hawaii, refinery was shut on Sunday following a Saturday night power outage and fire, the company said.
Feb 14 (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp. (VLO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has restarted all units, apart from the vacuum unit, at its 275,000-barrel-per-day Aruba oil refinery after a Jan. 25 fire and all units were at reduced rates, a spokesman said on Thursday.
NEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Valero said it had begun the planned turnaround at the fluid catalytic cracking unit at its 185,000-barrel-per-day St. Charles refinery in Norco, Louisiana.
The refinery has fluid catalytic cracking capacity of 97,000 barrels per day.
Valero said previously the work would take 20 days
HOUSTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp (CVX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) reported a unit failure at its 260,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Los Angeles-area refinery in El Segundo, California, on Sunday, according to a notice filed with state pollution regulators
Looks like a rough weekend for the refiners. The TSO refinery had a lot of problems last fall and was a major cause of these guys missing their numbers in Q4.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
Here is the list of current refinery issues.
By my reckoning, the current operable unleaded capacity is about 8.9 mbpd. This is going to be pretty close to what we see in the weekly petroleum status report.
I am alarmed that the DOE has no more of a grip on this situation than we do.
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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NEW YORK, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp (VLO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday that some units at its 182,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Delaware City, Delaware, were still in restart after a power outage earlier this month shut all units.
"Not much update at Delaware City. The crude, FCC and coker are up. Further units are still in the restart process. We will probably have further details next week,"
HOUSTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Tesoro Corp (TSO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday processing units at its 95,000 barrel per day (bpd) Kapolei, Hawaii, refinery were "gradually being brought back into operation" so production can resume after a Saturday night power outage and fire.
By the way, the summary we did last week that called for 8.9 mbpd of unleaded production proved to be pretty well calibrated. Actual production was 8.8.
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