Maintenance shutdown planned for Czech Litvinov oil refinery in April-May
(Reuters) - Czech oil refiner Unipetrol will perform maintenance on its 109,000 bpd Litvinov oil refinery from April 4 to May 15, a company spokesperson said.
Unipetrol is owned by Poland's Orlen and operates the Litvinov refinery and the 68,000 bpd Kralupy refinery, both in the Czech Republic.
A general maintenance turnaround at the company's petrochemical site was postponed until 2025, the company said, but some maintenance works on specific units at that site will be performed between March and May this year.
Litvinov is the latest oil refinery to announce maintenance for early 2024. Shell is performing maintenance on Europe's largest refinery - the over 400,000 bpd capacity Pernis plant in Rotterdam - from the end of January until April.
ExxonMobil began shutting down units at its 140,000 bpd Fos-sur-Mer refinery in France on Jan. 20 as part of a major shutdown.
The U.S. major's 191,000 bpd Rotterdam refinery is also set to undergo a full maintenance turnaround from the middle of February.
Refinery maintenance in Europe commonly occurs in springtime and autumn.
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