Maintenance & Reliability

Vietnam's Nghi Son to keep high crude runs despite derivative unit maintenance

There will be no major impact on main refinery operations, the spokesperson said, adding the November partial shutdown will include some works at its hydrogen manufacturing unit and a catalyst change at its residue hydrodesulphurization unit.

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Digital transformation solution for monitoring reciprocating compressors

Nigerian oil firm NNPC seeks equity partners to revive refineries

Marathon restarting FCCU, hydrocracker at Galveston Bay refinery in Texas (U.S.)

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Dangote refinery's gasoline unit operating at 60% capacity

The outage on the unit, which began in late August, helped improve export economics from Europe to West Africa to cover the shortfall, boosting European gasoline refining margins.

bp says fire extinguished at Whiting, Indiana (U.S.) refinery

It was earlier reported that multiple units were offline at the refinery, which is the largest in the U.S. Midwest region.

Russia says refineries to postpone maintenance to saturate market

In September, Russia imposed a partial ban on diesel exports and extended a gasoline export ban, which applies to all exporters, until the end of the year.

Update: ExxonMobil restarts FCCU at Texas refinery