Average capacity usage for all refineries in India fell to 76% in August from 83% last month, according to the most recent survey by the Ministry of Petroleum.
Analysts attributed the lowest tests in 3 months to the double blockade thing reprinted in many states to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and the closure of many refineries.
The execution rate 104% a year ago.
Refineries such as Paradip of Indian Oil Corp, Reliance’s export-oriented unit and Hindustan Petroleum Corp. , Ltd. ‘s Vizag refinery. have performed maintenance systems at a time when retail demand is low due to the effect of COVID-19.
In August, state refineries recorded 74% of cycles, up from 104% the previous year and 86% in July.
The flagship state refinery, the IIC, recorded an average combined cycle of 67% for all independent refineries, up from 102% a year ago and 91% in July.
The State Refinery of India Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. production of 75. 5% in August, up from 118% a year ago and 83% in July.
HPCL recorded an execution rate of 98% in August, up from 117% last year and 101% in July. His Mumbai refinery operated completely in August.
In the joint venture refinery category, total executions amounted to 96% in August to 102% last year and 89% in July, and the Bhatinda refinery in Punjab recorded 109% last month at 103% a year ago.
Private refineries recorded a yield of 79% in August, up from 104% per annum and 78% in July.
The minimum execution rate of personal refiners basically due to a minimisation in processing in Reliance’s export-oriented assemblies at 46% due to the maintenance closure of a crude distillation unit at its Jamnagar complex and Nayara Energy, a partial property of Rosneft, at 91%.
Reliance’s transformation unit operated at 108% in August, up from 101% a year ago and 101% in July.
Reliance’s combined career was 76% in August, up from 104% a year ago.
India’s gas exports reached a minimum of eight months in August due to changes in Reliance Industries Ltd’s personal plant in Jamnagar and continued recovery in domestic demand for reduced gas to export barrels.
Indian Oil Corp. operates at a rate of 70% to 75% at its nine refineries, as demand for retail fuel has still increased, corporate officials said on September 21.
BPCL raised the operating rate of its Mumbai refinery to 80% in September.
Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd. operates its Manali refinery at 75%, while retail demand for petroleum products has advanced with the unlocking of the local economy in and around the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. operates at 90%, as retail fuel resumes with the economy unlocked in northeastern India.
India’s MRPL operates at 70%, as demand for diesel in retail markets in southern India resumed with the economy unlocked.
South Korea’s ULsan crude oil production rate, SK Energy, fell to 77% in the second quarter, the lowest recorded and below 90% the previous year and 92% in the first quarter. “The company expects to increase crude oil production in the third and fourth quarters as refining margins are expected to improve,” one official said. We expect the company’s third-quarter crude oil operating rate to be around 80-85%,” he added.
SK Incheon Petroleum, a refining subsidiary of SK Energy, which operates two GVVs with a combined capacity of 275,000 b/dy a 100,000 b/d condensate separator in Incheon on the West Coast, will not reach its operating rate in the third quarter, as it is already low, an official said. SK Incheon’s gross operating rate averaged 76% in the second quarter, up from 84% in the previous year and 80% in the first quarter.
Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. will close its Tabangao refinery, turning the facility into an import terminal, the company said in a statement. The refinery has been closed since May 24 due to weak domestic demand for products.
New Zealand Refining NZ is committed to transforming its Marsden Point refinery into an oil import terminal and will keep operating rates low by 2020 in anticipation of extended low refining margins.
Australia’s largest refinery of the time, Viva Energy, has once again signaled the imaginable closure of its Geelong refinery amid low margins and a mediocre and widespread order for subtle petroleum products as a component of the extension of movement restrictions in Victoria to involve a momentary wave of coronavirus infections. “The company is comparing other features to cope with operational losses, adding the option to move to a complete facility shutdown,” Viva Energy said on its website.
Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical plans to operate fares at its Map Ta Phut refinery at 80% in September, below 90% in August.
Pertamina, Indonesia, plans to export low-sulfur oil shipments from its Balikpapan refinery for cargo in September, and the company operates the refinery at reduced rates, industry resources said.
The Vietnamese refinery in Nghi Son will have its operating rate above one hundred percent of its short-term capacity, unchanged since August, even if a stock build-up puts pressure on domestic buyers, industry resources said well aware of the factor. , the plant is operating at rates higher than its total capacity to compensate for Dung Quat’s production loss [refinery],” said one source. Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical, a state-owned petroVietnam company, closed its Dung Quat plant on 12 August due to planned maintenance and will not begin the restart procedure until October 1.
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South Korea’s S-Oil aims to restart RFCC Onsan No. 2 until the week of October 3. S-Oil closed RFCC Unit No. 2 out of 76,200 b/d at your Onsan refinery on September 8 due to a mechanical problem. No. 1 RFCC No. 1 of 73,000 b/d has been affected and is operating “normally”, a source said. Separately, S-Oil Corp closed its 57,000 b/d relay hydrosulfuring unit at the end of August for a change of course and plans to restart the unit until late September, a corporate source said.
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India’s No. 2 refinery, Bharat Petroleum Corp. , restarted its Continuous Catalytic Reformer, or CCR, at the Mumbai refinery by the week of Sept. 20, a corporate source said. BPCL is lately operating its Mumbai refinery with an average capacity of 81% in September, the source said, higher than the operating rate of 60% to 70% in August.
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Australia’s largest refinery of the time, Viva Energy, has once again signaled the imaginable closure of its Geelong refinery amid low margins and a mediocre and widespread order for subtle petroleum products as a component of the extension of movement restrictions in Victoria to involve a momentary wave of coronavirus infections. “The company is comparing other features to cope with operational losses, adding the option to move to a complete facility shutdown,” Viva Energy said on its website.
Thai Oil and Petrochemical Corporation IRPC Public Co. Ltd. has disconnected several refining sets after a chimney at its Rayong plant in early September, said industry reresources familiar with the matter. The closed assemblies come with an atmospheric waste desulfurry unit and a residual deep catalytic cracker, reresources said, adding that the refinery has not yet taken off a 25,000 b/d atmospheric relay desulfurry unit for catalyst replacement in the first quarter, the company said in a first quarter report in May.
Formosa Petrochemical of Taiwan plans to restart its number 2 relay desulfurry unit in Mailiao as soon as imaginable in April 2021, a corporate official said. The unit closed on July 15 after a chimney broke out. “It’s still unclear, but we plan to restart the unit in April-September next year,” the company’s director said. Following the closure of the RDS unit, the company also closed a catalytic waste fluid cracking unit on August 10 for a prolonged era of repair time work.
Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. will close its Tabangao refinery, turning the facility into an import terminal, the company said on its online page on August 13.
New Zealand Refining NZ is committed to transforming its Marsden Point refinery into an oil import terminal and will maintain low operating rates by 2020 in anticipation of extended low refining margins, the company said. reduce operating costs, making the company physically powerful for an extended era of low margins,” the company said in a statement. “Simplifying our refinery creates the time and optionalness to continue refining operations in the short term while comparing the options of transitioning to an import terminal in the future,” said Naomi James, CEO of Refining NZ.
On 12 August, Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical (BSR), administered by PetroVietnam state, began to reduce the capacity of the Dung Quat refinery for planned maintenance, a source told BSR. Due to human resources adjustments, the source said. Under the new plan, the entire refinery will close in two to three days so that maintenance work can begin, which is expected to last until October 1.
SK Energy in South Korea plans to close its No. crude oil distillation. 3 out of 170,000 b/d in Ulsan for several weeks in the fourth quarter, as well as a no distillation. 2 80,000 b/d relay hydrodesulfuring unit, a corporate official told me. SK Energy has five GVs with a combined capacity of 840,000 b/d in its Ulsan complex.
Sri Lankan Sapugaskanda refinery Ceylon Petroleum Corp is expected. in 2021 it passed through “a planned complete closure [which] is expected every two years in general,” the company said in the statement. recovery has not yet been announced.
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Hengyi Industries plans to more than double the capacity of its built-in refining and aromatic complex in Brunei to approximately 455,000 b/d, compared to the existing 160,000 b/d, for 3 years, the company said in a statement. refinery gas production through 2. 55 million tons/year, diesel through 1. 94 million tons/year, jet fuel through 1. 84 million tons/year and LPG through 190,000 tons/year, according to the week ended September 18. combined production of gas, diesel and jet fuel of approximately 6 million tons consistent with the year. There are also plans to increase the production capacity of olefins/polyolefins.
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The Paradip refinery, owned by Indian Oil Corp. , will install the first level of a Grassroot needle coquization unit with its own internal technology, corporate officials said on September 1. The proposed unit will have a production of carbonized needle coke, or CNC. capacity of 56 kilotons consistent with the year. Currently, the country’s total needle coke needs (80-100 kilotons/year) are met by imports.
Pakistan Refinery has issued percentages to modernize and expand the plant in a deep conversion refinery, according to market resources and corporate documents. The product will be used to rearrange assemblies and increase fuel and diesel efficiency. After the percentage sale, Pakistan State Oil, the largest state supplier of gas and diesel for engines and the largest share of refinery shareholders, increased its stake in the refinery from 60% to 63. 56%, Pakistan State Oil said in one case on the Pakistan Stock Exchange on July 29. % of the percentages of the correct rate issued through the Pakistan refinery. Banks, pension funds, the general public and Hascol Ltd. they own the rest of the percentages.
Pertamina, Indonesia, plans to build a petrochemical plant at its Balongan refinery in West Java and will cooperate with the allocation with the CPC in Taiwan. The task is expected to be completed in 2026 and, once operational, Indonesia will reduce petrochemical imports. Pertamina will build the task in 3 stages. The first phase is to increase the refining capacity to 150,000 b/d until 2022 from the current 125,000 b/d. The timing and third stage will be to increase the performance of the refinery’s product, adding the new petrochemical plant. As a component of this plan, Pertamina and CPC will build a naphtha cracker that will update imports. The naphtha cracker will produce at least 1 million tons/year of ethylene. Pertamina is also cooperating with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) in the allocation of the Balongan refinery.
Pertamina, Indonesia, will continue the renovation of its Cilacap refinery without Saudi Aramco, raising its capacity to 348,000 b/ da 370,000 b/d, a company spokesman said. The company had signed an agreement on the proposed reform in November 2015 with the Saudi oil company, however, Aramco did not settle for Pertamina’s asset valuation figure, Platts. Pertamina reported now plans to locate other partners for paintings on the assignment, Fajriyah Usman said. Once the allocation is complete, Pertamina will be able to produce 80,000 b/d more petrol, 60,000 b/d diesel and 40,000 b/d of fuel for Cilacap aircraft. capacity of the crude oil distillation unit; increase the capacity of the catalytic cracking unit of residual fluid from 62,000 b / da 81,000 b / dy load a new hydrocracking unit of 43,000 b / d.
SK Energy delayed the full operation of its newly built desulfurization unit through 40,000 b / d due to “deteriorating market conditions” following the coronavirus pandemic. The refinery completed the mechanical setup of the Vacuum Tailings Desulfurization Unit, or VRDS, on January 31. , 3 months ahead of the original schedule, to gain market place with IMO 2020 Low Sulfur Marine Fuels. The company in the past had aimed to start advertising production until the end of March.
HPCL’s allocation of $3. 2 billion to expand Vizag’s capacity to 300,000 b/d is about to be completed, corporate officials said. The expansion assignment was originally scheduled to be completed in July 2020, but officials did not provide an express schedule for the completion of the assignment. install the number one processing sets, such as a CDU, replacing one of the existing 3 GVVs, a hydrocracker, and a naphtha isomerization unit.
Byco Petroleum Pakistan, from Pakistan, on its website, announced its goal of building an aromatics plant with a capacity of 27,300 b/d to produce benzene, combined xylene, paraxylene, orthoxylene, C9 and refinery.
Hyundai Engineering was awarded a $2. 17 billion contract to improve the Balikpapan refinery in Indonesia. Hyundai Engineering will be “responsible for the engineering, purchase and construction of the improvement of the facilities”, which would take 53 months to complete and the construction of the refinery capacity of 260,000 b / da 360,000 b / d. It is expected to end in 2023. In addition, Pertamina and Mubadala, Indonesia, signed a precept refinery investment agreement to evaluate any cooperation options in the processing sector, adding the acceleration of Balikpapan’s allocation in Pertamina, which is expected to require an investment of around $5. 5 billion.
The IIC refinery in western Gujarat state will have the largest capacity in its refinery portfolio until 2022-23, corporate officials said. The IIC plans to increase the capacity of the Gujarat refinery to 360,000 b/d until March 2023, above the existing 275,000 b/d.
IOC plans to expand the atmospheric and vacuum unit of its Barauni refinery to increase its total capacity to nine million tons consistently with the year until 2021.
In Bangchak Petroleum, Thailand, an expansion plan is underway to increase refinery production capacity from 120,000 b/da 140,000 b/d through 2020, by installing an uninterrupted catalyst regeneration unit. the company will also launch the hydrocracker, which could increase the refinery’s production capacity by 10%.
Saudi Aramco and S-Oil have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on a $6 billion descending vapocracker and olefin allocation at Onsan, to be completed in 2024, which will produce ethylene and key chemicals from naphtha and exhaust gases.
ExxonMobil has announced a final investment resolution at its Singapore resort. The allocation includes an expansion to convert “oil and other products from the back of the crude barrel into base oils and distillates from higher value lubricants”. Commissioning is expected by 2023. increase capacity to increase cleaner fuel production with a decrease in sulphur content of 48,000 b/d.
Reliance Industries Ltd. has been approved to develop the capacity of its export-oriented Jamnagar refinery on the west coast of India from 17% to 41 million tons (820,000 b/d). By 2030, RIL aims to develop its overall refining capacity – adding its national refinery – in Jamnagar to 98. 2 million tonnes in line with the year. The dependency is lately 1. 37 million b/d, of which 707,000 b/d for export and 660,000 b/d for the domestic market. capacity at 820,000 b/j. By 2030, its goal is to increase its total capacity to 1. 96 million b/d.
The Indian IIC plans to increase the capacity of its Panipat refinery to 25 million tons consistently with the year until 2021 to meet the developing demand for petroleum products. The refinery has a capacity of 15 million tons consistent with the year.
The Indian company has approved an allocation to increase the capacity of the Numaligarh refinery to nine million tonnes according to the year from 3 million tons according to the year.
Nayara Energy is requesting renewal of the environmental approval to double the capacity of its Vadinar refinery, from the previous approval granted to Essar Oil, which had planned to double Vadinar’s refining capacity to 40 million tons on a consistent year-over-year basis.
Petron plans to expand and modernize its Bataan refinery in Limay, expanding its capacity by 55% to produce 75,000 b/d of subtle products and 1 million tons/year of aromatics. There is no calendar for the expansion date. The refinery capacity will be higher, through 100,000 b/d of condensate and soft crude, compared to an existing capacity of 180,000 b/d.
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Philippine company Petron Corp. plans to double the capacity of its Dickson port refinery in Malaysia from 88,000 b/d through 2020 to 178,000 b/d.
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Pak-Arab Oil Refinery Limited will begin physical paintings at its coastal refinery in the first part of 2021, after nearly thirteen years of consecutive delays in allocation, industry resources familiar with the issue said. PARCO also operates the 100,000 b/d Mid-Country refinery in Mahmoodkot. The allocation of the coastal refinery was approved in 2007, but the structure was delayed. investment issues.
** The infrastructure of Mongolia’s first refinery in Dornogobi (Dornogovi) was completed and paintings of the structure are being made at the refinery site, according to local media. At a government meeting, the importance of completing the task on time was highlighted. It operates through the state-owned Mongolian oil refinery. Negotiations with the company for an EPC contract have ended and arrangements for the signing of the contract are underway. An on-going organization will be created to improve the finishing touch of the task. Mongolia’s first refinery is expected to succeed in full capacity until 2026, S
Malaysia Pengerang Refining and Petrochemical, also known as PRefChem or RAPID, plans to delay restarting its burning refinery in southern Johor state from September to early 2021, after which operations at the built-in petrochemical complex will resume, resources said. with direct wisdom of the matter, S told S
Pertamina, Indonesia, has to postpone the structure of a 300,000 b/d Bontang refinery in East Kalimantan, a senior official said. “Bontang is still on the list, but right now we’re focusing on existing refineries,” said Ignatius Tallulembang, refinery and petrochemical director of the Mega Project in Pertamina, adding that modernizing existing refineries was “our priority. “Ignatius Tallulembang said the structure was underway “but our spouse stopped. Therefore, we keep the task while evaluating the source and requesting oil in more detail. If all is clear, we’ll talk to our stakeholders. The proposed refinery is intended to produce at least 60,000 b/d of gas and 124,000 b/d of diesel and the products will meet Euro IV specifications, with Pertamina prioritizing national marketing.
A joint venture between Rosneft and Pertamina signed a contract with Techniques Gathered from Spain to design the structure of an oil refinery and petrochemical complex in Tuban, Indonesia, Rosneft said. The East Java plant is expected to become operational within the next five years. A primary processing design capacity of up to 15 million tons/year is expected, the planned capacity of the petrochemical complex includes more than 1 million tons/year for ethylene and 1. 3 million tons/year for fragrant hydrocarbons.
Sri Lanka approved a $20 billion refinery allocation in the port city of Hambantota. The announcement follows the opening of a smaller refinery complex in the port, with the support of Oman Oil Company.
Iran remains open to investment in a planned expansion allocation through Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd to install an 180,000 b/d refinery in the Cauvery Basin in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadhu state, southern India, officials from the Indian Ministry of Petroleum said. The IOC owns 51. 9% cpcL, while NIOC owns 15. 4% through Swiss subsidiary Naftiran Intertrade.
India’s proposed 1. 2 million b/d refinery on the West Coast will be put into service in 2025, officials from the Ministry of Petroleum said, and will now be built in Raigad district, about a hundred kilometers from Mumbai.
Global trader Vitol will build a 30,000 b/d refinery in johor state in southern Malaysia. The task consists of an undeniable refinery to be built in Tanjung Bin in VTTI’s ATB tank fleet. ATB, or ATT Tanjung Bin Sdn Bhd. is a terminal owned 100 percent through VTTI. Vitol is co-owner of VTTI.
Haldia Petrochemicals’ proposal Ltd. de invest $4 billion in a built-in refinery and petrochemical facility in Balasore, India, has been through the Odisha government.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are in talks to expand a $10 billion refinery from 200,000 to 300,000 b/d in Balochistan’s Gwadar district.
A new HPCL assignment in Barmer, India is expected to be completed until March 2023.