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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Industrial Info's weekly Global Refining Report gives you the latest inside intelligence on outages, derates, shutdowns, closures, delays and more. Tomorrow’s news today… Market Commentary: Geopolitical tensions o’my. Hong Kong is back in the news as further protests are likely to arise against recently introduced Chinese legislation. And of course this will lead to US-China grievances. I have recently heard said we could be stepping into the 21st Century Cold War and this time the USA might not come out victorious. Now that many of our hydrocarbon SnD heightened concerns -- which drove negative WTI pricing for May’s expiry -- are in the past. Where many of the pundits hope they stay. We can turn our focus to geopolitical news like what is happening in Asia above. Or what might occur with OPEC+ member nations and compliance to their agreed upon production cuts. As it will be geopolitics both global as well as region along with monetary policies which will once again drive hydrocarbon prices going forward. Therefore, within this Global Refining Report, IIR hopes to shed some light on what is transpiring from a Refinery Operations perspective as the Global Refining Index (working with ADUs) illustrates what is happening to crude operationally available capacity and how refineries are de-rating and operating overall in these times. The Global Refinery Maps depict the COVID-19 Impact as well as the non-COVID-19 outages. Also, you will find both a Capacity Offline table to quickly display weekly what the available operating capacity by region is, not to mention Area Charts, which visualize COVID-19 Impact and non-COVID-19 capacity offline in Asia, Europe and North America. Petroleum Refining Highlights May 22, 2020 Valero, today, May 22, 2020, restarted the 90,000 b/d Crude Combo unit that had been shut down since May 19, 2020, at its 180,000 b/d Houston, Texas refinery. Additionally, the 39,000 b/d Vacuum (Combo Unit) shut down for maintenance on April 30, 2020 and is restarting this weekend. The refinery continues at reduced rates due to the lack of fuel and product demand due to COVID-19 pandemic. May 22, 2020 Citgo Petroleum will continue with a planned maintenance turnaround, which started April 6, on the 100,000 b/d Crude (Sour) unit, associated Vacuum, 52,000 BBL/d Reformer C, and 60,000 b/d Delayed Coker 2 units at its 420,000 b/d Westlake, Lake Charles refinery through the first week of June.

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May 22, 2020 Bharat Oman Refineries Limited (BORL) continues to operate its 156,000 b/d Bina Refinery, India at approximately 60 percent, since May 16, 2020. Previously, since April 1, 2020, the refinery was derated by 15 percent due to low demand as a result of Covid-19 Pandemic. The units are expected to resume full throughput by June 3, 2020 (Previously Reported May 17, 2020). Major Units include lone Crude Distillation Unit, 15,250 b/d Reformer, 25,000 b/d Naphtha Hydrotreater, 7,800 b/d Isomerization, 42,500 b/d Diesel Hydrotreater, 51,000 b/d Hydrocracker and 35,300 b/d Delayed Coker Unit. May 22, 2020 IIR has confirmed Petrobras continues processing its 46,000 b/d Reman, Brazil refinery at 60 percent capacity due to Covid-19 pandemic. Units will remain at derate capacity until late June, 2020. May 22, 2020 Repsol Peru continues to run at lower rates its 110kbd La Pampilla, Peru refinery due to Covid-19 concerns. The 30kbd Distillation 1 and 24kbd b/d Vacuum 1 continue offline while the 80kbd Distillation 2 has been further reduced to 50kbd from the already 70kbd depressed rate level. IIR has learned that Repsol has also shutdown the 2,400 b/d Platforming and 2,800 b/d Unifining and will continue as such until the units planned turnaround which was accelerated from July and will now commence on June 15. The works are expected to last until late July. Separately, Repsol has decided to shutdown the 15,500 b/d FCCU and 36kbd Vacuum 2 units on June 15 due to the low demand and take advantage of the downtime to perform minor repairs during a 15-Day term. The remaining operational units are running at approximately 55 percent of normal capacity and Company expects to maintain those rates until early August. IIR continues to monitor and will issue an update when more information is available. May 22, 2020 Kar Group continues with unplanned derate at its 160,000 b/d Erbil Refinery, Iraq by 35 percent due to COVID-19 pandemic since March 28, 2020. Previously, it was reported to resume the normal operations by May 15, 2020, but now expects to reach full throughput tentatively by June 30, 2020. Major units in Kar Block 1 include the 20,000 b/d CDU 1, 20,000 b/d CDU 2, 9,000 b/d NHT 1, 6,000 b/d Reformer 1 and 2,500 b/d Isom 1. Major units in Kar Block 2 include the 30,000 b/d CDU 3, 30,000 b/d CDU 4, 9,000 b/d NHT 2, 6,000 b/d Reformer 2, 2,500 b/d Kerosene Hydrotreater Unit and 2,500 b/d Isom 2. While major units in Kar Block 3 include the 30,000 b/d CDU 5, 30,000 b/d CDU 6, 9,000 b/d NHT 3, 6,000 b/d Reformer 3 and 2,500 b/d Isom 3.


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Map of Global Refineries impacted by COVID-19/non-COVID -- OnGoing Offline Events

Global Refining Index Industrial Info is releasing a Global Refining Index (GRI) to illustrate how much Refinery Capacity is offline versus Normal Operating Capacity. Illustrating with an Operating% at a World Region - Market Region level how healthy Refineries are.. (see graphic below).


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Refining Available Capacity

Global Regional Available Operational Capacity. Current vs. Previous. COVID-19 Impact & non-COVID related outages


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Map of Global Refineries impacted by COVID-19/non-COVID - Future(Delayed) Offline Events


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