Maintenance & Reliability
Taiwan's Formosa Petchem issues force majeure as Iran war disrupts feedstock delivery
For refined fuel products such as diesel, jet fuel and gasoline, the company is still proceeding with its export deliveries for March and April, although there is likely to be no spot availability for April.
Chinese refiners begin run cuts as Iran war tightens oil supply
The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has cut off nearly all shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for 20% of global oil supplies.
India most vulnerable to prolonged disruptions to Mideast oil, analysts say
Both China and India, Asia's top energy consumers, source around half of their crude imports from the Middle East, but India has far less oil in storage than its neighbor and is more dependent on that region's crude now than in the last three-plus years.
Asia refinery 2026 maintenance/outages
Planned and unplanned refinery shutdowns for 2026 are compiled through a survey of Asian oil refiners and market sources.
Orlen plans maintenance at Polish, Czech refineries in 2026
In 2025, Orlen processed 39.6 MM tonnes (t) of oil, using 93% of its refining capacity.
- Middle East conflict could force up to 6 MMbpd crude run cuts across Asia 3/11
- America First Refining plans new Texas refinery, first in nearly 50 years 3/11
- GEA achieves further milestones with Pre2Fuel: Excellent performance in Bremfield's pretreatment plant in Malaysia 3/11
- AIRCO develops mobile fuel system to produce synthetic drop-in fuels from CO2 3/11
- Iraq asks KRG to help pipe crude oil to Turkey 3/11
- Ukraine's motor fuel to contain at least 7% bioethanol from July 3/11
