Maintenance & Reliability
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.
Asia refinery 2024–2025 maintenance/outages
Planned and unplanned refinery shutdowns for 2024–2025 compiled through a survey of Asian oil refiners and market sources.
Gasoline unit at Dangote refinery expected to restart on October 14
The plant, which began processing crude in January 2024, exported a higher volume of fuel oil in September than previous months.
Taiwan's CPC Corp. shuts one crude unit at Talin for maintenance until November
The 150,000-bpd crude unit and some gasoline-producing units were shut around the middle of September.
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