And the beat goes on!
DIARY-U.S.West Coast Refinery Shutdowns - UDS
Summary of U.S. West Coast refinery operations.
(Capacity in '000 bpd)
Company, location Unit Capacity Shutdown period
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ARCO: Carson, CA CDU 265 Mar 18
hydrocracker 43 Jan. 7 for 3-6 days
CHEVRON: Richmond, CA hydrocracker 40 Mar 25-? (8 mths)
EQUILON: Anacortes, WA coker 25 Nov. 25'98-Mar.1'99
EXXON: Benicia, CA FCC 69 Mar 18-Apr 1
CDU 128 Jan-Mar 5.
MOBIL:Torrance, CA alkylation 22 Apr 2-3
TOSCO:Avon-Rodeo, CA CDU 150 Mar 2: shut up to 60
days for audit after
Feb. 23 fire.
UDS: Wilmington, CA cat cracker 60 April 7, for at
least 5 days
CDU 28 Apr-reversed Feb's
10-pct cuts.
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The following list details West Coast refineries and their
main operating units and processing capacities, with outages
and operational problems listed parenthetically.
The list is compiled on a "best efforts" basis using market
sources where the company does not confirm and may not be
definitive.
"*" indicates maintenance or outage confirmed by company.
"+" indicates market source or company source.
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COMPANY, LOCATION, REFINERY DETAILS
-----ARCO
1) Carson, California
+ March 18: Rumors of power problem.
+ Jan 7: Problems with hydrocracking unit, down 3-6 days
- crude distillation: 265,000 bpd
- vacuum distillation: 128,000 bpd
- Fluid cat cracker: 96,000 bpd
- Coker: (2 units) 48,000 bpd/20,000 bpd
- Catalytic reformer: 52,000 bpd
- Cat hydrocracker: 43,000 bpd
- Cat hydrotreater: 181,000 bpd
2) Ferndale, Washington
- crude distillation: 202,000 bpd
- Vacuum distillation: 101,000 bpd
- Coker: 51,000 bpd
- Catalytic reformer: 57,000 bpd
- Cat hydrocracker: 60,000 bpd
- Cat hydro-refiner: 20,000 bpd
- Cat hydrotreater: 69,000 bpd
-----CHEVRON CORP
1) El Segundo, California
- Crude distillation: 258,000 bpd
- Coker: 64,000 bpd
- Fluid catalytic cracker: 61,000 bpd
- Hydrocracker: 47,000 bpd
- Reformer: 40,000 bpd
2) Richmond, California
* Apr 29: refinery still down
* Apr 5: Company denied refinery source saying repairs
could take 8 months, said no estimation yet.
* March 25: Fire at hydrocracker, restart unknown.
+ March 17: rumors of FCC trouble. Chevron officials said
no problem with the unit, but declined to say if there other
problems at the facility.
- crude distillation: 235,000 bpd
- coker: 44,000 bpd
- fluid catalytic cracker: 65,000 bpd
- hydrocracker: 40-45,000 bpd
- reformer: 45,000 bpd
- hydrotreater: 184,000 bpd
-----EQUILON (formerly Shell and Texaco)
1) Martinez, California
- crude distillation: 155,200 bpd
- vacuum distillation: 103,300 bpd
- fluid cat cracker: 67,100 bpd
- coker: 38,900 bpd (2 Units)
- catalytic reformer: 29,000 bpd
- cat hydrocracker: 34,200 bpd
- cat hydrotreater: 197,400 bpd
2) Anacortes, Washington
* Apr: Cat cracker restarted
* Nov. 25, 1998: explosion in coker, expected to restart
the unit on March 1, 1999
- crude distillation: 147,000 bpd
- catalytic cracker: 53,000 bpd
- coker: 25,000 bpd
3) Bakersfield, California
- crude distillation: 6,000 bpd
4) Wilmington, California
* Apr 29 : Wilmington to be down for repair in May
- crude distillation: 98,000 bpd
- catalytic cracker: 32,300 bpd
-----EXXON
1) Benicia, California
* Apr 6: FCC running normally
* April 1: FCC restarted.
* March 19: shutdown FCC 03/18 for "several weeks" after
problem during restart from turnaround.
* March 5: restart whole refinery from Jan. turnaround
- crude distillation: 128,000 bpd
- vacuum distillation: 65,000 bpd
- fluid cat cracker: 69,000 bpd
- coker: 25,000 bpd
- cat hydrocracker: 29,000 bpd
- catalytic reformer: 33,000 bpd
- cat hydro-refiner: 33,500 bpd
- cat hydrotreater: 111,500 bpd
- Alkylation: 13,000 bpd
-----MOBIL
1) Torrance, California
* Apr 2-3: 22,000 bpd alkylation shut due to small leak.
- crude distillation: 130,000 bpd
- vacuum distillation: 95,000 bpd
- fluid cat cracker: 85,000 bpd
- coker: 47,500 bpd
- catalytic reformer: 42,000 bpd
- cat hydrocracker: 23,500 bpd
- cat hydro-refiner: 93,000 bpd
- cat hydrotreater: 49,200 bpd
----- TESORO (takes over from Texaco Sept. 1)
1) Anacortes, Washington
- crude distillation: 108,200 bpd
- vacuum distillation: 45,000 bpd
- cat cracking: 44,800 bpd
-- Fluid cat cracker 42,000 bpd
-- Other cat cracker 2,800 bpd
- coker: 22,050 bpd
- catalytic reformer: 24,300 bpd
- cat hydrotreater: 69,300 bpd
-----TOSCO
1) Avon-Rodeo, California
* Apr 29: estimates Avon will reopen in 8 weeks, though
traders expect it will be longer
* Apr 6: No company estimation when will restart
* March 2: shut up to 60 days for a full safety audit after
a Feb. 23 fire that killed four workers.
- crude distillation: 150,000 bpd
- coker: 42,000 bpd
- cat hydrocracker: 32,000 bpd
2) Wilmington & Carson, Calif (connected by 4 mile line)
- crude distillation: 90,000 bpd
3) Ferndale, WA
- crude distillation: 95,000 bpd
----ULTRAMAR DIAMOND SHAMROCK
* Apr 9: company says 60,000 bpd catalytic cracker shut
since Apr 7 and to stay down at least 3 days on tech problems
* Apr 8: reversed cuts on better margins since end
Mar/early Apr.
* Jan 28: 10-pct nationwide economic cuts in Feb
1) Wilmington, California
- crude distillation: 68,000 bpd (2 units)
- coker: 22,000 bpd
- cat cracker: 45,000 bpd |
