Operations

Valero Energy Corp., San Antonio, Tex., has started up a new 55,000-b/d delayed coker and sulfur recovery unit at the operator’s 395,000-b/d refinery in Port Arthur, Tex.

KazMunayGas subsidiary ANPZ LLP is repairing the fluid catalytic cracker at its 100,000-b/d Atyrau refinery following the unit’s unplanned shutdown in early February.

PJSC Lukoil has completed construction and initiated startup of the operator’s long-planned deep conversion, delayed coking complex at its 17-million tpy Kstovo refinery in central...

The refiner’s leaders say several factors are lining up to sustain demand growth even in the case of a recession.