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Refinery Maintenance
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SURVEY POINTS TO PRACTICES THAT REDUCE REFINERY MAINTENANCE SPENDING
… 6 year trend of maintenance costs' for the same trend group of 68 refineries. The data represent total annual refinery maintenance cost per unit of refinery capacity and complexity, a term Solomon Associates calls equivalent distillation capacity …
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Nigeria awards Warri refinery maintenance contract
Nigeria awarded Italian company Comerint SPA a $7.6 million contract for turnaround maintenance on its 125,000 b/d refinery at Warri, said a spokesman for Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. The work is expected to be completed within 5 months. The contract is part of a drive by NNPC to repair all ...
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NNPC: Refined fuel importation to continue after refinery maintenance is complete
Importation of refined fuel products into Nigeria will continue even after the four Nigerian refineries have undergone maintenance turnaround and are operating at maximum capacity, said managing director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. Jackson Gaius-Obaseki in early July.
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Results-based supplier relationships improve maintenance effectiveness
… topics are highlighted in this Refinery Maintenance Management report. While ..... improvement ideas with refinery - maintenance management. The complexity ..... scaffolding and manlifts. Local refinery maintenance and engineering people defined …
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MARKET WATCH: Crude hits lowest level of year in New York market
… for demand growth developing, which will keep the call on crude elevated.” They noted, “A combination of refinery maintenance , weak margins capping utilization rates, as well as improved supply availability in the Atlantic basin, has already …
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MARKET WATCH: Oil prices continue retreat; cold weather raises gas price
… in the fourth quarter,” Barclays Capital analysts said. “Along with this, there was negligible amount of refinery maintenance by Sinopec [China Petroleum & Chemical Corp.] and PetroChina during January, which has helped keep runs elevated …
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MARKET WATCH: Oil prices continue climbing
… said. KBC analysts expect some support for gasoline cracks over the next couple of months due to forthcoming heavy refinery maintenance , particularly with planned turnarounds in South Korea. In addition, they said, “Taiwan’s Formosa plans to …
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MARKET WATCH: Oil prices climb, but joy over new budget appears to wane
… production is growing swiftly, which will negatively affect Atlantic Basin supply-demand balances, especially during refinery maintenance [in the first half of this year]. US imports of light-sweet and medium-sweet crudes will continue declining …
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Energy commodity prices were still falling Dec. 7 with front-month crude down 3.4% for the week and natural gas essentially flat in the New York market
… a series of unplanned refinery outages (namely US Gulf, West Coast, and Venezuela), combined with a heavy refinery maintenance season (particularly in Europe) altogether driving Atlantic Basin crack spreads to highs not seen since 2005 …
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MARKET WATCH: Oil prices climb despite bearish inventory report
… absorbing much higher volumes of gas oil in June-July than expected, as it suffers from lower output [because of] refinery maintenance .” Still, he said, “The gas oil cracks were supported yesterday and as well the gas oil-gasoline spread …
