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Valero plans major Port Arthur turnaround

  • Märkte: Crude oil, Oil products
  • 26.07.16

Planned maintenance work on crude and coking units this quarter will cut throughputs at Valero's 325,000 b/d refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.

The US independent refiner said today that major turnaround work at the refinery would cut US Gulf coast throughputs to 1.6mn b/d to 1.65mn b/d during the quarter. The range was higher than the 1.57mn b/d of throughput in the same quarter of 2015, but Valero has added roughly 160,000 b/d of US Gulf coast crude capacity since that quarter.

Valero's Port Arthur refinery is a steady importer of Mexican and Venezuelan heavy crudes, based on federal data. The refinery averaged roughly 92,000 b/d of Venezuelan crude and 69,000 b/d of Mexican crude imports in the second half of 2015, according to the Energy Information Administration.

The refiner has also less consistently processed about 21,000 b/d of Canadian crude.


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