The 67,000 b/d refinery at Fujairah in the UAE has begun a maintenance turnaround. Crude units have been undergoing work since the end of January, operator Uniper Energy said.
"We started work on the first unit in January and on the second in February. But the total shutdown for each unit will only last 7-10 days," Uniper Energy's managing director Lars Liebig told Argus.
Uniper Energy, a subsidiary of German utility Uniper, is a major supplier of IMO-compliant 0.5pc sulphur marine fuel to the local bunker market, the world's third largest.
Uniper put the refinery up for sale last year as a condition of the German government's bailout. Uniper Energy launched the refinery in 2015, supplying the Fujairah market and exporting cargoes to other parts of the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
