Thu Jan 7, 2010 9:30pm GMT
Jan 7 (Reuters) - A sharp drop in demand for oil products, such as gasoline, diesel,
heating oil and jet fuel, especially in developed countries, has forced many oil companies to
close refineries permanently, indefinitely or for a long term this year.
Shell on Thursday announced it would turn its 130,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Montreal East
refinery into a fuel terminal, making it the fifth North American refinery to close amid poor
margins and weak returns. Shell's efforts to sell the refinery attracted no buyers, the
company said.
The shut-ins of crude distillation capacity so far total about 1.49 million barrels per
day globally.
The following is a list of oil refineries or crude distillation units (CDUs) which have
been shut completely this year due to weak economics.
It does not include offline capacity of CDUs running at lower utilization rates as a
result of run cuts; refineries that are not in operation due to lack of maintenance such as
some in Nigeria; fire-related shutdowns; shutdowns that are described as scheduled
maintenance by operators such as ConocoPhillips' (COP.N) Wilhelmshaven refinery in Germany.
For refinery maintenance/outage tables, click on [REF/US] [REF/A] [REF/E]
Capacity is expressed in a thousand barrels per day unless specified.
Country Operator Refinery Timing Capacity Status
'000 bpd Story link
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ARUBA Valero Aruba July 235 Shut indefinitely
(VLO.N) [ID:nN26274347]
CANADA Shell Montreal 2010 130 Permanent closure
(RDSa.L) [ID:nN07195338]
FRANCE Total Dunkirk September 160 Long term shutdown
(TOTF.PA) [ID:nLF522555]
[ID:nLI688020]
FRANCE Total Gonfreville August 4.5 mln t/y One CDU shut for extended
(roughly 91kbpd) period
Total plant capacity 339kbpd
[ID:ID:nL5419216]
JAPAN Nippon Mizushima July-March 110 One CDU shut
Oil Total plant capacity 400kbpd
(5001.T) [ID:nT74713]
JAPAN Nippon Toyama January 60 Idled [ID:nT166714]
Oil
JAPAN Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi November 85 One CDU idled until January
(5007.T) or later [ID:nT270481]
Total plant capacity 175kbpd
SPAIN Repsol Bilbao September 90 Long term CDU shutdown
(REP.MC) Total plant capacity 220kbpd
[ID:nLF636734]
UK Petroplus Teesside March 117 Idled [ID:nL5419216]
(PPHN.VX)
U.S. Valero Delaware City November 185 Permanent CDU closure
Total plant capacity 210kbpd
[ID:nN20224848]
U.S. Sunoco Eagle Point November 145 Idled [ID:nN05145049]
(SUN.N)
U.S. Big West Bakersfield January 66 Idled [ID:nN281360]*
U.S. Western Bloomfield November 17 Permanent closure
[ID:nN09260634]
Note
* parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Dec. 22, 2008
(Editing by Jim Marshall 312 408 8717)
Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN0720569720100107
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