Refinery updates

摘要

BP plans to restart a fluid catalytic cracker at its 275,000 b/d refinery in Carson, California, before the end of July, a source familiar with the refinery operations said July 17. "They are hoping to complete work on the cat cracker before the end of the month any time during the window on the flare report," the source said. A BP spokesman declined to comment on refinery operations. A planned flaring notification sent by BP iate July 16 to the South Coast Air Quality Management District indicated that the Carson refinery expected to have flaring between July 17 and July 31. The refinery's 102,500 b/d FCC, a gasoline production unit, was shut for unplanned maintenance over the July 11-12 weekend, but the cause of the incident was not known, the source said. Other production units associated with the FCC operations have been idled, but were not identified. "The Carson refinery is a one cat facility, so it would have a daisy chain effect on other units because you can't route product to and from that unit," the source said.