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** Spain's Petronor said May 20 it is restarting the platforming unit in plant 2 following maintenance that started May 14. The company said May 17 it was restarting the turbo expander energy recovery unit from the refinery's FCC unit. The unit was halted May 4. The refinery currently has been operating at 40% of capacity since the CDU in plant 2 of the refinery was halted Nov. 20, 2020, due to market conditions.
** Poland's second largest refiner Grupa Lotos said May 13 a partial maintenance shutdown at its Gdansk refinery has been completed. "All the work was done safely and on budget," Lotos said in a statement. The maintenance shutdown began on Feb. 26 with the shutdown of the delayed coker unit. In total, 16 units were shut, including the mild hydrocracking, CDU/VDU, heavy oil processing and hydrogen production plant, Lotos said. The installations resumed operations in early April. In the second stage of the maintenance, which began last month, three lubricating oil production units were closed. They came back online at the beginning of May, Lotos said. The company said the remaining units of the refinery would undergo maintenance in the spring of 2022. Last month, Lotos said the maintenance would cause an estimated 5% fall in throughput in 2021.