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New and revised entries ** Ukraine's second-largest producer of gasoline and diesel fuel, Shebelinka GPP, which operates under the Shebel brand name, completed scheduled maintenance in April, the company said. This is the first time the refinery has conducted maintenance and has continued to produce gasoline and diesel fuel. The refinery decided not to shut down operations during the maintenance work due to concerns of looming shortages of diesel fuel in the country. The refinery managed to produce an additional 14,000 mt of petroleum products in April due to optimization of maintenance works...

** Russia's Achinsk refinery is planning works in July. ** Russia's Surgut gas condensate processing plant is expected to starts works in July for about three weeks. It typically carries out works around July-August. ** Russia's Salavat refinery is currently carrying out partial works. The works involve cleaning and inspecting six units. ** Uzbekistan's Bukhara has completed its planned maintenance, which was due to last ten days. The refinery has been restarting since April 16 following works, which started April 5. The maintenance involved cleaning the heat exchangers and furnace pipes, as ...

** Lukoil’s Volgograd is planning works from March and Perm in April. ** Works are planned for the Rosneft’s Novoil refinery in March. ** Rosneft’s Novokuybishev, Komsomolsk, Ufa and Ryazan refineries also plan works from April. Existing entries ** Russia’s Angarsk refinery has stopped diesel sales on the St. Petersburg exchange due to planned works, according to market sources. The duration was not specified. The company was not available to comment. ** Russia’s Orsk refinery plans to carry out the first maintenance on its hydrocracker in 2021. Upgrades New and revised entries ** B...

REFINERY NEWS ROUNDUP: Mixed prospects for Russian Feb runs While smaller and medium-sized refineries are expected to keep runs low in February on poor economics, oil majors have been asked to ramp up runs at the country’s bigger refineries to secure sufficient gasoline stock accumulation by May 1. However, prospects for bigger refineries increasing runs imminently look dim as economics remain unfavorable. Spot prices for Russian crude oil for domestic loading and delivery by pipeline in February are some Rb2,000/mt ($26.3/mt) higher month on month on a combination of firmer Brent prices an...

REFINERY NEWS ROUNDUP: Russian Feb runs likely to remain lower Russian refineries are expected to maintain lower throughput in February as economics remain unfavorable, with throughputs potentially set to start increasing in March as products demand rises, according to market sources. Meanwhile, as international prices have firmed, refineries in southern Russia have been ramping up gasoil exports by shipping product previously accumulated in stocks. Separately, Gazprom Neft’s Moscow refinery is now producing high spec winter diesel with cold properties up to minus 32 degrees Celsius and imp...