PBF plans October overhaul at Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery -sources

HOUSTON, Could 31 (Reuters) – PBF Power (PBF.N) plans to overtake a crude distillation unit (CDU), coker and cat feed hydrotreater in October at its 190,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery, stated sources accustomed to the corporate’s plans.

A 96,000-bpd CDU, 11,000-bpd coker and 45,000-bpd cat feed hydrotreater shall be shut in October for the overhaul, the sources stated on Tuesday.

A PBF spokesperson didn’t reply to a request for touch upon Tuesday.

The CDU is one in every of two 96,000-bpd models that begins the refining course of by breaking down crude oil into hydrocarbon feedstocks for all different models.

The coker is the smaller of two on the refinery. It converts residual candy crude oil into both motor gasoline feedstocks or petroleum coke, which can be utilized as a gasoline rather than coal.

The cat feed hydrotreater makes use of hydrogen to take away sulfur from fuel oil going to the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker in compliance with U.S. environmental guidelines.

Reporting by Erwin Seba; Modifying by Leslie Adler and Tom Hogue

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