The Refinery coker production in US (& Worldwide) has had about 1/3 of the refineries idled due to fires, hurricanes, accidents and turnarounds this year and have canceled out the new coke production over the last year & half.
This Valero Pt Arthur coker breakdown also took 5,000 sdt/d of fuel coke off the market for 6+ days that will not be made up this year.
Valero is one of three refineries (Motiva & Total are the other two) that have announced plans to expand their refineries & coker capacities.
Regards
Charlie Randall
