Tuesday August 1, 6:08 pm ET
Valero Energy Corp. has planned turnaround and maintenance activities at several of its refineries for the remainder of 2006.
Beginning last month, the No. 1 coker at the Aruba refinery with a capacity of 33,000 barrels per day (bpd) has been shut down for approximately 46 days. Also at the Aruba facility, the No. 7 crude unit, with a 110,000 bpd capacity, is down for 28 days and the gas oil hydrotreater, with a 58,000 bpd capacity, will remain down for 35 days.
At the Lima, Ohio, refinery, a 40,000 bpd fluid catalytic-cracking unit (FCCU) will be down for 31 days and a 23,000 bpd coker unit will be down for 21 days starting in September. In Houston, a 65,000 bpd FCCU will be down for 28 days in October.
Valero does not announce exact start or completion dates for its maintenance activities planned during the year.