Planned downtime of primary capacities at Russian refineries in year 23 is 29% higher than planned in year 22 – Refinitiv

MOSCOW, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Planned downtime for primary oil refineries at Russian refineries in 2023 is 26.550 million tonnes, 5.976 million tonnes (+29%) more than the original repair plan for 2022, Reuters calculated using terminal data shown on the basis of Refiner Econ. The actual amount of retired primary capacity is usually about twice the original schedule. Therefore, at the end of 2022, the actual downtime was 39.2 million tonnes, compared with 20.6 million tonnes at the beginning. A similar situation was seen in 2020 and 2021 as well. This year’s initial repair plan assumes total downtime of 7.9% of available primary refining capacity at Russian refineries and is the largest in the available monitoring period since 2012. In 2023, the downtime of primary capacities at Rosneft’s refineries is expected to be 13.2% of the total capacity of the company’s Russian refineries, the decommissioned capacity of Lukoil will be 5.0%, Gazpromneft’s – 4.0%. The largest retirements of primary capacity in 2023 are in May – 3.9 million tons (13.6% of the total refinery capacity) and in September – 4.4 million tons (15.8%). The planned retirement potential for August, September and October of this year exceeds the actual figures for 2022 for these months. In the spring, the reduction in processing will be ensured by repairs at the Ryazan Refinery, Volgograd, Ufimsk, Achinsk Refineries, Kinef and Yanos. In autumn, major repairs are also expected at the Ryazan Oil Refinery, the Saratov Oil Refinery, the Angarskaya Oil and Gas Complex, the Komsomolsk Oil Refinery, Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat, TAIF-NK and the Moscow Oil Refinery. This year, the most significant total downtime is expected for primary processing at the Ryazan Refinery (3.0 million tonnes). In the first and last quarters of the current year, the plant plans to bring out the inactive AVT-1 (capacity 5,710 tons per day, 11.0% of the refinery’s capacity); From April 4 to May 31, the repair of AVT-3 (8,570 tons per day, 16.5% of the refinery’s capacity) is scheduled, and from August 20 to October 19 – the repair of AT-6 (26,150 tons per day, 50.5%) refinery capacity). The Kuibyshev refinery plans to shut down existing AVT-5 and AVT-4 units (with a capacity of 10,000 tonnes per day) from May 15 to August 24 and 27, respectively, which will ensure the retirement of primary capacities at present. year in the amount of 2.1 million tons. Volgograd Refinery intends to shut down AVT-5 (9.110 tonnes per day, 19.5% of refinery’s capacity) from March 17 to 31; AVT-1 (18,600 tonnes per day, 39.9% of refinery capacity), AVT-3 (4,340 tonnes per day, 9.3% of refinery capacity) from June 1 to December 31. The total ordinary primary processing for the year is 2.0 million tonnes. The Saratov Refinery will be completely shut down from 5 August to 30 October while AVT-6 is being repaired (20,000 tonnes per day, 100% of the refinery’s capacity). The retired capacity for this period will be 1.7 million tonnes. Ufa Oil Refinery AVT-6 (18,900 tons per day, 100% of the refinery’s capacity) is going to be brought in for repair twice: from April 1 to May 2 and from August 1 to August 31. The total idle capacity is 1.2 million tonnes. The Achinsk refinery will be completely closed from 6 May to 26 June for the repair of the LK-6U s-100 combined unit (21,430 tonnes per day, 100% of the refinery’s capacity). Disposal of primary capacities during repairs will amount to 1.1 million tons. Angarsk Petrochemical Company complete shutdown from 10 August for repair of blocks AVT-6 (17,140 tonnes per day, 58.9% of refinery capacity) and GK-3 block AT (29,100 tonnes per day, 41.1% of refinery capacity) until September have set. 13 and 20 respectively. The total idle capacity is 1.1 million tonnes. Kinef will shut down AVT-6 (22,860 tonnes per day, 39.8% of capacity) from 14 May to 22 June, AT-1 (4,860 tonnes per day, 8.5% of capacity) from 1 April to 7 May. Total downtime – 1.1 million tons. YaroslavNOS will repair AVT-4 (14,290 tons per day, 33.3% of capacity) from April 7 to June 10, and the retired capacity for the idle period will be 0.9 million tons. The annual repair plan for Russian refineries with the calculation of decommissioning capacity in excel format is available at the link – cpurl://apps.cp./rapido/version/ad801550-9d8f-11ed-8fcf-00505692bb48 by months in 2023: period month Total thousand t/day for 2022 as % of total planned thousand t/day as % of total) Russian refinery capacity thousand tonnes (22 g) Refinery capacity thousand tonnes (22 g) Russian refinery capacity Russian Federation January 597 19. 5.745 191.5 20.7% मई 3.907 126.0 13.6% 3.076 99.2 10.7% 6.141 198.1 21.4% जून 2.814 93, 8 10.1% 1.348 44.9 4.9% 4.677 155.9 16.9% जुलाई 1.511 48.3% 1.5222222224 5.3% 5.3% 1.5222224 5.3% 5.3% 1.522224 5.3% 5.3 % 5.3% 5.3% 5.3% 5.3% 5.3% 5.3% 5.3 11.4% 1.444 46.6 5.0% 3.054 98.5 10.7% September 4.371 145.7 15.7 15.7% 3.122 104.1 11.3% 3.852 128.44% 3.4.4% October 3.453 1.419 47.3 5.1% 1.057 35.2 3.8% 2.267 75.6 8.2% December 653 21.1 2.3% 407 13.1 1.4% 5.7% 1.64