[mountn man]

Units at refineries are routinely shut down for maintenance.

Just finished one such shut down at the Whiting refinery, on Monday.

5 units were shut down at the same time.

Though we have less physical refineries, than we had 20 years ago, our refining capacity has increased.

[rlmorel]

Ah...I had often read that the refineries are operating at higher and higher capacities (75-90%) so it is much more difficult to bring down capacity to do any kind of major maintenance.

Thanks for the info...I used to get a lot of info from a Freeper (dang I forget his name now) but he seemed to have a solid knowledge of the industry, and he stopped posting a while back...our loss, I think.

[mad_as_he$$]

I hadn’t noticed the Whiting turnaround was complete. Good news!