Neste’s Porvoo refinery completes major turnaround
Neste Corporation has wrapped a major turnaround at its 206,000-b/d refinery in the Kilpilahti industrial area of Porvoo, Finland.
Initiated in early April and originally scheduled to run 12 weeks, the planned maintenance event was concluded and the refinery returned to operation as of the 24th June, Neste said.
Requiring an investment of about €330 million, the turnaround included regulatory inspections, maintenance works, and asset-improvement initiatives at process equipment and pipelines required for the refinery’s ongoing safe and competitive operation, as well as a revamp of the site’s electrification and automation systems, said Jori Sahlsten, Neste Porvoo’s vice-president of production.
Alongside standard critical maintenance, the operator also confirmed it completed preparatory measures for processing of renewable and recycled materials at the site.
The refinery’s maintenance shutdown did not impact product deliveries to customers, and Neste’s harbour and distribution terminal in Porvoo remained in operation during the turnaround event.
The standard five-year maintenance shutdown at Porvoo followed Neste’s late-2020 announcement that it will proceed with restructuring of its Finnish refining operations under a programme which will involve permanently shuttering processing and production at its 58,000-b/d Naantali refinery as well as upgrading the Porvoo to co-processing renewable and circular raw materials.
Source: Oil & Gas Journal