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Monday, April 19, 2004
Algeria’s state-owned oil company Sonatrach plans to shut down one half of its 335,000-barrel-per-day Skikda refinery for maintenance in May or June this year. The company had previously planned to shutdown Skikda this month, but strong refinery margins led the company to postpone until later. One of the two crude distillation units (CDU) will be shut down for two weeks. Each CDU accounts for one half of the plant’s capacity.
The refinery typically exports between 10 and 13 naphtha cargoes, each between 25,000 and 30,000 tons, from Skikda every month. Most of the exports of high quality naphtha are taken up by northwest European petrochemical producers that convert it to olefins like ethylene and propylene and then use to make plastics.
Skikda’s monthly exports also consist of roughly two 20,000-30,000 ton jet fuel cargoes, four or five EN590 diesel cargoes of a similar size, also mainly for Europe. Additionally, an average of four 60,000-80,000 ton cargos a month of low sulphur straight run fuel oil make their way to the US to be used alongside crude oil as refinery feedstock
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