Kayrros monitoring shows nine units remain idle and are undergoing repairs at the 502,000 b/d Baton Rouge refinery
Kayrros monitoring shows nine units remain idle and are undergoing repairs at the 502,000 b/d Baton Rouge refinery, the second largest refinery in Louisiana and the fifth largest in the US, after a fire broke out at the facility on February 11.
- One of two reformers (36.75 kb/d)
- The hydrocracker (25.7 kb/d)
- The aromatics unit (41 kb/d)
- Three of the four crude distillation units, accounting for approximately 290,000 b/d of crude distillation capacity
The accident immediately affected crude and product markets. US Gulf Coast gasoline prices jumped, lifting PADD 3 refinery margins by $1.70 to 4.16 $/bbl on February 12. Margins later continued their ascent, stabilizing around 5 $/b. Price effects spread to PADD 1 as the refinery also supplies New York Harbor. Once the refinery resumes normal operations, prices and margins should re-adjust. Kayrros daily monitoring allows to anticipate the restart by assessing the rate of workforce disengagement.
Kayrros leverages daily telecommunication geo-localized data to provide an extensive and granular view into the refining operations across the US. More than 130 refineries are monitored at the unit-level by analyzing deviations in staffing levels and patterns to generate daily alerts. In-house experts precisely identified about 700 processing units in over 70 refineries accounting for 77% of total US refining capacity.