Citgo’s 455kb/d Lake Charles refinery in southwest Louisiana is to start a multiunit turnaround beginning in late February according to Bloomberg sources.

• The staggered maintenance, with units shutting and restarting at different times, is expected to continue until the fourth week of April.
• One of three fluid catalytic crackers, the 50kb/d FCC-A, will be offline from late February through to late April.
• The turnaround includes works on two reformers, a naphtha hydrotreater and Crude Topper C and one of four crude distillation units.