Citgo Corpus Christi Shutting Sole Crude Unit, Hydrotreater

Citgo Petroleum’s Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery is shutting its sole crude unit Wednesday at the East Plant and will take a mixed distillate hydrotreater offline Thursday at its West Plant, both for maintenance, according to person familiar with operations.

• The 168k b/d crude unit will be shut for about 12 days to clean its exchangers
• Work on the 50k b/d hydrotreater is expected to last about 8 days
• In about a week, the 39k coker at the West Plant will run out of feedstock from the crude unit and be put on so-called hot standby until the crude unit ...