Cilacap Refinery maintenance

Pertamina will shutdown one platformer unit with 18,000 bpd of gasoline output in August for two weeks of regular maintenance. Cilacap Refinery is the largest in Indonesia with installed capacity of 350,000 bpd. Gasoline and kerosene make up around 60% of its output.

Cilacap refinery was forced to shutdown early this month due to pipe leakages in a crude distillation unit which led to a fire at the CDU's stake furnace. 

Cilacap has two CDU units of 118,000 bpd and 230,000 bpd respectively plus two platformer units to process naphtha into high octane gasoline. Pertamina and Mitsui signed a JV to build a residue fluid catalytic cracking (RFCC), to be on stream in 2013 with US$1.5 billion investment. The unit will produce gasoline with a capacity of around 60,000 bpd. But the status of this project is unclear especially after Pertamina, reportedly, asked for higher stake in the JV (from the initial 20%).

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