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Box figure 1<br />

mb/d The situation on the US East Coast is complicated by closures in the broader region,<br />

1.8 which include the export oriented Hovensa refinery in St. Croix, US Virgin<br />

Islands, Valero’s refinery Latin America in Aruba, as well as two plants in Puerto Rico.<br />

1.5<br />

The situation is less Europe<br />

dramatic elsewhere in the US and Canada. On the US West<br />

Coast, 1.2only<br />

two smaller refineries have been shut down to date – one in Bakersfield,<br />

California, and the other a unit of Western Refining in New Mexico. However,<br />

0.9 BP has put its refineries at Carson, California, and Texas City, Texas, up for<br />

sale. Both are highly complex facilities for which BP expects to find buyers during<br />

2012/2013.<br />

0.6<br />

Figure 0.33<br />

presents the cumulative capacity closures since 2008, including known<br />

closures announced for 2013 and 2014. Globally they have already reached 4 mb/d<br />

and are 0 heading for the 5 mb/d mark and potentially higher, as currently there are<br />

at least 15 refineries 2008 known 2009 to be 2010 on sale globally. 2011 What 2012 is also 2013 important 2014to<br />

note is<br />

the size and complexity of the closed refineries. The story is no longer solely about<br />

small and simple plants: To name just a few, the Hovensa refinery on the US Virgin<br />

Islands had a capacity of 0.5 mb/d; Wilhelmshaven, Germany, was 0.26 mb/d;<br />

Valero’s Aruba refinery was 0.23 mb/d; Petroplus’ Coryton, UK, was 0.22 mb/d,<br />

with a Nelson complexity index of 12.<br />

Box figure 3<br />

Figure 3<br />

Cumulative distillation capacity closures as of mid-2012, 2008–2014<br />

5.0<br />

4.0<br />

3.0<br />

2.0<br />

1.0<br />

0<br />

mb/d<br />

Asia<br />

US & Canada<br />

Latin America<br />

Asia<br />

US & Canada<br />

Europe<br />

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014<br />

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Chapter<br />

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