Tupras Unit Back On Stream

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A crude unit damaged by fire in November last year will restart in early February, Turkish refiner Tupras announced on late last week. The 151,000-barrels-per-day unit of the plant was taken offline after a fire in November 2024.

Izmir is the only refinery producing API Group I base oil in the country, and one of two companies producing base oil at all; the other being rerefinery Tayras.

The refinery has processing capacity of 241,500 barrels per day and mostly produces fuel and produces 400,000 metric tons per year of Group I.

An explosion at Turkish refinery Tupras, which injured 12 people, occurred during a maintenance procedure.

Tupras, Turkey’s biggest refiner, has been blighted by fire numerous times. The country’s largest refinery fire to date occurred in 1999 when the Izmit refinery caught fire after an earthquake. It took three days to get the blaze under control. In 2015, a 160-liter oil tank burst into flames at Izmir. A year later, equipment failure at Izmit started a blaze that killed a worker. In 2017 at Izmir again, four people were killed by a tank explosion.

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