Unplanned outages at several large Midwest refineries are supporting higher diesel and gasoline prices, market sources said. Group 3 suboctane gasoline was assessed at prompt NYMEX RBOB minus 1.15 cent/gal Thursday, up from the January-to-date average of minus 6.17 cents/gal. Chicago ULSD was assessed Thursday at NYMEX ULSD minus 9 cents/gal, up from the January average of minus 20 cents/gal. Refineries hit by unplanned outages include Flint Hill’s 320,000 b/d Pine Bend, Minnesota plant, ExxonMobil’s 238,600 b/d Joliet refinery in Illinois, and Phillips 66’s 207,000 b/d Ponca City, Oklahoma plant. REFINERY OUTAGES (2020) Owner Refinery Capacity (b/d) Unit Name Unit b/d Start End PADD I (US ATLANTIC COAST) PBF Delaware City, DE 182,200 alkylation unit 11,000 2/15/2020 3/30/2020 182,200 CDU 180,000 10/1/2020 11/15/2020 PBF Paulsboro, NJ 160,000 Reformer 32,000 Q2 2020 Q2 2020 Phillips […]