Outages, tight spare capacity affect throughput Cracks remain elevated, apart from naphtha Global refinery runs rose in June as maintenance wound down, but a number of outages and tight spare capacity outside of China meant they failed to keep up with the seasonal increase in demand, the International Energy Agency said in its latest monthly report released July 13. Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Throughput in June rose by 600,000 b/d month on month to 79.7 million b/d, which was also 1.4 million b/d higher than April’s seasonal low, but as refined product demand increased “one-and-a-half times as fast” between April and June, the gap between product supply and demand widened, the IEA said. Outages and incidents affected a number of refineries in Europe recently, including Austria’s Schwechat, Norway’s Mongstad, the UK’s Fawley, France’s Donges and TotalEnergies’ Antwerp in […]