By Nicole Jao
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Phillips 66 will start shuttering its 139,000-barrel-per-day Los Angeles-area refinery in September, folks accustomed to the matter stated.
The Los Angeles-area refinery will begin winding down operations for everlasting closure as early as subsequent week, two sources stated.
Phillips 66 introduced final 12 months that it could shut the ability and start winding down operations by October 2025.
“The refinery items will start idling by This autumn 2025 as deliberate… our timeline stays unchanged,” an organization spokesperson stated in an emailed assertion on Thursday. The corporate didn’t present a extra detailed timeline however famous that the method of idling the services requires a fancy, multi-phased strategy.
The refiner is anticipated to put off most staff on the refinery in December. The Los Angeles-area facility has about 600 staff and 300 contractors. Over half of the staff are hourly staff represented by the United Steelworkers Union.
The corporate declined to touch upon the standing of its staff.
Phillips 66’s exit will depart a void in motor gas provide in California, probably the most populous U.S. state. The state persistently experiences a few of the nation’s highest common gasoline costs, resulting in an typically tense relationship between the state and oil firms.
Valero Vitality additionally introduced its intention to shut the 145,000-bpd Benicia refinery, one in every of its two remaining refineries within the state.
The 2 closing refineries produce roughly 20% of the state’s gasoline provide.
(Reporting by Nicole Jao in New York; Extra reporting by Shariq Khan; Modifying by Franklin Paul)
