China’s Guangzhou Petrochemical Corp refinery, a regular exporter of oil products, is planning  brief repair works at a secondary unit this month that will cut crude rates by about 10 per cent from May levels, a Chinese industry source said.

The refinery, based in south China’s Guangdong province, is expected to shut a one million tonne-per-year (tpy) coker for less than two weeks, said the source close the plant’s operations.
A coking unit processes heavy residues into gasoline, naphtha and gas oil.
The 7.7 million-tpy (158,200-barrel-per-day) refinery has been running since January near full rates with daily processing volume of around 21,000 tonnes to meet strong local demand, Chinese sources have said.
But sources said lower runs would not affect the refinery’s June exports of gasoline and gas oil, which will stay at May  volumes of 10,000 tonnes and 5,000 tonnes, respectively.