PBF Energy Inc

U.S. refiner PBF Energy Inc said on Thursday its losses widened for the three months to December from the previous quarter, hit by uneven demand for fuel.

U.S. Midwest refiners are gearing up to send more gasoline and diesel to East Coast buyers, hoping to fill a void created by refinery closures and cutbacks, but likely to add pressure to regional fuel producers.

PBF Energy <PBF.N> will shut most refining units at its Paulsboro, New Jersey, refinery, the company's chief executive said in a letter to employees on Wednesday that cited the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on fuel demand.

PBF Energy will shut most refining units at its Paulsboro, New Jersey refinery, in another blow to U.S. East Coast refining operations, according to two sources familiar with the matter. (Reporting By Laura Sanicola)

PBF Energy’s <PBF.N> 190,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery plans to keep in operation even as the forecast track for Hurricane Zeta has shifted west, sources familiar with plant operation said on Wednesday.

Depressed demand for jet fuel could cap refinery utilization rates across the entire industry, according to executives at PBF Energy, the fourth-largest U.S. oil refiner by capacity.

Exxon Mobil Corp's and PBF Energy's refineries in Louisiana remained in operation during storm Cristobal's passage across the southeast part of the state on Sunday and on Monday, sources familiar with operations said.

PBF Energy, the fourth-largest U.S. oil refiner by capacity, is holding processing near 70% of throughput even as more states relax stay-at-home orders, boosting demand for motor fuel, executives said on Friday.

PBF Energy began restarting the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker (FCC) at its 190,000 barrrel-per-day (bpd) Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery on Tuesday, said sources familiar with plant operations.

PBF Energy cut production on the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker (FCC) by 45% at its 190,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery, sources familiar with plant operations said on Wednesday.

PBF Energy Inc is indefinitely delaying the restart of several units including a cat cracker and a crude unit at its 170,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Toledo, Ohio, due to poor refinery economics, according to sources familiar with the matter.

PBF Energy, the sixth largest U.S. oil refiner, on Monday said it will cut spending, reduce production to minimum levels and raise cash by selling one of its operations as demand for gasoline and fuels tumbles because of the coronavirus pandemic.

PBF Energy Inc on Monday said it was operating its refineries at minimum rates, with throughput about 30% lower than the refiner's expectations, as the coronavirus outbreak has limited travel and fuel demand.

PBF Energy said a fire that occurred at one operating unit at its Delaware City, Delaware, refinery on Wednesday has been extinguished and two employees are being treated for injuries.

PBF Energy restarted the cat feed hydrotreater at its 190,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery on Saturday, sources familiar with plant operations said on Monday.

PBF Energy began restarting the cat feed hydrotreater at its 190,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Chalmette, Louisiana, oil refinery on Monday, a day ahead of schedule, two sources familiar with the plant's operations said.

PBF Energy began restarting the cat feed hydrotreater at its 190,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery on Monday, about a day ahead of schedule, sources familiar with plant operations said on Monday afternoon.

PBF Energy <PBF.N> and Valero Energy Corp <VLO.N> do not plan to idle their refineries in Chalmette and Meraux, Louisiana, respectively ahead of a developing tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico, sources familiar with plant operations said on Thursday morning.

U.S. refiner PBF Energy Inc on Tuesday agreed to pay up to $1 billion for a California oil refinery that Royal Dutch Shell PLC has been trying to sell for at least four years.