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by beerandt 480 days ago
Someone doesn't know what turnaround means.

Every refinery shuts down at least twice a year for a multi-week turnaround.

The minimum cost to stay operating isn't paying to keep the high cost vessels running, but to remove and sell them to a place that has that heavy crude locally.

The heavy oil processing is the larger maintenence cost that you think isn't happening.