{"id":18083,"date":"2015-06-03T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=18083"},"modified":"2015-06-03T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T11:40:09","slug":"bp-ceases-production-at-australian-bulwer-island-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bp-ceases-production-at-australian-bulwer-island-refinery\/","title":{"rendered":"BP ceases production at Australian Bulwer Island refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: BP has ceased production at its 102,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) Bulwer Island refinery in Brisbane and is preparing to convert the site into a jet fuel import terminal, a company spokeswoman told Reuters on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The refinery shut its major units throughout May and has now completely ceased production, the spokeswoman added. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The import jetty, aviation fuel tanks and associated pipelines remain operational to allow the site to transition to a jet fuel import terminal,&#8221; the spokeswoman said. <\/p>\n<p>The company announced the closure of the refinery in April last year, as it restructures its struggling refining and marketing business in Australia. <\/p>\n<p>BP and Caltex signed an agreement under which Caltex will supply all of BP&#8217;s requirements for diesel and gasoline in South Queensland. BP will import jet fuel from Asian refineries, the company has previously said. <\/p>\n<p>Many of Australia&#8217;s ageing refineries have shut or been converted into fuel terminals as they chalked up losses amid competition from newer mega-processing sites in Asia. <\/p>\n<p>BP&#8217;s refinery closure is expected to boost the country&#8217;s oil product import growth in 2015 to its fastest pace in at least seven years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: BP has ceased production at its 102,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) Bulwer Island refinery in Brisbane and is preparing to convert the site into a jet fuel import terminal, a company spokeswoman told Reuters on Wednesday. The refinery shut its major units throughout May and has now completely ceased production, the spokeswoman added. &#8220;The import jetty, aviation fuel tanks and associated pipelines remain operational to allow the site to transition to a jet fuel import terminal,&#8221; the spokeswoman said. The company announced the closure of the refinery in April last year, as it restructures its struggling refining and marketing business in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}