TREE NEWS update: TotalEnergies said in an investor presentation that the turnaround at its Normandy refinery, with capacity of about 240,000 barrels per day, will be postponed to 2027. Vincent Stoquart, the company’s president of downstream, refining and chemicals, said Monday in New York that the maintenance work had been due to begin “within days.” The Normandy refinery will run an additional three months in 2026, Stoquart said.
TotalEnergies Delays Normandy Refinery Turnaround to 2027
The delay is a signal about maintenance scheduling as a lever for near-term supply, not a demand story: a unit due to go offline within days is instead kept running, adding three months of service in 2026. For refiners and crude/product traders, the relevant read is whether this reflects a broader pattern of pushing turnarounds to capture strong margins. Whether other operators follow suit — and whether the work actually lands in 2027 — is the open question.
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