Parkland restarts operations at Burnaby refinery

Calgary-based Parkland Corp. has restarted processing activities at subsidiary Parkland Refining (B.C.) Ltd.’s 55,000-b/d refinery on Burrard Inlet in North Burnaby, near North Vancouver, BC, after pausing operations in mid-November amid feedstock supply disruptions caused by a shutdown of the 300,000-b/d Trans Mountain crude oil pipeline (OGJ Online, Nov. 24, 2021).

As of mid-December, the refinery remains in the process of ramping up operations following the Dec. 5 restart of shipments along Trans Mountain, the refinery’s primary source of crude feedstock, Parkland said.

The refinery, which paused operations between Nov. 22-Dec.10 due to lack of sufficient feedstock, remained in ready mode until Dec. 11, when official ramp-up activities began, according to the operator.

Throughout the temporary halt in crude processing, the Burnaby refinery’s British Columbia terminals remained operational to enable offloading and storage of fuel imports across the lower mainland and Vancouver Island, said Ryan Krogmeier, Parkland’s senior vice-president of supply, trading, and refining.

Parkland did not reveal a specific timeline for when the refinery will return to full operating rates.

The Burnaby refinery processes light and synthetic Canadian crudes such as Edmonton Par 80% and Syncrude 20% delivered via the Trans Mountain pipeline into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt, heating fuel, heavy fuel oil, butane, and propane for markets across British Columbia.