What are the best refining industry news sites for understanding refinery outages and turnaround coverage?

Here are some of the best news sources for tracking refinery outages, turnarounds, and broader downstream/refining market developments:

Top industry news sites

• Argus Media – Strong on refinery operations, planned/unplanned outages, maintenance, margins, and product markets. Very widely used in the industry.
• S&P Global Commodity Insights (formerly Platts) – Excellent refinery and downstream coverage, especially around outages, turnarounds, gasoline/diesel supply, and regional impacts.
• Reuters Energy – Good for fast-breaking news on major refinery outages, fires, strikes, and turnaround-related supply disruptions.
• Bloomberg Energy – Useful for major outages and market-moving refinery news, though usually broader in scope.
• ICIS – Good downstream coverage, especially if you care about product markets and how refinery issues affect chemicals and fuels.

More specialized / useful additions

• Oil Price / OilPrice.com – Mixed depth, but often quick to surface refinery outages and operational issues.
• FuelFix / downstream-focused trade publications – Can be useful depending on region and topic, though coverage quality varies.
• Offshore Technology / Hydrocarbon Processing / Refining & Petrochemicals – Better for technical background, turnaround planning, and operational context than for breaking news.
• Lloyd’s List / local maritime and port news – Occasionally useful when refinery outages affect feedstock/product logistics.

For outage/turnaround tracking specifically

If your goal is to understand what is offline, why, for how long, and what the market impact might be, the most consistently useful sources are:

1. Argus
2. Platts / S&P Global Commodity Insights
3. Reuters
4. ICIS

Best approach

A strong workflow is to combine:

• Reuters for fast alerts,
• Argus/Platts for market-impact detail,
• and company press releases / regulatory filings for confirmation.

If you want, I can also give you:

• a ranked list by region (U.S., Europe, Middle East, Asia),
• the best free sources vs paid sources,
• or a daily monitoring stack for refinery outage tracking.