Refinery

Petronas RAPID

PETRONAS ·Pengerang, MY ·v1.1

A 300,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Pengerang, MY, operated by PETRONAS. Nelson Complexity 14.

Record

Rated capacity
300,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
Nelson Complexity Index
14
Status
Operating
Operator
PETRONAS
Parent
Petroliam Nasional Berhad
Supplier graph
bomforge.com/companies/petronas-pengerang
Coordinates
1.5800, 104.1800

Notes

April 2026 news indicates Petronas is supplying excess fuel to Australia, suggesting RAPID refinery has returned to operational status after maintenance. This contradicts the October 2025 offline status and indicates the facility is now producing exportable surplus fuel.

What coverage reports

21 days since one was reported

Prefchem restarts Pengerang RFCC units after unexpected outage
2026-07-31 · 1 publisher filed it

3 reported in 12 months

operations 3

2024-092026-08
stories filed per month · red = a disruption

These are counts of what publishers filed about this plant, not an operating status. A quiet month means nobody named this facility that month, which is a fact about coverage and not about the plant. Where this site states how a refinery is running it says so in the facts table above, from the curated dataset, and cites it there.

Wire

23 records15 Jun 2012 to 31 Jul 2026General 12 · Operations 5 · Expansion 4 · Incident 2
  1. Operations High
    Prefchem restarts Pengerang RFCC units after unexpected outage
    Quantum Commodity Intelligence · matched pengerang
  2. General Low
    Petronas Vessel Carrying Iraqi Crude Heads To Pengerang Refinery Via Hormuz
    BusinessToday Malaysia · matched pengerang
  3. General Low
    Petronas Confronts Refinery Capacity Challenge with Pengerang Running at Half Output Due to Supply Chain Pressures
    Bitget · matched pengerang, rapid
  4. General Low
    PetGas’ Pengerang LNG unit issues RM800 mil sukuk
    The Edge Malaysia + 1 other outlet · matched pengerang
  5. Operations Critical
    Pengerang Refining cuts refinery output after gasoline unit shutdown, exports trimmed
    The Malaysian Reserve · matched pengerang
  6. General Low
    SumiSaujana secures three-year chemical supply contract for Pengerang refinery
    The Malaysian Reserve · matched pengerang
  7. General Low
    Groundbreaking Ceremony of the New Biorefinery by PETRONAS, Enilive and Euglena in Pengerang, Johor, Malaysia
    Eni · matched pengerang
  8. Operations High
    Malaysia's Rapid refinery offline for major works
    Quantum Commodity Intelligence · matched rapid
  9. Expansion Medium
    MPHB’s appeal over Pengerang refinery land acquisition dismissed
    The Edge Malaysia · matched pengerang
  10. General Low
    Petronas, Saudi Aramco to sign deal on RAPID refinery project
    The Edge Malaysia · matched rapid
  11. General Low
    Large Flame Seen in the East of S’pore Last Night (17 June) is from the Flare Tower of the Refinery in Pengerang
    Goody Feed · matched pengerang
  12. Operations Medium
    Petronas Chemicals climbs to highest in over two years as Pengerang refinery restart fuels optimism
    The Edge Malaysia · matched pengerang
  13. Operations Medium
    APPEC Malaysia's Petronas hopes to restart Pengerang refinery by year-end
    Reuters · matched pengerang
  14. General Low
    Pengerang refinery to start commercial operations in 4th quarter
    Free Malaysia Today · matched pengerang
  15. Incident Critical
    Two Malaysian's injured in explosion at PETRONAS refinery in Pengerang Johor
    The Online Citizen · matched pengerang
  16. Incident High
    Fire at Petronas' RAPID oil refinery quickly tamed
    Reuters · matched rapid
  17. Expansion Low
    Aramco, Petronas near startup of Malaysia’s RAPID refinery
    Oil & Gas Journal · matched rapid
  18. General Low
    Petronas installs waste heat boilers for Pengerang refinery
    nst.com.my · matched pengerang
  19. Expansion Low
    Saudi Aramco buys US$7b stake in Petronas' Rapid refinery project
    Malaysiakini + 1 other outlet · matched rapid
  20. Expansion Low
    Saudi Aramco to invest $7 billion in Petronas' RAPID oil refinery
    CNBC · matched rapid
  21. General Low
    EXCLUSIVE - Malaysia's Petronas, Saudi Aramco to sign deal on RAPID refinery project
    Yahoo News Singapore · matched rapid
  22. General Low
    Petronas’ RAPID refinery delays start up to 2019
    Hydrocarbon Engineering · matched rapid
  23. General Low
    Petroplus: rapid rise and fall of a refiner
    Reuters · matched rapid

Every item names this facility by city or plant name in its headline or summary. Operator-only mentions never attribute. Headlines and links belong to the publishers named.