b'DownstreamStaatsoliesDownstreamcomprisesitsRefineryandMarketingassets.OurrefineryinToutLuiFautrefinestheSaramaccacrudefromStaatsoliesonshoreoilfields.Withaprocessingcapacityof15,000barrelsaday,thefacility produces different grades of fuel oil, premium diesel, premium gasolineandbitumen.Mostoftheserefinedproductsaresolddomestically,with the surplus exported to Caribbean markets.The Marketing asset is responsible for the sales and distribution of all refineryproductstolocalandregionalmarkets.ItincludestheoperationsofStaatsolies subsidiary GOw2 Energy Suriname N.V, through which we serve the retail market with Staatsolie high end products and import lube products. GOw2 also serves the aviation market at Johan Pengel International Airport, Zorg & Hoop Airport and Gum Air Heliport.conductedwhiletherefinerywasoperating.FOCUS ONWe were ready for an intense, time-sensitive THE FUTURE: endeavor involving more than 500 different work activities and the prospect of a hundred Rising to Expectedand thousand man-hours.UnexpectedChallenges in What we did not prepare for was a global our Refinery Turn Aroundpandemic.With an eye toward optimizing StaatsoliesTheTAbeganinFebruary.Thefirstconfirmedrefinerysperformanceforyearstocome, case of COVID-19 in Suriname was announced arefineryTurnAround(TA)hadlongbeen early March.planned for 2020.The challenges imposed by COVID-19 ranged For more than two years, we prepared for thefrom the relatively minorreducing the number challenges of a planned shutdown that wouldof people on the bus, meals served in shifts, allow us to perform testing, cleaning andincreasing the number of sinks and hand maintenance on equipment that could not besanitizer stationsto the majorthe early 22'