"swing" refinery

[xeniya123]

Пожалуйста, помогите перевести.

Выражение встречается в следующем контексте: The refinery has been operating well under its capacity, as, according to the company it is being used as a "swing" refinery, whereby its primary processing units are shut down a few days per month, with the aim of increasing INA's overall light yields.

Заранее спасибо

[eu_br]

In the language of international oil economics, Ras Tanura has become a "swing" refinery. It might today be described as a basic refinery that incorporates many processes to assure efficiency in meeting changing requirements.

For example, many of the new market-oriented refineries are designed to meet average local conditions. When they head into the heavy summer motoring season, they are unable to meet the peak demand for automobile gasolines. A severe winter may create heating oil shortages. Or perhaps industrial expansion may suddenly increase the need for fuel oils. If local refineries cannot meet these changing consumer conditions, the refineries of the producer-exporter nations, such as that at Ras Tanura, make up the shortages. And they continue to supply countries that do not yet have sufficient demand to support a refinery of economic size.

The Aramco refinery also joins with other resource refineries to serve unpredictable peaks in world demand such as those created by the Korean emergency in the 1950's.

In addition to these distant demand "swings," the Ras Tanura plant supplies large volumes of the bunker oil that runs the tankers that ply the world's sea lanes and 'lift" crude oil and products at Aramco piers in Saudi Arabia.

[xeniya123]

т.е. такой НПЗ можно назвать "универсальным" НПЗ.

[sledopyt]

а может "резервный"?

[xeniya123]

а лучше "универсальным резервным"))

[eu_br]

имхо "резервный" лучше подходит под контекст, что он работал далеко не на предельных мощностях... если "универсальный", то это ничего не объясняет... у меня еще была мысль "буферный", но гугл показал, что похоже на НПЗ и так есть "буферные базы", так что как бы путаницы не вышло... специалиста нефтяника спросить бы...