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Throughout the year of 2016, a number of mainstream mass media in Indonesia reported several recurring refinery unplanned shutdown. As a result, the disruption of nationwide fuel production was unavoidable. This particular study aims at finding qualitative correlation between the refinery unplanned shutdown and the optimized refinery utilization occurred in Indonesia. Question arose over whether the technology installed in the refinery had reached the end of its usage lifetime, or perhaps the management lacked of details in terms of management planning that later fuelled the unwanted incidents. The method being applied in this study is qualitative approach using a non-linear multivariable regression. As the result, a non-linear multivariable regression that incorporates multivariable in an effort to help discover the presumably overlooked information of the past performance as means of management control and to monitor the current refinery utilization performance. In the end, recommendation for improvement as far as the refinery utilization can possibly be achieved in the near future. The conclusion of this particular study is the recommendation for refinery decision maker to improve the scheduling of refinery turnaround and optimize the utilization as well.