Friday 10 January 2014

BPCL to shut crude unit at Mumbai refinery for maintenance work: Report

Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) is reportedly planning to shut crude unit at its Mumbai refinery for about 15 days in April-May on account of 40-day maintenance work at its catalytic cracker unit. The company will use the opportunity to carry out some modification in the crude unit too.

The cracker has a capacity of 0.65 million tonnes a year and the crude unit operates at about 80,000 barrels per day. Separately, the refiner has completed a 28-day maintenance shutdown at its 900,000 tonnes a year fluidised catalytic cracker unit.

BPCL is into exploration, production and retailing of petroleum and petrol related products. The retail business unit of BPCL is into marketing of petrol, diesel and kerosene.

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