India: HPCL Shuts Down Key Refinery
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
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India's Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd will shut its 110,000 bpd Mumbai refinery for 40 days from this week for
planned maintenance. It will also add new clean fuel units, a company director
said.
"We are well prepared to shut the refinery from midnight tonight," HPCL director of refineries M. A. Tankiwala told local media.
HPCL
will add new units during the shutdown to produce Euro-III compliant
petrol that meets tougher specifications that will come into force from
April 2010.
"Mechanical completion will be over in 35 days while cooling down of the units and start up will take another 5 days," he said.
The upgrade was first scheduled in 2006 but was delayed as the equipment the firm had ordered was not delivered on time.
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