BCPL to shut crude unit at Kochi refinery for about 3 weeks from Dec 1

India's state-run Bharat Petroleum Corp will shut a 120,000 barrels per day (bpd) crude unit and some secondary units at its Kochi refinery for about three weeks from early December for maintenance, its head of refineries said.
 

"It (this shutdown) is mandatory to inspect the new plant after you run it for a year. We will open up some of the critical equipment to see if things are intact," R. Ramachandran told Reuters on Tuesday.
 

BPCL last year raised the capacity of the Kochi refinery in southern India by about 63 per cent to 310,000 bpd.
 

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