Chennai Petroleum Corporation's Manali Refinery Slated for Maintenance Turnaround

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Chennai Petroleum Corporation's (BOM:500110) 190,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Manali Refinery, located in Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, is scheduled for a maintenance turnaround in the second quarter of 2010.

The refinery is divided into five blocks, with 37 operational units in all. The future planned turnaround will be carried out in Refinery 2 Block, which has eight operational units. The shutdown, which will mainly entail cleaning and inspection, will affect the 74,000-BBL/d Crude Unit, the 20,000-BBL/d Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit, and the Vacuum and Merox units, among others. Maintenance is expected to start in the second quarter of 2010 and is scheduled to last approximately 28 non-production days. Maintenance turnarounds at Refinery 2 Block are performed every two years.

Manali Refinery is one of the two refineries Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited owns and operates in India. The company has a combined refining capacity of 210,000 BBL/d.

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