State-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) has temporarily shut the 8.3 million tonnes a year or 166,000 barrels per day refinery at Vishakhapatnam as cyclone Hudhub made landfall with gusts as strong as 195 kilometres per hour. Though, the cyclone has not caused any major damage to the company’s manufacturing facilities. The company will resume operations when normalcy returns to the town.
HPCL operates two major refineries producing a wide variety of petroleum fuels and specialties, one in Mumbai (west coast) of 6.5 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA) capacity and the other in Vishakapatnam (east coast).
