Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) is reportedly planning to shut a 120,000 barrel per day crude distillation unit (CDU) which is at least 46 per cent of its crude processing capacity for about a month from mid-September for planned maintenance. Moreover, the company is also planning to shut a 1.3 million tonne per year hydrocracker at the refinery, for catalyst change, that produces middle distillates such as diesel.
MRPL, a subsidiary of state-run exploration firm Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), runs a coastal refinery in southern Karnataka state with a capacity of 300,000 bpd.
