Chennai Petroleum Corporation (CPCL) has shut its 210,000 barrels per day (bpd) Manali refinery due to heavy flooding in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The state-run company, a unit of the country’s biggest refiner Indian Oil Corporation, is the main fuel supplier to the city of Chennai that has been submerged by the strongest spell of rain in more than a century. The company’s smaller 20,000 bpd Nagapattinam refinery was, however, operating normally.
CPCL’s main products are LPG, Motor Spirit, Superior Kerosene, Aviation Turbine Fuel, High Speed Diesel, Naphtha, Bitumen, Lube Base Stocks, Paraffin Wax, Fuel Oil, Hexane and Petrochemical feed stocks.
