Indian Oil Corporation is planning major maintenance at its refineries in the current fiscal. This maintenance work will include a complete shutdown of its 160,000-barrels per day (bpd) Mathura plant for about 45 days from the end of August. In this repair work, Mathura refinery will be starting the shutdown of a fluidised catalytic cracker (FCC) in mid-August for about two months.
The company will also close a 35,000-bpd crude unit and some secondary units at its 120,000-bpd Barauni refinery from April 24, 2013 or April 25, 2013 for about a month. It plans a second round of maintenance at Barauni, including a month-long shutdown of a 50,000 bpd crude unit, in February and March.
