India’s Reliance Industries
plans to shut a crude unit and some secondary units at
its 660,000 barrels per day refinery for three to four weeks
later this month for routine maintenance, four sources familiar
with the matter said.
Reliance, operator of the world’s biggest refining
complex, has two equal-sized crude distillation units at the
refinery, which mainly supply refined fuels for Indian markets.
Reliance’s complex also has a 704,000 bpd export-focused
refinery.
Maintenance shutdown will start around mid-May after the
private firm Nayara Energy resumes operations at its 400,000 bpd
refinery to avoid any shortage of fuel in the country, one of
the sources said.
Reliance did not respond to a Reuters email seeking
comments.