Essar Oil plans to shut its Gujarat refinery for 18 days in April

Essar Oil has announced on Friday that will shutdown its refinery in Gujarat for annual maintenance for 18 days from April 13.

In a statement, the company said that it will close its 10.5-million tonne refinery at Vadinar in Jamnagar district. It added that the shutdown is planned for maintenance and inspection of various process units.

This is the first planned turn since commissioning and beginning of commercial production in May 2008. The refinery is currently operating at 2, 40,000 barrels per day capacity.

The statement said, "During the shutdown it is proposed to take up certain jobs as part of ongoing refinery expansion programme requiring refinery shutdown."

Essar is increasing its refining capacity to 16 million tonnes that will be completed by December 31, 2010.

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