Reliance Industries plans to shut its fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) of about 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) at its older refinery at Jamnagar at the end of January for about a month, trade sources said on Monday.
Two sources said the shutdown of the FCC for maintenance was expected to begin in the last week of January while the third source said it would start "from end-Jan or early Feb".
All the sources said the maintenance shutdown of the FCC would last for about a month.
The first two sources also said the refiner would also shut a 100,000 bpd vacuum gas oil unit for about three to four weeks a few days into the shutdown of the FCC.
No immediate comment was available from Reliance.
Reliance's 660,000 bpd plant is situated next to its 580,000 bpd export focused refinery.
The FCC converts vacuum gas oil into light value-added products like liquefied petroleum gas, gasoline-blending components and diesel. A VGO hydrotreater removes sulphur from heavy feedstock to produce naphtha, jet fuel and liquefied petroleum gas.
The firm last month brought back online its 330,000 bpd crude unit at the old plant after a maintenance shutdown that lasted for about three weeks.
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