Indian Oil Corporation’s (IOC) Haldia refinery will go for planned maintenance shutdown in December, company officials said. There will be no maintenance shutdown of the refinery, which caters mostly to the eastern region, in November due to the festival season.
However, the increase in demand for fuel will be marginal during the festive period, they said.
The initial processing capacity of the atmospheric/crude distillation unit (CDU) of the refinery was 2.5 MMTPA, which was increased to 3.16 MMTPA in May 1988 and was further scaled up to 3.4 MMTPA through in house de-bottlenecking in 1996, the officials said.
