{"id":273546,"date":"2019-05-08T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273546"},"modified":"2019-05-08T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T12:04:14","slug":"indias-mrpl-to-operate-plant-at-50-percent-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-mrpl-to-operate-plant-at-50-percent-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s MRPL to operate plant at 50 percent capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd will operate its 300,000 barrels-per-day refinery in southern India at about 50 percent capacity from Thursday due to water shortage, Managing Director M Venkatesh said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are maximising sewage water to sustain the operation to an extent possible,&#8221; Venkatesh said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The refinery has three crude units. A 60,000 bpd crude unit and some secondary units are already shut for routine maintenance, Venkatesh said, adding that his firm will shut another 96,000 bpd crude unit and a hydrocracker from Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>MRPL is trying to keep the third crude unit of 142,000 bpd capacity operating for at least a month. The crude unit normally operates at a rate of about 160,000 bpd. <\/p>\n<p>MRPL will meet all its commitments for fuel supply despite shutdown of half of its crude-processing capacity, Venkatesh added. <\/p>\n<p>The company supplies oil products mostly to meet fuel demand in southern India.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Considering the acute shortage of fresh water in the river Nethravathi, in absence of summer showers, MRPL Refinery Complex process units are under partial shutdown as a force majeure,&#8221; MRPL said in a stock exchange filing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd will operate its 300,000 barrels-per-day refinery in southern India at about 50 percent capacity from Thursday due to water shortage, Managing Director M Venkatesh said. &#8220;We are maximising sewage water to sustain the operation to an extent possible,&#8221; Venkatesh said on Wednesday. The refinery has three crude units. A 60,000 bpd crude unit and some secondary units are already shut for routine maintenance, Venkatesh said, adding that his firm will shut another 96,000 bpd crude unit and a hydrocracker from Thursday. MRPL is trying to keep the third crude unit of 142,000 bpd capacity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}