{"id":29562,"date":"2015-08-19T11:41:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=29562"},"modified":"2015-08-19T11:41:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:41:46","slug":"mrpl-to-shut-120000-bpd-crude-unit-for-a-month-from-mid-september-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mrpl-to-shut-120000-bpd-crude-unit-for-a-month-from-mid-september-source\/","title":{"rendered":"MRPL to shut 120,000-bpd crude unit for a month from mid-September: Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd will shut at least 46 per cent of its crude processing capacity for about a month from mid-September for planned maintenance, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. <\/p>\n<p>MRPL has three crude distillation units (CDUs) at its 300,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) coastal refinery in the southern Karnataka state. <\/p>\n<p>The state-run refiner will shut CDU-II that has a nameplate capacity of 120,000 bpd but normally operates at more than 140,000 bpd rate. <\/p>\n<p>Along with the crude unit, the refiner also plans to shut some other secondary units, including a 1.3-million-tonne-per- year hydrocracker, for catalyst change, they said. <\/p>\n<p>A hydrocracker produces middle distillates such as diesel. <\/p>\n<p>The MRPL spokeswoman did not respond to calls seeking comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd will shut at least 46 per cent of its crude processing capacity for about a month from mid-September for planned maintenance, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. MRPL has three crude distillation units (CDUs) at its 300,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) coastal refinery in the southern Karnataka state. The state-run refiner will shut CDU-II that has a nameplate capacity of 120,000 bpd but normally operates at more than 140,000 bpd rate. Along with the crude unit, the refiner also plans to shut some other secondary units, including a 1.3-million-tonne-per- year hydrocracker, for catalyst change, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-29562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29562","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}