{"id":6110,"date":"2015-03-13T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T11:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=6110"},"modified":"2015-03-13T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T11:50:58","slug":"mrpl-to-shut-120000-bpd-crude-unit-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mrpl-to-shut-120000-bpd-crude-unit-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"MRPL to shut 120,000 bpd crude unit in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:  Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) plans to shut a 120,000 barrel per day crude distillation unit (CDU) for about 10 days from early April for planned maintenance, its head of refinery operations said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>MRPL, a subsidiary of state-run exploration firm Oil and Natural Gas Corp , runs a coastal refinery in Karnataka with a capacity of 300,000 bpd. <\/p>\n<p>The refiner also plans to shut a 1.6 million tonne a year hydrocracker at the refinery that produces middle distillates such as diesel for minor work, Vijay G. Joshi told Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The refiner has three CDUs and two hydrocrackers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will use the opportunity to do some minor jobs on the hydrocracker &#8230; Also, some job needs to be done at our captive power plant,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>MRPL&#8217;s product supply commitments would not be affected by the shutdown, Joshi added. <\/p>\n<p>Joshi said MRPL also plans to shut its second hydrocrakcer of 1.2 million tonnes a year in the October-December quarter for catalyst replacement. A catalyst change typically takes 30-45 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) plans to shut a 120,000 barrel per day crude distillation unit (CDU) for about 10 days from early April for planned maintenance, its head of refinery operations said on Friday. MRPL, a subsidiary of state-run exploration firm Oil and Natural Gas Corp , runs a coastal refinery in Karnataka with a capacity of 300,000 bpd. The refiner also plans to shut a 1.6 million tonne a year hydrocracker at the refinery that produces middle distillates such as diesel for minor work, Vijay G. Joshi told Reuters. The refiner has three CDUs and [&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-6110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110","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=6110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}