Russia's NORSI oil refinery halts unit due to an incident
(Reuters) - The NORSI oil refinery, one of the largest in Russia, has halted a unit after an incident, oil company Lukoil said on Friday, without giving further details.
"The company is making every effort to restore as quickly as possible the usual production mode of LLC Lukoil Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez and meeting the needs of the domestic market," it said.
Industry sources say there were two incidents at gasoline-producing units in early January at the plant, which can process around 17 million metric tons of oil per year (340,000 barrels per day).
They say a catalytic cracking unit with a capacity of 6,300 tons per day was halted on Jan. 4, while there was also outage at a reformer with daily capacity of 3,000 tons per day on Jan. 7.
The units are expected to resume operations on Jan. 16-19.
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