Lukoil expects to restart damaged NORSI oil refinery units in June
MOSCOW (Reuters)—Russian second-largest oil producer Lukoil plans to resume operations at its damaged CDU-6 primary unit and catalytic cracker at the NORSI oil refinery in June following maintenance, three industry sources said on Friday.
One of the sources said that the CDU-6 primary unit, where operations were halted in March following a fire, could be tentatively back up as early as Saturday.
The resumption will allow the catalytic cracker, which has been idled for maintenance since January, to get feedstocks. It could return to operations on June 10, another source said.
A company source said last month that the units could be back up in the second quarter.
The NORSI oil refinery suffered technical outages in January and was subjected to a drone attack in March. NORSI refines about 15.8 MMtpy of crude, or 5.8% of Russia's total refined crude, a top four among Russian oil refineries.
Russia and Ukraine have both used drones to strike critical infrastructure, military installations and troop concentrations in their more than two-year conflict, with Kyiv hitting Russian refineries and energy facilities in recent months.
The catalytic cracker unit is able to process 5,710 tpd, while the production capacity of CDU-6 is up to 25,710 tpd.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
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