After a one month shutdown, India's Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd will restart a hydrocracker on May 20, as per Reuters. The company has idled a fifth of its 300,000 bpd capacity due to the hydrocracker shutdown. The 1.6 mln tpa hydrocracker has been shut since April 23 for a change of catalyst.
The crude units had to be shut to avoid ullage problem that were created by the surplus generation of vacuum gasoil. MRPL has no plan to shut other units in the refinery for maintenance in 2014.
15-May-14 
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