Japan's Fuji Oil sees full restoration of blackout-hit refinery in mid-Dec

Fuji Oil Co (Shinagawa)

08/11/2018 06:01

TOKYO, Nov 8 (Reuters) - 
    * Japan's Fuji Oil Co  5017.T  says it expects to restore
full
refining operations at its power outage-hit
143,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Sodegaura refinery, east of Tokyo,
around mid-December.
    * The sole 143,000 bpd crude distillation unit (CDU) was
restarted
on Oct. 4, following the blackout on Oct. 1, after a power
blackout caused by typhoon Trami.
    * Fuji Oil, since then, has been restarting secondary units,
but
the operations of some units have not returned to full
operations yet, the company said in a statement.
    * The company expects the shutdown to reduce its profits by
around
2 billion yen ($17.60 million) due to a decline in product sale
volumes.

($1 = 113.6100 yen)

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