Japan's Fuji Oil shuts 143,000 bpd Sodegaura refinery after quake - spokesman

Fuji Oil (Osaka)

15/02/2021 10:04

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Japanese refiner Fuji Oil Co Ltd  5017.T 
has shut the 143,000 barrels-per-day crude distillation unit
(CDU) at its Sodegaura oil refinery in Chiba, east of Tokyo,
after it was hit by an earthquake on Saturday, a company
spokesman said on Monday. 
    The 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of eastern
Japan on Saturday, injuring dozens of people and triggering
widespread power outages.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2KJ071
    Fuji Oil's only refinery was shut down automatically after
the quake, but the company plans to restart the CDU on Tuesday
as no damage was found, the spokesman said.

 (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi; Editing by Edmund Blair)
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