Essar Oil to Shut Vadinar Refinery for Maintenance: Report

New Delhi: Essar Oil will this week shut its 4,05,000 barrel-per-day Vadinar refinery in Gujarat for about four weeks to carry out maintenance work.

The refinery, the country's second biggest, will be shut for the maintenance job around Friday, a company official said.

The company will upgrade some units during the planned maintenance shutdown.

The shutdown was earlier planned for middle of 2015, but was put back to September.

As of 12:55 p.m., shares in Essar Oil were trading nearly 1 per cent higher at Rs 188.00 apiece on the BSE, outperforming the broader markets that were up 0.7 per cent.

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