Mangalore, April 14: Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) has shut down down phase II and III units following shortage of water supply after the district Administration directed MRPL to stop pumping water from Sarapady dam.
According to a press release, the refinery was receiving aroung 5.5 Million Gallons per Day water from Nethravati river.
The water availability in the Nethravati and its downstream dams started depleting in March. As a result, the district administration stopped the intake of water from the river.
The water availability in the refinery can meet the full load for one and half days.
In order to overcome the situation and pull the resources for next couple of days till Mangalore gets rain, it has been decided to shut down the phase III and Phase II units.
“There will be shortage of supply of products to MRPL fed locations. Further, the MRPL may have to incur additional demurrage on account of delay in unloading crudes because of ullage problem and loading of products,” the release added.
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