Bahrain Petroleum Company will partially shut its 254,000 barrels per day refinery at Sitra in November for maintenance work ahead of completion of a hydrocracker project in the first quarter of next year.

A regional industry source said Bapco planned to take down a 40,000-bpd crude distillation unit at Sitra, Bahrain’s sole refinery, for 30 to 35 days starting from mid-November.
“Their upgrading programme, so that they can manufacture 50ppm and even 10ppm (ultra low sulphur) diesel by second quarter 2007, is going very well,” the source said.
Bapco is spending $850 million on the new project.