TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s biggest refiner, Eneos Corp, experienced an unplanned shutdown of the 77,000 barrels-per-day No.3 crude distillation unit at its Kawasaki refinery near Tokyo, starting June 4, a company spokesperson said on Thursday.
The company declined to provide a reason for the shutdown or an expected timeline for resuming operation.
The refiner, part of Eneos Holdings, restarted another crude distillation unit, the 105,000-bpd No.3 CDU at its Mizushima-B refinery in western Japan on June 3, following a scheduled turnaround that began on February 26, the spokesperson said.
At the same refinery, the company had resumed operations at the 95,200-bpd No.2 CDU on May 16 after an unplanned shutdown that started on April 24.
Also on May 16, Eneos shut the 141,000-bpd CDU at its Sakai refinery in western Japan for scheduled maintenance, with plans to restart it in early July, the spokesperson added.
(Reporting by Yuka Obayashi in Tokyo and Trixie Yap in Singapore.
Editing by Mark Potter and Barbara Lewis)
