India's Hindustan Petroleum Corp has delayed plans to shut units at its 166,000 barrels per day Vizag refinery in southern India for maintenance to next year.

A company source said that "The shutdown has now been pushed back to the first quarter at the earliest, otherwise it will be in the next fiscal year.”

HPCL had plans to shut a 60,000 bpd crude unit, a visbreaker unit and a fluid catalytic cracker at its Vizag plant for 45 days for regular maintenance from November.

(Sourced from ET)