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Friday, February 20, 2009

Caltex Australia Brings Forward Maintenance at Sydney Refinery

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By Angela Macdonald-Smith

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Caltex Australia Ltd., the nation’s biggest oil refiner, said it brought forward planned maintenance at the catalytic cracker at its Kurnell plant near Sydney by two months to March.

The work on the unit will probably last between four and six weeks, Des King, managing director of Sydney-based Caltex Australia, said today in an interview. Major maintenance planned in the third quarter at Caltex’s second plant, near Brisbane, will affect about half the refinery and may last as long as seven weeks, he said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Angela Macdonald-Smith in Sydney at amacdonaldsm@bloomberg.net

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