Reliance to partly shut 660,000bpd plant May-June-sources

NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE, Feb 24 (Reuters) - India's Reliance Industries Ltd (RELI.BO: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to partially shut its 660,000 barrels day (bpd) refinery for at least two weeks for routine maintenance in May-June, trade sources said on on Tuesday.

The firm is expected to shut a 325,000-bpd crude distillation unit (CDU) and a near 100,000-bpd diesel hydro desulphurisation unit for maintenance, a trade source familiar with the operations said.

He said a vacuum gas oil hydrotreater could also be shut down for maintenance.

"It will be for a minimum period of two weeks and the period can be extended depending on the job," he said.

"Reliance will shut a CDU and related downstream units for turnaround in May-June. The dates have not been finalised as yet," said another trader.The refinery has another CDU of the same size which will remain open.

Reliance has another refinery, the new 580,000-bpd facility owned by subsidiary Reliance Petroleum RPET.BO that was commissioned in end-December and located next to the 660,000-bpd complex in Jamnagar in western Gujarat state. (Reporting by Nidhi Verma in NEW DELHI and Felicia Loo in SINGAPORE; Editing by Ramthan Hussain)