UPDATE 1-Sunoco says Marcus Hook FCC remains down

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NEW YORK, May 21 (Reuters) - Sunoco Inc (SUN.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said a gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracker remained down and crude rates were still cut on Thursday at its 178,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, following a Sunday fire.

"No change in status at Marcus Hook. FCC still down. Crude units at reduced rates," Thomas Golembeski, a spokesman for the U.S. Northeastern refiner, said in an email.

The refinery's crude distillation was running at 85 percent of planned production levels, Golembeski had said earlier this week. The late Sunday fire in an ethylene plant had resulted in the shutting down of the gasoline unit at the refinery.

Sunoco has said it would boost output at its 335,000-bpd Philadelphia and 145,000-bpd New Jersey refineries to make up for production lost at Marcus Hook.

The spokesman did not comment on Thursday on when the restart would begin at the Philadelphia complex where Sunoco had idled a crude unit and an FCC due to poor margins.

"We are doing everything we can to continue meeting customer demand," Golembeski said when asked about the Philadelphia restart date. (Reporting by Haitham Haddadin; Editing by Christian Wiessner)