BP refinery shutdown commences tomorrow

9/11/2007

The planned shutdown, lasting possibly eight weeks, for BP PLC s suburban Toledo refinery begins tomorrow, said a person familiar with plant operations, who asked not to be named.

The closure is to conduct routine maintenance, affecting 155,000 barrels a day of gasoline production. The refinery is BP s smallest in the continental United States. Its largest refinery is in Texas City, Texas, at 400,000 barrels a day,