Repar Refinery News

Part of Petrobras REPAR Refinery Shut After Malfunction

Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA sharply cut output from its 208,000-barrel-a-day REPAR refinery after a malfunction forced a two-week shutdown at its catalytic-cracking unit, union officials said on Wednesday. The U-2200 cracking unit at REPAR, in Araucaria in Brazil's southern Parana state, was halted on Dec. 21 and restarted on Jan. 3, the union said. The shutdown likely cut processing by as much as half and gasoline output by about a third…