IOC will shut half of Panipat refinery from mid-February

State-run IOC is the country's biggest refiner whereas Panipat is IOC's biggest refinery.

He added that state-run IOC also plans to shut one of eight heaters attached to its naphtha cracker plant for inspection and repair works. The shutdown is scheduled from mid-March for 45 days. The closing of one the heaters would limit IOC's naphtha production to 350 tonnes per hour from an average of about 400 tonnes per hour.

State-run IOC is the country's biggest refiner whereas Panipat is IOC's biggest refinery. Panipat was set up to meet the demands of petroleum products in most of the country's north-western region, including Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, and parts of Rajasthan, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.

Last month, IOC's Panipat refinery distributed various types of equipment to Divyangjans in Bal Bhavan, Panipat. The event was carried out as part of CSR activity under the Indian Oil's core value 'CARE.'  

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