Sept 14 (Reuters) – India’s Reliance Industries mentioned on Thursday that it plans to quickly shut three models at its plant in Jamnagar within the western Indian state of Gujarat for deliberate upkeep and inspection actions.

The oil-to-telecom conglomerate owned by billionaire Mukesh Ambani is the operator of the world’s greatest refining advanced which homes two crops with a mixed capability of about 1.4 million barrels per day.

Reliance will quickly shut a crude distillation unit and delayed coking in SEZ refinery, fluidized catalytic cracker in DTA refinery and a refinery off fuel cracker, the corporate mentioned in an announcement to the inventory exchanges. The upkeep of those models lasting between four-to-seven-weeks will start from mid-September.

The firm added that each one different models of the Jamnagar facility will function usually in the course of the upkeep interval.

Reuters had reported in August that the corporate deliberate to close some models for upkeep in September-October on the Jamnagar advanced citing sources.

While Reliance mentioned that it doesn’t count on any materials impression on total operations of Jamnagar advanced, commerce sources informed Reuters final month that the shutdown of models would curtail the corporate’s crude imports and should push up gasoline margins. (Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber)