Tokyo - Nippon Oil Corp Japan's biggest refiner, said on Monday it had shut the 70,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) number two crude distillation unit in its Negishi refinery in Kanagawa prefecture, eastern Japan.
Nippon Oil shut the CDU on Sunday after fire broke out at a vacuum flasher unit at 11:20 a.m. (0220 GMT) because of an oil leak, a spokesman said. The fire was extinguished 10 minutes later, he added.
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