Port Jerome/NDG complex due maintenance

March 24, 2006
Esso SAF's Port Jerome/NDG 233,000 b/d refining and petrochemical complex near Le Havre in Normandy, France, will be shut down for maintenance costing €25 million through mid-April, according to Dominique Badel, Esso's chairman and chief executive.

Doris Leblond
OGJ Correspondent

PARIS, Mar. 24 -- Esso SAF's Port Jerome/NDG 233,000 b/d refining and petrochemical complex near Le Havre in Normandy, France, will be shut down for maintenance costing €25 million through mid-April, according to Dominique Badel, Esso's chairman and chief executive.

The refinery operated at a record of 90% capacity last year.