Refinery shutdown to begin
PA Whangarei The shutdown of the Marsden Point oil refinery will begin this week-end, although the New Zealand Refining Company has not yet received word from the Government on its application for a wage freeze exemption for some of the workers involved. The refinery’s personnel manager, Mr Neville Milne, confirmed yesterday that the shutdown was going ahead. He expects it to take “approximately five weeks.” Original plans were for the refinery to be shut down last week-end, but this was postponed one week to allow a sufficient reservoir of fuels to be produced to carry New Zealand through the shutdown period. A refinery spokesman confirmed yesterday that this level would be reached by the end of the week and no refined fuels would need to be imported during the five-week maintenance period.
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