Japan's Idemitsu to restart quake-shut Hokkaido RFCC this week-officials

TOKYO, Nov 14 (Reuters) -Japanese oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co is preparing to restart the 33,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) at Hokkaido refinery in northern Japan this week, senior company officials said.

The company restarted the sole 150,000 bpd crude distillation unit (CDU) at Hokkaido refinery last month. It had been shut since Sept. 6 following a blackout caused by an earthquake.

After the restart of RFCC, the company plans to gradually raise the run rate of CDU to full, officials said on the sidelines of its announcement of its record-high profits in the six months ended Sept. 30. (Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier)

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