Z Energy owner scales back production at Queensland refinery for repairs

Z Energy owner scales back production at Queensland refinery for repairs
Staff reporters
Z Energy-owner Ampol has scaled back production at its Lytton refinery in Queensland to repair an issue with the slide valve in its fluidised catalytic cracking unit. The unit is expected to be back in service in early May. The Australian integrated fuels company said it didn’t expect any disruption to customers and any impact on gasoline production will be replaced with finished product picked up by Ampol’s trading and shipping division. The company said it expected the cost of the outage to lower earnings before int...