Ecopetrol Plans Converter Maintenance at Colombian Refinery.

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Ecopetrol SA (ECOPETL), Colombia’s largest oil company, plans to stop work at a fluid catalytic converter unit at its second-largest refinery for maintenance in August.

The stoppage at a converter unit at Ecopetrol’s Refineria de Cartagena SA will last 40 days, according to an e-mailed response today to questions by an official at the refinery, who can’t be identified because of company policy.

Bogota-based Ecopetrol is investing in its Colombian refineries as it embarks on an $80 billion plan to more than double its crude output this decade and sell cleaner fuels.

The refinery on Colombia’s northern coast has the capacity to process 80,000 barrels a day of crude and mainly exports to the U.S. and the Caribbean, according to Ecopetrol’s website.

State-controlled Ecopetrol in 2009 purchased the stake it didn’t own in the refinery from Glencore International AG for $545 million.

Fuente: Bloomberg.