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 The unplanned shutdown of a key gasoline-making unit at Bp PLC's (BP, BP.LN) oil refinery in Whiting, Ind., has strengthened Chicago's spot market gasoline differential sharply on Friday.
The larger of two fluid catalytic cracking units was taken out of service on Thursday, a person familiar with operations at the refinery said on Friday. There is no estimate yet on when it will resume operations.
As a result, the pricing discount for unleaded regular conventional gasoline for prompt delivery in Chicago has narrowed by 6.0 cents on the day so far, to trade at 14.0 cents a gallon below the March Nymex benchmark price.
The Whiting refinery is able to process up to 405,000 barrels of crude oil a day.
-By Rose Marton-Vitale, Dow Jones Newswires, 201-264-4185, rose.marton@dowjones.com
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