Production is to be restricted at Exxon Mobil Corp.'s naphtha processing unit in France in October. The steam cracker in Gravenchon, Normandy, will be idled for 4-5 weeks of routine maintenance. Another shutdown has been planned at the 233,000 bpd refinery in February and March of 2009, when the fluid catalytic cracker, an alkylation plant and a gofiner unit will be shuttered for repairs.
