The company said it could not communicate about the shutdown earlier "due to non-availability of communication system and water logging in the office and the abnormal situation arising out of natural calamity."
Indian Oil Corp , the nation's biggest oil firm, on Monday said that it has moved auto and cooking fuel from neighbouring states to flood-hit Chennai to restore supplies. "There is no fuel shortage. We have moved tankers from Kerala and Karnataka to Chennai," IOC Chairman B Ashok said. He said some petrol pumps in the city had gone under water after heavy rains and flooding. "Petrol pumps are restarting..There may be few which are still under water but supplies are being restored." In the immediate aftermath of the worst flooding, fuel supplies to the metropolitan city had been affected. "Our (subsidiary) refinery CPCL had to take an emergency shutdown as it was flooded with four feet of water. Water as receded and they have moved to restart the unit," he said adding the 11.5 million tons refinery will be restarted this week. CPCL in a filing to the stock exchanges on Monday said, "due to heavy rains and water logging in the Refinery premises, as a precautionary safety measure, the Manali Refinery of CPCL was shutdown effective December 02, 2015 (night), and the Cauvery Basin Refinery at Nagapattinam was shutdown effective December 06, 2015 (night)." The company said it could not communicate about the shutdown earlier "due to non-availability of communication system and water logging in the office and the abnormal situation arising out of natural calamity." Manali refinery near Chennai has a capacity of 10.5 million tons per annum while Nagapattniam has one million tons a year capacity.
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