Russia's OAO Lukoil Holdings (LKOH.RS) plans to resume production at its Odessa refinery in Ukraine April 18 after a three-year modernization program, the company said Tuesday.
The preliminary start date for operations has been delayed from April 7, the spokesman said.
The restart would represent the second stage of the company's effort to bring the refinery back online, said a company spokesman based in Moscow. Test production at the plant began in October 2007.
The revamped Odessa refinery is expected to have an annual processing capacity of 2.8 million metric tons of crude oil, compared with 1.39 million tons in 2005. During the modernization work, Lukoil rebuilt the plant's atmospheric distillation unit and constructed a new visbreaker unit.