ExxonMobil to shutter naphtha unit at French refinery

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.