1. The maintenance work, which usually lasts about a month, is set to include work on the plant‘s diesel–making hydrocracker, a vacuum distillation unit, and a reformer.

2. LUKoil said it had finished reconstruction of vacuum distillation unit and would in the first quarter of next year complete modernization of a visbreaking unit, which will allow it to cut fuel oil output and raise production of vacuum gas oil. (Reuters) Sulzer Mulls Russian Power ZURICH –– Sulzer sees opportunities in the power generation business in Russia, using the contacts of its shareholder Viktor Vekselberg, chief executive Ton Buechner said, Swiss newspaper Finanz & Wirtschaft reported Friday.

3. High Court Justice Thomas Morison ruled on Friday that the dispute was not covered by arbitration clauses in the shipping agreements and should proceed to trial. (Bloomberg) For the Record Natural gas prices in Russia will reach European levels for industrial consumers by 2015, Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko said Friday. (Bloomberg) Magna International may agree with AvtoVAZ to develop a new car and build a production plant in Togliatti, Vedomosti reported Friday, citing two unidentified AvtoVAZ officials. (Bloomberg) Lithuanian oil refinery Mazeikiu Nafta plans to completely replace a fire–damaged vacuum distillation unit, the loss of which has severely cut output, its deputy chief executive Saulius Vorauskas said Friday. (Reuters) The Kazakh president‘s influential daughter said her party had drafted a bill to toughen punishment for labor violations in response to a blast that killed 41 workers at a Mittal–owned mine, Caravan magazine reported Friday. (AP) «