Australia’s Viva Sees Refinery Fuel Output at 90% Within Weeks

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Viva Energy Group Ltd. said its Geelong refinery in Australia will boost diesel, jet fuel and gasoline production to about 90% of capacity over the next few weeks after a major fire forced it to cut output.The blaze on Wednesday started in the alkylation unit, which forms part of the gasoline complex, the company said in an exchange statement on Monday. While key processing units were unaffected, the residue catalytic cracking unit is currently offline as operations stabilize.