foreign news on july 27, industry data showed that russia's off-line refining capacity in july has been revised n by 4.1% from the previous plan to 2.458 million tons.
the revision came as some large refineries changed their maintenance schedules. spare refining capacity was also n from 37.3% in june.
in august, russia's idle refining capacity is expected to increase by 46.5% to 3.601 million tons. a rise in spare refining capacity would normally spur exports, thwarting russia's plan to cut overseas oil supply by 500,000 bpd next month.
