<div>A fire broke out late on 16 May' 2013 at state-run refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd's Visakhapatnam refinery on the east coast, said officials at the unit.</div><div> </div><div>The fire, which was put out immediately, resulted in the shutting down of a 3 million tonnes a year crude distillation unit (CDU) at the refinery, one of the officials said. The extent of the damage and losses due to it is not yet known.</div><div> </div><div>HPCL operates an 8.3 million tonnes a year refinery at Visakhapatnam. It runs another 6.5 million-tonne refinery at Mumbai on India's western coast.<br /><br />(Reuters)</div>
