Bahrain will shut a 69,000 barrels per day (bpd) crude unit during maintenance at its 267,000 bpd Sitra refinery in February 2011, a company source said on Thursday.

State-run Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) would also shut a 70,000 bpd vacuum distillation unit and a 50,000 bpd low sulphur diesel complex, the source said.

'February 16, 2011, the refiney will undergo a scheduled major maintenance shutdown...for about a month,' the source told Reuters.-Reuters