HOUSTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - BP Plc began starting upa new 102,000 barrel per day (bpd) delayed coking unit earlythis week at its 405,000 bpd Whiting, Indiana, refinery,according to a report by energy industry intelligence serviceGenscape and sources familiar with operations at the refinery.
A BP spokesman declined to discuss operations at the Whitingrefinery.
The coker is the last unit to be built as part of a$4-billion revamp of the refinery to equip it to run mostlycheaper crude oil from Canada's tar sands oil fields in Alberta. (Reporting by Erwin Seba; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)