HOUSTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - BP Plc's 405,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Whiting, Indiana, refinery isswitching over to processing heavy crude oil, said ChiefExecutive Bob Dudley on Tuesday.
In the fourth quarter of 2013, the Whiting refinerycompleted a $4 billion upgrade to run cheaper heavy crude oilfrom Canada's tar sands fields. The company has said therefinery will switch to running heavy crude oil in the firstquarter of 2014.
"The vessel testing and the switch to heavy crude is goingon now," Dudley said during a conference call on Tuesday todiscuss fourth-quarter earnings. (Reporting by Erwin Seba; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)
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