BP's Whiting, Indiana crude unit operating at over 200,000 bpd-source

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HOUSTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - BP Plc's main 240,000 barrel per day (bpd) crude distillation unit at its Whiting, Indiana, refinery reached production levels over 200,000 bpd, or 80 percent of capacity, a day after restarting from a two-and-a-half week shutdown, a source familiar with plant operations said on Wednesday.

A BP spokesman declined to discuss operations at the 413,500-bpd Whiting refinery.

Whiting is the largest refinery in the U.S (Other OTC: UBGXF - news) . Midwest and the Aug. 8 outage to repair leaks in the large CDU's heat exchanger reduced production to 40 percent of the refinery's capacity, roiling U.S. oil and gasoline markets.

The CDU, known as Pipestill 12, restarted on Tuesday. (Reporting by Erwin Seba; editing by Marguerita Choy and G Crosse)