Neste Oil's Porvoo refinery's major maintenance turnaround began today

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Tue Apr 6, 2010 7:58am EDT 

  ESPOO, FINLAND, Apr 06 (MARKET WIRE) -- 


Neste Oil Corporation
Press Release
6 April 2010 at 14.50 EET

    
Neste Oil's Porvoo refinery's major maintenance turnaround began today

    Neste Oil carries out a planned maintenance turnaround at its Porvoo
refinery. The actual maintenance work started today and will continue
around four weeks. Following this, the refinery unit start-ups will take
another week.

    Regular maintenance turnarounds every four to six years play an important
part in keeping operations at Neste Oil's refineries safe and running at
peak efficiency. Statutory pressure vessel inspections and maintenance
also call for shutdowns at regular intervals.

    The turnaround is estimated to involve close to a million man-hours of
work and will employ some 2,500 people from outside contractors on site.
During the major turnaround Neste Oil will sell products from its
storages.

    The previous major maintenance turnaround at Porvoo took place in 2005.
Next major turnaround in another Neste Oil refinery in Finland, in
Naantali, is scheduled for 2012.

    Media visit to Porvoo

    Neste Oil will arrange a media visit (in Finnish) to Porvoo on 14 April 
2010. For further information, please contact Hanna
Maula
(hanna.maula@nesteoil.com).


Neste Oil Corporation
Hanna Maula
Director, Corporate Communications

    
Further information on maintenance turnaround: Refinery Manager Miika
Eerola, tel. +358 50 458 2300

    Neste Oil in brief

    Neste Oil Corporation is a refining and marketing company concentrating on
low-emission, high-quality traffic fuels. The company is the world's
leading supplier of renewable diesel. Neste Oil's refineries are located
in Porvoo and Naantali and have a combined crude oil refining capacity of
approx. 260,000 barrels a day. The company had net sales of EUR 9.6
billion in 2009 and employs around 5,100 people. Neste Oil's share is
listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.

    Neste Oil has been selected into the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index
and awarded 'Best in Class' recognition for its social accountability by
Storebrand. The company is also featured in the Ethibel Pioneer
Investment Register and included in Innovest's Global 100 list of the
world's most sustainable corporations. Further information:
www.nesteoil.com.

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