TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Cosmo Oil Co. (5007.TO) said Tuesday that fire-fighting operations are continuing at its Chiba refinery near Tokyo.
Cosmo Oil Co. has shut its 220,000-barrel-a-day Chiba refinery after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and an accompanying tsunami hit Japan Friday.
The company had said Monday that the fire at the plant was getting smaller but hadn't been extinguished as of 1000 GMT Monday.
A Cosmo Oil spokesman said Tuesday there has been no change in the refinery's status.
Meanwhile, JX Nippon Oil, a unit of JX Holdings Co. (5020.TO), said a fire at its 145,000-barrel-a-day Sendai refinery in northern Japan has been extinguished.