The Dominican Petroleum Refinery announced on Wednesday, 14 January 2015 the beginning of the shutdown of the plant for major maintenance, to last three months and cost US$25 million. During the shutdown, Refidomsa will guarantee normal fuel supplies to its customers because it will import everything that it usually supplies. For this purpose, they have signed contracts with international suppliers for a total of 6,170,641 barrels of petroleum products. Refidomsa imported 3,287,950 barrels during the same period in 2014. “The difference is that during our shutdown, we will obviously not be processing crude oil, so therefore we have to supply our customers by importing finished products.”