TOKYO, March 15 (Reuters) - JX Nippon Oil and Energy Corp said on Tuesday that the refinery of subsidiary Kashima Oil Co has remained shut since a strong earthquake and tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan on Friday.
There is a possibility of some damage to the refining and shipping facilities at Kashima Oil, in Ibaraki prefecture northeast of Tokyo, but further details were not immediately available, a JX spokeswoman said.
JX said earlier on Tuesday that it had begun work to extinguish a fire at its quake-hit Sendai refinery. (Reporting by Risa Maeda; Editing by Edmund Klamann)
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