Gasoline rose in after Irving Oil Ltd.’s Saint John refinery, a plant in Canada that sends more than half its output to the U.S. Northeast, was said to keep its largest fluid catalytic cracker shut for almost two months of unplanned work. The Saint John in may keep the cracker, which breaks down vacuum gasoil to produce fuel including gasoline and diesel, offline for repairs through late November, a person familiar with the work said today, asking not to be identified because the information isn’t public. Gasoline futures for November delivery rose 3.47 cents to settle at $2.4132 a gallon. Spot in New York Harbor gained 3.13 cents to an 11-cent premium versus futures. The shutdown is the latest in a series of outages that have plagued the cracking unit at Irving’s 298,800-barrel-a-day refinery this year, shrinking the refinery’s production amid maintenance on other units. The disruptions threaten to […]