BEIJING, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Sinopec Corp's Qilurefinery is closing on Monday a 160,000 barrels-per-day crudeunit for a planned 25-day maintenance, an industry officialsaid.

The plant's crude throughput will be down by a third thismonth to around 140,000 bpd, versus 212,000 bpd last month, saidthe official with direct knowledge of the plant's productions.