July 31 (Reuters) - U.S. oil and gas major Chevron ( CVX )

said on Friday turnarounds and downtime were expected to reduce

its upstream production by 150,000 to 200,000 barrels of oil

equivalent per day in the third quarter.

The company also said downtimes in the current quarter were

expected to hit downstream earnings by $175 million to $225

million.

(Reporting by Vallari Srivastava in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil

D'Silva)