MOSCOW (MRC) -- Royal Dutch Shell suspended loadings of oil products from its Pernis refinery in the Netherlands following a fire at the plant, the company said in a statement to traders on Sunday, reported Reuters.
Shell shut down most of its production at Pernis, Europe's largest refinery, after the fire at the 404,000-bpd plant late on Saturday caused a power outage.
The company said that no casualties were reported in the incident and the fire was under control, but it expected loadings to be suspended on Monday as well.
In a statement to traders in the region seen by Reuters, Shell said that "at this stage the extent of the damage is (being) investigated and we are unable to load product at the depot in Pernis."
"For now we work on the assumption that FCA (free carrier) loadings at depot Pernis will be interrupted until and including tomorrow so please take your necessary precautions."
The outage at the Rotterdam plant was likely to boost prices of oil products such as diesel, jet fuel and gasoline in northwest Europe, where refinery profits have risen in recent weeks due to other refinery issues in the region.
As MRC informed earlier, in August 2015, a fire broke out at one of the units at Shell's Pulau Bukom refining and petrochemical complex in Singapore, leading to burn injuries for six contract workers. Shell said the fire was put out by the site's first emergency responders within an hour, and there was no other opational impact on Pulau Bukom.
Besides, earlier in 2015, on 11 May, a fire broke out at Shell's refining and petrochemical complex in Wesseling, Germany. Nobody was injured. The fire was extinguished at 9:11 p.m. Local media reports said the fire had broken out in the olefins cracking unit. The Wesseling cracker has capacity to produce 260,000 tpy of ethylene, according to news reports, while the refinery can process 141,000 bpd.
Royal Dutch Shell plc is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the biggest company in the world in terms of revenue and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". Shell is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading.
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