MOSCOW (MRC) -- Royal Dutch Shell has contained a leak at its Pulau Bukom refining and petrochemical complex in Singapore, and operations have not been affected, a company spokeswoman said, reported Plastemart.
The small leak occurred on Friday, the spokeswoman said, without revealing further details on the affected unit.
The Bukom site, Shell's largest wholly-owned plant, has a 500,000 bpd refinery and a steam cracker that produces more than 900,000 tpa of ethylene. Shell also reported a leak at one of the units at the Bukom site in January this year. It is not clear if the incidents are related.
As MRC wrote previously, in April 2015, Royal Dutch Shell completed a revamp and upgrade of its Singapore ethane cracker. The project increased production for the 800,000-tpy ethylene plant on Bukom Island by 20%. The ethylene and olefins unit is also integrated with Shell’s 500,000-bpd refinery. The revamp project supported expansion of other intermediate product facilities located on nearby Jurong Island, including Shell’s monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant and third-party facilities.
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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