Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) has shut two of its three crude distillation units, including the largest one called No. 5, at its Singapore refinery a day after a fire, industry sources said on Thursday.
A Shell spokesman declined comment.
In total, its has shut at least a total of 340,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) of capacity at the 500,000-bpd plant in Bukom Island. A third CDU of 110,000-bpd is running at reduced rates, the sources said.
Production of light distillates - gasoline and naphtha - at the third unit has been stopped.
A secondary unit, its gasoline-making Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC), is also running at reduced rates, while its hydrocracker is shut.
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