Thursday, September 29, 2011

Two of three Crude units at Shell Singapore refinery shut

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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