By Yaw Yan Chong and Alejandro Barbajosa
SINGAPORE | Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:57am EDT
(Reuters) – A fire has intensified at Royal Dutch Shell’s largest refinery, its half-a-million barrel per day Singapore plant, sending a plume of black smoke over the city-state.
Shell has evacuated non-essential staff from the refining complex, Singapore’s Civil Defense Force said.
“There is a fire and it grew significantly, but I am not aware of an explosion,” said Lee Tzu Yang, chairman for Shell Companies in Singapore told Reuters.