By Victor Epstein
March 22 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, reported that several units were idled yesterday by a power failure at a refinery in Deer Park, Texas.
The idled refinery equipment included two crude units, a hydrotreater, vacuum flashers and an 85,000-barrel-a-day delayed coker, Shell said in a filing with Texas environmental regulators. The plant is owned by Shell, based in The Hague, and Mexico’s state oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos.
A 67,000-barrel-a-day catalytic cracking unit was described as operating at “near normal rates.”
Several units at Shell’s chemical plant in the 1,500-acre Deer Park complex also were affected by the power failure, which began at 3 p.m. Houston time. Shell will be restarting the idled units through March 26.
“We expect both operations to be normal by this weekend,” Dave McKinney, a plant spokesman, said of the refinery and chemicals operation. He didn’t comment on how fuel production was affected.
The refinery is located near Houston and can process 340,000 barrels of crude a day, according to Shell.
The shutdown and restart necessitate the emergency flaring of chemicals, according to state filings. Flaring entails the burning off of chemicals into the air.
Shell estimated the amount of chemicals that will be flared by the refinery through March 26 at 2,500 pounds of hydrogen sulfide, 190,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide, 7,000 pounds of carbon monoxide, 1,000 pounds of nitrogen dioxide, 5,000 pounds of particulate matter and 3,000 pounds of volatile organic compounds.
Hydrogen sulfide is a colorless, poison gas. Sulfur dioxide is its waste product. In Texas, the two chemicals can only be flared in an emergency.
Shell estimated that the Deer Park chemicals plant will flare another 45 pounds of hydrogen sulfide and 4,338 pounds of sulfur dioxide.
To contact the reporter on this story: Victor Epstein in Houston at [email protected].
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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