Bloomberg: Shell Sydney Gasoline Unit Repairs to Take `Several Weeks’ More
By Angela Macdonald-Smith
April 21 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, one of Australia’s four crude-oil refiners, said repairs to a gasoline- making unit at its Clyde refinery in Sydney will take “several weeks” more, extending fuel shortages in the region.
Maintenance is still being carried out at the catalytic cracking unit shut down in January, Claire Wilkinson, a Melbourne-based spokeswoman for Shell in Australia, said today in an e-mail. She couldn’t give an exact date for the restart of the unit.
Shell said Jan. 31 it halted the unit at Clyde after “erratic operating behavior,” bringing forward a shutdown for maintenance. The shutdown has resulted in a shortage of premium unleaded gasoline at Shell retail sites around Sydney.
The maintenance work “will take several months in all, so it will still be several weeks from now” until the unit restarts, Wilkinson said in the e-mail. “It is a comprehensive overhaul of the cracker so it is a major bit of engineering work.”
Shell has been looking at all options to get premium unleaded gasoline back at its branded sites, which have no supplies at present, Wilkinson said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Angela Macdonald-Smith in Sydney at [email protected]
Last Updated: April 21, 2008 03:44 EDT
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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.
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