Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, one of four refiners in Australia, is sourcing fuels from its own and other companies plants both within the country and in Asia to replace output at its Sydney unit, which is closed for maintenance.
Shell shut down the Clyde oil refinery in the citys west as planned at the end of November for work to address unscheduled outages that have disrupted production over the last 12 months, Paul Zennaro, a Melbourne-based spokesman, said today. The company cant yet say when the plant will restart, he said.
The Clyde plant, the oldest operating refinery in Australia, supplies about half the fuels consumed in New South Wales, the most-populous state. Shell halted the catalytic cracking unit at the plant in January for repairs, citing erratic operating behavior. The refinery has a capacity to process about 85,000 barrels of crude a day.
Were working with our traders to source stock, and the majority of the stock is being sourced by the Singapore market, Zennaro said by telephone. Some of it is coming from our own Shell refineries, some is coming from third-party producers.
The company is also shipping some fuels from its second Australian refinery in Geelong, Victoria state, to Sydney, Zennaro said.
Shell is completing work on a diesel hydrodesulfurization unit at Clyde during the shutdown to enable the plant to meet the governments 10 parts-per-million sulfurstandard, which comes into effect Jan. 1
The plant, 16 kilometers (10 miles) west of central Sydney, produces about 13 million liters a day of fuels, including gasoline, diesel, jet-fuel, bitumen and liquefied petroleum gas, according to Shells Web site. Caltex Australia Ltd., BP Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. also operate refineries in the country.
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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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