Bloomberg.com
By Nidaa Bakhsh
March 17 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, one of Australias four oil refiners, expects its Clyde plant near Sydney to start operations in the next few months after being closed since November for maintenance.
Lots of work needed to be done to make it more reliable, Mark Gainsborough, vice president of supply strategy and portfolio, said in an interview today in London.
Shell shut the 85,000-barrel-a-day refinery at the end of November for maintenance to address unscheduled outages that disrupted production through last year. The company, based in The Hague, said last month its been unable to resume operations pending a labor agreement.
Europes largest oil company is running its Geelong plant in the state of Victoria at full speed to meet a shortfall created by the Clyde closure, Gainsborough said. It is also importing products from Singapore to supply customers, he said.
The Clyde refinery, to the west of Sydney, normally supplies about half the fuels consumed in New South Wales, the countrys most-populous state.
Shell also plans to add diesel desulfurization capacity at its Pernis refinery in the Netherlands, Europes largest, in two to three years, Gainsborough said. The plant near Rotterdam can process 416,000 barrels of oil a day, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Refiners have been building plants that remove sulfur from fuels such as gasoline and diesel to meet stricter European Union regulation aimed at reducing carbon emissions blamed for global warming.
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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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