
Strikes impact Shell’s Pernis oil refinery but extent unclear
Ahmad Ghaddar: APRIL 15, 2019
LONDON (Reuters) – Striking workers at Royal Dutch Shell’s Pernis plant in the Netherlands have taken offline a thermal gasoil installation, a Dutch union said on Monday, in the first sign of any impact from industrial action on Europe’s largest oil refinery.
Shell said earlier in the day that the unit had been shut. It later clarified that it had only repeated what the unions had said and would not comment on the status of the refinery.
The refinery, near Rotterdam, has the capacity to process 404,000 barrels per day of oil.
The CNV union also said strike action had disrupted planned maintenance at the adjacent Moerdijk petrochemical site.
A Shell spokeswoman said striking workers were trying to disrupt planned maintenance on the Moerdijk Lower Olefins (MLO) unit. read more
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