The Shell Pernis refinery in Holland has experienced an outage, according to Bloomberg. Its stop, according to analysts, may increase the shortage of oil products on the market that arose due to strikes. EU.
On October 12, according to regional security service Rjinmond Veilig, the compressor of catalytic cracker No. 2 stopped working due to a power outage. This unit is used for the production of petroleum products, in particular gasoline.
Due to the incident, the plant in Pernis began to flare a large amount of gas. City officials have received approximately 200 complaints from citizens, local environmental authority DCMR said.
Bloomberg says that the plant produces a significant part of the diesel fuel consumed by the region. In December, a ban on the purchase of oil and oil products from Russia comes into force in the EU, so interruptions in supplies from a key refinery will only exacerbate the situation.
Shell has briefed European governments on the incident, but without giving details on how it affected production capacity and how it affects the supply of fuel to the regional market. A Shell spokesman said:
“I can only tell you one thing: we expect the inconvenience to continue for the time being, but we will try to keep it to a minimum for people in the vicinity.”
The incident was preceded by mass strikes by French factory workers. They demanded higher wages and fuel production was partially halted. A deficit began in the country, later it affected neighboring states, writes BB.LV.
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