Europe’s largest oil refinery is facing bankruptcy that will cause further turmoil in the market petroleum products refined fuels, in particular gasoline and diesel.
According to the agency, on Wednesday, October 12, Shell reported a gas flaring at the Bernice refinery in the Netherlands at 404,000 barrels per day due to a malfunction in one of the site’s facilities. Reuters.
“Due to a malfunction in one of our facilities, we were forced to burn the associated gas,” said Shell Bernice, via its Twitter account, adding that it is investigating the cause of the accident at the largest oil refinery in the world. Europe, and is doing it’s best to fix the problem as soon as possible.
Details of the failure of the largest oil refinery in Europe
The compressor of the second catalytic cracker at Europe’s largest oil refinery was shut down on Wednesday, October 12 due to a power outage, according to a fire alarm for the region.
Conversion units, known as fluid catalytic cracking units, are typically used in the production of refined products such as gasoline.
The Environmental Protection Agency, DCMR, said in a notice on its website that the Berenice refinery of winds Large quantities of gas were burned near Rotterdam in the aftermath of the accident, causing 200 complaints from citizens.
A Shell spokesperson said: “I can only tell you that we expect the unrest to continue at this time and are trying to minimize it for those in the immediate vicinity.” Bloomberg.
Shell did not explain – in a statement – the amount of processing capacity affected by the accident at Europe’s largest refinery, nor what it would mean for fuel supplies.
The crisis of the fuel shortage in Europe
Europe cannot afford a physical disruption of refined oil supplies, as the EU ban on Russian oil products is expected to start in early February 2023.
The wage strikes in France also stopped the country’s fuel industry, causing supply to collapse.
Oil refineries went on strike, disrupting the performance of about a third of French service stations, as well as fueling a shortage of distillates, particularly diesel, globally.
Protesting workers are calling for reforms in the pension and pension sector, in light of the high cost of living, with wage problems.
The government is working to end the strikes and resume work to restart refineries, in order to resolve the fuel crisis in France, in an attempt to prevent the worsening of the energy crisis in the winter with the shortage of Russian fuel.
Force reboot repository
Four French refineries have been shut down since the end of last September, two of which are owned by the French company Total, as well as two by the American company ExxonMobil.
Additionally, Total Energy was forced to close the Normandy refinery on Wednesday (September 28), following a workers’ strike, at the invitation of the UGT.
60% of the refining capacity was suspended and distribution operations at fuel depots were affected by union strikes and maintenance operations at the refineries of the French company Total.
and pay it French government Forcing some employees of the Gravation Port Jerome warehouse operated by ExxonMobil to return to work, despite the continuing strike.
The energy ministry said: “In light of the strike by some employees in Port Jerome, Normandy, the government has begun to force the necessary employees to work to operate the warehouse,” according to the Reuters news agency.
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