The biggest refinery in Europe, Shell’s Pernis in the Netherlands, suffered a malfunction late on Wednesday, which could exacerbate an already worsening fuel supply situation in northwest Europe due to the strikes in France.
Shell Pernis said late on Wednesday that “Due to a malfunction on one of our installations, we are forced to flare.”
Door een storing op een van onze installaties, zijn wij genoodzaakt te fakkelen. We onderzoeken de oorzaak en doen er alles aan om het probleem zo snel mogelijk op te lossen en de overlast voor onze buren te beperken.
Shell is investigating the cause of the malfunction and is doing everything it can to solve the problem as soon as possible, and to limit the nuisance for the residents in the vicinity of the refinery near Rotterdam, the company said.
Governments have been informed about the malfunction at Europe’s largest refinery, Shell said in a statement carried by Bloomberg, but didn’t go into details about potential losses of fuel supply.
Fuel supply is already tight in Europe amid an ongoing strike at most of France’s refineries, and if the Dutch...