Shell will try to restart this Friday one of the two crude distillation units at its 404,000-bpd Pernis refinery—the biggest refinery in Europe—after it was shuttered following a fire at Continue Reading
A Royal Dutch Shell refinery in Rotterdam will remain closed until mid-August after a fire at the facility’s electricity stations caused it to shut down over the weekend, according to Continue Reading
Europe’s biggest refinery, Pernis, is currently “out of order”, Shell said late Tuesday, adding that the power station where a fire started Saturday evening needs to be repaired before “the Continue Reading
Traders in Asia are considering shipping diesel and jet fuel to Europe after a fire at that region’s largest oil refinery disrupted supplies and boosted fuel margins, five traders and Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell is shutting down Europe’s largest refinery after a fire at a high-voltage electricity switch station. The fire at the Pernis refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, started late Continue Reading
The largest and oldest-producing gas field in Western Europe, the Groningen field, is on the verge of being shut down. If that happens, it will entail the tumbling of Netherlands’ Continue Reading
For decades, the giant Groningen gas field beneath the flat, green farmland in the north of this country counted among the greatest prizes for Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Continue Reading
The wind over the canal stirred up whitecaps and rattled cafe umbrellas. Rowers strained toward a finish line and spectators hugged the shore. Henk Ovink, hawkish, wiry, head shaved, watched Continue Reading
Initially, trains in the Netherlands were set to run entirely on renewable energy by 2018. However, it seems officials have been able to beat that goal by an entire year. Continue Reading
The queue of ships waiting outside Europe’s biggest port and oil-trading hub of Rotterdam has grown to the longest in seven years as a global supply glut fills storage capacity. Continue Reading
