MARKET EYE: Buyers Take Stock After Shell Refinery Fire

摘要

Products buyers in the Asia-Pacific regionare still taking stock of the shutdown of Royal Dutch Shell’smassive Singapore refinery after a fire last week.The outage at the 500,000 barrel per day Pulau Bukom re-finery — Shell’s biggest — will affect about 150,000 b/d ofmiddle distillates. The company on Monday declared forcemajeure on sales of gasoil and jet, but it is still unclear whichcustomers are affected or for how long (IOD Oct.4’11).