Shell Australia’s Clyde refinery now shut

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Sydney—Shell Australia’s 79,000 b/d refinery at Clyde in the east coast city of Sydney has officially ceased operations and the facility is now in full import mode, the latest step in a market where local refineries have been battling poor margins and the greater efficiency of the sophisticated “mega-refineries” of Asia. The company began the “wind down” of refining operations as scheduled on September 30 and the process has now been completed, a Shell Australia spokesman said October 12. He added that the shutdown operation had gone smoothly.