Spot product prices continued upward in the week to April 12.Gasoline marked a particularly sharp increase,helping pull up naphtha prices,while a work stoppage at Europe's biggest refinery lent support to all products.A strike at Royal Dutch Shell's 404K-b/d Pernis,Netherlands facility that began on Monday put a floor under the prompt market,but units were still running as of Thursday.“There will be impact on production but at this point we can't say exactly what the exact impact will be because we don't know yet,” a company spokesperson said early in the period.A union representative expected the work stoppage,which was over employee compensation,to reduce the refinery's production to 65 of capacity.
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