Shell declares Force Majeure from Singapore's Bukom manufacturing site

30-Sep-16

Royal Dutch Shell has declared force majeure on base chemicals from its ethylene cracker at its Bukom manufacturing site in Singapore on Thursday, following an outage the day before, as per a company spokeswoman reported by Platts. "We had to initiate a shutdown of the ethylene cracker complex at the Pulau Bukom manufacturing site for unplanned maintenance work to repair a compressor, and recovery efforts are underway. As a result, we have declared force majeure on our ability to supply base chemicals customers on 29 September 2016.", as per the spokeswoman.