Shell's 418,000 bpd Pernis plant in Rotterdam has been forced to scale back operations due to a utility failure. Shell's Dutch chemicals arm, Shell Nederland Chemie, had been shut as a precautionary measure. The plant manufactures lower olefins, solvents and gasoline blending component methyl tertiary butyl. Shell also runs a 900,000 tpa naphtha cracker in Moerdijk, also in the Netherlands, which makes key petrochemicals like ethylene and propylene that are converted into a wide range of plastics.
06-Jan-06 
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