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Europe\u2019s Fuel Supply Fears Worsen As Major Refinery Malfunctions<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The biggest refinery in Europe, Shell\u2019s Pernis in the Netherlands, suffered a malfunction late on Wednesday, which could exacerbate an already worsening fuel supply situation in northwest Europe due to the strikes in France.<\/p>\n

Shell Pernis\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0late on Wednesday that \u201cDue to a malfunction on one of our installations, we are forced to flare.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shell is investigating the cause of the malfunction and is doing everything it can to solve the problem as soon as possible, and to limit the nuisance for the residents in the vicinity of the refinery near Rotterdam, the company said.<\/p>\n

Governments have been informed about the malfunction at Europe\u2019s largest refinery, Shell said in a statement carried by\u00a0Bloomberg<\/a>, but didn\u2019t go into details about potential losses of fuel supply.<\/p>\n

Fuel supply is already tight in Europe amid an ongoing strike at most of France\u2019s refineries, and if the Dutch refinery malfunction leads to further supply losses, the European diesel market will find itself even shorter on supply, less than four months before the EU embargo on imports of Russian fuels by sea.<\/p>\n

France\u2019s fuel distribution continues to be disrupted by the ongoing strikes at refineries, with no end in sight to the industrial action that has left more than 60% of French refining capacity offline. Earlier this week, France said that it would\u00a0requisition essential workers<\/a>\u00a0to staff Exxon\u2019s French oil depot, and threatened to do the same for Total\u2019s French refineries if talks failed to progress. But workers at Total\u2019s Donges refinery decided on Tuesday to strike beginning on Wednesday, French union CGT said.<\/p>\n

French ministers\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0today that TotalEnergies should raise the salaries of the workers, who have been on strike for two weeks now.<\/p>\n

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Europe\u2019s Fuel Supply Fears Worsen As Major Refinery Malfunctions The biggest refinery in Europe, Shell\u2019s Pernis in the Netherlands, suffered a malfunction late on Wednesday, which could exacerbate an already worsening fuel supply situation in northwest Europe due to the strikes in France. Shell Pernis\u00a0said\u00a0late on Wednesday that \u201cDue to a malfunction on one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[281,339,1479,10493,5332,2100,14603],"class_list":["post-63803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-europe","tag-fuel","tag-netherlands","tag-oil-refinery","tag-oilprice-com","tag-shell","tag-tsvetana-paraskova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63804,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63803\/revisions\/63804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}