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Due to a failure, the largest refinery in the EU, the Shell plant in the Netherlands, stopped its work

by topwar.ru


Western media report on the shutdown of the largest oil refinery in the European Union. Reports say that a massive failure occurred at a Shell plant in the Netherlands, as a result of which the plant, which employs several thousand employees, had to be closed.

It all started, according to the local regulator, due to sudden problems with the power supply. This led to a shutdown of the main compression plant. It is used to turn oil into gasoline.

In order to prevent excess pressure in the system that could lead to an explosion, the company’s management decided to increase the volume of combusted gaseous hydrocarbons by several times. As a result, the town of Pernis, where the refinery is located, and its surroundings, including the territory of Rotterdam, began to cloud over with caustic combustion products. The locals began to complain. The service of ecological monitoring has joined the work…


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