By Eduard Gismatullin
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc and the DCMR Environmental Protection Agency began an investigation into a fire that broke out yesterday at Shell Pernis in Rotterdam, Europe’s largest refinery.
The facility “as a whole” is operating, Wim van de Wiel, a spokesman for Europe’s biggest oil company, said by phone from The Hague today.
Van de Wiel wouldn’t say whether some units were shut down following the incident, citing the company policy not to update media on refineries’ day-to-day operations. He also declined to estimate when the damaged pipeline that started the fire yesterday would be repaired.
The fire broke out at the refinery near Rotterdam at 1:20 p.m. local time yesterday. No injuries were reported.
Pernis has a capacity of 416,000 barrels a day.
To contact the reporter on this story: Eduard Gismatullin in London at egismatullin@bloomberg.net
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