Royal Dutch Shell has restarted a 33,000 barrels per day (bpd) gasoline-making unit at its Singapore refinery after a four-month outage, industry sources said.

The Long Residue Catalytic Cracker (LRCC) in the 500,000-bpd Bukom refinery, which had been shut following an outage in end-September, was restarted last week, about three weeks after the planned restart date.
“It’s finally restarted. It will take a while for production to return to full capacity but no one is in a hurry because margins are not exactly wonderful and fuel oil demand has not been exactly shooting through the roof,” a refinery source said.
A Shell spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment. The refiner does not normally comment on operational matters.
The oil major draws a large portion of its fuel oil supply as residues from the LRCC.