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The Clyde Refinery was a crude oil refinery located in Clyde, New South Wales, Australia. It has a refinery capacity of . It is operated by ''Shell Refining'' and owned by the Royal Dutch Shell one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world.〔 〕 ==History== Built in the early 1920s, it has been in operation longer than any other oil refinery in Australia.〔〔 〕 It has been owned by Shell since 1928 and is located in Clyde where the Parramatta River and the Duck River join, west of Sydney.〔 The refinery is also the site of the first polypropylene (PP) plant in Australia, that was commissioned by Shell in 1970–1971 and that has a capacity of 25,000 tonnes per year.〔 〕 There is also another PP plant on site that is owned by LyondellBasell and has an annual production capacity of 170,000 tonnes.〔 〕 The refinery was shut down in November 2008 for maintenance works and restarted in July 2009 after nine months of repairs.〔 〕 Shell confirmed on 27 July 2011 that it will shut down refining operations at Clyde and convert the Clyde Refinery and Gore Bay Terminal into a fuel import facility by mid-2013. This was brought forward 9 months and the refinery closed in 2012, then converted into an import terminal.〔 〕 This followed the initial announcement of intention pending board and employee consultation in April.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clyde Refinery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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