BRIEF-Shell installs solvent deasphalter at Pernis oil refinery ahead of IMO

Oct 8 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell PLC:

* SHELL SAYS IT HAS COMMISSIONED A NEW SOLVENT DEASPHALTER(SDA)UNIT AT ITS PERNIS 404,000 BPD REFINERY IN FIRST MAJORINVESTMENT AT SITE SINCE 2011

* SHELL SAYS NEW UNIT ENABLES PERNIS TO PROCESS LARGERPROPORTIONOF OIL INTAKE INTO CLEANER TRANSPORT FUELS, INCL. MARINE GASOILCOMPLIANT WITH IMO 2020

* As part of the project, Shell converted Pernis’s existinghydroprocessing unit into a Hydrocracker to processesdeasphalted oil (DAO) from the SDA unitFurther company coverage: