Shell announces new diesel facility in Australia
21 April 2011
Shell Australia, a subsidiary of global energy and petrochemicals giant, Royal Dutch Shell, will develop a green field diesel import facility at Newcastle Harbour, NSW. It is the latest in a series of investment projects, including fuel storage facilities at Mackay in Queensland, Kalgoorlie and King Bay in Western Australia.
Shell Australia has signed a memorandum of understanding with terminal operator, Marstel Holdings for the site, which will include ship import capability, three 18 million-litre diesel tanks and truck loading facilities.
Shell Australia spokesperson, Mr Craig James, said the Newcastle facility would improve Shell’s ability to provide customers with a secure and dependable supply of diesel through the Hunter Valley to Gunnedah regions in NSW.
The new facility will increase imports from Shell’s world-scale refinery in Singapore. It supplements Shell’s existing Newcastle Terminal and is expected to be completed in 2012.
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