Royal Dutch Shell plc, Europe's biggest oil company, has hired two tankers to transport 140,000 tonnes of jet fuel from Asia to the UK after a strike at a refinery in Scotland cut supplies.
Shell chartered the Oriental Green to move 75,000 tonnes of aviation fuel from South Korea and Japan starting May 12 and BW Rhine to ship 65,000 tonnes from the Middle East on May 15, shipbroker Odin Marine (Singapore) Pte said in a report yesterday.
Shell is paying US$2.4 million for Oriental Green and US$1.9 million for BW Rhine, it said.
Oil output in the UK coast declined as a 48-hour workers' strike in Scotland forced Ineos Group Holdings plc to shut its 200,000 barrel-a-day Grangemouth refinery late last month. BP plc had to close the Forties crude pipeline, which carries 40 per cent of UK oil production, during the same period.
The refinery is operating at about a third of its capacity and will reach full production by May 18, Richard Longden, a spokesman for Ineos said on Tuesday.
BP said its Forties Pipeline System in the central part of the North Sea returned to normal output after it was forced to close during the strike because the refinery supplies steam and power needed to keep the pipeline running.
Shell chartered the Oriental Green to move 75,000 tonnes of aviation fuel from South Korea and Japan starting May 12 and BW Rhine to ship 65,000 tonnes from the Middle East on May 15, shipbroker Odin Marine (Singapore) Pte said in a report yesterday.
Shell is paying US$2.4 million for Oriental Green and US$1.9 million for BW Rhine, it said.
Oil output in the UK coast declined as a 48-hour workers' strike in Scotland forced Ineos Group Holdings plc to shut its 200,000 barrel-a-day Grangemouth refinery late last month. BP plc had to close the Forties crude pipeline, which carries 40 per cent of UK oil production, during the same period.
The refinery is operating at about a third of its capacity and will reach full production by May 18, Richard Longden, a spokesman for Ineos said on Tuesday.
BP said its Forties Pipeline System in the central part of the North Sea returned to normal output after it was forced to close during the strike because the refinery supplies steam and power needed to keep the pipeline running.
