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Shell says restart of its German oil refinery 'ongoing' after outage

Reuters - UK Focus

LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) -

* Shell (LSE: RDSB.L - news) is continuing to restart its 140,000 barrel-per-day Wesseling oil refinery in Germany, a spokeswoman said on Thursday

* A spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday that normal operations were expected within hours after a power cut external to its site triggered security measures and flaring

* He said different parts of the site would be restarted one after the other, with all operations back to normal by early morning on Thursday

* Refinery monitor Genscape said in a report that all units were shut at around 1313 GMT on Wednesday

* Genscape said on Thursday all units remained offline (Reporting by Ahmad Ghaddar; editing by Jason Neely)