Shell to Import Products from Around Asia to Replace Clyde Output

Royal Dutch Shell said it would import products from around the region to replace output from its Clyde refinery in Australia, which it plans to convert into a fuel terminal in 2013.

It intends to continue supplying all its existing customers after the plant stops refining, Shell vice-president Andrew Smith told reporters.

Smith said the proposal had nothing to do with the Australian government's proposed carbon tax.