Europe's largest refinery, BP Rotterdam, is completely shut down. Without 400,000 barrels of fuel, tension on the markets - Economic Scenarios

Europe's largest refinery, BP Rotterdam, is completely shut down. Without 400,000 barrels of fuel, tension on the markets - Economic Scenarios

BP’s Rotterdam refinery took both of its crude oil units offline on Tuesday morning, Reuters reported, citing energy consultancy Wood Mackenz ie. A crude unit with a capacity of 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) was taken offline on Tuesday morning. This follows the shutdown of the other 200,000 bpd crude unit in early May for scheduled maintenance. So 400,000 thousand barrels of refining capacity offline, the oil production of a small nation. The R…