Shell's customers have confirmed that the company had ended its force majeure on SM supplies to them recently.
"We can confirm that Ellba has informed its shareholders of the end of the force majeure. For Shell, we can confirm that we have informed our customers of the end of the force majeure event in relation to majority of the products and are now able to resume normal supply of the products to them under the corresponding contracts. For a small number of contracts which continue to be affected by the FM event, we continue to be in discussions with our customers to address their supply needs and minimize any potential impact to them," the spokeswoman said in an email to Platts.
Shell is dependent on SM supplies from Ellba to supply to its customers in
A large buyer of SM in Southeast Asia confirmed Friday that Ellba had lifted its force majeure on supplies to them earlier this week, while a contract customer in
Ellba, which operates a 550,000 mt/year SM plant at
Separately, Shell Chemicals Seraya operates a 350,000 mt/year SM plant also at