Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA.LN), Royal Vopak NV (VPK.AE) and Greenergy Ltd. said Monday that they completed the acquisition of the Coryton refinery in England, which was previously owned bankrupt oil refiner Petroplus Holdings AG (PPHN.EB).

MAIN FACTS:

-The transaction follows the earlier announcement by the consortium on 26 June 2012.

-The three companies plan to develop and invest in this facility - to be named Thames Oil Port - to create a state-of-the-art import and distribution terminal for oil products to be managed by Vopak.

-The initial storage capacity will be around 500,000 cubic meters (cbm), with potential to expand to up to 1 million cbm in later stages.

-The transaction was completed on Friday Sept. 28 with PwC, the administrator of Petroplus Refining & Marketing Limited.

- By Amsterdam Bureau, Dow Jones Newswires; amsterdam@dowjones.com