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Shell plans to begin layoffs for nearly 700 workers in March at its Convent oil refinery, which it expects to fully shut down in August. The Louisiana subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, Equilon Enterprises LLC, previously had announced layoffs but has now filed an official notice with the Louisiana Workforce Commission outlining its plans.  Shell looks to lay off all 698 workers at the refinery, 340 of whom are represented by a union, according to the letter.  The company is still offering a voluntary severance program for some workers at its Norco refinery near New Orleans, opening the p...

LUTCHER — The pending closure of the Shell Oil refinery in Convent, an industrial mainstay and top employer in St. James Parish, could cost th… "It been a great plant with great people, and it's a painful thing to do, but we're hoping to find a lot of folks jobs and, hopefully, we sell the plant, too," said Allen Pertuit, the Convent refinery's general manager, in a recent interview. Pertuit addressed the St. James Parish School Board about the planned closure last week. The school system, which is trying to figure out how to adjust to the expected loss of revenue from the departure...