Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation inaugurated its world-class import terminal in Tabangao, Batangas last June 30, enhancing its capacity to meet fuel demand not just in Metro Manila, but also in Southern Luzon and Northern Visayas. The Shell Import Facility in Tabangao, aptly known as SHIFT, also marks two major pivots in Pilipinas Shell's more-than-a-century history in the Philippines: the transformation of Tabangao from refinery into a world class terminal; and the company's shift in its approach to a world coping with COVID-19 from effective, real-time response to recovery. The Tabangao Import Terminal has a storage capacity of up to 263 million liters (ML) and boasts of jetties that have loading arms, which make product transfer safer and faster, provide an easier and more ergonomic operation, give longer service life, and permit Emergency Release Action without any spillage of product and without pollution. Its jetties are designed to receive products from various vessel sizes including Medium-range import vessels (MRs). MRs can carry around 30 million to 50 million liters of petroleum products like gasoline or diesel. The loading gantries at the Tabangao import facility are also equipped with bottom loading function, which enables Shell to load a 30kl truck in 20 minutes. There are plans to put up another bottom loading gantry to support the growth aspirations of Shell's marketing business. In keeping with Shell's thrust to pursue cleaner renewable energy sources, the Tabangao facility is 100% powered by a combination of solar, geothermal, and hydro energies provided by Shell Energy Philippines (SEPH), a retail electricity supplier that is one of the Shell companies in the Philippines (SciP). The solar farm onsite covers 5,220 solar panels and seven inverters which can generate up to 300MWH.