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Cover. Worker at a new Shell refinery and chemical storage plant in Jurong, Singapore. The refinery was established in the 1970s to provide fuel for domestic consumption and to ensure that its port could handle the increasing demands of the international shipping trade. Given the small size of Singapore's main island—14 miles wide and 26 miles long—the refinery and chemical storage facilities are in close proximity to the 4 million inhabitants of the island. Environmental safety and health are therefore major concerns. Singapore benefited from a relatively late entry into the industry and took advantage of advances in technology to run its facilities much more cleanly and safely than similar facilities in many other countries. By situating some of the refineries on an outlying island connected to Singapore only by a bridge, potential chemical leaks are isolated.

Cover concept and selection by Aleisha B. Kropf, Robert Sember, and Daniel Tarantola.
(Masterfile/R. Ian Lloyd)

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