Spain: Bilbao Refinery Shutdown in Advance of Strike
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Saturday, 07 November 2009 |
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Repsol has shut down the Bilbao Petronor fuel refinery in advance of a four day strike.
The protest in Bilbao started yesterday afternoon and
will continue till Tuesday next Nov. 10, according to a Petronor
spokesperson. It’s the company’s biggest refinery. The Petronor
refinery has a distillation capacity of 11 million tons a year,
according to its Web site. That’s about 220,000 barrels of oil a day.
A crude distillation unit at the site was shut in mid- September
because of low profitability caused by falling demand for fuels such as
gasoline and diesel. That unit will remain out of operation when the
refinery resumes after the strike, the Petronor spokesman said.
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