Repsol La Plata Refinery Units Shut by Power Cut, El Dia Says
By Gianluca Baratti
Nov. 13, 2008 (Bloomberg) — Repsol YPF SA shut down processing units at its La Plata refinery in Argentina yesterday following a power cut, El Dia reported on its Web site.
The Buenos Aires-based refinery suffered the outage at 5:20 p.m. local time and the units were later restarted, according to the report.
A spokesman for Madrid-based Repsol couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
La Plata is Repsol’s largest refinery in Argentina, with a daily capacity of 189,000 barrels a day.
To contact the reporter on this story: Gianluca Baratti in Madrid at gbaratti@bloomberg.net Last Updated: November 13, 2008 05:56 EST