Fire in Argentina knocks out main refinery and imports of gasoline and diesel trebled

Thursday, May 2nd 2013 - 06:33 UTC

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Almost four million barrels of diesel and gasoline were shipped from Europe and the US to Argentina where a recent major fire in the country’s main refinery significantly diminished the supply of refined produce. The situation could extend for another two years, according to private estimates from the oil industry. Read full article

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Gordo1
Sabotage?
May 02nd, 2013 - 07:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pirate Love
Yes, yes.....YES!

this should eat further into argentinas economy, if that's possible.
May 02nd, 2013 - 09:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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yankeeboy
Strange originally YPF said that the refinery would be back to full capacity within 6 months after the fire.

They weren't lying were they?
Nah
COD baby COD
May 02nd, 2013 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Idlehands
I wonder if they plan to pay for it?
May 02nd, 2013 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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bushpilot
Of course, it's sabotage. The CIA did this, for sure.

They started the refinery fire in Venezuela too.
May 02nd, 2013 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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reality check
Now they estimate 2 years to repair it, how long did they estimate it would take to repair one little ice breaker?
May 02nd, 2013 - 02:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Condorito
The refinery was clearly run down by Repsol.
May 02nd, 2013 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Optimus_Princeps
Cristina will pop another blood vessel and likely punish us with more restrictions and another increase in taxes. She will ruin the economy with greater measures of stupidity.

Perhaps we'd better pick a location to end her reign of idiocy, Mussolini style.
May 02nd, 2013 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
I said at the time of the fire that the CEO of YPF did not know what he was talking about or was lying to save his job.

Fires of that nature take a long time to overcome, even if he had a second coking unit to fall back on the primary supply piping needs replacing and new supports throughout because the original ones will be bent out of shape or severely weakened.

Oh my, it only gets better for the argies.
May 02nd, 2013 - 07:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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yankeeboy
And I bet most of whatever they need to rebuild is imported

better and better
May 02nd, 2013 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Chicureo
Well, one of the bargains in Argentia has been petrol/gasoline and diesel fuel. Either the government will have to subsidize it or will have to raise prices.
But wait, if they do subsitizie, inflation worsens wynd people may riot. If they don't, there will have to be a rationing system implemented.
May 02nd, 2013 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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mastershakejb
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/130180/blue-dollar-skyrockets-32-cents-to-ar5 lol
May 03rd, 2013 - 04:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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novato1953
Tons, barrels and cubic meters all used to describe the same product in the same story with no internal references? I shouldn't have to google three or four sites to figure out what the events in a news story mean.
May 04th, 2013 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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