Petronor paralyzes the Muskiz refinery due to an Iberdrola power outage

At around 1:00 p.m., the Repsol subsidiary announced that it was beginning to restore the operation of the units to verify the condition that they may have suffered, a process that will last several days.

Petronor has begun the reestablishment of the operation of the units of the Muskiz refinery that had to be stopped this morning by a Iberdrola’s power supply cut, as reported by the company in a statement.

The Repsol subsidiary had communicated that, after the shutdown at 05:00 hours, the units had been taken to a safe situation, “consequently producing high torches.” The company explained that steps were being taken to restore the electricity supply and to “normalize” the situation.

At about 1:00 p.m., he announced that he was starting the restoration of operation of the units to verify the condition that they may have suffered, process that will take several days.

Likewise, it has specified that a cut in the electricity supply provided by Iberdrola has caused the refinery to stop.

All this has been reported to the Basque Government’s Vice-Ministry for the Environment, to the territorial delegate for Industry and Energy of Bizkaia, to the coordinator of the Left Margin-Encartaciones Region of the Department of Health and Consumption, to SOS Deiak, to the Ertzaintza and to the municipalities of Abanto Zierbena, Muskiz and Zierbena.

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