The Ñico López Refinery, Havana, It operates with “total normality” after the fire that occurred in that plant last Thursday.
This was stated by its director, Maikel David Cabrera Estrada, who confirmed that the incident did not cause victims or affect production. He also said that investigations are currently underway to determine the causes of the fire, review the newspaper Granma.
The manager had already explained that the flames broke out in a warehouse “where an unused additive product was stored,” the publication notes.
“It is an idle product that had been there for a long time. It turned on and today we still do not know the causes. Now we are beginning to investigate the incident as such,” he declared to the Caribbean Channel.
Concentrated fire
Fortunately, the fire did not spread to other areas or reach the fuel tanks, and it could be extinguished by firefighters without “collateral damage to the industry.”
This has allowed the refinery to continue working in the midst of the severe energy crisis suffered by the island, exacerbated by the Trump Administration’s oil blockade.
The Ñico López is one of Cuba’s three refineries, a former energy facility that was nationalized in 1960 and has the capacity to process both heavy domestic crude oil and imported oil, according to the agency. EFE.
It is an infrastructure that has had problems for years in the technical field. In this sense, independent experts have warned of its proximity to densely populated areas, with the risk that this entails, and of the impact of its discharges on the ecosystem of Havana Bay.
