A team of Chinese expert 2022 fire.
In a 30-minute procedure carried out on Monday, Chinese brigades placed an aluminum cover of 74 meters in diameter and 68 tons in tank 49-1, the first of four under construction, with capacity for 50,000 cubic meters, said the newspaper Girón on Facebook.
Héctor Clark Silot, Technical Chief of the Integrated Superanqueros Project Directorate, stressed that “the procedure constitutes a milestone” for the rapid advance since March 2025.
The following phase includes installing records, fire cooling systems, electrical components and hydraulic tests to guarantee hermeticity, in addition to anticorrosive treatments and pipes.
The construction of tanks 49-1, 86, 87 and 88, which will add 200 thousand cubic meters, seeks to restore the lost capacity in the August fire of 2022.
The works, supported by Cuban and Chinese workers, advance in the industrial zone of Matanzas, with the finishing goal in 2026. Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz recently supervised the works, when he highlighted their importance in the midst of the energy crisis that the island lives.
Almost three years after the terrible fire that claimed the life of 17 people and destroyed the huge deposits, in the Superanqueros base of Matanzas The work to recover the installation continues.
Specialists seek to perform safer and less vulnerability operations, as well as project a more modern image.
According to the planning released long ago, tanks 88 and 49-1 will occupy the space where the four sinister were, while 86 and 87 and will be in another esplanade.
The foregoing will guarantee a greater distance between the huge containers and also the expansion of the so -called cube or containment areas, which with the new distribution may retain the entire fuel in case of spill, just one of the aspects that most affected in the fire.
