Repsol invests Euro0.9m to cut Puertollano, Spain emissions

10 September 2004 10:06  [Source: ICIS news]

MADRID (CNI)--Spanish-Argentine oil and petrochemicals group Repsol-YPF has invested Euro930 000 ($771 500) to cut pollution from its Puertollano industrial complex, a company spokesman confirmed to CNI.

 

Repsol has spent Euro450 000 to replace oil-based feedstocks with cleaner natural gas to power its 160 000 tonne/year styrene and 155 000 tonne/year propylene oxide (PO) units to “significantly reduce” and “virtually eliminate” nitrogen oxide and sulphuric acid particles respectively.

 

Madrid-based Repsol also said it spent Euro480 000 to streamline production at its 32 000 tonne butadiene plant to reduce contaminant rates.

 

The disclosures come one year after the Puertollano facility was hit by a fatal fire that paralysed chemicals production for nearly four months at the facility, Repsol’s second-biggest located 240 kilometres (150 miles) south of Madrid.

By: Ivan Castano Freeman
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