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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Repsol La Plata Refinery Units Shut by Power Cut, El Dia Says

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By Gianluca Baratti

Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Repsol YPF SA shut down processing units at its La Plata refinery in Argentina yesterday following a power cut, El Dia reported on its Web site.

The Buenos Aires-based refinery suffered the outage at 5:20 p.m. local time and the units were later restarted, according to the report.

A spokesman for Madrid-based Repsol couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

La Plata is Repsol's largest refinery in Argentina, with a daily capacity of 189,000 barrels a day.

To contact the reporter on this story: Gianluca Baratti in Madrid at gbaratti@bloomberg.net




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