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The 2009 Cataño oil refinery fire, also known as the CAPECO explosion, was a fire that began with an explosion on October 23, 2009, and was extinguished on October 25 at the Caribbean Petroleum Corporation (CAPECO) oil refinery and oil depot in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. [1]
Caribbean Petroleum Corporation (CAPECO) is an oil company in Puerto Rico which owned an oil refinery in Bayamón having a capacity of 48 thousand barrels per day (7.6 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d). In addition, it operated more than 200 service stations in Puerto Rico under the Gulf brand name .
The refinery bought most of its oil from Venezuela, [9] and the 1973 oil embargo caused a rapid increase in the price of crude oil imports to the United States, and thus Puerto Rico. That made it difficult for the company to compete profitably against oil refineries in the US, because the American refineries were able to soften the blow of ...
4. Puerto Rico power outage. Power has been restored to nearly all of Puerto Rico after a massive outage on New Year’s Eve left much of the island in the dark. About 1.4 million users, or at ...
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An explosion at an electrical substation in Humacao, Puerto Rico, on May 18 left over 12,000 people without power in the town and its surrounding areas.According to local media, the explosion was ...
Gas explosions in Puerto Rico (1 P) ... 2009 Cataño oil refinery fire; H. Humberto Vidal explosion This page was ...
A massive power outage blanketed most of Puerto Rico early Tuesday, leaving more than 1.2 million people without electricity. Here's what to know about the blackout and Luma Energy, which handles ...