Pictures of Puerto Riccan Oil Refinery Explosion, page 1

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"Caribbean Petroleum Corp.’s refinery and tank farm at Bayamon, Puerto Rico is on fire after two explosions at the site today. Firefighters are still fighting the blaze, the cause of which is still unknown, according to a spokeswoman for the local Guaynabo police force, who was speaking by telephone and asked to not be identified by name. She said the explosions happened at about 12:30 a.m. local time. At least 11 tanks at the oil distribution center were ablaze, and firefighters were trying to prevent further explosions at 22 other tanks, citing police superintendent Jose Fugeroa Sancha. CPC markets the Gulf brand on the island. The Bayamon facility, near the capital city of San Juan, can process 48,000 barrels of crude oil a day, according to the company Web site. The sour-crude refinery isn’t operating, according to undated information on the Web site. The facility also houses a tank farm and oil-product import terminal. Calls to the company seeking comment went unanswered."

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Take a look at the pictures @ the link. Looks extremely intense. No word as to the cause, but it looks as though this refinery is finished.

Just heard a blurb about this on the Geraldo tonight (Sat 10/24). Can't believe I just heard about it. Went to the net and looked up very short blurb about it on the following website news.scotsman.com...

Pasted below after I copied to Word Document got the message my account had been frozen. Kind of odd since I have never been on the website and from what I was able to read I do not think it was the full article. Hope someone else has more information on this. Would like to know if mainland US get any of our oil from this refinery and how extensive the damage was and of course the impact on gas prices. Thanks for any other info anyone else finds on this. Here is what I copied and pasted very little

Puerto Rico's biggest blaze in history extinguished
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Published Date: 25 October 2009
Firefighters in Puerto Rico were yesterday battling to extinguish the biggest blaze in the US-owned island's history.
A total of 15 storage tanks at a fuel depot were still ablaze last night after an unexplained explosion rocked the plant in the city of Bayamon early Saturday

OK got it on reuters but check this out!

* Fire at oil storage depot has burned for two days

* Shifting winds could bring toxic smoke to new areas (Updates with Obama declaring disaster)

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The National Guard took over the lead coordinating role in managing the disaster on Saturday, as additional heavy equipment from the National Guard and island pharmaceutical firms was brought in to battle the blaze.

pharmacedutical firms? Hummm.

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More to come, but am I the only one interested in this?

This is a guy who takes pretty good home movies of it, wow it is just so toxic looking from across the bay. You can really see how the wind could carry it towards people.

I really like this girl, she is great and has done a good job via the www.



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I wouldnt re4ccomend your link bud, I had comp trouble after I went to it myself.

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