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re: Cuba's Largest Oil Refinery Explosion on Friday
Posted on 2/15/26 at 10:44 am to lake chuck fan
Posted on 2/15/26 at 10:44 am to lake chuck fan
Not much smoke in that pic. Likely a relatively minor incident
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Posted on 2/15/26 at 10:44 am to idlewatcher
El Presidente of American Cuba
Rubio Libre
Rubio Libre
Posted on 2/15/26 at 4:51 pm to NC_Tigah
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Sounds like it was in a "warehouse." Unverified reports claim the fire did not reach crude-processing areas, and operations resumed normally.
Probably so... surely we can trust Cuban commie reports.
Same with the Iran "gas leak" explosions, right??? Lol
Posted on 2/15/26 at 6:15 pm to lake chuck fan
65,000 BPD and only makes gasoline and diesel.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 6:50 am to CitizenK
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65,000 BPD and only makes gasoline and diesel
Cuba only has 4 refineries and the largest is the one that just had the explosion.
Grok:
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How many oil refinery in cuba
Cuba has four oil refineries, all owned and operated by the state-owned company Cuba Petróleo (CUPET). These are the main ones consistently referenced across sources like the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Wikipedia's list of oil refineries, and other reports:Ñico López Refinery (also spelled Nico Lopez) — located in Havana (near Regla/Bahia de la Habana). This is one of the primary facilities and has been in the news recently due to a fire incident in February 2026 amid Cuba's ongoing fuel crisis.
Hermanos Díaz Refinery — located in Santiago de Cuba.
Cienfuegos Refinery — located in Cienfuegos, originally built with Soviet assistance, later revived/expanded via a partnership with Venezuela's PDVSA (though its operational status has varied over time).
Sergio Soto Refinery (also referred to as in Cabaiguán or Sancti Spíritus province) — a smaller facility.
Some older or capacity-focused lists highlight only the two or three larger ones (e.g., Ñico López and Hermanos Díaz as the main domestic crude processors, with Cienfuegos for Venezuelan crude), but reliable sources including EIA (from mid-2010s data, still cited) and various industry overviews confirm four in total. Note that actual operational capacity and throughput can be lower than nameplate due to maintenance issues, feedstock shortages (Cuba relies heavily on imports, especially amid the current 2026 energy crisis linked to disrupted Venezuelan supplies), and aging infrastructure.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 11:34 am to lake chuck fan
AI is for losers.
I have lists of refineries with process unit capacities for each. Grok obviously knows little about refineries and how they operate. It's actually quite shitty for chemical engineering, with includes refining. MABYE 10% correct with a lot of fake citations.
Without at least a thermal cracker, old pre-WWII technology, it won't get a lot of gasoline and diesel from heavy crude. It will get a lot of heavy fuel oil which I suspect powers its electric grid. As a 65,000 BPD refinery, it makes the same amount of gasoline and diesel as a 25-30,000 BPD refinery should.
I have lists of refineries with process unit capacities for each. Grok obviously knows little about refineries and how they operate. It's actually quite shitty for chemical engineering, with includes refining. MABYE 10% correct with a lot of fake citations.
Without at least a thermal cracker, old pre-WWII technology, it won't get a lot of gasoline and diesel from heavy crude. It will get a lot of heavy fuel oil which I suspect powers its electric grid. As a 65,000 BPD refinery, it makes the same amount of gasoline and diesel as a 25-30,000 BPD refinery should.
This post was edited on 2/16/26 at 11:41 am
Posted on 2/16/26 at 11:59 am to CitizenK
Sixteen hour blackouts now.
Planes must have fuel to return.
Food safety due to lack of consistent refrigeration is not only affecting citizens but hurting their already suffering tourism. Which means they have little foreign currency to purchase fuel.....even if they could.
Using bikes for delivery of goods..
This will not continue for long........
Viva Presidente Rubio!
Planes must have fuel to return.
Food safety due to lack of consistent refrigeration is not only affecting citizens but hurting their already suffering tourism. Which means they have little foreign currency to purchase fuel.....even if they could.
Using bikes for delivery of goods..
This will not continue for long........
Viva Presidente Rubio!
Posted on 2/16/26 at 12:32 pm to CitizenK
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I have lists of refineries with process unit capacities for each. Grok obviously knows little about refineries and how they operate. It's actually quite shitty for chemical engineering, with includes refining. MABYE 10% correct with a lot of fake citations.
Without at least a thermal cracker, old pre-WWII technology, it won't get a lot of gasoline and diesel from heavy crude. It will get a lot of heavy fuel oil which I suspect powers its electric grid. As a 65,000 BPD refinery, it makes the same amount of gasoline and diesel as a 25-30,000 BPD refinery should
Huh??? I'm not disputing refinery outputs. I was making the point that Cubas largest refinery just blew up at this critical time......
Posted on 2/16/26 at 2:01 pm to lake chuck fan
One of the 4 could fit in a standard small backyard. It cannot do much at all with 2,000 BPD with no downstream processes to make usable gasoline, maybe a few BPD of high sulfur diesel. There were a number of these built in the 70's in the USA is the scam entitlement program just so they could get paid $30 or so per barrel for processing slop oil. The checks came from the majors at the time, The owners never knew which company the check would come from and nothing usable was produced from them. Reagan EO'd them out of existence as one of his first edicts.
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