MOSCOW (MRC) -- Repsol has declared a force majeure (FM) on ethylene supplies from a cracker in Spain, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Spain informed that the FM was declared early last week owing to a shutdown of the cracker on account of technical issues. The impact of the FM on the spot market as well as the restart date for the plant could not be ascertained.
Located in Tarragona, Spain, the cracker has a production capacity of 702,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed earlier, in June 2014, Mexico's national oil company Pemex announced that it would sell a 7.9% stake in Spanish oil firm Repsol, worth about 2.2 billion euros (USD3.0 billion). The sale ends a long relationship between Pemex and Repsol that had run into trouble in recent years over disagreements on policies ranging from top management to the handling of Repsol's investments in Argentina.
Through this sale, Pemex will divest nearly all of its holding in Repsol, where its 9% stake has made it one of the top three shareholders.
Repsol S.A is an integrated Spanish oil and gas company with operations in 28 countries. The bulk of its assets are located in Spain.
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