2024-06-16 13:21:27
Based on info shared by Castro media, the fireplace within the crude oil tank of the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant, within the province of Matanzas, has now been extinguished.
Official media stated that authorities appeared on the scene, together with the top of the Cuban hearth division, Luis Carlos Guzmán Matos, who defined that the fireplace was put out after six hours of labor.
“After six hours of labor, the incident that occurred in one of many crude oil tanks of the CTE Antonio Guiteras was first managed after which turned off with out lack of life. Cooling and supervision work nonetheless stays, however there isn’t any longer a threat of an explosion or the resurgence of the flames,” the official reported.
Undoubtedly, this reality prompted concern to develop amongst Cubans, who remembered the tragedy recorded on the Matanzas Supertanqueros Base.
Aerial pictures present the injury suffered by the tank concerned within the accident.
“Thus far it isn’t suspected that it was provoked or intentional,” stated Guzmán Matos.
For his half, Rubén Campos Olmos, common director of Termoeléctrica, reported that, earlier than what occurred, they operated with two tanks, however for now they are going to solely use one, which he described as an “operational situation that completely ensures the technology of the unit.”
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“Later we’ll restore pumping from the Supertanquero and incorporate one other pumping station to achieve extra reliability. The water that is still might be separated from the oil and analyzes might be carried out with the froth that has been integrated, however we predict that steadily it may be used within the boiler”; he added.
Because of the fast motion of the authorities, customers on social networks steered that this occasion might have been brought on by Castroism as a distraction technique.
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