Enap Refinery to Restart After Quake

Chile’s Empresa Nacional del Petroleo (Enap) will bring its second refinery online next week, following the recent earthquake that has devastated the country.

Refineria Aconcagua has a refining capacity of 104,000 barrels a day and is located on the coast northwest of Santiago.

The other two refineries, Refineria Bio Bio en Concepcion, which was closer to the epicentre of the 8.8-magnitude quake, has suffered structural damage and is still idle.

Enap has enough petrol to last two weeks and a ten-day supply of diesel fuel, the company said.

The firm provides for about 80% of Chile’s fuel needs and exports refined products to Peru, Ecuador and Central America.