A third crude tank caught fire and collapsed at Cuba's main oil terminal in Matanzas, its governor said on Monday, as an oil spill spread flames from a second tank that caught fire two days earlier in the island's biggest oil industry accident in decades.
Cuba had made progress fighting off the raging flames during the weekend after drawing on help from Mexico and Venezuela, but late on Sunday the fire began spreading from the second tank, which collapsed, said Mario Sabines, governor of the Matanzas province, about 60 miles from Havana.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comMatanzas is Cuba's largest port for receiving crude oil and fuel imports.
One fire fighter has died and 16 persons are missing, all from Saturday's explosion at the second storage tank. The power grid is more than 90% dependent on local and imported fuel and Jorge Pinon, director of the University of Texas at Austin's Latin America and Caribbean Energy and Environment said the fire brought into question both.
A tanker carrying Russian crude to Matanzas, identified by Refinitiv Eikon monitoring service, is unlikely to be able to discharge next week even if docks are not affected by the fire, because of possible damage to tanks, pipelines and valves, analysts said.
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