Chevron Completes $83 Mln Maintenance at South African Oil Refinery
U.S.
oil firm Chevron has completed a 1 billion rand ($83 million) routine
maintenance and safety inspection at its 100,000 barrel per day South African
oil refinery in Cape Town, local media reported on May 7.
Chevron, which trades as Caltex in South Africa, shut down its Milnerton
refinery from Feb. 13 to March 31 for routine maintenance and safety
inspections.
Doug
Pottenger, general manager at Chevron in Cape Town, told the Cape Argus
newspaper the maintenance and inspections were done to upgrade systems and
uphold high levels of safety to ensure the refinery was running optimally.
The
refinery supplies fuel to all airplanes at the Cape Town International Airport
and 95 percent of vehicles on the roads in South Africa's Western Cape Province.
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