A fire halted shipping from a 12 million barrel crude and oil products storage terminal on the Caribbean island of Bonaire on Wednesday, the day after a deadly Mexican refinery blast rattled gasoline and diesel markets. No ships were loading or unloading while the fire at a tank containing 200,000 barrels of naphtha was brought under control, said Asdrubal Chavez, head of refining at Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA oil company, which owns the BOPEC terminal on the Dutch Antilles island, 50 miles (80 km) north of Venezuela.
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Fire halts shipping from large Bonaire oil terminal
A fire halted shipping from a 12 million barrel crude and oil products storage terminal on the Caribbean island of Bonaire on Wednesday, the day after a deadly Mexican refinery blast rattled gasoline and diesel markets. No ships were loading or unloading while the fire at a tank containing 200,000 b
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