Iqoxe’s plant explosion, on January 14, left the Tarragona chemical industry without the supply of ethylene oxide.
To solve this, Repsol started buying it in southern France since the beginning of March and every week nine trucks carry twenty tons each by road.
It is produced at the Ineos facilities in Lavera (near Marseille) and this same company is in charge of ensuring the transport.
Repsol signed a three-year contract with Ineos, although during this period the volume of the order may vary.
A traffic of such intensity is expected to be regulated in the coming years, and Repsol plans to make investments and improvements in the process of receiving this substance.
On the other hand, DOW, the other large industry that used ethylene oxide, would have looked for alternatives and, at the moment is not using this product.
