Refinery

Astron Energy Cape Town

Astron Energy ·Cape Town, ZA ·v1.1

A 100,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Cape Town, ZA, operated by Astron Energy. Nelson Complexity 6.

Record

Rated capacity
100,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
Nelson Complexity Index
6
Status
Operating
Operator
Astron Energy
Supplier graph
bomforge.com/companies/astron-energy
Coordinates
-33.9500, 18.5100

What coverage reports

480 days since one was reported

Investigations ongoing at Glencore's Cape Town refinery after blast
2025-04-28 · 1 publisher filed it

0 reported in 12 months
2024-092026-08
stories filed per month · red = a disruption

These are counts of what publishers filed about this plant, not an operating status. A quiet month means nobody named this facility that month, which is a fact about coverage and not about the plant. Where this site states how a refinery is running it says so in the facts table above, from the curated dataset, and cites it there.

Wire

13 records16 Nov 2018 to 12 Apr 2026Incident 6 · General 5 · Operations 1 · Expansion 1
  1. General Low
    Glencore committed to repairing Cape Town refinery
    Freightnews.co.za · matched cape, town
  2. Incident Critical
    Investigations ongoing at Glencore's Cape Town refinery after blast
    IOL · matched cape, town
  3. General Low
    Glencore Unit’s Cape Town Refinery Calls for Fuel-Import Control
    Bloomberg.com · matched cape, town
  4. Operations High
    BP confirms Cape Town fuel shortage amid refinery outage
    News24 + 1 other outlet · matched cape, town
  5. Expansion Low
    Glencore suffers $611m in SA coal impairments, invests $175m in Cape Town refinery
    IOL · matched cape, town
  6. Incident Critical
    Glencore risks missing investment deadline for Cape Town refinery hit by fatal explosion
    News24 · matched cape, town
  7. Incident Critical
    Astron Energy says it is close to fully reopening refinery in Cape Town after 2020 explosion killed two workers
    IOL · matched cape, town
  8. General Low
    Astron Energy Aims To Re-open Its Cape Town Refinery By End Of The Year | SA Trucker
    SA Trucker · matched cape, town
  9. General Low
    Glencore to open new and improved Cape Town refinery in 2022
    News24 · matched cape, town
  10. Incident Critical
    Cape Town refinery blast: Memorial to be held for two engineers
    News24 · matched cape, town
  11. Incident Critical
    Two killed in Cape Town refinery explosion
    Jacaranda FM + 5 other outlets · matched cape, town
  12. Incident Critical
    PICS | Cape Town refinery blast: No danger to surrounding area, says company
    News24 · matched cape, town
  13. General Low
    Astron commissions new R150m tank truck loading rack at Cape Town refinery
    Engineering News · matched cape, town

Every item names this facility by city or plant name in its headline or summary. Operator-only mentions never attribute. Headlines and links belong to the publishers named.