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The Cartagena refinery, owned and operated by Repsol, is one of the biggest oil refineries in Spain. The company took a decision to build the country’s first advanced biofuels plant at the Cartagena refinery, in October 2020. The current crude distillation capacity of the refinery is 220,000 barrels per day (bpd) with a conversion ratio of 76%. The lubricant production capacity of the refinery is approximately 155,000 tonnes (t) a year. The Cartagena refinery has been operational since January 1950. Its initial distillation capacity was 1.2 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) which was expanded to 10.7Mtpa in 1971.