Iran's 320,000-barrel-a-day refinery in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas is fully operational after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit 35 miles outside of the city, the refinery's head of public relations said Wednesday.
"Everything is OK here. Everything in the refinery and everything in the jetty is fine," Mohammad Ali Mojtahedzadeh, head of public relations at the Bandar Abbas Oil Refining Company, told Dow Jones Newswires by telephone.
Randy Baldwin, a geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey, told Dow Jones Newswires that the earthquake hit 35 miles southwest of the Iranian port city southern Iran.
Iran's Bandar Abbas oil refinery is the country's largest refinery and is the only refinery in Iran that can refine heavy crude oil.