Spanish gas bottles (1 Viewer)

[Piston Broke]

Help needed please!! Has anyone else had problems changing their orange propano gas bottles at the repsol garages? We are in the Fuengirola area and have tried 3 different garages and been told propano finito!! Does anyone know, is this a temporary situation where they have run out, or are they changing to the lightweight bottles? Thanks

 

[gus-lopez]

Might be that winter is over & they aren't keeping it but it hasn't finished as I bought one yesterday for home.

 

[sueandjohn]

I swapped mine 2 weeks ago and they had 3 cages full. Hope you get some

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[sueandjohn]

try repsol on Coin road , ie left at Lidl near miramar petrolvstaion etc
Also there is a massive repsol centre up that road on the industrial site
However, some garages have weird times when they don’t serve gas. Perhaps that’s the problem

 

[Burgo]

You can filter on propano on this: Broken Link Removed

 

[Sheddy]

Could be there is a general shortage, this has been one of the consistently cold spells in Spain for many of years and a lot of folk have switched to propano as the butano has been freezing up.
Just a thought.
Today is the last cold day in the current forecast, so butano should be OK from here on.
Next time I pass the depot here in Beni I'll have a look to see if they are well stocked.
Cheers
Ed

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[The Nomad]

It's a shortage of filled 11kgs propane bottles due to dramatically higher usage or propane nationally because of the extended period of very cold weather across Spain.

In times of refining versus demand shortage, both Repsol prioritises filling their big 35kgs gas bottles (used by households and businesses).
That's beacause the price of those big bottles is not Government regulated, and thus they sell them at 40% or more per kilo of propane than they are forced to only sell the regulated 11kgs orange steel bottles at.

 

[Dazzles]

Propane for UK, Butane for Spain.

 

[2657]

Propane for UK, Butane for Spain.

Believe it or not it gets quite cold in inland Spain much of which is over 3000ft

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[Dazzles]

Believe it or not it gets quite cold in inland Spain much of which is over 3000ft

Ye for sure. Butane is very much more available though.

 

[2657]

Ye for sure. Butane is very much more available though.

Never had a problem obtaining Repsol propane in central or high parts of Spain at any time of year.

 

[Basildog]

Propane for UK, Butane for Spain.

You are joking it's bloody freezing in most of Spain in the winter, far colder than the UK

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[Basildog]

Ye for sure. Butane is very much more available though.

Not in my experience when living there as none of the local residents would want Butane

 

[gus-lopez]

You are joking it's bloody freezing in most of Spain in the winter, far colder than the UK

Not according to UKGov as winter fuel payments can't be claimed as "too warm"

 

[Dazzles]

You are joking it's bloody freezing in most of Spain in the winter, far colder than the UK

I didn’t see where I mentioned winter

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[Piston Broke]

Thanks Nomad, that makes sense. ( I have tried Butane 2 years ago and it coked up my fridge ... should have known better because there is a rather large notice in my Burstner that says to only use Propane...)
Thanks all will keep trying

 

[Piston Broke]

So we decided to try and escape Hugo’s wind and rain by driving North and finally managed to find a Repsol garage with propane in Torrox!
Think it must have been a shortage around the La Cala/ Calahonda area due to the cold weather as Nomad said. Now in Roquetas , still windy but sunny and no rain forecast here
Thanks all for your comments