Aspropyrgos

Aspropyrgos is a suburb of Athens, and a municipality inside the West Attica local unit, Attica, Greece. The municipality had a population of 30,251 at the 2011 census. It has a place of 101.983 km2. Aspropyrgos consists of a residential downtown area and an industrial place wherein a number of garage warehouses, metallic recycling facilities, logistics handlers, wholesalers, small creation organizations and other industrial businesses operate. The Aspropyrgos Refinery, south of the city and next to the ocean, has been generating oil for many years.

It is the biggest in Greece together with the Eleusis refinery, with an annual ability of 135,000 bbl/d 21,500 m3/d. As a effect, pollutants has been a problem for years. The refinery consists of depots within the southern and jap elements, and a few inside the western component and at a dock to the southwest. Aspropyrgos is located 15 km northwest of the city center of Athens in the Thriasian Plain. It is five km northeast of Eleusis, close to the Saronic Gulf coast. Mount Parnitha forms its northern border, and the Aigaleo hills its southeastern border. The Eleusis Military Airbase lies to its west.