Venezuela: PDVSA to Start Maintenance
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
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Venezuela will
carry out four months of maintenance and expansion work
starting in August
640,000-barrels-per-day Amuay oil refinery, an official said on
Friday.
State oil company PDVSA considers the planned work a
"major" operation, a senior refining official, Jesus Luongo,
told reporters on the sidelines of a Colombian-Venezuelan
meeting on energy cooperation in Punto Fijo in western
Venezuela.
Amuay and the neighboring 300,000-bpd Cardon refinery
together form the giant Paraguana refining complex.
Over the last few years, stoppages due to incidents such as
power outages and maintenance programs have lowered the OPEC
nation's output from its refineries, industry analysts say.
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