Chavez Frias government guarantees Venezuelan supplies of gasoline

www.vheadline.com Posted: Monday, March 03, 2003 By: Robert Rudnicki

The Energy & Mines (MEM) Ministry has issued a statement in which it guarantees the supply of gasoline across the whole country. "There are sufficient supplies at various refineries that allow us to guarantee supply of gasoline to all the national territory for the next few days."

PDVSA will also be releasing around three million barrels of gasoline from storage at Guaraguao, "which demonstrates the are stability in terms of gasoline supplies," Minister Rafael Ramirez said.

The Minister also said that PDVSA is expecting to ramp-up operations at the giant Amuay facility next week, which would further increase national gasoline production, with Cardon producing 60,000 barrels of gasoline a day and Amuay expected to be producing 140,000.