1 million barrels of reformulated gasoline to the United States this month
<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Sunday, May 18, 2003 By: David Coleman
Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) output at its 940,000 barrels per day capacity Paraguana refinery stands at 734,000 bpd with the 635,000 bpd Amuay plant processing 477,000 bpd and the 305,000 bpd Cardon plant at 257,000 bpd according to a company press release ... the Cardon and Amuay plants form the Paraguana refinery complex which usually processes at around 780,000 bpd.
Production throughout Venezuela's 1.3 million bpd refining network has been almost completely restored after the end of a 2-month national stoppage which failed to overthrow the reformist government of President Hugo Chavez Frias.
- The Paraguana complex was to have restarted exports of reformulated gasoline (RFG) on Friday with a shipment of 300,000 barrels to the United States.
PDVSA officials had earlier said they would restart RFG exports between May 12-14 with some eight cargoes of 250,000-300,000 barrels a month to the US ... a total of 1 million barrels of RFG is scheduled to be exported this month.