The state company National Iran Oil Engineering and Construction Company (Naftiran) signed an agreement with the Venezuelan government for 110 million euros in order to recover and put into operation the El Palito refinery and be able to produce some 146,000 barrels of crude oil per day.

The recently signed contract includes “repairs, start-up and completion at El Palito,” according to information provided by Niordc’s managing director, Farhad Ahmadi.

El Palito is currently operating at approximately fifty percent of its capacity, after recovering the crude distillation unit in early May.

According to Ahmadi: “The project will be financed by Naftiran Intertrade Company”, as well as the crude oil that will feed the refinery.

The agreement is part of the negotiations carried out by the Iranian Oil Minister, Javad Owji, and the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. Javad Owji traveled to Venezuela in early May and held meetings with government authorities.

The meetings were attended by the deputy minister of Iran and the executive director of the National Iranian Petroleum and Distribution Company (Niordc), parent company of the National Iranian Petroleum Engineering and Construction Company and for Venezuela, in addition to the president, Tareck El Aissami, Oil Minister.

On the other hand, PDVSA reported that Venezuela has already started importing Iranian heavy crude, as part of the extension of the exchange agreement signed in 2021 by both countries “to exchange Iranian condensate for Venezuelan heavy crude.”

M. Rodríguez

Source: eluniversal.com

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Venezuela plans to increase its oil production goals to 2 million barrels per day, as well as its derivatives, as part of the economic growth plan for 2022, as announced by the Oil Minister and Sector Vice President of Economy, Tareck El Aissami.

According to the vice president, “We have the technology and the installed capacity to advance” and work on increasing the production of its derivatives and gas. “We have proposed this year to take Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) to 2 million barrels day. We already have the plan and the resources approved,” El Aissami said.

The plan additionally considers raising “the entire process of the chains that generates hydrocarbons and gas.” That is why the Caribbean country is carrying out “large-scale maintenance in the plants, which was previously done with transnationals.”

national work áreas

The sector vice president of economy also highlighted that they will work in 4 large areas at the national level, whose fundamental purpose is to achieve the goal proposed in the

The fronts are distributed as follows: One for the west, another for Monagas and Anzoátegui; the third for the Orinoco Belt and the fourth will be dedicated to refineries.

For his part, the president of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro indicated that the year 2022 “has to be the year of inflection (…) Growth from the micro to the macro economy.”

M. Rodríguez

Source: actuality.rt.com.

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