Venezuelan PDVSA restarts key unit for gasoline production at second largest refinery

Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA has restarted the naphtha reformer at its second largest refinery, the 310,000 barrels per day (bpd) needed to produce finished gasoline, after it was paralyzed for almost three weeks, three sources close to it said on Tuesday. to plant operations.

Cardón’s two crude distillation units were also in service on Tuesday, bringing the refinery’s total crude throughput to about 100,000 bpd following planned maintenance on some units and a major blackout last month, the sources said. .

The 955,000 bpd Paraguaná Refining Center, made up of the Cardón and Amuay refineries on the country’s western coast, was processing about 238,000 bpd of crude, according to sources.

PDVSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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