PDVSA Workers Reactivate Gas Plant, Manufacturing Their Own Parts and Pieces
Venezuelan Minister for Petroleum, Tareck El Aissami, announced this Wednesday, December 2, the reactivation of the Santa Rosa Booster compressor plant, located in Anaco, Anzoátegui state, which will allow the addition of 120 million cubic feet of gas to meet the demand of the local market. This project incorporates 20,000 daily gas cylinders of domestic gas (LPG), to benefit 600,000 families on a monthly basis. Additionally, it contributes to the production of natural gasoline to meet the demand of about 4,600 vehicles per day. Juan Santana, president of PDVSA Gas, highlighted that workers at the plant, with inventiveness and innovation, manufactured pieces and parts, worked on software and did engineering, which permitted the recovery of production.
For several months already millions of Venezuelans have been suffering from a lack of domestic oil due to the economic crisis caused mainly by US sanctions and affecting several plants all over the Caribbean country. Millions of Venezuelans are pushed everyday to cook with wood, causing a terrible environmental impact not properly measured yet.
El Aissami explained that to achieve the reactivation of the plant, the import substitution process was achieved through the manufacture of parts carried out by workers with Venezuelan engineering and labor. “Today we are going to reactivate Compressor Number 10, that will allow us to recover 120 million cubic feet of gas in Anzoátegui state. We are going to produce 3,000 barrels of gas at this plant,” he said.
He explained that this project had been abandoned for years, “as a result of the imperialist aggression that prevented the acquisition of spare parts and supplies to continue recovering gas production capacity. It was the workers who managed to reactivate this plant.”
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In that sense, he recognized the effort of the workers who rescued Compressor Number 10 at the Santa Rosa compressor plant. With this ignition the burning of 120 million cubic feet of gas that was vented in Anaco ends. “All our admiration and recognition for these workers,” El Aissami added, “an example of a nation that stands up with strength and dignity, of a people that resists in the face of coercive measures of the United States, which tried to bring us to our knees with sanctions and unilateral and coercive measures.”
Finally, El Aissami reiterated the commitment to the workers who are responding with dignity, and hard work in the oil production field: “we are going to cover the people’s oil demand in the short term, the people of whom we recognize their capacity for resistance, patience, and loyalty, to achieve these miracles.”
The reactivation of the plant was attended by the Vice President of Economy and Minister for Petroleum, Tareck El Aissami; the Vice President of Gas and President of PDVSA Gas, Juan Santana; the Vice President of Refining, Gabriel Olivero; the General Manager of Production of PDVSA Gas Anaco, Raizo BolĂvar; and the Superintendent of Operations and Maintenance of PDVSA Gas, Manuel Huerta.
Featured image: Photo courtesy of PDVSA.
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Translation: OT/JRE/SL
