Oil Refinery Jointly Operated by Cuba and Venezuela has Already Met its Output for 2013
The huge oil refinery jointly operated by Venezuela and Cuba in Cienfuegos, Southern Cuba has already met its production quota for this year, with almost 19 million seven hundred thousand barrels of crude oil.
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Radio Habana Cuba
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The huge oil refinery jointly operated by Venezuela and Cuba in Cienfuegos, Southern Cuba has already met its production quota for this year, with almost 19 million seven hundred thousand barrels of crude oil.

The refinery is the most important economic project installed in Cuba by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, or ALBA, its acronym in Spanish.

Since its inauguration six years ago, it has produced one hundred and twenty one million three hundred thousand barrels of oil.

This installation is the main economic project managed by ALBA in Cuba and was officially inaugurated on December 21, 2007, during the Fourth Petrocaribe Summit, held in Cienfuegos in the presence of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Cuban President Raul Castro.

This important bi-national industry has also excelled in the savings of resource materials, such as water, chemical substances, lubricants and fuel oil.

Plant efficiency has also increased and this year the operations team was able to improve the reduction of resource materials and increase plant output, said engineer Humberto Padron, the huge refinery’s manager.

The efficient operation of the refinery also contributes to the preservation of the environment in the huge bay of Cienfuegos, one of the largest on the Southern Cuban coast.

Padron also said that the installation of new equipment last year has contributed to further improving the quality of gasoline, diesel and other fuels and oils produced at the Cienfuegos refinery.