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Washington in mid-October issued a general license lifting through April sanctions on the country's oil production and exports. POLICY SHIFTThe U.S. imposed sanctions on Venezuela's oil industry to try to oust President Nicolas Maduro, whose 2018 re-election it considers a sham. In the last three weeks, PDVSA has signed new term deals to sell products, including fuel oil and asphalt cement with little known firms. LINING UPShortly after sanctions were eased last month, Trafigura chartered a vessel to pick up a fuel oil cargo at a Venezuelan port. The firm that won the offer is Romania-registered Ke Lo Ke Mgmt, PDVSA documents seen by Reuters showed.

Persons: Marco Bello, Nicolas Maduro's, PDVSA, Nicolas Maduro, Joe Biden's, Trafigura, Lo, Ke Lo Ke, Gunvor, Marianna Parraga, Gary McWilliams, Barbara Lewis Organizations: REUTERS, Gunvor, Reuters, Bloomberg, Thomson Locations: Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, HOUSTON, Washington, U.S, Venezuela, PDVSA, Venezuelan, Romania

[1/2] The logo of Italian energy company Eni is seen at the booth of Eni during the Nigeria International Petroleum Summit in Abuja, Nigeria February 10, 2020. Under the revised terms, Eni and Repsol can supply the state company with fuels, potentially helping Venezuela ease an intermittent scarcity that has led to long lines at gasoline stations in recent years. Eni and Repsol were not immediately available to respond to a Reuters request for comment. Crude received by Eni and Repsol under their swap deal has mostly been sent to Repsol's refineries in Spain. The field is run by the Petrosucre joint venture between Eni and PDVSA.

Persons: Afolabi, Repsol, PDVSA, Joe Biden's, Perla, Marianna Parraga, Francesca Landini, Pietro Lombardi, Mircely, Matt Spetalnick, David Holmes Organizations: Eni, Nigeria International Petroleum Summit, REUTERS, Companies, U.S . State Department, Kuwait Petroleum, Repsol, U.S . Treasury, PDVSA, Perla, Washington, Thomson Locations: Nigeria, Abuja, HOUSTON, Venezuela, Europe, Venezuelan, PDVSA's, Italy's Milazzo, Kuwait, U.S, Spain, Chevron, American, Venezuela's Gulf, Colombia, Milan, Madrid, Maracay, Washington

☆ Catalytic cracking unit at Venezuela's Cardon refinery shut down
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

CARACAS, June 2 (Reuters) - The catalytic cracking unit at Venezuela's Cardon refinery, the country's second-biggest, has broken down and paused operations since the middle of the week, four people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Friday. Venezuela's refining network has the capacity to process 1.3-million-barrels per day but it suffers frequent production problems. The fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) plant refines oil into other products with greater commercial value, such as gasoline. The refinery restarted one distillation unit on Friday after a failure, while a second unit remains shutdown. The catalytic cracking unit at Amuay, Venezuela's largest refinery, has been shutdown for repairs since March, impacting production of gasoline.

Persons: PDVSA, Deisy, Oliver Griffin, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Reuters, Paraguana Refining, Thomson Locations: CARACAS, Cardon, Venezuela's, Amuay, Caracas

☆ Exclusive: Iran to start revamp at Venezuela's largest refining complex within weeks - sources
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Mircely Guanipa | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

The companies are now expected to sign in the coming weeks a 460-million-euro contract to revamp the 955,000-bpd Paraguana refinery complex on the coast of western Venezuela, according to the sources. Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian arrived in Caracas on Friday and met Venezuela's oil minister Tareck El Aissami, according to tweets from the Iranian embassy in Caracas and Venezuela's oil ministry. PDVSA, NIORDC and Venezuela's oil ministry did not reply to requests for comment. A QUARTER OF CAPACITYA project to restore the complex's dilapidated power supply is also planned as part of the revamp, according to the sources. During the El Palito revamp, PDVSA sent home hundreds of Venezuelan workers to make way for the Iranian technicians, which triggered protests.

[1/5] Drivers wait in line to get gasoline amid repeated outages at refineries operated by state oil company PDVSA and a lack of imports of diesel and gasoline, in Maracay, Venezuela, December 9, 2022. In 2020 and again in 2021, drivers had to line up for days to get gasoline and farmers halted work because of insufficient diesel. Right after midnight, the station ran out of gasoline," said Ramon Blanco, a 32-year-old who filled up the next day at another station. But lines also have reappeared in Falcon state, home of PDVSA's largest oil refineries. "We are trying our best because we are under pressure to restart some plants for producing gasoline," said a worker from Amuay.

☆ Venezuela's biggest refinery halts gasoline production -sources
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

CARACAS, Dec 2 (Reuters) - A refining unit that turns crude oil into fuel at Venezuela's largest crude processing facility has broken down, three people familiar with the operations told Reuters on Friday, halting production at the key gasoline producing plant. The breakdown of the fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) caused the country's largest refinery, 645,000 barrel per day (bpd) Amuay on the Paraguana peninsula, to halt gasoline production on Thursday, one of the sources said. Venezuela's refineries suffer frequent outages leading to production losses due to system failures and lack of supplies. Amuay, together with the nearby Cardon refinery, make up the Paraguana Refining Center (CRP) in Venezuela's western Falcon state, with a combined crude processing capacity of 955,000 bpd. Cardon's catalytic cracker, which can process up to 45,000 bpd, was still operational on Friday, the sources said.

☆ Venezuela's largest refining complex halted after blackout -sources
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MARACAY, Venezuela, Oct 20 (Reuters) - A small fire at a vacuum tower and a power blackout halted Venezuela's 955,000-barrel-per-day Paraguana Refining Center early on Thursday, according to six sources close to operations. The blackout affected the entire complex, which ties together the Amuay and Cardon oil refineries, essential for supplying fuel for domestic use. "Everything is stopped, there's not even electricity in the offices," said one of the sources, who asked not to be identified. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe fire, which began in a vacuum tower at Amuay, was controlled hours later, one of the sources said. State oil company PDVSA, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, was attempting to restore power in the refineries, which remained halted later in the morning.

Venezuela's oil ministry, PDVSA and Maroil did not reply to requests for comment. PETCOKE MOUNTAINSIn Jose, two heavy oil upgrading projects controlled by PDVSA, Petro San Felix and Petrocedeno, produce and store petroleum coke. SANCTION SCRAMBLEIndian firms this year have been big buyers of Venezuelan petcoke as the Asian nation looks for inexpensive fuel to power industries amid high coal prices. read moreShimsupa GmBH, a Germany-headquartered trading firm, has an exclusive arrangement with Maroil to sell Venezuelan petcoke in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the company said. Resellers of Venezuelan petcoke originally supplied by Maroil say the cargoes are free of penalties since, as opposed to PDVSA, Maroil has not been blacklisted by the U.S. Treasury Department.

☆ VIDEO/ Hoții de păduri (III). Implicarea socialiștilor în silvicultură și o înregistrare cu directorul Moldsilva: „Cum pe voi de apărat, dacă voi ați recunoscut totul?”
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-08 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +37 min

Și-n ordinul vostru iscălit de director… Și ăsta-i mai căpos, a luat și a scris pe feciorul lui ce a vrut și el. Deși a fost recunoscut vinovat, procedura contravențională a fost încetată din motivul intervenirii termenului de prescripție. Chiriac a fost recunoscut vinovat și pe celălalt capăt de acuzare – păstrarea ilegală a armelor și munițiilor. Domnul care a fost și a făcut comanda, el deja e în căutare de ani de zile. După doi ani, în 2019, a plecat și de la democrați și a aderat la PSRM.

Persons: Dumitru Cojocaru, ZdG, Cojocaru, Vasile, El, n.r, cela, Radu Marian, Zloi, Popov, Chiriac, Constantin, Grubîi, Boboc, Veaceslav Chiriac, Serghei Burcovschi, Marius Burcovschi, Ion Chiriac, Marius, Marius ., Burcovschi, Aha, V . Chiriac, Țurcan, Domnul, Boris Cojocaru . Chiriac, Socrii, Veaceslav, Igor Dodon, Gheorghe, Chiriac ., Vladislav Zloi, Vladislav, Ion Zloi, . El, Edineț Dumitru Cojocaru, Totuși, Ion, Irina Lozovan, Lozovan, silvicultorii, Irina Organizations: Ministerul Agriculturii, Dezvoltării Regionale, Mediului, Amu, 4C, Agenția Mediului, CBC, CNA, Partidului Socialiștilor, Partidul, Partidul Democrat din, Partidul Socialist, Universitatea Agrară, Evenimentul Locations: Edineț, Silvicultură, IS, Edineţ, Briceni, parţial, Drochia, Ocnița, Manjeru, ., n.r, Cernoleuca, n.r ., Silvic Bujor, Hâncești, Silvic Dondușeni, Dondușeni, Veaceslav, Silvic, Bălți, Moldova, Nord, Gârbova, Veaceslav Chiriac, Chișinău, Rusia, Uniunea Sovietică, ULIM, Partidul Comuniștilor, Partidul Democrat din Moldova, PSRM, Silvicultură Edineț

☆ AUDIO/ Discuții telefonice între pădurari, despre colectările de bani din silvicultură: „Astă toamnă am pus cinci (mii), bl**di. Erai când am pus cinci?”
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-05 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +14 min

Mai ales în anii 2017-2018-2019, chiar și sume de 12 mii de lei, de 20 de mii de lei. Vasile Frunză: Nu știu pentru ce, dar au cerut trei mii de lei și eu am spus: nu vă dau. Vasile Frunză: Și o făcut „chipiș” mare oleacă, da’ n-am de unde, ce… Zic b*ea…Gheorghe Cornici: Și normal. Duța o dat, Mălai o dat de față cu mine… Duța o zis că nu dă, da’ pân’ la urmă o dat. Iaca o luat nu știu cine cinci oameni și s-o dus și o strâns doi saci de măceș.

Persons: Vasile Frunză, Frunză, Domnul, Frunză ., Anatolie, Aha, Gheorghe, numa, Mălai, badea, Vasilică, Ivan Mihailovici, nică, Cornici, Eu, Voronin, Vitalie, ., ’, ZdG Locations: Silvic, Bobeica, niș, ., Moldovei

☆ VIDEO/ Hoții de păduri (I). Furtul de lemn din pădurile Moldovei, văzut din interiorul sistemului. Convorbiri telefonice, indicații (i)legale, solicitări politice și case de milioane
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-04 | by ( Anatolie Esanu | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +58 min

La sfârșit de martie, curent, Vasile Frunză a predat cheile de la canton și a părăsit pădurea. Cât reușești”După 15 ani de activitate în pădure, Vasile Frunză a văzut și a trăit multe. Vasile Frunză: Și o făcut „chipiș” mare oleacă, da’ n-am de unde, ce… Zic b*ea…Gheorghe Cornici: Și normal. „Noi am fost și au luat o foaie A4 și o pun pe masă la fiecare pădurar: scrie cerere de aderare la partid. Asta a fost după ce a fost restabilit în funcție, undeva a durat vreo jumătate de an.

Persons: ZdG, Vasile Frunză, pădurarul, Vasile Frunză ., de Justiție, Pădurarul, Frunză, Anatolie, Anatolie Untu, Untu, Anatolie Ivanovici, nică ., n.r, Nădejde, Liviu, Nicolae, Comîndaru, Nicolai Gheorghevici, Nicolai Gheorhevici, badea Valeri, Bun, cela, Victor de, Vasile, nică, Badea Valeri, Rotaru Gheorghe, Frunză ., Ei, ., Ivan, Aha, aha, Domnul, Gheorghe, numa, Mălai, badea, Vasilică, Ivan Mihailovici, Cornici, Eu, Voronin, Vitalie, ’, Vladimir Plahotniuc, Filat, Popșoi, pădurarului, Bujor, Ion, Haralampov, Valeriu Munteanu, Alexandru, Mihail, Valeriu Munteanu Vasile Frunză, El, Vladimir Plahotniuc ., Vineri, Ok, Vasile Frunză . El, Nicolae Comîndaru Organizations: Mediului, Agenția, de, CNA, Plus, Partidului Unității Naționale, Partidului Democrat, CA, Dlui, Volvo, Procuratura Generală, Toyota, Cruiser Locations: Moldovei, Vasile, Silvic Bobeica, Hâncești, Silva, Moldova, defrișare, CA, Chișinău, Bobeica, ., n.r ., Horodca, Zvucea, Oazic, Silvic, niș, Văsieni, Ialoveni, n.r, Israel, Mereșeni, Silvice Hâncești, Judecătoriei Hâncești, CA Chișinău, Codru, Silvice Călărași, Silvice, ZdG

☆ VIDEO/ Hoții de păduri. Furtul de lemn din pădurile Moldovei, văzut din interiorul sistemului. Convorbiri telefonice, indicații (i)legale, solicitări politice și case de milioane
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-04 | by ( Anatolie Esanu | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +58 min

☆ По каким адресам 20 апреля пройдут плановые отключения электричества
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-19 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +16 min

Dacia 80/4 în intervalul de timp între 09:30 - 16:50 pentru lucrări de reparaţie a echipamentului electricbd. Balcani 2, 2/1 în intervalul de timp între 09:00 - 13:00 pentru lucrări de reparaţie a echipamentului electricstr. Alba Iulia 202/1, 202/2 în intervalul de timp între 13:00 - 17:00 pentru lucrări de reparaţie a echipamentului electric Chişinău, sectorul Buiucani, or. Paraschiva 46 parțial, în intervalul de timp între 09:15 - 17:00 pentru lucrări de reparaţie a echipamentului electric Chişinău, sectorul Rîşcani, com. noncasnic) parțial, în intervalul de timp între 09:20 - 12:00 pentru lucrări de reparaţie a echipamentului electrics. Sărătenii Vechi 9038 ( cons.

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