Plans to increase the production of natural gas liquids
The government is evaluating increasing the production of natural gas liquids, after a technical inspection at a Petróleos de Venezuela plant (PDVSA). This was reported this Friday by the president of the state company, Héctor Obregón.
Through a publication on Telegram, Obregón indicated that the technical inspection served to review the operational processes at the José Antonio Anzoátegui fractionation and dispatch plant.with which it was also contemplated to increase the production of liquefied petroleum gas.
Although the common gas liquids are propane, butane, pentane, hexane and heptane, the official did not specify which ones are intended. increase production in Venezuela.
He said that the joint work of the subsidiaries of the state oil company PDVSA and the management teams in charge of the gas sector in the northeastern region of the nation guarantee the “full functioning of the capacities of these facilities” with the objective, he highlighted, of “turning Venezuela into a natural gas exporting country.”
Last October, the executive vice president and Minister of Petroleum, Delcy Rodríguez, reported the arrival of a vessel that will allow the updating of data for the development of gas production, in the state of Sucre (northeast), cAs part of an agreement signed with Trinidad and Tobago.
The official maintained that, with this agreement, Venezuela continues to advance “firmly” in the “strategic” plan to “develop the potential of its gas belt, giving a clear opportunity to foreign investment.”
The agreement for “authorization for fiscal mediation of the production of the Dragon Field”, for the exploitation and export of gas in the Gulf of Paria – whose waters and coasts are shared by both countries – with the help of the British Shell, It was signed in December of last year.
PDVSA then explained that the license granted to Trinidad and Tobago It is valid for three decades and establishes the productionin “a first phase”, of 185 million cubic feet per day.
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