Recently added articles from APS Review Downstream Trends:
VENEZUELA - Pequiven System.
Nov 23, 2009 ... Pequiven is an integrated company which operates 13 fully-owned plants, producing basic petrochemicals and fertilisers. It participates in 19 JVs of which one, FertiNitro, went on stream in 2000, and has investments overseas. It has four complexes in Venezuela: El Tablazo, Jose, Paraguana ...
Venezuela - Methanol.
Nov 23, 2009 ... Two JVs produce methanol at Jose: Metor (Metanol de Oriente), on stream since 1994, owned 37.5% by Pequiven, 23.75% by each of Mitsubishi Corp. and Mitsubishi Gas of Japan, and the other partners are Polar (10%) and the World Bank's International Finance Corp. (IFC - 5%). Metor produces ...
Venezuela - The Other Petrochemical Complexes - El Tablazo.
Nov 23, 2009 ... Located on the north-eastern coast of Lake Maracaibo in Zulia state of western Venezuela, El Tablazo complex produces mainly olefins, plastics, fertilisers and industrial chemicals. Its total production capacity is over 3.6m t/y. Among projects completed at El Tablazo in 1998 ...
Venezuela - The Jose Complex.
Nov 23, 2009 ... Ecofuel and its partners have revamped the technology at the Jose complex. In a project started in early 2005, they have changed the plant's process to produce iso-octane, a fuel additive considered an alternative to MTBE, from early 2007. Previously, the plant produced 600,000 t/y of ...
Venezuela's Petrochemical Sector.
Nov 23, 2009 ... There has been no major development in the petrochemical sector since June 25, 2005, when President Hugo Chavez marked the creation of a national petrochemical company after he toured a house made of plastic and promised to build thousands more like it for Venezuela's poor. Chavez then ...