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Article: VENEZUELA - Pequiven System.
- Article from:
- APS Review Downstream Trends
- Article date:
- November 19, 2007
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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 and Moron. The pre-2007 strategy of Pequiven, adopted in 1999, had the following aims: (1) to capture regional opportunities in fertilisers and plastics and hemispheric opportunities in aromatics; (2) to generate the maximum value possible from synergies arising from oil refining (see DT 20) and the chemical sector, "so as to derive the maximum economic benefit from any stage of the ...