Venezuela’s smallest refinery restarts catalytic cracker, workers say

VALENCIA, Venezuela: Venezuela’s smallest refinery, the 146,000-barrel-per-day El Palito in the country’s central region, has restarted its fluid catalytic cracker (FCC), key for producing motor fuel, four workers said on Monday. The refinery has been reactivating ‌its operational ‌units slowly in ​recent ‌days, ⁠following twin ​earthquakes ⁠in late June that had left the facility without power. “The FCC is working and we are trying to boost (output),” one of the workers said, adding that the ⁠unit required several attempts to ‌have it ‌in service, and is ​now processing some 35,000 ‌bpd.

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