Fire devastates key China–Venezuela oil project
Blaze illuminates grave problems for Sinvovensa, the joint venture
behind 15% of Venezuela’s oil production
In the early morning of 26 April, in the midst of the Covid-19
quarantine, a huge fire broke out at the Morichal Operational Complex,
in the heart of the Orinoco Oil Belt, south-eastern Venezuela.
The joint venture company Sinovensa, comprised of Chinese-Venezuelan
capital, has been operating there for 13 years.
Several factors caused it to develop into a forest fire “of unimaginable proportions”, as Eudis Girot, Executive Director of the United Oil
Workers’ Federation described it. According to half a dozen oil workers speaking to Reuters, the surrounding bushes had not been maintained, the plant’s firefighters were under-resourced, and frequent oil spills in
the vicinity had never been cleaned up.
https://dialogochino.net/en/extractive-industries/35547-fire-devastates-iconic-china-venezuela-oil-friendship-project/
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