This Sunday there was a fire in the afternoon at the Cardón Refinery, located in Falcón state, according to the Vice President for the Economic Area and Minister for Oil, Tarek El Aissami through his Twitter account.
He explained that the event occurred specifically in the vicinity of the western area of the coastal pier of the Cardón Refinery and that since 9:30 pm at night it has been completely suffocated.
Additionally, he insisted that the event did not compromise “any of the refinery’s operations,” so the refinery’s fuel production operations “continue with absolute normality,” he stressed.
The operations manager engineer of the Cardón Refinery, Gustavo Boada, assured that all the operations of the complex are in normal conditions “processing crude oil and generating gasoline and derivatives for the entire country,” he said through a video posted by the minister El Aissami.
“At the moment, the fire has been completely extinguished. All operations continue with absolute normality within the Cardón Refinery. We will win!!”, the minister posted on his social network Twitter.
“The refinery continues its fuel production operations in all the plants of the Paraguaná Refining Complex”, insisted the minister.
In another post, El Aissami thanked the firefighters and refinery workers for their efforts in controlling the flames.
“Thanks to the efforts of the HEROIC Working Class of PDVSA, the fire is being controlled and suffocated. Firefighters are cooling the affected area. The refinery continues its fuel production operations in all the plants of the Paraguaná Refining Complex”, reads the post.
