Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) has completed major maintenance on the atmospheric distillation unit at its 190,000-b/d Puerto La Cruz refinery in eastern Venezuela, the state-owned company said.
Maintenance work on atmospheric distillation Unit No. 2 (DA-2) lasted for 42 consecutive days, PDVSA said.
Details regarding the specific nature of the planned maintenance were not disclosed.
DA-2 is designed to process 70,000-b/d of Venezuelan heavy Merey (16° API gravity) crude to produce naphtha, diesel, and atmospheric residues, PDVSA said.