After Venezuelan oil tanker FSO Nabarima sinks loaded with crude oil, another major oil spill hits the Venezuelan sea

Yet another oil spill hits the Caribbean Sea near Venezuela's biggest refining center. The Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA reported the case last Saturday (12/09), but said that actions are already being carried out to contain the leaked oil, as well as the necessary adjustments to the damaged equipment. Campo de Lula – the largest producer of oil and natural gas in Brazil was changed yesterday (14/09) to Tupi after determination by the ANP

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According to the state-owned company, the reason for the oil spill was due to a problem in the pipeline connected to the main refining center.

The clean-up plan for removing oil from the Caribbean Sea is being carried out by PDVSA together with the Venezuelan Ministry of Ecosocialism. The state-owned company guaranteed that there will be no shortages for the Paraguaná refining center, nor for the refineries amuay and Cardon.

The leak had already been alerted since last Thursday by opponents and defenders of the environment. Activists used social networks to disseminate satellite images that showed the area affected by oil leaks from the pipelines. (With information from AFP).

“Crime in Golfete de Coro, here is the origin of the leaks”, denounced Eudis Girot, an oil trade unionist, on Twitter on Thursday, with a video recorded by fishermen in the region that shows the stain in the sea.

About PDVSA

Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) is a Venezuelan state-owned company engaged in the exploration, production, refining, marketing and transport of Venezuelan oil.

Founded on January 1, 1976, PDVSA is the third largest company in Latin America, after Brazil's Petrobras and Mexico's Pemex; ranked in 2005 as the third oil company in the world and ranked by the international magazine Fortune as the company number 41 among the 500 largest in the world.

Currently, PDVSA is the oil company with the largest oil reserves in the world, reaching a total of 3,1 billion barrels and was ranked as the second most powerful oil company after ExxonMobil.