With respect to production at the Pernambuco facility Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) vice-president of refining, Alejandro Granado, explained that of the 200,000 barrels of crude oil to be processed there, 100,000 will be coordinated with the Brazilians and the remaining 100,000 will go to the market. Good budgeting: half to gain income, half to be used cooperatively for local benefit. This alternate block gets more and more interesting. rkm -------------------------------------------------------- http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=46226 Oil & Gas Published: Monday, October 03, 2005 Bylined to: Armando Núñez Venezuela and Brazil reach agreement to invest US$3.5 billion in energy projects President Hugo Chavez Frias has stressed that, with a joint investment of US$3.5 billion, Venezuela and Brazil have reached agreement to exploit 50 billion barrels of crude oil from the Carabobo I field ... which currently holds some 300 billion barrels of crude oil in proven reserves. Translated by Armando Nunez To develop the project, both nations are expected to invest 50% according to an agreement signed during Chavez' visit to Brasilia last week, during which he attended the 1st South American Community of Nations summit. On his 235th 'Alo, Presidente' radio and television broadcast from the Miraflores Presidential Palace, the Venezuelan leader emphasized that the agreement aims at fostering Latin American integration and energy rapprochement with Brazil through PetroAmerica and PetroCaribe refineries. President Chavez said a series of bi-national agreements signed between both countries would bring social and economic benefits to South America. "I don't give anything away, I just apply a different model!" he told reporters. Likewise, President Chavez said that both countries have pledged jointly to build the Pernambuco refinery in Brazil. With respect to production at the Pernambuco facility Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) vice-president of refining, Alejandro Granado, explained that of the 200,000 barrels of crude oil to be processed there, 100,000 will be coordinated with the Brazilians and the remaining 100,000 will go to the market. Brazil and Venezuela also plan jointly to exploit estimated reserves of 4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in Venezuela's eastern Sucre State. Chavez reiterated that, in addition to having the world's largest oil reserve, Venezuela has the largest gas reserves in South America (150 trillion cubic feet) and that construction of a gas pipeline stretching between Venezuela and Brazil will possibly be routed in parallel to a of system high-voltage electricity powerlines through the Amazon jungle. The Venezuelan President says he has spoken with Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva on plans to to exploit aluminum and peaceful nuclear energy. Source: The Bolivarian News Agency (ABN) -- http://cyberjournal.org "Apocalypse Now and the Brave New World" http://www.cyberjournal.org/cj/rkm/Apocalypse_and_NWO.html List archives: http://cyberjournal.org/cj/show_archives/?lists=newslog Subscribe to low-traffic list: •••@••.•••