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Tag Archives: Amuay
There Must be 222 Ways to Leave Your Skin Behind at Amuay
Thanks to the miracle that is this leak, we now know that a report dated May this year by RJG Risk Engineering’s Roger Gregory noted there were 222 accidents of various types at the CRP last year, including around 100 fires … Continue reading
“For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.”
Here’s my run-down on the Amuay Explosion for the IHT.
File Under: Caiga quien caiga, hasta las últimas consecuencias
Después dicen que el gobierno no es eficiente. A scant 36 hours after the Amuay disaster, and just 24 hours after he had promised an “exhaustive investigation” President Chávez has already ruled out both maintenance issues and the possibility of a pre-existing … Continue reading
An Exhaustive Investigation
This morning, President Chávez promised an exhaustive investigation into the causes of last night’s fatal blast at Amuay Refinery. The sun hasn’t even set yet, and that investigation is already exhausted: the Paraguana Refining Complex’s Head of Refining has already … Continue reading
The Cadena that Wasn’t
For once, today, Venezuela faced a situation where a Cadena Nacional would have been entirely appropriate, even welcome. Facing a genuine national disaster, people naturally turn to their leader for explanation, for guidance, for leadership, for solace. Handling events like … Continue reading
Amuay Daylight Photos Start to Emerge – Yowza!
Last night’s huge blast at Amuay Refinery in Paraguaná is quickly turning into an object lesson in the impossibility of controlling information in the Twitter era. As the private media softball the story for fear of retribution and official spokesmen … Continue reading
Amuay: Not your run-of-the-mill refinery screw up
Last night’s explosion and fire in Amuay – the larger bit of the mammoth Paraguana Refining Complex – was big enough to wake up most of Punto Fijo. It’s easy to get jaded about stories of PDVSA accidents, but this … Continue reading
