PDVSA El Palito Refinery

PDVSA El Palito Refinery is a refinery in Venezuela with a reported capacity of 146,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by Petróleos de Venezuela SA. By capacity it ranks #3 of 3 oil refineries tracked in Venezuela. It emits about 339,589 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 79,158 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 72% below the median refinery.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144170.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 146,000 BBL per day, PDVSA El Palito Refinery está por debajo de la mediana de refinery en Venezuela (187,000 BBL per day). Subsector: oil-and-gas-refining. Como refinery, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 200–600°C) para sus operaciones industriales centrales — calor que debe ser suministrado por calderas, hornos o combustión directa, y las pérdidas a través de recipientes y tuberías sin aislar representan combustible desperdiciado. El aislamiento modular desmontable puede reducir esas pérdidas en un 80–96%, enfriando superficies a ≤45°C, con amortización a menudo inferior a 2 años. Las refinerías calientan, fraccionan y transforman químicamente el petróleo crudo en combustibles y materias primas petroquímicas mediante destilación y craqueo que consumen mucha energía — extremadamente exigentes en generación de vapor y recuperación de calor.

Comparación de capacidad e intensidad de CO₂ calculada a partir de datos de instalaciones industriales de Climate TRACE; papel del sector basado en referencia de ingeniería.

What 339,589 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest oil refineries in Venezuela

Reported capacity (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Operator

Operated by Petróleos de Venezuela SA. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

PDVSA El Palito Refinery sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 10.5°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

The #3 largest of 3 oil refineries in Venezuela by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• San Sebastian Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 963,408 t CO₂
• Lara Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 299,220 t CO₂
• Ocumare Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 368,921 t CO₂
• Cumarebo Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 620,214 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 10.48161, -68.11942. View on OpenStreetMap.

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