PDVSA Puerto La Cruz Refinery

PDVSA Puerto La Cruz Refinery is a refinery in Venezuela with a reported capacity of 187,000 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 #2 of 3 oil refineries tracked in Venezuela. It emits about 434,953 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 101,388 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-3144169.

Nel contesto: come si confronta questo impianto

Con 187,000 BBL per day, PDVSA Puerto La Cruz Refinery è attorno a la mediana di refinery in Venezuela (187,000 BBL per day). Sottosettore: oil-and-gas-refining. Come refinery, richiede calore di processo intenso (tipicamente 200–600°C) per le sue operazioni industriali essenziali — calore che deve essere fornito da caldaie, forni o combustione diretta, e le perdite attraverso recipienti e tubazioni non isolati rappresentano carburante sprecato. L'isolamento modulare removibile può ridurre queste perdite dell'80–96%, raffreddando superfici a ≤45°C, con payback spesso inferiore a 2 anni. Le raffinerie riscaldano, frazionano e trasformano chimicamente il petrolio greggio in carburanti e materie prime petrolchimiche attraverso distillazione e cracking ad alta intensità energetica — estremamente esigenti per la generazione di vapore e il recupero di calore.

Confronto di capacità e intensità di CO₂ calcolato dai dati delle strutture industriali Climate TRACE; ruolo del settore basato su riferimento ingegneristico.

What 434,953 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 Puerto La Cruz Refinery sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate zone (Köppen BSh), at 10.2°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 #2 largest of 3 oil refineries in Venezuela by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Pertigalete Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,634,502 t CO₂
• VEN-Bolívar_methanol · Chemical Plant · 3,329 t CO₂
• Jose Methanol · Chemical Plant · 534,000 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 10.22071, -64.61906. View on OpenStreetMap.

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