Venezuela Power Blackout Disrupts PDVSA Operations

A power blackout in Venezuela disrupted operations at state oil company PDVSA, including its smallest refinery, El Palito, and the Caracas headquarters. However, the largest refining complex, Paraguana, remained unaffected by the outage.

A power blackout in Venezuela hit some of state oil company PDVSA's operations, including its smallest refinery, the 146,000-barrel-per-day El Palito, and the firm's Caracas headquarters, sources close to operations said on Friday.

PDVSA's largest refining complex, the 955,000-barrel-per-day Paraguana on the country's Western coast, was unaffected by the outage, the sources added.

(With inputs from agencies.)