Posted on 03/21/2021 4:22:46 PM PDT by dynachrome
A tract of a gas pipeline in eastern Venezuela suffered an explosion on Saturday afternoon, according to a report from state oil company PDVSA seen by Reuters, an incident the country’s oil minister blamed on an attack.
The explosion at the 36-inch pipeline providing natural gas to the Pigap II gas reinjection plant in northern Monagas state prompted PDVSA to temporarily shut the plant in order to halt the flames and evaluate the damages to the pipeline, according to the report.
Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami in a brief statement on state television late on Saturday called the incident a “terrorist attack,” without providing details about who was responsible or about the impact on the plant and pipeline.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“Critics say the incidents are due to chronic lack of maintenance, underinvestment and mismanagement.”
Those nasty Republican terrorists strike again.....
CIA
Or a Venezuelan false flag
VanTiFa
Proud Chavismos
VLM
Eastern European Separatists
In the 70’s, Bob Barker used to give away vacation packages to Venezuala on the price is right. Of course it used to drive me crazy when they would pronounce it “Venzuela” though
“ Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami ...”
My buddy worked at Saudi Aramco, and he said that if all the Americans and Europeans left, the place would shut down in two weeks.
I suspect that the Oil Minister screwed up, and called it terrorism just to smooth things over.
“Rebels?”
Sure as hell isn’t the US..Biden is on your side.
Mitt Romney and his goons
Sounds like something Biden would order he hates pipelines and energy.
Trump’s fault!
“Critics say the incidents are due to chronic lack of maintenance, underinvestment and mismanagement.”
= = =
And maybe some of the safety stuff was stolen for profit?
Which is why Aramco has the best contract in kingdom. Saudis tried it before without Westerners and failed. Saudis had to make major concessions to get them back.
Wow, a 36 inch had a blow out.
About 12 or so years ago, we had a blowout on a 16 inch line that was running about 1200psi.
It was screaming so loud it was like having 4 squadrons of F15’s at full afterburner. The fireball was impressive too.
https://www.wsfa.com/story/5977066/gas-line-explodes-in-elmore-county/
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