Construction works tasked to upgrade the Talara oil refinery, in Peru’s northern Piura region, are expected to facilitate 4,000 full-time direct and 10,500 indirect jobs, the country’s Deputy Energy Minister, Edwin Quintanilla, said Tuesday.
“In 2018, the refinery’s expanded terminal operations will provide direct permanent jobs for 378 high-skilled professionals, totaling up to 1,400 people to be employed,” he told El Peruano official daily.
Quintanilla continued, “The upgrading of the conversion facilities with newly-acquired dashboard technologies will allow the refinery to efficiently process heavy crude oil, thus offering significant environmental benefits”.
“Peru will have a larger and more complex refinery which will allow its plants to process heavy crude to be transformed into derivatives for the oil industry," the senior Ollanta Humala administration official noted.
Likewise, he said the new additional plants are targeted to allow greater production capacity and to reduce sulphur content in crude processed, which is essential for environmental protection and health of the population.
Quintanilla stressed Peru is likely to climb positions on the global stage and to be closer to developed economies which operate with clean fuels after finishing the scheduled construction phase of its world-class oil refinery.
“Talara upgrading represents the greatest leap in Peruvian refinery over the last 40 years,” the senior executive at the Andean nation’s Energy and Mines Ministry (MEM) said.
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Publicado: 27/5/2014