New refinery to turn long-time importer Cuba into oil exporter / Cuba anuncia refinería modernizada procesará 65.000 barriles de petróleo

A modernized oil refinery is set to go on line in December, official media reported Sunday, in a shift due to turn imports-dependent Cuba into an oil exporter. Overhauled with capital from a joint Venezuelan-Cuban company, the Cienfuegos refinery in south-central Cuba will meet the Caribbean country's own demands, and earmark 9,000 barrels of gasoline a day for export, Venezuela's communications and information ministry said in a release circulated here. ( full information)/El vicepresidente cubano, Carlos Lage, aseguró que la refinería ubicada en la Zona Industrial de Cienfuegos, actualmente en proceso de revitalización, procesará 65.000 barriles diarios de petróleo a finales de año, destaca hoy la prensa local.( información completa)