Caused by lightning on Sunday and led to evacuation of nearby residents put out the fire in the fire in the refinery storage tanks Venezuelan national oil company PDVSA, a senior official said.
This weekend there are a lot of thunderstorms drenched South American OPEC countries in recent years, suffered the accident refineries. Lightning ignited two different refinery storage tanks just the past year.
No one was injured in the fire, but the radius of one kilometer (0.6 miles) inside the residents were removed from the scene, and firefighters fighting battle in the pouring rain at 187,000 barrels each day (BPD) facility Enzo Atkins Puerto de la Cruz Jizhou to the east.
"The fire has been completely extinguished," Asdrubal Chavez, PDVSA's refining vice president, told state television.
He congratulated the firefighters for their "sustained effort, which enables us to record time in the control of this important fire."
In addition, PDVSA said in 146,000 barrels of El Ni?o PALITO refinery operations also due to heavy rain on Sunday power outage stopped.
President Maduro said that early on Twitter, he was in direct communication with the teams to solve Puerto de la Cruz fire. Officials stressed that all localities refinery evacuated from their homes as a precaution.
In the global oil industry for decades one of the most serious accident, a gas leak caused an explosion and fire last year in Venezuela, the giant 645,000 barrels AMUAY refineries, resulting in 40 deaths and destroyed hundreds of houses nearby.
Last year, the country became a net importer of gasoline, largely because AMUAY disaster forced PDVSA fuel imports to meet domestic demand.
Maduro's predecessor, the late Chavez, in his 14-year reign most of the nationalization of the oil industry, and use funds to subsidize export revenues from high-priced brand-new apartments ranging from groceries generous social welfare programs.
Critics say, PDVSA has been due to poor management, inadequate investment suffered, they blamed the accident on its facilities and unplanned downtime string.
In less than two very similar incident last year, a month apart, lightning set fire to two separate tanks in El PALITO refineries. In both cases, no one was injured.
 



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