Got this in an email...

[z-man]

There is a Valero plant in Aruba and they refine oil and then send it to the states. You can see the lights in Venezuela at night.

I am not sure if they are getting oil from Venezuela though.

My company sends people there about twice a year to do outages on our valves.

 

[Ram From Hell]

FYI,

This is from Reuters in January of this year. (PDVSA is Venezuela's national oil company.):

The following is a list of the main U.S. customers in the
month of October 2007 for Venezuelan crude oil based on
information compiled by the U.S. Energy Information
Administration. The figures are in barrels per day (bpd) for the
month of October, 2007:
REFINER OCT. IMPORTS
Chalmette Refining LLC* 34,000 bpd
Chevron Corp 43,000 bpd
Citgo Petroleum Corp** 355,000 bpd
ConocoPhillips Corp 221,000 bpd
ExxonMobil Corp 87,000 bpd
Flint Hills Resources LP 18,000 bpd
LyondellBasell 224,000 bpd
Hovensa LLC*** 320,000 bpd
Royal Dutch Shell Plc 35,000 bpd
Sunoco Inc 54,000 bpd
Total SA 18,000 bpd
Valero Energy Corp 91,000 bpd
*= 50/50 joint venture between PDVSA and ExxonMobil
**= Wholly-owned subsidiary of PDVSA
***= 50/50 joint venture between PDVSA and Hess Corp
(Reporting by Robert Campbell)

 

[Begood]

Valero here also, I will not buy form them.

Bill.

 

[JeffBoyette]

Ya i was oblivious to this.... Most of the gas stations around here are "tom thumbs" and they are citgo. Im partial to chevron fuel, but hell i wouldnt stop for a soda at a citgo now. Thanks for the heads up