Project Profile
Value: Undisclosed
Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia
Capacity: 28,000-b/d
Expansion: additional 20 million l./month (4,000 b/d) of diesel
Area: Unknown
Start-up Year: fourth-quarter 2015
Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos Refinación SA (YPFB) has started test runs at a newly built crude unit at the 28,000-b/d Gualberto Villarroel refinery at Cochabamba, Bolivia. Bolivia initialized operations at the 12,500-b/d unit, the refinery’s second, on Sept. 12, 2014. At a cost of US$93.6 million, the unit will provide Bolivia’s domestic market with an additional 20 million l./month (4,000 b/d) of diesel. At the Cochabamba refinery, YPFB is also building a new catalytic reforming unit. The new unit is scheduled to be commissioned during fourth-quarter 2015 and will boost Bolivia’s gasoline production. The Bolivian government took ownership of both refineries from Petroleo Brasileiro SA following the nationalization of the country’s oil and gas industry, a process which began in 2006.
Operators:
Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos Refinación SA (YPFB): Operator with 100% interest