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About PDVSA Petrocedeño

Petrocedeño, S. A. is an oil operator made up of the Venezuelan state company PDVSA (with a participation of , TOTAL of France (with ) and Statoilhydro of Norway (with . It is dedicated to the exploration, extraction, production, improvement and marketing of crude oil. It is a vertically integrated company, which produces MBD of extra-heavy crude oil of ° API - coming from the Orinoco Belt, and improves them into MBD of Zuata Sweet, a light and sweet crude oil of ° API. During the improvement process, tons are obtained daily of sulfur and a thousand tons of coke, which are placed in international markets. This operator was established in the 1990s, as a result of a decision by the Venezuelan government, which allowed PDVSA to associate with foreign companies for the development of reserves of the Orinoco Belt, which is estimated at one billion barrels of extra-heavy crude oil. The company has been in force for years from the first shipment of synthetic crude oil, made in March .