Storage tanks explode at Venezuela heavy oil project -sources
Two storage tanks have exploded at the Petro San Felix heavy-crude upgrading project in eastern Venezuela, according to an oil industry source and a legislator.
The tanks were holding diluent, which is mixed with extra-heavy Orinoco belt heavy crude to make it lighter, legislator Jose Brito said in a telephone interview.
“These two tanks were holding diluent,” Brito said. “Fortunately there were no injuries.”
An oil industry source who asked not to be identified said the two tanks were located at a pumping station associated with the Petro San Felix project.
Venezuela’s heavy crude upgrading projects turn tar-like Orinoco crude into more valuable grades of oil. Moving the heavy crude from production fields requires mixing it with some form of diluent that allows it to flow through pipelines.
https://www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-oil-sanfelix/update-2-storage-tanks-explode-at-venezuela-heavy-oil-project-sources-idUSL1N2101HT?rpc=401&
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Who's to blame:
1) Trump/Guaido/sabotage
2) Iguanas
3) Lack of maintenance, faulty equipment, swinging dicks in red coveralls who don't have a clue what they're doing
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Like an episode of CSI Caracas. 
The scenario is always the same. The nab some "opposition" person on the way to some event, and lo and behold... a trunk full of money! And grenades! And C4 explosives! And automatic rifles! And maps of various infrastructure sites with X's on the spots where some nefarious deed is to be done! And of course... the automobile is almost ALWAYS registered in.... (wait for it....) Colombia! With stolen Venezuela license plates!
About the only thing they haven't had the chutzpah to claim is that they have found receipts with CIA letterhead. Though they HAVE found suitcases full of drugs with US flag stickers all over it. (as if America is smuggling cocaine INTO Venezuela!)
Too funny, really, if it were not so pathetic.
With you as head creative writer. 
