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Displaced Venezuelans all over the world are celebrating the removal of Nicolas Maduro,the narcoterrorist Presidant of Venezuela,
He was the reason that eight million of his people fled the country.I expected to see some posters make their feelings known on the Backroom,I judged that quite a lot were in Maduro's corner,they had a lot to say prior to Maduro's capture,I await some intelligent posts on the topic.😆
@granite
Approximately 40,000 in T&T want to go back home...You expect intelligence from Madero supporters ...you will wait a long time.
They will claim America wants the oil. 😂Did they know China was paying 20 US dollars per barrel?
20 tonnes of gold were shipped to Russia for kerosene?Are they aware that Venezuela owes Exxon and Chevron over 20 billion plus interest?
Are they aware of the neglect of past decades? It will take 20 years of engineering and construction to get production back to one million barrels per day.
Are they aware Venezuela oil deposits are heavy and extra heavy oil, and an ocean of salt water lies above such deposits? Russia, China, nor India has such expertise.
It will cost over 80 billion US dollars to bring back oil on stream in Venezuela.
My company is now engaged with Exxon to help rebuild.
Our expertise lies in heavy oil hydrotreating/cracking, built Units for Syncrude et al. at the tar sands deposits in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
It would be of interest to see what happened to the unit built for hydrotreating/cracking for Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA). and installed just outside Caracas.
Sarge
@sgtdjones
Thank you Sarge you the man with the facts,I will note those bits of information for later use.Thanks.
One question,do they still produce KEROSENE IN tt?
Happy New Year!
@sgtdjones
America doesn't want the oil? All that crude just sitting there. The US can now sell that precious crude to other nations at a cheaper price, hence making it harder for other producers to compete. This was the plan all along.
@DukeStreet
You need to increase your knowledge about America and its refineries. Approximately 170 oil refineries in the USA were built to process heavy oil. Nearly 70% of US crude oil imports come from Canada (60%) (4 million barrels per day) and Mexico (7%). Using the right types of crude oil keeps US refineries efficient, keeps costs down, and maintains energy security.
They cannot use Texas crude oil.
128 oil refineries in the Midwest USA use Canada's heavy oil from Alberta tar sands, sold at 45.00 per barrel.
The ones in the US Gulf of Mexico use heavy oil from Venezuela, 100,000 barrels per day via Chevron. Venezuela is paying down its debt to Chevron by selling its oil to US refineries at 25.00 per barrel.
See why gasoline prices are cheaper than in industrial nations.
America's light crude is sold to foreign entities. This creates a paradox where the U.S. both exports its abundant light oil and imports other types, optimizing for refining capacity, logistics, and global market economics.
@granite
No, kerosene is not produced in T&T
Kerosene is made via a distillation process. Crude oil will vaporize when sent through a distillation column. At certain temperatures the vapour is vacuumed and condensed ... kerosene.
To pump heavy oil from tar sands in Alberta or in Venezuela, large amounts of kerosene are required. The heavy oil is then mixed with kerosene to be pumped to various refineries or ports. The kerosene is then recovered through a closed-loop system.
Kerosene and a Boy.
Ohh, that kerosene...we would get a mature bamboo plant and cut it down to 6 joints.
On one end, we would poke holes through 5 joints, leaving the last one alone.
Drill a hole about 4 inches from the last sealed hole.
Pour in kerosene via that hole.
Get a Molotov cocktail with a wick and filled with kerosene.
A cotton cloth soaked with kerosene tied tightly on a piece of wet stick.
Flare it with the cocktail, slowly blowing it through the hole in the bamboo, warming up the kerosene inside.
When it gets hot, after a few minutes of doing the above, you have a sound like a cannon. BOOM...simulation of a jet engine.
Hazards:
On occasions some vapours will remain flaring about 4 joints from where you are; you cannot see such.
One must blow air into the hole. Now you have a backfire that singes your eyelashes. You can't see your eyelashes are heated and glued together. On other occasions it gets your hair, and it's seared.
Sometimes the bamboo explodes...yikes, bamboo slivers are painful to remove.
Often one comes home missing eyelashes, eyebrows, or singed hair, and Mother asks for an explanation as you get some good licks.
A week later you are back at it...kerosene.
Sarge,
@sgtdjones. Who taught you that? Quite a bit of chemical reaction going on there.
@Casper
Fun days growing up in South T&T...Moruga.
Have a scar above my left eye/eyebrow from a bamboo explosion and sliver. See why I became a chemical engineer.
Boys will be boys.😎
What are the issues that some of us challenged? 1. the illegal killing of innocent people in boats in international waters with no evidence of drugs. That is criminal, and I oppose it. 2. Illegally entering, occupying and creating regime change in another independent and sovereign state. I oppose that to the fullest. 3. I oppose any regional government allowing their space to be used to facilitate military entry into another independent state. I profusely oppose that. 4. Trump is a felon, and not a champion of democracy. He does not have any moral authority to direct the region. Some of us called out this thing from day one, and we proved to be true. Speaking about facts!
Speaking about intelligence. When folks support nonsense, they are forced to justify it. In the face of truth, all kinds of rationalization pops up. So figures of population movement of 8 million, and 40,000 were mentioned. And, the intelligent response was that Maduro caused that. Imagine that. That is why, after she openly facilitated a regime change and over 100 murders, she stood before the nation and declared that Venezuela was under USA military actions, and Trinidad has no part of it. They depend on that kind of intelligence. Just so, and we have to accept it. Unfortunately, some of us can't accept that. A murderous embargo was imposed to inflict pain and hardship, and that embargo was because the USA disagreed with Chavez and Maduro. The USA almost destroyed Cuba because they did not agree with and could not control Castro. The USA's model of engagement is found in Trinidad right now, just bend over and take my orders.
They created the hardship with their brutal embargo, and when it did not work, they used military force. That is a fact, and it is foolish to believe that they are not interested in Venezuela's heavy oil. Yes, they want it, but on their own terms. No mention was made of the billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets frozen by the USA and allies over the years as they enforced their criminal embargo. $15US billion is a conservative estimate. So, what is wrong if they have to circumvent the embargo with side deals, barter and otherwise with Russia and China?
Trump was actively engaged in trying to overthrow the USA government. He was charged and convicted numerous times, with multiple cases on hold or jettisoned because of his total dismantling of the legal and constitutional processes in the USA. he is involved in all kinds of violations of human rights, especially against minorities who are hounded like beast by his ICE agents. Did Maduro put him on trial for that?
I vehemently oppose what went on in Venezuela, and i abhor the stance of the Trinidad and Tobago's government. History would be the judge.
And, what is the relevance of the Chemical Engineering status and lesson? Is this a case of the lizard who jumped from the high iron tree to the ground and declared that "if no one praises me, I shall praise myself?". We digress; this a debate on illegal military invasion. Some of us lived, studied, and worked right there at ground zero, and never saw that as part of the debate.
@Besar
When folks support nonsense, they are forced to justify it. In the face of truth, all kinds of rationalization pops up.
Quote of the day for me.
When supposed conservative Christians abandon decency to support a lying, racist, sexual predator and pdf file man who is using state weaponry to bully black and brown people, you know that integrity has long been abandoned.
You'd think that 'Christians' would be the ones to display empathy and integrity in the face of the temptations of economic and political expediency but nah. Caribbean people supporting this nonsense is soooo disturbing.