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As ten­sions be­tween the US and Venezuela con­tin­ue to rise, Venezuela’s state-owned oil com­pa­ny Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) has re­port­ed that the José An­to­nio An­zoátegui In­dus­tri­al Com­plex con­tin­ues its op­er­a­tions, de­spite a fire that af­fect­ed its fa­cil­i­ties on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

PDVSA is­sued the me­dia re­lease on Thurs­day night.

“PDVSA em­pha­sis­es that there will be no in­ter­rup­tion to its in­dus­tri­al pro­duc­tion process­es, thanks to the es­tab­lished con­tin­gency and pre­ven­tion plans; there­fore, it main­tains its op­er­a­tions and reaf­firms its com­mit­ment to in­dus­tri­al safe­ty,” the re­lease pub­lished on the com­pa­ny’s Telegram chan­nel stat­ed.