{"id":163261,"date":"2021-08-20T07:03:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T11:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=163261"},"modified":"2021-08-20T08:48:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:48:33","slug":"government-buys-back-shares-in-dominican-petroleum-refinery-names-new-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/08\/20\/government-buys-back-shares-in-dominican-petroleum-refinery-names-new-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Government buys back shares in Dominican Petroleum Refinery, names new director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Refidomsa-El-Dia-1024x517.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163288\" width=\"600\" height=\"304\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican government announced on Thursday, 19 August 2021 the buyback of the 49% shares Venezuela had purchased in the Dominican Petroleum Refinery (Refidomsa). The government paid US$88.1 million to resume full control of the state company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported, Venezuela had paid US$131 million for its 49% ownership in 2010. Hacienda Minister Jose Manuel Vicente said the purchase will enable Refidomsa to continue its expansion plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the president of the board of directors of Refidomsa, Leonardo Aguilera, had announced that Yamily Lopez&#8217;s was named new general manager at the Dominican Petroleum Refinery. Since 2015, Lopez had been the executive director of the Mining &amp; Petroleum Chamber of the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2021\/08\/19\/estado-dominicano-adquiere-nueva-vez-acciones-de-pdvsa-en-refidomsa-por-us-881-millones\/\">N Digital <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/economia\/estado-adquiere-49-de-las-acciones-de-refidomsa-pagara-us88134000-1143272\">Noticias SIN<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/panorama\/dinero\/presidente-de-la-refineria-de-petroleo-designa-nuevo-gerente\/\">El Caribe <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 August 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican government announced on Thursday, 19 August 2021 the buyback of the 49% shares Venezuela had purchased in the Dominican Petroleum Refinery (Refidomsa). The government paid US$88.1 million to resume full control of the state company. As reported, Venezuela had paid US$131 million for its 49% ownership in 2010. Hacienda Minister Jose Manuel Vicente &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/08\/20\/government-buys-back-shares-in-dominican-petroleum-refinery-names-new-director\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163289,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163261\/revisions\/163289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}