Honduras to start buying oil from Venezuela

[Judi Lynn]

Caracas, Tuesday February 12 , 2008
Honduras to start buying oil from Venezuela

Honduran authorities met Tuesday to coordinate a first purchase of oil byproducts from Venezuela under regional energy alliance Petrocaribe, official sources said.

A Venezuelan delegation arrived in Tegucigalpa "to refine the details for the shipments of bunker fuel," Presidency's Minister Enrique Flores told reporters.

Asdrúbal Chávez, a vice-president of Venezuelan oil giant Pdvsa and Caracas Ambassador to Tegucigalpa Claudio Osorio, headed the Venezuelan delegation AFP reported.

Last January the Honduran government issued a decree under which the country would purchase from Venezuela 100 percent of bunker for power generation and fuel, diesel and gas to meet 30 percent of demand in Honduras.

http://english.eluniversal.com/2008/02/12/en_eco_art_honduras-to-start-bu_12A1361201.shtml
(Opposition newspaper)