WILLEMSTAD - The refinery in Curaçao had already stopped before the seizure of Venezuelan oil reserves and before the United States announced sanctions against President Nicolás Maduro's regime. That's what the lawyers of the state-owned company Curaçao Refinery (RdK) said during a court case against the Isla.
The owner of the refinery wants PdVSA to pay 270 million guilders for, among other things, non-performance.
The Venezuelan state oil company says that this is due to the international situation, but the lawyers say that PdVSA decided two years ago not to supply any more barrels of oil to Curaçao.