	venezuela to annouce partner for coal venture petroleos de venezuela s a will announce within two weeks the name of a foreign consortium it has chosen to help exploit the coal deposits at guasare in western zulia state pdvsa president juan chacin guzman said chacin told reporters the foreign partner will provide capital as well as technical and marketing expertise to the carbozulia project which the state oil company will manage pdvsa officials said that among those who bid for the partnership is a consortium between agip carbone a subsidiary of italy s ente nazionale idrocarburi eni and atlantic richfield arc of the united states minister of energy and mines arturo hernandez grisanti said discussions are currently taking place to finalize the terms of the contract with the foreign partner pdvsa vice president pablo reimpell said last week the first shipment of coal from the carbozulia project should be made during the final quarter of and would measure between metric tons plans call for production to eventually reach mt annually reimpell said the original investment in the project will be approximately billion bolivars reuter 
