	venezuela wants to boost its refining capacity venezuela s state oil company petroleos de venezuela s a wants to raise its worldwide refining capacity by barrels of per day a company official attending the national petroleum refiners association meeting here said he declined to be identified but said pdvsa has the capacity to refine about bpd of  oil from refining centers in venezuela sweden west germany belgium and the united states the company recently purchased a pct stake in the corpus christi texas refinery of champlin petroleum co a subsidiary of union pacific corp unp earlier it bought a similar stake in the lake charles la refinery owned by citgo petroleum corp a unit of southland corp slc according to the official venezuela is searching worldwide for the additional refining capacity but he did not mention where the company was looking refineries abroad he said guarantee a refining outlet for venezuelan  oil while ensuring stability of supply to refiners he said venezuela currently produces about mln bpd of  oil which is in line with its bpd opec ceiling reuter 
