Major Venezuelan refinery restarts processing unit after a year offline, sources say

May 6 (Reuters) - Venezuela's second largest refinery, Cardon, restarted its fluidized catalytic cracker after being out of service for more than a year due to a failure and lack of raw materials, four sources close to operations said Tuesday.

The 88,000 barrels per day (bpd) capacity cracker, or FCC, which is key in the production of fuel for automobiles, was processing 26,000 bpd on Tuesday, while a similar unit at Amuay was processing around 38,000 bpd, one of the sources said.