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Vice President Lage Praises Petroleum Production in Cuba

Havana, July 23 (acn) Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage said on Saturday
that Cuba already produces half of the petroleum and accompanying gas
that the island consumes.

The announcement was made by Lage during a visit to several facilities
of the Company of Petroleum Drilling and Extraction of the West in the
municipality of Santa Cruz del Norte, northeast of Havana, which on
Saturday arrived to the million tons produced this year, needing almost
three weeks less than in 2006.

Lage said that this entity and also that of Matanzas are two of the
most efficient ones on the island as they have both fulfilled their
plans and even surpassed it in the production of gas.

He added that new wells have been concluded, which has allowed the
country to increase its reserves and guarantee a similar production for
next year.

Lage noted that country has also acquired the skills to give services
to the extraction wells, something for which the island depended on
foreign companies in the past.

He explained that today Cuba has 12 machines for the drilling of wells
and seven others for repair work.

Lage was accompanied by the Minister of the Basic Industry, Yadira
García, and by Iván Ordaz, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party
in Matanzas province.

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