The Salvadoran consortium PetroGolfo has announced plans to invest $600 million in the construction of a refinery in the port of Acajutla.
Jose Rivas, general manager of PetroGolfo said that they estimate starting operations in early 2014.
Regarding production, the executive added that the refinery "is being designed to be capable of receiving oil from anywhere in the world and refine it and will have the capacity to produce, based on national and regional demand, a variety of finished products for our consumption and our neighbors. "