Valero Energy (VLO) Tuesday said its Aruba refinery may resume operations after completing turnaround maintenance in September if it is profitable to do so. Operations at Valero’s Benicia, California, refinery will return to full operating rates by late August following about 60 days of unplanned maintenance at a coker unit, the co. said Tuesday. The [...]

SAN NICOLAS ? The refinery at San Nicolas will become partially operational again. In this, owner and operator Valero wants potential buyer PetroChina to observe the refinery?s operation and its status. The starting up of facilities will take approximately three weeks. The definite decision on whether the Chinese state-owned oil company will take over the [...]

Valero Energy Corp. has decided to close the company’s refinery in Aruba indefinitely because of unfavorable market conditions, a Valero spokesman said Wednesday. The San Antonio-based refiner said in June it would close the Aruba plant for two to three months because the plant wasn’t profitable, and the plant stopped production in mid-July. ?It’s clear [...]

You’ll always find plenty of good reasons to marry in Aruba or Curaзao thanks to the beauty of these islands and their incredible year-around weather–but now the two of you will find five more great reasons: a free five-night honeymoon. If you book your wedding at the Renaissance Resorts in Aruba or Curaзao, you’ll receive [...]

PHILIPSBURG–The Prosecutor’s Office has decided it will not be necessary to send E.E.R., the female Pointe Blanche prison administrator from Aruba detained on allegations of fraud, to Bon Futuro prison in Curacao. Prosecutor Dikran Sarian also said that although the suspect’s attorney had requested that she be transferred to the Pointe Blanche prison from the [...]

Hurricane Felix strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm yesterday as it churned its way into the open waters of the Caribbean Sea after toppling trees and flooding some homes on a cluster of Dutch islands. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Felix was packing maximum sustained winds of 165 mph as it plowed [...]

WILLEMSTAD, Curacao: Hurricane Felix has become the second extremely dangerous category 5 storm of the season as it swept through the southern Caribbean on a path towards Central America and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, US forecasters said. On a similar – although more southerly – track as last month’s Hurricane Dean, which killed 27 people, Felix’s [...]

Belize prepares for Felix…Beach woes in Jersey…Power outages in California ORANJESTAD, Aruba People in Belize are stocking up on supplies and boarding windows as Hurricane Felix churns toward them. The Category-5 hurricane with winds up to 165 miles per hour is over the Caribbean after knocking down trees and flooding homes on Aruba, Curacao and [...]

Hurricane Felix has barrelled through the Caribbean with forecasters predicting a brush with Aruba and warning of its potential to strengthen. Forecasters issued a tropical storm warning and hurricane watch for the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, popular tourist destinations in the Netherlands Antilles. A tropical storm watch also has been issued for Jamaica, [...]

ORANJESTAD–Aruba has stopped participating, for the time being, in the negotiations for new constitutional arrangements for the Netherlands Antilles constellation. Aruba’s decision was taken after negotiations with the Dutch Government on sharing the proceeds from the selling of Plant N.V. went sour. No money, no deal, State Secretary of Kingdom Relations Ank Bijleveld-Schouten had said [...]