Recope Developing us$80 Million LPG Project
Costa Rica's state oil refiner Refinadora Costarricene de Petroleo (Recope) is developing an LPG project at its Moín facility that will cost roughly  us$80 million, Recope president José León Desanti said.

Moín is a port town near Recope's refinery at Limón port on the Caribbean coast.

The project includes six storage spheres with capacity of 25,000b, six 1,500b-capacity cylinders and a pipeline to transport LPG from a planned oil port, also at Moín, León said.

Colombian company Bohorguez Ingeniería has completed the project's basic engineering, he said. All that remains is to launch a tender in 2007 to draft detailed engineering.

Spanish firm Soluziona will carry out a study to draft a national LPG plan. The government has provided 250,000 euros (US$331,000) to finance the study.