Red alert: The energy, environmental and health security of five million Costa Ricans are in question.

Costa Rica´s RECOPE State oil company: Management has work to do here.

 

By Rafael A. Vilagut, twitter @vilagutr

 

The Costa Rican Oil Refinery (RECOPE), once considered the largest company in Central America, with almost 60 years of existence, focuses its operations on refining, importing, and distributing the fuels demanded by Costa Rica, a mission entrusted to it since its creation in 1963, and which it retained after its nationalization in 1974.

To fulfill its mission and vision, RECOPE has built the National Fuel System, made up of the oil dock, located in Moín, Limón, Caribbean area, where shipments of raw materials are received; the pipeline, a unique complex in Central America, through which the product is pumped from Moín to Barranca in Puntarenas, crossing practically the entire country from east to west, being the safest and most economical means for transferring clean fuels, such as gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuels; as well as four distribution, sale and storage facilities, which are interconnected through pipeline lines.

The facility with the greatest commercial and operational activity is located in Moín, where there was the refining plant (until 2011), the largest storage park in the country, and the product pumping station towards the central plateau. They are followed by the terminals of El Alto de Ochomogo in Cartago, La Garita in Alajuela, and Barranca in Puntarenas. It also has facilities for the supply of fuel to aircraft at the international airports Juan Santamaría Alajuela, and Daniel Oduber in Liberia, as well as at the Tobías Bolaños in Pavas, San José and at the Limón Airport. The pumping stations are in Moín, Siquirres, Turrialba, and El Alto de Ochomogo.

The bad administrations that the company has had in its last eight years are reflected in the outdated information on Wikipedia and on the misleading company's institutional page as of the date of this publication https://www.recope.go.cr/.

With the new administration of President Rodrigo Chaves Robles, far from improving things have worsened by putting a lawyer in the presidency and a Board of Directors, who lack the attestations of trading, marketing, project management, shipping, and refining economy.

 

Executive President´s Refinadora Costarricense de Petroleo.

 

2022 - 2026 Lic. José Manuel Quesada Espinoza.

2018 - 2022 Alejandro Muñoz Villalobos (According to Wikipedia, November 11, 2022).

2014 - 2018 Ing. Sara Salazar Badilla, by far the worst in history.

2013  - 2013 Econ, Litleton Bolton Jones.

2010 - 2014 Jorge Villalobos Clare.

2006 - 2010 José León Desanti Montero.

The energy, environmental and health security of five million Costa Ricans is in question, especially with the measures taken in July 2022, where the quality standards of refining products imported that had to be homologated to the old European standard Euro 6 (2014) were postponed indefinitely.

 

Recope´s Board of Directors 2022-2026.
Juan Manuel Quesada Espinoza
Rolando Guido Sáenz
Sandra Gallegos Ayala
José Alberto Carpio Solano
Liseth Hernández Cordero
Mihaela Dobrinescu Dobrinescu
Gerardo Araya Naranjo  

Within the framework of the meeting of the United Nations COP27, and the discussion of Euro 7 in the European Union, individuals interested in knowing more about what is happening in the Costa Rica refinery and the measures to protect air, water and against climate change can contact the office of the Presidential House, Dr. Rodrigo Chaves by mail despacho.presidente@presidencia.go.cr or by phone +506 2207-9252. 

 

For Happy and Healthy, San Jose Costa Rica, November 11, 2022, rafaelvilagut@gmail.com.