Qualla: Talara Refinery https://qualla.com/talara-refinery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Talara Refinery https://qualla.com/talara-refinery Talara Refinery: Introduction https://qualla.com/talara-refinery/ In 1917, four distillation stills fired up on a dry, wind-scoured stretch of Peru's far northern coast and began turning crude into kerosene at 10,000 barrels a day. The International Petroleum Company had arrived, and so had the petroleum century, pumping itself ashore at a place the maps barely noted. More than a hundred years later, the same ground near Pariñas holds one of South America's most expensive refineries, a five-billion-dollar complex of catalytic towers and hydrotreaters that is also, quietly, a monument to one of the longest arguments in Peruvian politics: who should own the oil.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/n/j/talara-refinery-wp/6pnj-talara-refinery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Talara Refinery: A Century of Stills https://qualla.com/talara-refinery/ The Talara story reads in dates and distillation units. In 1926 came four thermal cracking units, squeezing more gasoline out of each barrel. In 1929, a lubricants plant. In 1938, an asphalt plant for the highways Peru was just beginning to build. By 1954 the plant had added Tubu...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/n/j/talara-refinery-wp/6pnj-talara-refinery-a-century-of-stills.mp3 0:06 2 full Talara Refinery: The Capture of La Brea https://qualla.com/talara-refinery/ The politics caught up in 1968. On October 9, tanks rolled into the oil fields at La Brea and Pariñas and Peru's new military government seized the International Petroleum Company's concession outright. The following July, the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces created ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/n/j/talara-refinery-wp/6pnj-talara-refinery-the-capture-of-la-brea.mp3 0:06 3 full Talara Refinery: The Megaproject https://qualla.com/talara-refinery/ By the 2010s the refinery was aging, its fuel too high in sulfur to meet modern standards, its 60,000-barrel daily run looking small next to Latin American rivals. In May 2014, Petroperú signed a contract with the Spanish firm Tecnicas Reunidas to rebuild almost everything - new ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/n/j/talara-refinery-wp/6pnj-talara-refinery-the-megaproject.mp3 0:06 4 full Talara Refinery: Fire and Finish https://qualla.com/talara-refinery/ On April 12, 2022, President Pedro Castillo formally inaugurated the new Talara. Gleaming towers stood where the old stacks had been; the claim was that this would be one of the best-equipped refineries anywhere, capable of 95,000 barrels a day of clean, low-sulfur fuel. Commissi...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/n/j/talara-refinery-wp/6pnj-talara-refinery-fire-and-finish.mp3 0:06 5 full Talara Refinery: The Landscape It Made https://qualla.com/talara-refinery/ From the air, Talara is a strange kind of oasis - not green, but silver and steel. The town itself exists because of the refinery, a grid of company housing and service roads laid across one of the driest coasts on earth. Beyond the fence line the Sechura Desert rolls north towar...

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