Of the 70 to 80 skids intended for installation on the production deck, many are incomplete or have barely even started construction, an observer said.
Some were shipped incomplete from a local Venezuelan fabricator being little more than an empty steel frame, he added.
ConocoPhillips was originally responsible for overseeing delivery of the skids, but now that it has left the project after what the US company describes as the Venezuelan government's expropriation of oil field assets, the responsibility has fallen to PDVSA to complete construction.
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