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Slideshow Burning Man Strange sights at the Burning Man 2012 arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Slideshow Venezuela restarts two refinery units after blast Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Oil and gas firms work to restore output after Isaac Fri, Aug 31 2012 Oil companies recover from Isaac, one refinery flooded Thu, Aug 30 2012 Oil rises as Hurricane Isaac threatens U.S. Gulf Coast Tue, Aug 28 2012 Venezuela stamps out refinery blaze, eyes a restart Tue, Aug 28 2012 UPDATE 7-Venezuela stamps out refinery blaze, eyes a restart Tue, Aug 28 2012 Analysis & Opinion The coming glut in oil â€“ and its impact Related Topics World » Venezuela » Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a storage tank at Amuay refinery in Paraguana August 28, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Miraflores Palace By Marianna Parraga CARACAS | Fri Aug 31, 2012 9:36pm EDT CARACAS (Reuters) - Workers have restarted two key production units at Venezuela's biggest refinery after an explosion a week ago that killed nearly 50 people, sparked a huge fire and halted operations at the facility, state oil company PDVSA said on Friday. Firefighters battled for days to put out burning storage tanks. None of the production units were affected, but were temporarily taken off line at the 645,000 barrel per day Amuay refinery, which is part of the second-biggest refinery complex in the world. "Operational activities have resumed safely and gradually," PDVSA said in a statement, adding that two crude distillation units with a combined capacity of 160,000 bpd were now running, and that a third was due to restart soon. It said other smaller processing units, including ones that make naphtha and kerosene and have a combined capacity of about 58,000 bpd, were also operating normally. The authorities are investigating what may have caused a gas leak that led to Saturday's pre-dawn blast. In addition to those killed, the explosion wrecked about 200 nearby homes. The accident was the global oil industry's most deadly in recent years, nearing the toll of a fire that killed 56 people in 1997 at India's Visakhapatnam refinery. Experts say PDVSA might have to run Amuay's restart process more slowly than normal following the blast, while workers continue to clear debris, cool the area affected by the blaze and check the system for any more leaks or other problems. The water, power and steam supplies to the Amuay refinery, which by itself is the world's fourth biggest, were not interrupted by the disaster, however, which should help save some time. One oil industry source said that the damage to the refinery could end up costing about $3 billion, but that PDVSA has yet to choose a company to carry out an audit. As operations begin to return to normal, PDVSA said two tankers were loaded on Friday with a total of 510,000 barrels of oil products for the domestic market from docks at Amuay and the neighboring Cardon refinery. Four more tankers were waiting to be loaded, the company said, one bound for an oil storage terminal in the Caribbean and another destined for Africa. (Writing by Daniel Wallis; editing by Carol Bishopric) World Venezuela Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. 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