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CVG Comsigua DRI plant (Complejo Siderúrgico de Guayana (Spanish)) is a 1000 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) direct reduced iron (DRI) iron plant operating in Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar, Venezuela.

Location

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  • Location: Parque Industrial CVG Minorca, Zona industrial Matanzas, Sector Punta Cuchillo, Ciudad Guayana 8050, Bolívar, Venezuela[1]
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 8.297662, -62.780149 (exact)

Background

The Comsigua DRI plant began operations in 1998 as a joint venture between Kobe Steel, Tamsa México, and the Corporación Venezolana de Guayana.[2] The plant's full name - Complejo Siderúrgico de Guayana - reflects the owners' original vision of creating a larger steel complex comprising two DRI plants, an EAF melt shop and continuous casting facilities.[2] However, financial concerns caused the project to be limited to iron reduction only.[2]

Comsigua produced more than 1 million tonnes of briquettes annually during its first several years of operation, but production dropped off sharply after the plant was nationalized in 2009.[2] Tenaris, the parent corporation of Tamsa México, successfully brought legal charges for breach of international treaty, forcing the Venezuelan government to pay compensatory damages of US $31.7 million in 2011.[2] Comsigua's DRI production, which plummeted to near zero by 2016[2], has recovered somewhat in recent years but continues to be negatively impacted by Venezuela's fragile economy. Comsigua barely achieved 25% of its operational capacity in 2020, and workers have reported that the plant is falling apart and in serious need of new investment.[3]



Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size
operating[4][5] 1998[4] 353[4]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

State-owned entity status State-owned entity department Parent company Parent company PermID Owner Owner company PermID
full[5] Venezuela[5] Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana [100%][6][7][4] 5001120464 [100%] Complejo Siderurgico de Guayana CA (Comsigua)[8] 5000013807

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
crude HBI[4][5] direct reduced iron (DRI)[9][4] 1 DRI plant (Midrex HBI, 1998)[10][11]

Table 4: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):

Sponge iron/DRI capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
1000 TTPA[9][10][4] 1000 TTPA

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  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20220320135215/http://www.comsigua.com.ve/site/content/recepcion. Archived from the original on 2022-03-20. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Empresas Heridas de Muerte: Corrompiendo el Metal" (PDF). Transparencia Venezuela. 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Trabajadores de Comsigua protestaron por beneficios". Primicia. September 15, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220319030708/https://transparencia.org.ve/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/EPE-II-Sector-Metalurgia_DeF.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20220616075508/http://www.cvg.gob.ve/?q=node/212. Archived from the original on 2022-06-16. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20220319093454/https://pandectasdigital.blogspot.com/2018/08/decreto-n-3549-mediante-el-cual-se_60.html. Archived from the original on 2022-03-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20220121094558/https://cotejo.info/2019/10/industrias-basicas-guayana-2020/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-21. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20220318105726/http://www.comsigua.com.ve/site/. Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. 9.0 9.1 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20221008040524/https://www.midrex.com/wp-content/uploads/MidrexSTATSBook2021.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-10-08. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. 10.0 10.1 "2022 AIST DRI and HBI Roundup". Association for Iron & Steel Technology. January 2022. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  11. (PDF) https://www.midrex.com/about/midrex-plants/;http://www.midrex.com/wp-content/uploads/Midrex-Plants-Sheet2021-1.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)