Near Caujarito, a hamlet of cinderblock homes south of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, sit two power plants awarded to Derwick in 2009. He said the commission didn’t have enough information at the time to analyze all 12 Derwick plants. With little experience building power plants, he hired ProEnergy Services LLC, a U.S. energy-industry contractor with offices in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, to draft proposals. “The plants should have been made of gold,” said Jose Aguilar, a Venezuelan power consultant who studied the projects. Around Venezuela, construction of the Derwick plants was sluggish and problematic, project documents show.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 23, 2021 15:00 UTC