Workers unveil the new sign at Cenovus Energy.
Dean Brown | The Lima News
LIMA — The Cenovus Lima Refinery is going to be operating for a number of years into the future. Refined oil products will be used well beyond the present.
Rhona DelFrari, Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice-President, Stakeholder Engagement, Cenovus Energy was in Lima to speak to the Lima Rotary Club and to celebrate the 135 years of refining oil in Lima.
“Every credible forecast out there shows that there is still going to be a demand for oil and gas well into future decades and decades to come,” DelFrari shared. “Cenovus is focused on creating the most sustainable, when it comes to environment and our commitment to our communities, oil and gas products. We feel that we are going to earn our right to be that supplier well into the future even when the demand for oil and gas starts to decrease.”
“At the Lima refinery operation, we are always striving to have the top safety standards. It also makes sense if this refinery is the most efficient refinery that it can be. We’ve really been focusing over the years as we do our maintenance turnarounds; we upgrade the equipment so that it truly is replacing pieces of the refinery, so that it is operating in the best capacity that it can be. Our company focuses on being low-cost, being low emissions and having a reduced land and water footprint.
“The Lima refinery is a very significant part of Cenovus operations and part of our future. We plan to be in this community for a very long time to come,” DelFrari said to the Rotarians.
Part of their commitment to the community was evident when Claudio Ingaramo, Vice President of Lima Refining, U.S. Refining presented a check to Makerspace for $250,000.
Ingaramo explained, “We have an example of a minority employee making a life-changing decision. He couldn’t get the skills he needed. So after he took a year at Apollo, he is now making significant progress and is one of the upcoming leaders in the organization.
“This entire process of Makerspace fits perfectly with our direction of trying to have community representation in the employees in the refinery. We want to increase the minority employees in the refinery comparable to the community that we work in and that is across the world, everywhere we operate,” Ingaramo said.
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