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=== Oil storage and shipment === The Bonaire Petroleum Corporation (BOPEC) is a fuel oil storage and transshipment terminal on Bonaire. BOPEC is wholly owned by Venezuelan oil company PDVSA, and functions primarily as a storage facility for multiple grades of refined and non-refined oils from Venezuela and refineries on Curaçao and Aruba. BOPEC also has mixing and blending capabilities for its stored fuels. BOPEC's #1 pier can receive tankers up to 500,000DWT,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rocargo.com/ports_serviced_bonaire_bopec.html|title=Rocargo Services N.V.|website=www.rocargo.com|access-date=2015-04-23|archive-date=2023-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302113103/http://www.rocargo.com/ports_serviced_bonaire_bopec.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> which means there are only seven ships in the world that are too big for the BOPEC terminal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://petroglobalnews.com/2013/08/the-top-ten-largest-oil-tankers-ever-built/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150423015407/http://petroglobalnews.com/2013/08/the-top-ten-largest-oil-tankers-ever-built/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 23, 2015|title=The Top Ten Largest Oil Tankers Ever Built|author=Harry Cassin|work=Petro Global News|date=2013-08-28}}</ref> A fire at the BOPEC terminal in 2010 is believed to have had a significant impact on Goto Lake and at least one other nearby lagoon.<ref>[http://www.rivm.nl/en/Documents_and_publications/Scientific/Reports/2013/maart/Follow_up_study_on_the_chemical_status_of_Lake_Goto_Bonaire_Measurements_and_risk_assessment Follow-up study on the chemical status of Lake Goto, Bonaire : Measurements and risk assessment] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928081159/http://www.rivm.nl/en/Documents_and_publications/Scientific/Reports/2013/maart/Follow_up_study_on_the_chemical_status_of_Lake_Goto_Bonaire_Measurements_and_risk_assessment |date=2015-09-28}} Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment (I&M)</ref>
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