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Sidor Ciudad Guayana steel plant

operating

Guayana City, Central & South America, Venezuela

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Process Route

DRIEAF

Timeline

Operating since 1962

Emissions

2025

0.024 Mt CO₂e

0.82 t CO₂e per tonne of steel

Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

1,020

EAF

1,020

DRI

1,290

Pelletising

1,825

Production

Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.

Iron Units

DRI
DRI HYL Amothballed
570 ttpasyngas (reformed methane) · capableHYL/Energironwiki
DRI
DRI IIBoperating
430 ttpasyngas (reformed methane) · capableMidrexwiki
DRI
DRI IICoperating
430 ttpasyngas (reformed methane) · capableMidrexwiki
DRI
DRI HYL Bmothballed
700 ttpasyngas (reformed methane) · capableHYL/Energironwiki
DRI
DRI HYL Cmothballed
700 ttpasyngas (reformed methane) · capableHYL/Energironwiki
DRI
DRI HYL Imothballed
360 ttpasyngas (reformed methane) · capableHYL/Energironwiki
DRI
DRI Imothballed
350 ttpasyngas (reformed methane) · capableMidrexwiki
DRI
DRI IIAoperating
430 ttpasyngas (reformed methane) · capableMidrexwiki

Steel Units

EAF
EAF 1operating
1,020 ttpa200 twiki
EAF
EAF 2mothballed
1,020 ttpa200 twiki
EAF
EAF 3mothballed
1,020 ttpa200 twiki
EAF
EAF 4mothballed
1,020 ttpa200 twiki
EAF
EAF 5mothballed
1,020 ttpa200 twiki

Steel Products

tinplate, ingot, wire rod, rebar, sheet, bar, cold rolled, billet, hot rolled, slab

Ownership

Owner Siderurgica del Orinoco Alfredo Maneiro CA

Parent Siderurgica del Orinoco Alfredo Maneiro CA [100.0%]

Workforce 12,676 employees

State ownership Full

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