Boca de Jaruco ( en, Mouth of Jaruco) is a small

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in the

Mayabeque Province Mayabeque Province is one of two new provinces created from the former La Habana Province, whose creation was approved by the Cuban National Assembly on August 1, 2010, the other being Artemisa Province. The new provinces came in to existence on J ...

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. It is located in the

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Santa Cruz del Norte Santa Cruz del Norte is a town and municipality in the Mayabeque Province of Cuba. Before 2011 it was part of La Habana Province. It is located on the north shore, between the cities of Havana and Matanzas, at the mouth of the Santa Cruz River. O ...

, at the mouth of the ''Rio Jaruco'', on the

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An extensive

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was developed west of the village; hundreds of

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were drilled in the 1970s and 1980s by the Cuban national oil company Cupet in cooperation with

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technicians. The oil pumps (many no longer operational) can be seen on either side of the Via Blanca highway as it passes through Boca de Jaruco. The wells are managed by the Russian

Zarubezhneft JSC Zarubezhneft (russian: Зарубежнефть) is a Russian state-controlled oil company based in Moscow that specializes in exploration, development and operation of oil and gas fields outside Russian territory. Sergei Kudryashov is the co ...

and the Cuban Cubapetroleo. The Russian Prime Minister

Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the dep ...

visited the site in October 2019, where Zarubezhneft was planning to invest 100 million euros to drill 30 wells in two years in a move to reduce Cuba's dependence on oil imports. The first horizontal well of this project was drilled in September 2020.

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*{{in lang, es}
Historic Boca de Jaruco on guije.com
Populated places in Mayabeque Province Oil fields of Cuba Cuba–Soviet Union relations

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