San Tomé, Venezuela
San Tomé | |
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| Coordinates: 8°56′28″N 64°7′48″W / 8.94111°N 64.13000°W | |
| Country | Venezuela |
| State | Anzoátegui |
| Municipality | Pedro María Freites Municipality |
| Elevation | 255 m (837 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC-4:00 (VET) |
| Climate | Aw |
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San Tomé is an oil company town, or camp, located about 8 miles (13 km) northeast of the city of El Tigre, in the state of Anzoátegui in Venezuela. The town of San José de Guanipa, also called El Tigrito, lies between El Tigre and San Tomé. San Tomé lies about 60 miles (97 km) north of the Orinoco River, and about 90 miles (140 km) south of Puerto la Cruz and its oil refineries on the Caribbean Sea. San Tomé was originally an American planned community built in the 1930s by and for the Mene Grande Oil Company, a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corporation. Ownership of San Tomé was assumed by Petróleos de Venezuela, Sociedad Anónima (PDVSA) after the oil industry was nationalized in 1975.