HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Jul.2026, Words: 1400) — On 24 Jun. 2026, 2 powerful earthquakes — the first of 7.2 and the second of 7.5 on the Richter scale — hit Vargas state and parts of Caracas, reopening an old wound in Venezuela’s collective memory.
For many, it was an echo of the deadly Vargas tragedy of late-1999 under the watch of late Venezuelan present Hugo Chávez.
(Petrobras, 24.Jan.2024) — Petrobras expressed to the National Energy Policy Council (CNPE) its interest in the right of first refusal in a block to be tendered in the Permanent Offer System, under the Production Sharing Regime, under the terms of Law 12,351/2010 and Federal Decree 9,041/2017. Petrobras approved the expression […]
(Guyana Foreign Affairs Ministry, 28.Feb.2015) – Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to inform that consequent upon a communication being sent from the Venezuelan Foreign Minister to the Country Manager of Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited objecting to the despatch of a rig to proceed with the exploration of […]
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.Aug.2018) – If Mexico’s Pemex doesn’t have the necessary funds to invest in deep water or shale activities, how is it the state oil company will have funds to invests in new refineries as proposed by President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador? Join the discussion below […]