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Venezuela’s Refinery Woes Send Fuel Imports Soaring -Internal Documents
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 6.Dec.2018) â Venezuela this month plans to import over 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of refined products to ease domestic fuel shortages […]
Argentine Leader Sees Tough Road Ahead
(AP, 5.Dec.2018) â Argentinaâs president is celebrating the successful hosting of the Group of 20 summit, but he said Monday that he is ready for […]
Indiaâs ONGC Gets $32 Million Payment From PDVSA
(Reuters, 5.Dec.2018) â Indiaâs Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has received a payment of $32 million from Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) as part of […]
Putin Hosts Venezuela’s President, With Aid To Regime On Agenda
(ABCNews, Anastasia Bagaeva, 5.Dec.2018) â Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro visited Moscow Wednesday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin said assistance for Maduroâs […]
ONGC Gets $32mn Pmt From PDVSA
(Reuters, Nidhi Verma, 4.Dec.2018) â Indiaâs Oil and Natural Gas Corp has received a payment of $32 million from Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) as part […]
New Rules At Panama Canal Expected To Boost U.S. LNG Industry
(Houston Chronicle, Sergio Chapa, Staff writer 30.Nov.2018) â New rules allowing a greater number of liquefied natural gas tankers to pass through the Panama Canal […]
Rosneftâs Sechin Flies To Venezuela, Rebukes Maduro Over Oil Shipments
(Reuters, Alexandra Ulmer and Marianna Parraga, 24.Nov.2018) â The head of Russian oil company Rosneft, Igor Sechin, flew to Caracas this week to meet Venezuelan […]
PDVSA In Talks Over 2nd Sea-Borne Oil-Transfer Operation
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 22.Nov.2018) â Venezuelaâs state-run oil firm PDVSA has begun talks with shipping firms to set up a second ship-to-ship (STS) operation off […]
BP, Pan American Eye Exporting Argentina Shale Gas As LNG Via Chile
(S&P Global Platts, 15.Nov.2018) â Pan American Energy, the second-biggest oil producer and third for gas in Argentina, is working with BP on potentially exporting […]
T&T Energy Minister: Positive Growth Forecast For NatGas Markets
(Loop News, 14.Nov.2018) â Minister of Energy and Energy Industries and President of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, Franklin Khan, said the natural gas industry […]
Five Groups May Join Eletronuclear Complete Power Plant Project
(Reuters, 6.Nov.2018) â Five groups are considering whether to partner with Brazilâs state-controlled Eletronuclear to resume construction of nuclear power plant Angra III, already partially […]
Venezuela: Oil Producerâs Slump Reflects Nationâs Decline
(Ft.com, Gideon Long, John Paul Rathbone, 28.Oct.2018) â Gideon Long in Caracas and John Paul Rathbone in Washington October 28, 2018 Print this page 95 […]
CNOOC Says Guyana Success ‘Laid Foundation For Future Development’
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 27.Oct.2018) â Chinaâs CNOOC Limited announced that success in Guyana has laid the foundation for future development. âSuccessful drilling of […]
Foreign Oil And Gas Firms Look To Play Crucial Role In Venezuela
(Energy Global, David Bizley, 19.Oct.2018) â The majority of foreign companies are not making any profit or losing money in their partnerships with PDVSA to […]
Petrobras and CNPC Define Business Model For COMPERJ, Marlim Partnership
(Hydrocarbon Engineering, Alex Hithersay, 18.Oct.2018) â Petrobras has announced that it has signed an integrated project business model agreement (IPBMA) with China National Oil and […]
YPF In Talks To Sell Stake In Power Unit To Asian Fund
(Bloomberg, Pablo Rosendo Gonzalez, 11.Oct.2018) â YPF SA, Argentinaâs state-run oil company, is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake in its power unit […]
IEA Urges Opec to Open Taps as Oil Markets Enter âRed Zoneâ
(Bloomberg, Javier Blas, Grant Smith & Francine Lacqua, 9.Oct.2018) â Oil prices have rallied to a four-year-high due to US sanctions on Iran and the […]
Guyana May be the Next Big Beast in Global Oil
(The National, Robin Mills, 8.Oct.2018) â One of the few major new conventional oil provinces discovered this century could see the country emerge as the […]
Venezuelaâs Oil Exports Are Falling Even Faster Than Expected
(OilPrice.com, Irina Slav, 3.Oct.2018) â A delay in port repairs following a tanker collision is putting additional pressure on already pressured Venezuelan crude oil exports, […]
OPEC’s Decade of Turmoil Leaves Cartel Seeking a New Way Forward
(Bloomberg, Christopher Sell, 20.Sep.2018) â A global recession, both $140 and $30 oil, the U.S. shale revolution, a market-share war, and output cuts. OPECâs 60-year […]
Venezuelaâs Maduro Says Relationship With China âWin-Winâ
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 18.Sep.2018) â In terms of bilateral cooperation, Venezuela and China are seeking a âwin-winâ scenarios. âRelations with China are very […]