(WSJ, 3.Feb.2023) — Caribbean countries battered by high energy costs are turning to Venezuela for oil and gas as the U.S. eases sanctions that have kept its supplies off limits for years. Trinidad...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Apr.2022) — This week The World Bank published its 62-page semiannual report for Latin America and the Caribbean (April 2022) dubbed “Consolidating the Recovery: Seizing Green Growth...
(Argus, 19.Apr.2021) — Trading company Mercuria started using oil storage at the Bullen Bay terminal in Curacao under a previously undisclosed short-term lease signed in December. The Liberia-flagged Largo Sun...
(Argus, 28.Aug.2020) — Another Dutch Caribbean island is racing to safeguard and possibly sell Venezuelan fuel oil before a US sanctions window closes in December. Bonaire hosts Venezuelan state-owned PdV's...
(Argus, 18.Aug.2020) — A fuel oil cargo stuck off of the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao is about to be released to an unnamed buyer in a closely monitored transaction...
(Reuters, 20.Mar.2020) — Curacao state-owned oil refinery Refineria di Korsou (RdK) on Friday seized an oil storage terminal on the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire over a payment dispute with...
(Argus, Patricia Garip, 2.Dec.2019) — Venezuela's state-owned PdV struck a preliminary agreement with Curacao to hang on to the Isla refinery and Bullen Bay terminal for a transition period of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Mar.2019) — OPEC announced publication of its Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR) as of 14 March 2019 with details on producers in Latin America and...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 6.Mar.2019) — Plans by the German operator of a portion of the Venezuelan state oil company’s tanker fleet to return 10 vessels because of unpaid fees prompted...
(Marla Dukharan, 4.Feb.2019) — The worst humanitarian crisis in Latin American history has for years been festering in our backyard, with spillovers both good and (mostly) bad for the Caribbean....
(Reuters, 8.Jan.2019) — Curacao’s 335,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Isla refinery has resumed work, management of the government-owned facility said on Tuesday, after eight months of paralysis caused by a dispute between its...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 6.Dec.2018) — Venezuela this month plans to import over 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of refined products to ease domestic fuel shortages caused by hobbled refineries and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart and Aaron Simonsky, 3.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from OPEC’s Venezuela and Southern Cone shale gas producer Argentina. Argentina Authorizes...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, Mircely Guanipa, 7.Aug.2018) – Reuters) - Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA has limited the damage from an unprecedented slump in crude exports by transferring oil between tankers...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Jul.2018) – Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Latin America and the Caribbean fell for a third straight year in 2017, reported the Economic Commission for...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 21.May.2017) – PDVSA announced that it has completely controlled a fire that occurred at its Isla de Curacao refinery. The incident occurred at the distillation...