(Seeking Alpha, Carl Surran, 16.Jan.2019) — The White House National Security Council has told some U.S. refiners that sanctions on…
(Kessler Topaz, 17.Jan.2019) — The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP alerts investors that a securities fraud…
(Jamaica Gleaner, Avia Collinder, 16.Jan.2019) — A &A Lime Hall Development Limited, a company incorporated in 2004 as a rental…
(Jamaica Gleaner, Livern Barrett, 16.Jan.2019) — Amid calls by the parliamentary Opposition for the Government to reconsider its decision, the…
(S&P Global Platts, 16.Jan.2019) — The White House National Security Council has told some US refiners that sanctions on Venezuelan…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 15.Jan.2019) — Oil production in the OPEC country has decreased 58% during the tenure of…
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. Source: PDVSA (Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Jan.2019) — Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro announced plans to…
(Bloomberg, Patricia Laya and Fabiola Zerpa, 14.Jan.2019) — Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro ordered a 300 percent increase in the monthly…
(The Wall Street Journal, Kejal Vyas, 14.Jan.2019) — The U.S. is evaluating whether to impose tougher sanctions against Venezuela’s military…
(CMC, 11.Jan.2019) — Venezuela has disputed Guyana’s account of what Georgetown said was the dangerous incursion into local waters after…
(ClaimsFiler, 11.Jan.2019) — ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until February 11, 2019 to file…
(Reuters, Neil Marks, 10.Jan.2019) — Seismic research vessels hired by Exxon Mobil to explore for oil off Guyana’s coast have…
(Jamaica Observer, Kamina Johnson Smith, 9.Jan.2019) — Below are the notes from Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamina Johnson Smith in…
(Jamaica Observer, 9.Jan.2019) — The Government of Jamaica has announced that it will take legislative action for ownership of the…
(Jamaica Observer, 9.Jan.2019) — The Opposition has come out against Government’s decsion to use legislative action to take back Venezuela’s…
(Reuters, 8.Jan.2019) — Venezuela’s opposition-run congress on Tuesday issued a resolution calling deals between state-run oil company PDVSA and U.S.…
(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…
(AFP, 7.Jan.2019) — French oil company Maurel & Prom will invest $400 million in an oil field in Venezuela, whose…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 7.Jan.2019) — Venezuela’s Oil Minister and PDVSA President Manuel Quevedo announced that the state oil…
(Reuters, Luc Cohen and Brian Ellsworth, 7.Jan.2019) — Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] has signed a deal with little-known…
(T&T Energy Chamber CEO Thackwray ‘Dax’ Driver, 6.Jan.2019) — Trinidad & Tobago’s energy sector is predicted to make a modest…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman and Piero Stewart, 4.Jan.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Bolivia seeking…
(Bloomberg, Noah Smith, 3.Jan.2018) — It’s hard to overstate how disastrous the reign of Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas…
(Bloomberg, Lucia Kassai, 2.Jan.2019) — Venezuela, once Latin America’s largest oil exporter, ended 2018 with a whimper as overseas sales…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart and Ian Silverman, 31.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Colombia’s first…
(Oilprice.com, Nick Cunningham, 27.Dec.2018) — Last Friday, the Guyanese government fell after a no-confidence vote, a move that likely was…
(Reuters, Alexandra Ulmer and Marianna Parraga, 26.Dec.2018) — Last July 6, Major General Manuel Quevedo joined his wife, a Catholic…
(ExxonMobil, 26.Dec.2018) — ExxonMobil said today that drilling and development operations offshore Guyana are unaffected by an incident involving seismic…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, Ian Silverman, and Piero Stewart, 26.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 26.Dec.2018) — Shares of Goldman Sachs shares have fallen 30% due to the investment firm’s…
(Reuters, 25.Dec.2018) — Venezuela’s foreign ministry on Tuesday described as “interventionist and disrespectful” U.S. comments on a weekend incident in…
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 24.Dec.2018) — Exxon has suspended exploration activities in the western part of the Stabroek block offshore Guyana…
(Reuters, 24.Dec.2018) — Exxon Mobil and a seismic research company it hired to search for oil off the coast of…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 21.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Argentina’s renewable energy sector, Maurel…
(Maurel & Prom, 20.Dec.2018) — Etablissements Maurel & Prom announced in the press release published on 12 October 2018 the…
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 20.Dec.2018) — U.S. oil production will continue to grow at a rapid pace until 2025, while Venezuela’s…
(S&P Global Platts, 19.Dec.2018) — OPEC enters a pivotal third year of production cuts in a volatile oil market with…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 15.Dec.2018) — The mixed company Petrolera Sinovensa is currently producing 130,000 barrels per day of…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs from Venezuela related to Nicolás Maduro…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman and Piero Stewart, 13.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from South…
(OilPrice.com, Irina Slav, 12.Dec.2018) — Canadian miner Crystallex has accused Venezuela of breaching a US$1.4-billion settlement agreement as PDVSA continued…
(CITGO, 11.Dec.2018) — CITGO Petroleum Corporation presented twenty scholarships to the recipients of its inaugural CITGO Innovation Scholarship Program, an…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 6.Dec.2018) — Venezuela this month plans to import over 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of refined products…
(JWN, Deborah Jaremko, 5.Dec.2018) — Thanks to ExxonMobil’s run of success in oil exploration offshore Guyana, the country is on…
(Reuters, 5.Dec.2018) — India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has received a payment of $32 million from Petroleos de…
(ABCNews, Anastasia Bagaeva, 5.Dec.2018) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro visited Moscow Wednesday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The…
(Reuters, Mayela Armas and Mariela Nava, 5.Dec.2018) — Angelica Vera of Venezuela’s western state of Zulia planned to cremate her…
(Bloomberg, Nacha Cattan and Eric Martin, 1.Dec.2018) — After decades of waiting, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador punctuated his arrival as…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin and Piero Stewart, 28.Nov. 2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from…
(Houston Business Journal, Olivia Pulsinelli, 28.Nov.2018) — Houston-based refiner Citgo Holding Inc. will remain owned by Venezuela’s state-run oil company,…
(Houston Chronicle, Sergio Chapa, 26.Nov.2018) — A payment on a $1.4 billion arbitration award to a Canadian gold mining company…
(Fox Business, Mike Obel, 26.Nov.2018) — Venezuela managed to retain ownership of Citgo, the big U.S. refining and gasoline marketing…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 24.Nov. 2018) — Venezuela is suffering a complete meltdown across all sectors. The Venezuelan…
(Reuters, Alexandra Ulmer and Marianna Parraga, 24.Nov.2018) — The head of Russian oil company Rosneft, Igor Sechin, flew to Caracas…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 22.Nov.2018) — Venezuela’s state-run oil firm PDVSA has begun talks with shipping firms to set up a…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart and Aaron Simonsky, 22.Nov. 2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 21.Nov. 2018) — Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro said an $100 oil price is a “fair…
(Bloomberg, Fabiola Zerpa, 21.Nov.2018) — Venezuela’s fuel shortages are worsening as mass resignations at the state oil company’s tanker fleet…
(OilPrice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 15.Nov.2018) — OPEC’s member Venezuela—which is sitting on the world’s largest crude oil reserves but which is…
(Trinidad Express, 15.Nov.2018) — Venezuela’s minister of energy, Manuel Quevedo, said yesterday that his country’s state-owned oil giant PDVSA expects…
(Reuters, Tibisay Romero, Deisy Buitrago, 13.Nov.2018) — With chronic shortages of basic goods afflicting her native Venezuela, Veronica Perez used…
(Reuters, 11.Nov.2018) — Venezuela is hoping to steeply raise oil output next year but will respect any new deal if…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 10.Nov.2018) — An explosion that occurred along a segment of the Northeast Gas Pipeline José…
(Wall Street Journal, Kejal Vyas and Bradley Olson, 8.Nov.2018) — For nearly a century, Chevron Corp. has weathered dictatorships, coups and…
(Reuters, 6.Nov.2018) — Rosneft was owed $3.1 billion by Venezuela as of September 30, down from $3.6 billion on June…
(AP, 2.Nov.2018) The former finance chief of Venezuela’s state oil company pleaded guilty on Wednesday to participating in an alleged…
(Reuters, Alexandra Ulmer, 2.Nov.2018) — Russian bank Gazprombank on Friday said it had no role in a Venezuelan corruption case…
(Houston Chronicle, James Osborne, 2.Nov.2018) — Almost 4,000 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, off the northern coastline…
(Reuters, Alexandra Ulmer, 1.Nov.2018) — Anglo-French oil company Perenco and Russian financial firm Gazprombank have been identified in testimony by…
(Citgo Petroleum, 1.Nov.2018) — CITGO Petroleum Corporation recently participated in Houston’s largest free family festival, Energy Day. The event brought…
(El Nuevo Herald, Jay Weaver And Antonio Maria Delgado, 31.Oct.2018) — A former top official of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company…
(Bloomberg, Davide Scigliuzzo, 31.Oct.2018) — Venezuela just forked over almost $1 billion to stay current on a bond backed by…
(Reuters, Alexandra Ulmer, Nidhi Verma, 31.Oct.2018) — Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA has shipped a crude cargo valued at $35 million as…
(The Wall Street Journal, Samuel Rubenfeld, 30.Oct.2018) — U.S. prosecutors said they secured another guilty plea in their ongoing corruption…
(Express, Ciaran McGrath, 30.Oct.2018) — Venezuela represents a “clear threat to regional stability” and a “direct challenge” to the United…
(Reuters) — Investors have started to receive payment of interest and principal on Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA’s 2020 bond,…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 29.Oct. 2018) — Opposition party Voluntad Popular will present a proposal called “Energy Venezuela,” which…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 28.Oct.2018) — Petroleum sector accidents and oil spills in Venezuela have become an almost regular…
(Ft.com, Gideon Long, John Paul Rathbone, 28.Oct.2018) — Gideon Long in Caracas and John Paul Rathbone in Washington October 28,…
(The Australian Financial Review, Craig Emerson, 28.Oct.2018) — On November 22, 2017, a nation’s government legislated price controls in response…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, Collin Eaton, 26.Oct.2018) — Cash-strapped state-run oil companies in Mexico and Venezuela have begun diverting crude historically…
(OilPrice.com. Tsvetana Paraskova, 26.Oct.2018) — Although Venezuela is regularly delaying or avoiding bond payments and is behind on billions of…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Oct.2018) — Four distillations units at PDVSA’s Cardón refinery, located in Falcón state, are said…
(Ft.com, Gideon Long, 25.Oct.2018) — In a month in which emerging market government bonds have been hammered by the prospect…
(Bloomberg, Alex Nussbaum, 25.Oct.2018) — ConocoPhillips’ decade-old legal war with Venezuela began paying off this week as the embattled Latin…
(CITGO, 25.Oct.2018) — CITGO Petroleum Company announced the West Oso Independent School District has approved the launch of a CITGO…
(Bloomberg, 24.Oct.2018) — Petroleos de Venezuela SA’s plan to make a $949 million bond payment would mark a rare exception…
(Reuters, Dmitry Zhdannikov, Julia Payne, 23.Oct.2018) — The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking documents from Glencore (GLEN.L) about intermediary…
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 23.Oct.2018) — With population of fewer than 750,000 people, Guyana—a neighbor of Venezuela—has always depended on commodities.…
(Energy Global, David Bizley, 19.Oct.2018) — The majority of foreign companies are not making any profit or losing money in…
(Miami Herald, Andres Oppenheimer, 17.Oct.2018) — There is a major inconsistency in President Trump’s stand on Venezuela: He talks tough…
(Reuters, Roberta Rampton, 17.Oct.2018) — The United States plans to turn up sanctions pressure on Venezuela but sees less need…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 17.Oct.2018) — Retired workers with PDVSA and Pequiven spoke out in the streets in a…
(Reuters, 15.Oct.2018) — Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA is preparing to pay holders of its 2020 bond some $950 million…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 13.Oct.2018) — Venezuela has solicited an audit of costs related to the Pacific Coast Refinery…
(Reuters, 12.Oct.2018) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc is negotiating the sale of its stake in a Venezuelan oil joint venture…
(Maurel & Prom, 12.Oct.2018) — Etablissements Maurel & Prom notes recent press articles and confirms it is working on the…
(Reuters, Alexandra Ulmer, 10.Oct.2018) — Venezuela on Wednesday increased wages for workers at state energy company PDVSA after employees staged…
(Bloomberg, Javier Blas, Grant Smith & Francine Lacqua, 9.Oct.2018) — Oil prices have rallied to a four-year-high due to US…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 4.Oct.2018) — Venezuela’s September crude sales to the United States rose to their highest in over a…