(Ecopetrol, 24.Mar.2023) — Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) informs that, with regards to statements in the public media about a possible acquisition by Ecopetrol of the company Monómeros Colombo Venezolanos S.A.,...
(Citgo, 13.Mar.2023) — Citgo Holding, Inc., a Delaware corporation, today announced its offer to purchase (the "Offer") for cash an aggregate principal amount of up to $406.645mn (the "Excess Cash Flow Offer Amount") of...
(Citgo, 9.Mar.2023) Citgo Petroleum Corporation today reported its 2022 fourth quarter and year-end financial results. Highlights: Fourth quarter net income of $806mn and EBITDA[1] of $1.2bn Fourth quarter total refinery crude throughput of 797,000...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 25.Feb.2023) — Energy Minister Stuart Young has again expressed confidence that Trinidad and Tobago (TT) would successfully conclude and execute a deal to receive gas from...
(Reuters, 24.Feb.2023) — Trinidad and Tobago expects to formally begin negotiations next month with Venezuela on a promising offshore natural gas project, the Caribbean nation's energy minister said on Feb....
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Feb.2023) — Energy briefs as well as others related to finance and politics during February 2023 including Repsol commenting on improvement of prospects for operations in Venezuela;...
(Reuters, 6.Feb.2023) — State firms from Iran and Venezuela will start in the coming weeks a 100-day revamp of the South American nation's largest refining complex to restore its crude...
(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...
(Reuters, 30.Jan.2023) — Venezuela's state oil firm PDVSA is toughening terms for buyers after a month-long halt to most exports of crude and fuel, demanding prepayment ahead of loadings in...
(Motley Fool Transcribing, 27.Jan.2023) — Chevron Corporation’s earnings call for the period ending 31 December 2022 with Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth and his comments on topics ranging...
(Trinidad Express, 25.Jan.2023) — Energy expert Anthony Paul is not convinced that T&T has its ducks lined up to deliver the various sub-projects required to bring that gas to shore...
(Welligence Energy Analytics, 25.Jan.2023) — The U.S. Department of the Treasury has granted a license to the government of T&T to receive gas from the multi-Tcf offshore Dragon gas field in Venezuela....
(Office of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 24.Jan.2023) — As you all are aware, the United States is our major trading partner and approximately 200,000 of our citizens...
(Reuters, 24.Jan.2023) — The U.S. Treasury Department has granted a license to Trinidad and Tobago to develop a major gas field located in Venezuelan territorial waters, a senior Biden administration...
(AP, 5.Jan.2023) — Venezuela’s opposition has selected an all-female team of mostly unknown exiled former lawmakers to replace the beleaguered Juan Guaidó as the face of its faltering efforts to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 31.Dec.2022) — Energy briefs as well as others related to finance and politics during December 2022 including Washington’s easing of sanctions on Venezuela resulting in increased US...
(Reuters, 30.Dec.2022) — U.S. oil company Chevron Corp (CVX.N) is sending two oil tankers to Venezuela, one of which will load the first cargo of crude destined for the United States in...
(Investor’s Business Day, 29.Dec.2022) — U.S. diesel prices hit all time highs in 2022 as demand surged and supplies of the critical heating and transportation fuel tightened. However, analysts expect...
(Canaima Fund Lux, 28.Dec.2022) — Canaima Fund Lux ("Issuer"), a securitization fund governed by the Luxembourg Law of 22 March 2004 on securitization undertakings, registered under number O27, and more precisely for and...
(Reuters, 23.Dec.2022) — The latest in Latin American politics today: ex-ministers in Peru recount Castillo's dramatic final day, U.S. court rejects Maduro ally's bid to dismiss charges, CEO of Brazil's...
(Marco Rubio, 20.Dec.2022) — In response to the Biden Administration’s policy of concessions to the criminal Maduro narco-regime, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jim Risch (R-ID) introduced the Venezuelan Democracy...
(Agence France-Presse, 6.Dec.2022) — Venezuela: Shuttled between tourist spots, posing for pictures on beautiful beaches, and dancing awkwardly to merengue: Russian tourists have found a friendly holiday destination on a...
(Forbes, 2.Dec.2022) — A video that state-owned oil giant Petróleos de Venezuela posted to its Twitter feed this week shows a jovial meeting between Oil Minister Tarek El Aissami and...
(Reuters, 1.Dec.2022) — Chevron Corp is unlikely to add investment in Venezuela in the next six months despite a recent U.S. license to allow it to expand its operations in...
(Welligence, 1.Dec.2022) — Chevron Corporation has recently secured a license to renew limited operations within the country and source critical inputs necessary for processing crude, Welligence announced 1 December 2022...
(Anadolu Agency, 1.Dec.2022) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday that licenses and authorizations granted so far by the US to ease sanctions it imposed on Venezuela are "headed in...
(FT.com, 30.Nov.2022) — The ports of the US Gulf of Mexico coast will soon resume shipments that have been absent for more than three years: tankers full of Venezuela’s heavy...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Nov.2022) — Energy briefs as well as others related to finance and politics during November 2022 including Brazilian oil giant Petrobras launching its strategic plan for 2023-27;...
(AFP, 30.Nov.2022) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said the easing of an oil embargo on his country by the United States was not enough, and called Wednesday for the total...
(US Department of State, 26.Nov.2022) — The following statement was released by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell...
(Al Jazeera, 26.Nov.2022) — The Biden administration on Saturday eased some oil sanctions on Venezuela after the government of Nicolas Maduro and the opposition signed a broad ‘social accord’ to...
(Reuters, 26.Nov.2022) — Chevron Corp on Saturday received a U.S. license allowing the second-largest U.S. oil company to expand its production in Venezuela and bring the South American country's crude...
(Reuters, 23.Nov.2022) — Chevron Corp could soon win U.S. approval to expand operations in Venezuela and resume trading its oil once the Venezuelan government and its opposition resume political talks,...
(Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc., 17.Nov.2022) — Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc., the 501(c)(3) nonprofit private foundation of Citgo Petroleum Corporation, is awarding up to $1.68mn in grant funding to seven qualified charitable organizations...
(Citgo, 10.Nov.2022) — Citgo Petroleum Corporation reported 2022 third quarter net income of $477mn and EBITDA of $804mn, compared to net income of $1.29bn and EBITDA of $1.86bn in the second quarter of 2022. Highlights: Reported third quarter...
(Citgo, 10.Nov.2022) — Citgo Holding, Inc., a Delaware corporation, announced its offer to purchasefor cash an aggregate principal amount of up to $237.391mn (the "Excess Cash Flow Offer Amount") of its 9.25% Senior...
(Reuters, 4.Nov.2022) — The government of Trinidad and Tobago is asking the United States to authorize Venezuelan gas imports to restart an idled liquefaction train in the Caribbean nation, four...
(MEEI, 24.Oct.2022) — The Honourable Stuart R. Young, M.P., Minister of Energy and Energy Industries and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister met today, Monday 24 October 2022...
(Reuters, 25.Oct.2022) — Top officials from the U.S. State and Treasury departments are discussing proposals for a fund that could release over $3 billion to provide humanitarian aid to Venezuelans...
(Rystad, 24.Oct.2022) — As the supply side of the oil business continues to tighten globally, calls within the US to ease sanctions on what was once one of Latin America’s...
(Xinhua, 17.Oct.2022) — Iranian Petroleum Minister Javad Owji said on Sunday that Iran has started refining its crude oil in Venezuela, SHANA news agency affiliated to his ministry reported. Iran...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Oct.2022) — The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) now forecasts oil demand to dip below 100 million barrels per day (MMb/d) in 2022 owing a lower...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2022) — Energy briefs as well as others related to finance and politics during September 2022 including EXMAR closing the sale of the floating liquefaction barge Tango...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Sep.2022) — A lightning strike at the oxidation and water treatment lagoon of PDVSA’s Puerto La Cruz Refinery on 19 September 2022 didn’t impact the operations of...
(Reuters, 1.Sep.2022) — Chevron Corp has asked the U.S. government to expand its license to operate in Venezuela after the oil major agreed with state-run PDVSA to revamp joint ventures in the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 31.Aug.2022) — Energy briefs as well as others related to finance and politics during August 2022 including Petrobras announcing firm well commitments to drill exploratory wells in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Aug.2022) — Amos Global Energy Management LLC or AGE, a Houston-based independent oil & gas company focused on the acquisition and development of international upstream assets, continues...
(Reuters, 26.Aug.2022) — China has entrusted a defense-focused state firm to ship millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil despite U.S. sanctions, part of a deal to offset Caracas' billions of dollars...
(Law360, 19.Aug.2022) — ConocoPhillips won approval on Friday to enforce an $8.5 billion arbitral award against Venezuela despite the country ignoring the litigation for more than two years, after a federal...
(CNN, 16.Aug.2022) — A growing number of US citizens are being detained in Venezuela -- and though exactly how many is unknown, the detentions could give authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro leverage in...
(Reuters, 12.Aug.2022) — Colombia's trade with Venezuela could hit $1.2 billion this year, its commerce minister German Umana said on Friday, after the country's new President Gustavo Petro pledged to...
(Citgo, 11.Aug.2022) — Citgo Petroleum reported a second quarter net income of $1.29bn and EBITDA of $1.86bn compared to net income of $245mn and EBITDA of $518mn in the first quarter of 2022. Highlights: Reported second quarter net...
(Citgo, 11.Aug.2022) — Citgo Holding, Inc., a Delaware corporation, today announced its offer to purchase for cash an aggregate principal amount of up to $286.231mn (the "Excess Cash Flow Offer Amount") of its 9.25%...
(MEEI, 6.Aug.2022) — The Honourable Stuart R Young, M.P., minister of Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI) in the Office of the Prime Minister visited Caracas, Venezuela on 5...
(Argus, 28.Jul.2022) — Spain's integrated Repsol has resumed its crude-for-debt deal with Venezuela, and said the arrival of around 3mn bl of Venezuelan crude at its Spanish terminals this month...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Jul.2022) — Energy briefs including details related to UEG Araucária S.A. (UEGA), a partnership between Petrobras, Copel and Copel Geração e Transmissão. LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 7.Jul.2022) — Energy briefs including the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) authorizing certain transactions involving the exportation or reexportation of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Jul.2022) — Energy briefs including the closure of PDVSA Vassa, formerly Venoco, leaving nearly a thousand workers in uncertainty; and the release of the International Gas Union...
(Reuters, 5.Jul.2022) — Two U.S. investment funds on Tuesday said they formed a joint venture with a Venezuelan firm to pursue oil and gas exploration and production projects in the...
(Gramercy Funds Management, 5.Jul.2022) — Gage Venezuela Holdings LLC, a recently created partnership between Amos Global Energy Management LLC ("Age") and Gramercy Funds Management LLC announced today that it has...
(AP, 27.Jun.2022) — Senior U.S. government officials have quietly traveled to Caracas in the latest bid to bring home detained Americans and rebuild relations with the South American oil giant...
(Citgo, 27.Jun.2022) — The Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc., the 501(c)(3) nonprofit private foundation of Citgo Petroleum Corporation, released its 2021 Annual Report. The Foundation is dedicated to improving the health of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Jun.2022) — Energy briefs including the US Department of Treasury announcing the removal of former PDVSA Vice President Carlos Erik Malpica Flores from OFAC’s SDN list. LATIN...
(The Hill, 5.Jun.2022) — The U.S. will reportedly resume allowing Venezuelan oil to flow to Europe, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The outlet on Sunday reported that Eni SpA...
(Bloomberg, 5.Jun.2022) — The US could allow Italy’s Eni SpA and Spain’s Repsol SA to ship Venezuelan oil to Europe as soon as July to make up for Russian crude, Reuters reported, citing...
(Reuters, 30.May.2022) — Venezuela's state-run PDVSA has ordered over a hundred stations to begin selling diesel in dollars, reducing a subsidy that had allowed truckers and public transportation drivers to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 29.May.2022) — Energy and political briefs including initial results in Colombia showing Gustavo Petro and his running mate Francia Márquez Mina, representing the Pacto Histórico party, heading...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.May.2022) — Energy and political briefs including Colombians going to the polls to elect their next president; OFAC extending Chevron Corporation's license to remain in Venezuela; and...
(Reuters, 24.May.2022) — The U.S. Treasury Department is getting ready to renew in the coming days Chevron Corp's license to operate in Venezuela, but likely without the greatly expanded terms...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.May.2022) — Energy briefs including Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro warning citizens of the OPEC country to be on “maximum alert” in the face of what he called...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.May.2022) — Energy briefs including Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) (NYSE: SQM; Santiago Stock Exchange: SQM-B, SQM-A) holding a conference call to discuss its 1Q;22...
(Citgo, 17.May.2022) — Citgo Petroleum Corporation reported net income of $245mn for the first quarter 2022, compared to net income of $21mn for the fourth quarter of 2021 and a loss of $(180)mn for the first...
(AP, 17.May.2022) — The United States government is moving to ease a few economic sanctions on Venezuela in a gesture meant to encourage resumed negotiations between the US-backed opposition and...
(CNN, 17.May.2022) — The Biden administration will begin to ease some energy sanctions on Venezuela to encourage ongoing political discussions between President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition, two senior administration officials told...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.May.2022) — Venezuela Petroleum Chamber President Reinaldo Quintero spoke with Venezuelan media outlet Globovision on 16 May 2022 about US sanctions imposed on Venezuela, state owned Petróleos...
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