(Reuters, Chen Aizhu, 10.Sep.2019) — China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), a leading buyer of Venezuelan oil, will skip cargo loadings…
(Rosneft, 10.Sep.2019) — In connection with statements by US special envoy Elliott Abrams, Rosneft reaffirms its position regarding the Company’s…
(Citgo, 5.Sep.2019) — Standard & Poor’s (S&P), a leading credit rating agency, has removed Citgo Holding, Inc. and Citgo Petroleum…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, Mircely Guanipa, 3.Sep.2019) — Venezuela’s oil exports fell in August to their lowest level in 2019, internal…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 29.Aug.2019) — LatAmNRG briefs related to the Liza Destiny FPSO reaching Guyana, PDVSA investigating recent…
(Citgo, 26.Aug.2019) — The Board of Directors of Citgo Petroleum Corporation is pleased to report significant progress on top company…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 22.Aug.2019) — The two new top executives at Citgo Petroleum disclosed this week that net income in…
(Argus, 20.Aug.2019) — The Chinese government is so far showing no sign of curtailing its oil ties to Venezuela, despite…
(AP, 20.Aug.2019) — Parts of Venezuela’s capital and at least one state endured a power blackout on Tuesday lasting several…
(Reuters, Chen Aizhu and Marianna Parraga, 18.Aug.2019) — China National Petroleum Corp, a leading buyer of Venezuelan oil, has halted…
(Oilprice.com, Julianne Geiger, 16.Aug.2019) — Russia and China have stuck with Venezuela during its most recent time of need, but…
(Reuters, Alex Lawler, 16.Aug.2019) — OPEC delivered a downbeat oil market outlook for the rest of 2019 on Friday as…
(S&P Global Platts, 15.Aug.2019) — The US is set to impose sanctions on Rosneft if it continues to trade crude…
(Reuters, By Luc Cohen, 15.Aug.2019) — Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress is considering reforms to the country’s oil law that would open…
(Citgo, 14.Aug.2019) — The Board of Directors of Citgo Petroleum Corporation has selected Carlos E. Jorda to occupy the Chief…
(Reuters, Luc Cohen, 14.Aug.2019) — Foreign joint venture partners with Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA are concerned the latest set…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 13.Aug.2019) — Venezuela’s National Assembly leader Juan Guaido announced creation of a special commission dedicated…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 13.Aug.2019) — Citgo Petroleum Corp has selected Carlos Jorda as its next chief executive, according to three…
(Oxford Business Group, 10.Aug.2019) — In June the UN estimated that 4m people had fled Venezuela as a result of…
(WSJ, Vivian Salama, 6.Aug.2019) — The Trump administration imposed a total economic embargo against the government of Venezuela, a significant…
(Bloomberg, 6.Aug.2019) — President Donald Trump imposed further sanctions on Venezuela, freezing the government’s assets in the U.S. and adding…
(Platts, 6.Aug.2019) — The US escalated sanctions against Venezuela late Monday and may use the executive order to target crude…
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 5.Aug.2019) — Six U.S. executives at Citgo, the U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-held oil firm PDVSA, were…
(Reuters, Matt Spetalnick and Roberta Rampton, 5.Aug.2019) — U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 5.Aug.2019) — Court says National Assembly leader Juan Guaido authorized to appoint the directors of…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin and Piero Stewart, 2.Aug.2019) — LatAmNRG briefs and heard on the street related to Sempra…
(Citgo, 1.Aug.2019) — CITGO Holding, Inc., parent company of CITGO Petroleum Corporation (CPC), confirmed it has completed its previously announced…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 1.Aug.2019) — Venezuela’s oil exports fell 17.5% in July to their second-lowest level since Washington imposed sanctions…
(Bloomberg, 1.Aug.2019) — Russian oil products are making their way to sanction-stained Venezuela, affording a reprieve for the Latin American…
(Argus, 30.Jul.2019) — Venezuela´s fledgling opposition government is putting the final touches on a strategic package of economic measures designed…
(Argus, 29.Jul.2019) — India’s imports of Venezuelan crude jumped by 25pc year on year in June and by 37pc from…
(Reuters, 29.Jul.2019) — Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA said on Monday the Petropiar extra-heavy crude upgrader, part-owned by U.S. oil…
(Reuters, Timothy Gardner, 26.Jul.2019) — The Trump administration is split over whether to renew a license this week for energy…
(Reuters, 26.Jul.2019) — The administration of United States President Donald Trump said on Friday that it has renewed Chevron Corp’s…
(Bloomberg, Kevin Crowley, Lucia Kassai and Kevin Cirilli, 25.Jul.2019) — Pressure is mounting on U.S. President Donald Trump to end Chevron…
(Citgo, 25.Jul.2019) — The Simón Bolívar Foundation, the 501(c)(3) non-profit, private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, held an educational and…
(Argus, 25.Jul.2019) — A US government decision over Chevron’s expiring license to work in Venezuela is the first test of…
(Reuters, Luc Cohen) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Tuesday he would seek to protect Chevron Corp’s assets…
(Ford Tanner, 23.Jul.2019) — Venezuela’s political crisis remains in stalemate. Escalating oil-sector sanctions imposed by the United States have contributed…
(Reuters, 22.Jul.2019) — More than half of Venezuela’s 23 states lost power on Monday, according to Reuters witnesses and reports…
(NPR, 20.Jul.2019) — It sounded like such a good idea at the time. The year was 2005. Global oil prices…
(Reuters, 18.Jul.2019) — Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA partly restarted activity at its 645,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Amuay refinery where a…
(Petroleum Economist, 18.Jul.2019) — Latin America’s economically troubled oil giant faces the difficult task of significantly raising Asian crude grades.…
(Argus, 9.Jul.2019) — Venezuela’s national oil company PdV is seeking to adapt its infrastructure to cope with a shortage of…
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 8.Jul.2019) — Venezuela’s refining complex CRP has been shut down after a blackout that occurred on Sunday,…
(Argus, 8.Jul.2019) — Venezuela´s state-owned PdV plans to restart crude processing at the 940,000 b/d CRP refining complex by 10…
(Reuters, 2.Jul.2019) — Venezuela will stick to its plan of blending domestic and foreign crude to maintain and even increase…
(Bloomberg, Fabiola Zerpa, Peter Millard and Kevin Crowley, 2.Jul.2019) — Chevron Corp. is lobbying the U.S. for sanctions relief so…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga and Luc Cohen, 28.Jun.2019) — Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA is revamping one of its major processing…
(NBC, Claire Atkinson, 27.Jun.2019) — Advertising can help combat climate change, says Colombia’s president, Iván Duque, who recently spoke at…