(The Wall Street Journal, Samuel Rubenfeld, 30.Oct.2018) — U.S. prosecutors said they secured another guilty plea in their ongoing corruption probe of Venezuela’s state-run oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA,...
(Express, Ciaran McGrath, 30.Oct.2018) — Venezuela represents a “clear threat to regional stability” and a “direct challenge” to the United States, a senior US Government official has said, as the...
(Reuters) — Investors have started to receive payment of interest and principal on Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA’s 2020 bond, two bondholders said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Corina Pons, writing...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 29.Oct. 2018) — Opposition party Voluntad Popular will present a proposal called “Energy Venezuela,” which will outline guidelines established for a modification of Venezuela’s Hydrocarbons...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 28.Oct.2018) — Petroleum sector accidents and oil spills in Venezuela have become an almost regular occurrence. Between two and three accidents are happening each per...
(Ft.com, Gideon Long, John Paul Rathbone, 28.Oct.2018) — Gideon Long in Caracas and John Paul Rathbone in Washington October 28, 2018 Print this page 95 In the lobby of the...
[caption id="attachment_4278" align="alignnone" width="620"] Source: AFR[/caption] (The Australian Financial Review, Craig Emerson, 28.Oct.2018) — On November 22, 2017, a nation’s government legislated price controls in response to voter dissatisfaction with...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, Collin Eaton, 26.Oct.2018) — Cash-strapped state-run oil companies in Mexico and Venezuela have begun diverting crude historically processed for domestic use and sending it to U.S. refiners...
(OilPrice.com. Tsvetana Paraskova, 26.Oct.2018) — Although Venezuela is regularly delaying or avoiding bond payments and is behind on billions of U.S. dollars in such payments, it is preparing to make...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Oct.2018) — Four distillations units at PDVSA’s Cardón refinery, located in Falcón state, are said halted due to a lack of oil and power failures,...
(Ft.com, Gideon Long, 25.Oct.2018) — In a month in which emerging market government bonds have been hammered by the prospect of US rate increases, geopolitical risk and fears of a...
(Bloomberg, Alex Nussbaum, 25.Oct.2018) — ConocoPhillips’ decade-old legal war with Venezuela began paying off this week as the embattled Latin American country started making good on a $2 billion arbitration...
(CITGO, 25.Oct.2018) — CITGO Petroleum Company announced the West Oso Independent School District has approved the launch of a CITGO Innovation Academy in Corpus Christi, Texas. This is the fourth...
(Bloomberg, 24.Oct.2018) — Petroleos de Venezuela SA’s plan to make a $949 million bond payment would mark a rare exception for Nicolas Maduro’s regime as it tries to hold on...
(Reuters, Dmitry Zhdannikov, Julia Payne, 23.Oct.2018) — The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking documents from Glencore (GLEN.L) about intermediary companies that the commodities firm has worked with in the...
(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. Sugar, gold, shrimp, timber, bauxite, and rice account for nearly...
(Energy Global, David Bizley, 19.Oct.2018) — The majority of foreign companies are not making any profit or losing money in their partnerships with PDVSA to develop and produce hydrocarbons due...
(Miami Herald, Andres Oppenheimer, 17.Oct.2018) — There is a major inconsistency in President Trump’s stand on Venezuela: He talks tough — and even makes veiled threats of a military intervention...
(Reuters, Roberta Rampton, 17.Oct.2018) — The United States plans to turn up sanctions pressure on Venezuela but sees less need to immediately target its energy sector, given sagging production from...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 17.Oct.2018) — Retired workers with PDVSA and Pequiven spoke out in the streets in a protest aimed at calling attention to pensions unpaid by the...
(Reuters, 15.Oct.2018) — Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA is preparing to pay holders of its 2020 bond some $950 million this month, after failing to make interest payments on most...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 13.Oct.2018) — Venezuela has solicited an audit of costs related to the Pacific Coast Refinery and Río Napo JV in order to discuss potential investment...
(Reuters, 12.Oct.2018) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc is negotiating the sale of its stake in a Venezuelan oil joint venture to Paris-based Maurel & Prom , three sources said this...
(Maurel & Prom, 12.Oct.2018) — Etablissements Maurel & Prom notes recent press articles and confirms it is working on the acquisition of Shell Exploration and Production Investments B.V.’s 40% interest...
(Reuters, Alexandra Ulmer, 10.Oct.2018) — Venezuela on Wednesday increased wages for workers at state energy company PDVSA after employees staged small protests to decry meager salaries amid the OPEC nation’s...
(Bloomberg, Javier Blas, Grant Smith & Francine Lacqua, 9.Oct.2018) — Oil prices have rallied to a four-year-high due to US sanctions on Iran and the Venezuelan crisis, even as Saudi...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 4.Oct.2018) — Venezuela’s September crude sales to the United States rose to their highest in over a year, boosted by purchases by Citgo Petroleum, the U.S. refining...
(OilPrice.com, Irina Slav, 3.Oct.2018) — A delay in port repairs following a tanker collision is putting additional pressure on already pressured Venezuelan crude oil exports, Reuters quoted anonymous sources close...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 2.Oct.2018) — Repairs to a dock at Venezuela’s main oil export port will take at least another month to complete following a tanker collision more than a...
(Washington Examiner, 1.Oct.2018) — Meeting with the president of Chile at the White House on Friday, President Trump pledged to continue confronting humanitarian suffering in Venezuela. The president deserves credit...
(Bloomberg, 1.Oct.2018) — Venezuelan oil workers protested against a new minimum wage at key crude processing facilities last week, claiming the new law disregards previous pay scales and union agreements....
(The Hindu Business Line, Vishwanath Kulkarni, Richa Mishra, 30.Sep.2018) — India is considering setting up a rupee-payment mechanism for trade with Venezuela, besides exporting rice and drugs to the South...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 29.Sep.2018) — Venezuela’s Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo announced the South American country would continue to seek equilibrium in the petroleum market. “Under the leadership of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 28.Sep.2018) — The Brazilian government announced it would suspend, until further notice, the importation of Venezuelan energy to supply Roraima, a state in northern Brazil...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 28.Sep.2018) — Uruguayan Judge Carlos Aguirre ordered ANCAP to pay a fine of $5.6 million plus interest to Exor Internacional Ltda. as a result of...
[caption id="attachment_3826" align="alignnone" width="1140"] Source: Ultimas Noticias[/caption] (Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Sep.2018) — Venezuela’s José Antonio Anzoátegui Petrochemical Complex was the site of a crude oil spill that affected...
(Bloomberg, 27.Sep.2018) — New rules forcing ships to use cleaner marine fuels may deal yet another blow to cash-strapped Petroleos de Venezuela SA, an exporter of high-sulfur fuel oil. From...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 26.Sep.2018) — The president of the two Venezuelan joint venture companies is rumored to have been changed, according to reports in the daily Noticias Venezuela....
(AP, 20.Sep.2018) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday that new investments from China will help his country dramatically boost its oil production, doubling down on financing from the Asian...
(Bloomberg, Christopher Sell, 20.Sep.2018) — A global recession, both $140 and $30 oil, the U.S. shale revolution, a market-share war, and output cuts. OPEC’s 60-year history has rarely confronted a...
(Steve Hanke, Contributor to Forbes, 19.Sep.2018) — Two hallmarks characterize capitalist economies. Firstly, property is predominately in private hands. Consequently, goods and services are allocated via market mechanisms in which...
(CMC, 19.Sep.2018) — President Jovenel Moise has called on newly installed Prime Minister Jean-Henry Céant to ensure that there's total transparency in the investigation regarding the use of funds under...
(Prensa Latina, 19.Sep.2018) — The Public Prosecutor''s Office (MP) has revealed today a new corruption scheme in the state-run Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), which has caused losses of 18,500,000 dollars...
[caption id="attachment_3713" align="alignnone" width="900"] Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro. Source: PDVSA[/caption] (Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 18.Sep.2018) — Venezuela, the struggling OPEC producer, is now planning to double its production of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 18.Sep.2018) — In terms of bilateral cooperation, Venezuela and China are seeking a ‘win-win’ scenarios. “Relations with China are very clear and have been framed...
(Bloomberg, Grant Smith. 13.Sep.2018) — The International Energy Agency warned that oil prices could break out above $80 a barrel unless other producers act to offset deepening supply losses in...
(Reuters, 13.Sep.2018) — A former manager of a U.S.-based logistics company pleaded guilty on Thursday to paying bribes to secure contracts from Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA, and the guilty...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Sep.2018) — Venezuela’s oil production seems on an unstoppable downward trend. The OPEC country’s production of crude oil fell 2.9 percent to 1,235 thousand barrels...
(CMC, 12.Sep.2018) — Jamaica says it has benefitted from projects estimated at US$5 billion under the Venezuela-led PetroCaribe initiative over the past 13 years. CEO of the Petro-Caribe Development Fund...
(Reuters, Mayela Armas, 12.Sep.2018) — An overhaul of Venezuela’s constitution being prepared by the pro-government Constituent Assembly will likely include changes intended to attract private investment in the country’s oil...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 12.Sep.2018) — PDVSA expects to reopen the south dock of Venezuela’s main oil port Jose by the end of September, easing strains on crude exports delayed due...
(Afp, 12.Sep.2018) — Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro departed Wednesday for China in search of agreements to bolster the oil-exporting country's collapsing economy. Maduro said the trip was "very necessary, very...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Sep.2018) — The decline is consistent and constant as well as consistently and constantly bad, writes Caracas Capital Market in a research note emailed to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 12.Sep.2018) — Crude oil production in August 2018 in South America’s lone OPEC member countries, Venezuela and Ecuador, continued along usual trends, according to data...
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 7.Sep.2018) — Venezuela has set up a commission that will be working to reshuffle and reorganize its state oil firm PDVSA in the next few months, according...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 6.Sep.2018) — Crude exports by Venezuela’s PDVSA have slowed after a tanker collision at its main port last month disrupted operations, adding to a backlog of vessels...
(Reuters, 6.Sep.2018) — Venezuela has created a commission to reorganize state oil company PDVSA in the coming months, according to the Official Gazette circulating on Thursday. PDVSA did not immediately...
(Reuters, 4.Sep.2018) — Venezuela's crude sales to the United States fell in August for the second month in a row as exports of two of the South American country's main...
(EnergyNomics de Venezuela, Carlos A Rossi, 1.Sep.2018) — Nicolas Maduro has drawn the line in the sand: “Either you are with me and stay here living precariously with Chavism, or...
(S&P Global, Mery Mogollon, 30.Aug.2018) — State-owned Venezuelan oil company PDVSA signed a $430 million service agreement with seven companies to boost its oil production by 641,000 b/d, company president...
(OilPrice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 30.Aug.2018) — Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA has said that it signed a US$430 million joint service agreement with seven companies that would help it increase its...
[caption id="attachment_3440" align="alignnone" width="2000"] Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during the Dragon gas signing event in Caracas. Photo: PDVSA[/caption] (Trinidad and Tobago Newsday,...
(Mining.com, Valentina Ruiz Leotaud, 29.Aug.2018) — State-owned Petróleos de Venezuela SA or PDVSA announced on Twitter that it filed an appeal requesting that a Delaware court vacate a decision made...
(Citgo, 29.Aug.2018) — Through the CITGO Caring for Our Coast initiative, a program designed to boost ecological conservation, restoration and education, The Conservation Foundation (TCF) has been awarded a grant...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Sean Douglas, 28.Aug.2018) — Four questions have been posed by Congress of the People leader and former energy minister Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan over the Dragon gas deal...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 28.Aug.2018) — Venezuela’s main oil port of Jose is operating partially following a weekend tanker collision that halted one of its three docks, curtailing state-run PDVSA’s ability...
(Trinidad Guardian, 27.Aug.2018) — Government is giving no details on the pricing structure this country will pay for gas from the Dragon Field under the agreement signed with Venezuela on...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Richardson Dhalai, 26.Aug.2018) — The Dragon gas deal may be “public relations and political gimmicks” which may not benefit TT. That’s the view of Pointe-a-Pierre MP...
(Loop News, 26.Aug.2018) — On August 25, 2018, an historic agreement was made between Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for access the Venezuela's Dragon Field....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Aug.2018) — Venezuela is evaluating a plan to implement a natural gas project with Aruba. Officials from Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA, and its refining...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Aug.2018) — Valero’s old Aruba refinery will be revitalized as an upgrader. PDVSA announced the San Nicolás Refinery located in Aruba will be converted into...
(Bloomberg, Ryan Collins and Kelly Gilblom, 25.Aug.2018) — Trinidad and Tobago will continue to ship super-chilled natural gas all over the world, with a little help from Venezuela. President Nicolas...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Aug.2018) — Venezuela will send its Dragón field natural gas to Trinidad for processing. That’s according to a deal signed today in Caracas between the...
(CMC, 24.Aug.2018) — Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley will lead a delegation to Venezuela tomorrow to sign an agreement for the development of the across border gas from the Venezuelan...
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 23.Aug.2018) — Rosneft has asked a U.S. federal court to establish “a robust appraisal and sale process” of Citgo shares following Canadian miner Crystallex’ win at court...