(Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Dec.2021) — Energy briefs including Ecopetrol S.A. revealing the Sustainable Development Corporation of the Macarena Special Management Area CORMACARENA, through Resolution No. […]
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NRGBriefs: Venezuela’s Oil Minister El Aissami Says He’s Fine
(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Dec.2021) — Energy briefs including EP PetroEcuador announcing it has sufficient fuel supplies at all its terminals despite transport issues impacting Ecuador’s […]
No Change Afoot At Venezuela’s Oil Ministry: Sources
(Argus, 10.Dec.2021) — Venezuela’s oil minister Tareck El Aissami returned to work this week after a prolonged medical leave and will not be replaced, a […]
NRGBriefs: Trinidad To Reveal Ryder Scott Details
(Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Dec.2021) — Energy briefs including Argentina aspiring to produce 1 MMb/d in five yrs; Trinidad and Tobago looking to reveal details of […]
Venezuela: Nov. Oil Output Rises To 660 Mb/d
(S&P Global Platts, 30.Nov.2021) — Oil production by Venezuela’s state PDVSA and its foreign partners rose to 660,000 b/d in November, up 40,000 b/d from […]
Citgo 6 Remain Pawns In A US-Venezuela Standoff
(CNN, 26.Nov.2021) — The phone connection between a Venezuelan prison cell and Houston, Texas, crackles and fades. Jorge Toledo sounds tired. He’s been held for […]
Houston-based Citgo Reports 3Q:21 Results
(Citgo, 15.Nov.2021) — Citgo Petroleum Corporation reported its third quarter 2021 financial results, including a net loss of $4mn, compared to net income of $3mn […]
Venezuela Slashes Oil Production Target
(Bloomberg, 5.Nov.2021) — Venezuela’s state oil company slashed its output target by one-third as years of corruption, brain drain and inadequate investment crippled the nation’s […]
Venezuelan Elections To Not Bring Sanctions Relief
(Platts, 4.Nov.2021) — Any major easing of US oil sanctions against Venezuela remains off the table, but the country’s Nov. 21 elections could provide a […]
Venezuela Adapts To US sanctions With Rising Oil Flow
(Argus, 3.Nov.2021) — Venezuela is cranking up oil production in a reflection of the Opec country’s moderate success in adapting to operational constraints imposed by prolonged […]
Venezuela Asset Debacle Splits Guaidó Camp
(Argus, 2.Nov.2021) — Two major Venezuelan opposition parties today voted against a decree issued by US-backed shadow parliamentary leader Juan Guaidó, an unprecedented rupture that foreshadows […]
Citgo Ex-President Suffers Mild Heart Attack In Venezuela Jail
(Reuters, 26.Oct.2021) — The former president of oil refiner Citgo, a U.S. subsidiary of Venezuelan oil company PDVSA, suffered a mild heart attack in prison […]
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NRGBriefs: Venezuelan Production Goals [PDF Download]
(Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including Venezuela’s near-term oil production goals; Petrobras’ plans to host two 3Q:21 webcasts using Microsoft Teams; B2Gold Corp. […]
NRGBriefs: Colombia Eyes Net-zero Deforestation By 2030
(Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco) announcing final results of a previously announced offer to purchase […]
Citgo Boards In Last-ditch Talks With Washington
(Reuters, 22.Oct.2021) — The supervisory boards of Venezuela-owned Citgo Petroleum, racing to stave off a breakup of the eighth largest U.S. oil refiner, have held […]
NRGBriefs: Guyana Courts The UAE Or Vice Versa
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including details of Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali courting investors in the UAE; the repercussions in Caracas from the […]
Shell To Tap Major Gas Field Off Trinidad
(Argus, 19.Oct.2021) — Shell plans to sign a production-sharing contract (PSC) for the 2.7 Tcf Manatee offshore natural gas field in Trinidad and Tobago, a […]
NRGBriefs: Renewable Energy Ops In The Caribbean
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including details of four renewable energy-exporting opportunities in the Caribbean in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana; […]
NRGBriefs: ANH Talks About Colombia’s Gas Potential
(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including comments from a webcast hosted by the ACIPET spanning speakers such as ANH head Armando Zamora as […]
NRGBriefs: EP PetroEcuador Awards Export Deals
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including the IMF advising Argentina to lower its deficit and estimating Venezuela’s inflation at 2,700% this yr, Colombia’s […]
NRGBriefs: Brazil Eyes Vaca Muerta Gas
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including Argentina looking to send Vaca Muerta gas to Brazil; US-based Talos Energy setting date for 3Q:21 conf. […]
Venezuela’s Coastal Villages Suffer As Oil Spills Rise
(Reuters, 6.Oct.2021) — Rebeca Reyes furiously scrubbed black tar from her kids’ arms after they swam in waters tainted by crude oil during a recent […]
Venezuela Close To Losing More Overseas Assets
(Argus, 30.Sep.2021) — A Dutch court has dealt the latest blow to Venezuela’s shrinking overseas portfolio that neither the Venezuelan government nor its political foes […]
NRGBriefs: YPF’s 3Q:21 webcast, PGF’s global notes
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2021) — Energy briefs including Argentina’s YPF announcing details of its 3Q:21 webcast, Petrobras Global Finance B.V. (PGF) on settlement of early […]
NRGBriefs: ANH’s Bid Round, Venezuela’s Declining GDP
(Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Sep.2021) — Energy briefs including Colombia’s ANH pushing back bid round deadlines, Colombia’s plans to reveal its hydrogen roadmap, and Trinidad and […]
NRGBriefs: ANP Resolution, Ramirez Extradition Request
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Sep.2021) — Energy briefs from the LAC region including: Brazil’s ANP approving a resolution to regulate a reduction in royalties, a court […]
ConocoPhillips Steps Up Push To Collect PdV Debt
(Argus, 23.Sep.2021) — ConocoPhillips stands out in Venezuela’s vast universe of jilted creditors and claimants as a potential future commercial partner for state-owned PdV, a […]
Rome Court Rejects Extradition Bid For Ex-Oil Czar
(AP, 20.Sep.2021) — A Rome court has rejected a request by Venezuela to extradite its former oil czar to face corruption charges, citing the country’s […]
Caricom On The Impact Of Venezuelan Political Parties Agreement On Guyana
(Caricom.org, 14.Sep.2021) — The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has taken note of the round of negotiations in Mexico and mediated by Norway between representatives of the […]
Private Equity Group Expects Venezuela Bet To Pay Off
(Reuters, 10.Sep.2021) — A private equity group expects a contrarian bet it made this year on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector to pay off soon, […]
Venezuela Restarts Problematic Refinery To Meet Gasoline Goals
(Bloomberg, 9.Sep.2021) — Venezuela is pushing to restart a key gasoline refinery despite questions over ongoing maintenance problems as it attempts to double fuel production […]
Sucre Energy Bets On Venezuelan Gas
(Argus, 8.Sep.2021) — Venezuela’s abundant hydrocarbons are beckoning a new generation of investors, stepping in where more established companies are pulling out. Sucre Energy, a […]
LatAm Briefs: Payara Progressing, Inpex Divestment In Venezuela
(Energy Analytics Institute, 2.Sep.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: ExxonMobil progressing its Payara project in Guyana for start-up in […]
CNPC prepares to revive Venezuela operations
(Bloomberg, 1.Sep.2021, Words: 597) — China’s top oil producer is laying the groundwork to revive output in Venezuela as President Nicolas Maduro finalizes legislation to […]
Venezuela still attractive: Amos Global Energy’s Ali Moshiri says
HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Sep.2021, Words: 1,400) — Venezuela, home to the world’s largest oil reserves, still has an opportunity […]
Venezuela Sees Refinery Debt Swap As Model For Future Deals
(Reuters, 25.Aug.2021) — Venezuela’s socialist government sees the swap it made last week of shares in a Dominican oil refinery for defaulted bonds as a […]
Crude From Venezuela, Iran Stacks Up Off Singapore
(Bloomberg, 24.Aug.2021) — Oil stored in ships has been stacking up off key Asian ports as a crackdown in China on private crude oil processors […]
Venezuela Swapped Oil For Food, Then Punished Dealmakers
(Reuters, 24.Aug.2021) — With U.S. sanctions spooking key oil buyers and depriving its government of cash, Venezuela last year inked a deal with a little-known […]
Citgo Envisions Oil ‘Bridge’ To Venezuela
(Argus, 23.Aug.2021) — US refiner Citgo has been effectively cut off from its Venezuelan state-owned parent PdV since 2019, but it is still constrained by […]
PDVSA Cedes Stake In Refidomsa Refinery
(Reuters, 19.Aug.2021) — Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA has given up its 49% stake in a Dominican refinery as part of a swap for some […]
LatAm Briefs: YPF Debt, Petrobras Taxes
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Aug.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: YPF reducing its total debt, Petrobras’ tax collections to the […]
Venezuela Negotiations By Eric Farnsworth
(AS/COA, 12.Aug.2021) — A new round of negotiations is set to start on Friday, August 13, in Mexico between representatives of the de facto regime of Nicolás Maduro and the interim administration […]
Venezuela’s Opposition Targets ‘Narrow’ Chance To Tame Maduro
(By Ft, Michael Stott, 10.Aug.2021) — Once Venezuela’s most famous political prisoner, he is best known for escaping from house arrest and appearing outside a […]
LatAmBriefs: TGI Eyes Buenaventura LNG Import Project
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Aug.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Argentina fining Edesur and Edenor; Transportadora de Gas Internacional (TGI) […]
María Corina Machado Talks About Democratic Regression
(Fundación Libertad y Desarrollo, 9.Aug.2021) — The president of Fundación Libertad y Desarrollo, Dionisio Gutiérrez, spoke with the leader of the Venezuelan opposition and National […]
Alarm Over Spill Into The Gulf Of Paria
(Trinidad Express, 9.Aug.2021) — The Environmental Management Authority and Paria Fuel Trading Company Ltd yesterday confirmed an oil spill in the Gulf of Paria. Fishermen […]
When Exception Becomes the Norm – Crisis as an Ordinary Experience in Venezuela
(Noria Research, 31.Jul.2021) — For several years now, Venezuela has been plagued by an unprecedented combination of political, institutional, economic, social, health, and security crises. […]
France’s TotalEnergies exits Petrocedeño JV in Venezuela, concedes $1.38bn capital loss
CARACAS, VENEZUELA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Jul.2021, Words: 161) — TotalEnergies, through its affiliate Total Venezuela, has decided to transfer its non-operated minority participation […]
Equinor Sales Faja Stake To CVP
(Equinor, 29.Jul.2021) — Equinor and state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) have completed a transaction whereby Equinor will transfer its 9.67% non-operated interest in the Petrocedeño […]
LatAm Briefs: Train 1 Mothballing, CVP Appointments
(Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Jul.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: rising Brazilian imports of US LNG, Ecopetrol’s electric vehicles fleet, […]