(Reuters, 8.Jul.2021) — Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA has started producing two upgraded crude grades for domestic refining, aiming at reanimating the country's much-needed output of motor fuels, according to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Jul.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: plans to reactivate 77 wells in Argentina’s Río Negro region, EP PetroEcuador and Repsol Ecuador...
(Reuters, 1.Jul.2021) — Brazil is growing its marine fuel oil exports to Asia's lucrative premium hubs, where rules mandating lower sulphur content have been squeezing out most of its Latin...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Jun.2021) — Venezuela continues to confront headwinds from legal uncertainties to transparency issues to a new tariff on its bitumen exports to China that make it hard...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Jun.2021) — The private sector must be reintegrated to increase production in Venezuela as it’s the only viable way the country could meet the optimistic production goals...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Jun.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Chile and Germany inking a green hydrogen deal, EP PetroEcuador reaching an agreement with the...
(S&P Global, 29.Jun.2021) — In the second half of the year, Venezuela's state-owned PDVSA will restart the drilling of oil wells while intensifying work to open 3,700 shuttered wells and...
(US State Department, 25.Jun.2021) — The following statement was released by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, and...
(Argus, 24.Jun.2021) — Venezuela is returning to the geopolitical stage after months out of the limelight. President Nicolas Maduro's government and his political opponents are preparing to restart negotiations to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Jun.2021) — Venezuelan economist José Toro Hardy said it was unclear when additional Iranian tankers carrying gasoline would reach the South American country’s coasts. Venezuela could encounter...
(Bloomberg, 21.Jun.2021) — In Venezuela, waiting in line at a gas station -- sometimes for days -- has become so routine that it’s hard to imagine life without it. But...
(Bloomberg, 20.Jun.2021) — President Joe Biden’s administration rejected Nicolas Maduro’s call for relief from U.S. sanctions, saying the Venezuelan leader needs to do more toward restoring democracy before penalties would...
(S&P Global, 18.Jun.2021) — After Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro outlasted the Trump administration's maximum sanctions pressure, US President Joe Biden will have to decide whether to offer Venezuela limited sanctions...
(Bloomberg, 18.Jun.2021) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro spoke to Bloomberg TV’s Erik Schatzker in an exclusive interview in Caracas at the Miraflores presidential palace. The comments have been translated from...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Jun.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Suriname oil summit tagging entrepreneurship, investor friendliness as key priorities, and Iranian warship that could...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Jun.2021) — The Cardón refinery operated by state-controlled Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) in Punto Fijo, Venezuela is currently processing between 40,000-50,000 barrels per day of gasoline compared...
(Reuters, 3.Jun.2021) — Traders are racing to deliver record volumes of Venezuelan crude oil masked as Malaysian bitumen blend to China, ahead of new fuel taxes that look set to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 2.Jun.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: EP PetroEcuador generating $768mn thru ten tenders of Oriente and Napo crude oil between January...
(Reuters, 1.Jun.2021) — Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA is turning to local partners as it seeks to plug the gap left by Western companies in the OPEC nation's oil sector,...
(Reuters, 1.Jun.2021) — Venezuela's oil exports fell to 593,550 barrels per day (bpd) in May as a result of an outage in its main producing region and a lack of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Jun.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Ofac extending Chevron’s operating license in Venezuela; Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, participating in the Innovating...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 26.May.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: loads reported steady at Ecopetrol’s Barrancabermeja Refinery; and Venezuela’s production of crude oil expected to...
(Miami Herald, 25.May.2021) — A recently approved Chinese tax might translate into a severe economic blow to the Nicolás Maduro regime by almost doubling the importing cost of the oil...
(Argus, 17.May.2021) — A Chinese tax overhaul threatens to orphan up to 400,000 b/d of Venezuelan heavy sour crude that has been a lifeline for Caracas since the US imposed...
(Foreign Policy, 14.May.2021) — It isn’t uncommon to hear charges of “genocide” leveled at the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro due to the humanitarian disaster unfolding in his country...
(Reuters, 10.May.2021) — Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA would need $58 billion in investment to revive its crude production to the levels of 1998 before ex-President Hugo Chavez came to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.May.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Venezuela’s rising crude oil production and tactical hedges in place by Colombia’s Ecopetrol. Venezuela’s Oil...
(AP, 5.May.2021) — A former Venezuelan oil executive was sentenced to more than two years in prison for taking at least $12 million in bribes from businessmen who allegedly raided...
(Argus, 4.May.2021) — Venezuela's government has incorporated the political opposition into its electoral board, another olive branch that puts pressure on the US administration to ease sanctions. But President Joe...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 4.May.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: IPD Latin America’s Managing Director David Voght on US’ sanctions on Venezuela and bp’s CEO...
(Reuters, 1.May.2021) — Venezuela's April oil exports were flat at about 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) for the third month in a row, with three-quarters of its shipments headed to...
(Reuters, 30.Apr.2021) — Three Cuban-flagged tankers that are under U.S. sanctions for transporting Venezuelan oil to the Communist-run island have been serviced in the port of Veracruz on Mexico’s Gulf...
(Fitch Ratings, 8.Apr.2021) — Fitch Ratings affirmed the Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) of CITGO Petroleum (Opco) at 'B' and CITGO Holding (Holdco) at 'CCC+', Opco's senior secured term loans,...
(Argus, 8.Apr.2021) — Venezuelan crude production fell back in early April after state-owned PdV diverted limited diluent and light crude from Orinoco heavy oil operations to its recovering refining sector....
(Reuters, 8.Apr.2021) — A floating facility off the Venezuelan coast has finished offloading crude stored in it for the past two years due to U.S. sanctions, paving the way for...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Apr.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announces the start of another 7+7 quarantine rotation and Peru eyes...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Mar.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Russia and Venezuela strengthening their cooperation and Argentina’s state oil producer YPF eyeing shareholders’ meeting...
(Reuters, 28.Mar.2021) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday proposed paying for vaccines against the novel coronavirus with oil, though he provided few details about how such a scheme would...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Mar.2021) — The webinar “Venezuela: a Vision in Three Times” on 25 March 2021 saw three speakers discuss the OPEC country’s oil sector. What follows are highlights...
(Reuters, 22.Mar.2021) — A unit of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA on the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire has declared bankruptcy, citing the impact of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela, a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Mar.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Venezuela state oil giant denouncing an attack on a pipeline in Monagas state and EP...
(Bloomberg, 19.Mar.2021) — Inside a chic lounge, oil lobbyists and executives rub shoulders as Spanish, French and Italian can be heard in the halls. This isn’t the ZaZa boutique hotel in Houston,...
(Petrobras, 18.Mar.2021) — Petrobras, pursuant to CIRCULAR LETTER/CVM/SEP/No.01/2021, reports that it has received the nomination of candidate Pedro Rodrigues Galvão de Medeiros for the Board of Directors, in case multiple...
(Reuters, 17.Mar.2021) — Six executives of U.S. refiner Citgo have been jailed in Caracas on graft charges since 2017, but court documents seen by Reuters show that top Venezuelan officials...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Mar.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean regions Bolivia and Venezuela including Ambar executives seeking a deal for piped gas from Bolivia’s YPFB, PDVSA...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Mar.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean regions Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela including: Tenaris snatches up Baker Hughes Argentina, YPF raises fuel prices again,...
(Argus, 12.Mar.2021) — Venezuelan state-owned PdV suspended gasoline production at its 305,000 b/d Cardon refinery this week as a result of more equipment breakdowns. Cardon was producing about 45,000 b/d...
(Bloomberg, 11.Mar.2021) — Welcome to Venezuela’s new gasoline stations: They boast digital fuel pumps and high-end, imported liquor. They’re plastered in fresh coats of bright yellow and red paint. And...
(Reuters, 1.Mar.2021) — Venezuela’s oil exports rose in February to over 700,000 barrels per day (bpd), their highest level in 10 months, pushed by more sales of fuel oil cargoes...
(By Francisco Dallmeier and Cristina V. Burelli, 22.Feb.2021) — The political and economic ruin of Venezuela, once one of Latin America’s wealthiest countries, is by now a well-known story. Far...
(Council on Foreign Relations, Elliott Abrams, 18.Feb.2021) — As part of the broad economic sanctions against the Maduro regime in Venezuela and especially the petroleum sector, the Trump administration barred...
(Forbes, 18.Feb.2021) — In Houston, TX, the Energy Capital of the World, I have been without power and running water for three days. I and millions of other Texas residents...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Feb.2021) — China and Russia continue to push around their might in Venezuela. Thomas O’Donnell with the Hertie School of Governance & Freie Universität-Berlin weighs in briefly...
(OHCHR, 12.Feb.2021) — The UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights, Alena Douhan, today urged the United States, European Union and other States to drop unilateral sanctions...
(OHCHR, 12.Feb.2021) — The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Ms. Alena Douhan, visited the Bolivarian Republic of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Feb.2021) — The US, despite recent presidential elections and a drastic change of leadership from the top down, continues in pursuit of “free and fair” elections in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Feb.2021) — Venezuelan briefs related to the departure of oil tankers Era and Explorer from PDVSA's Amuay refinery in Punto Fijo and Venezuela’s participation in recent OPEC+...
(IOA, 10.Feb.2021) — China is broadening its presence in Latin America's energy and strategic minerals sectors, posing challenges to the regional countries themselves as well as to the United States,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Jan.2021) — Venezuelan sugarcane growers in the country’s central Portuguesa state are at risk of losing the opportunity to harvest an estimated 762 hectares of the cane...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Jan.2021) — The president of the Ad Hoc Board of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) called US-based refiner Citgo Petroleum the “crown jewel” of the company’s international assets....
(The OPEC Fund, 28.Jan.2021) — The OPEC Fund for International Development (the OPEC Fund) marks its 45th anniversary today. Since inception, the multilateral development finance institution has approved more than...
(Reuters, 26.Jan.2021) — Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA’s inventories of its main export crude grade dipped this week to their lowest levels since late November, internal company documents seen by...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Jan.2021) — Workers with PDVSA Gas, a subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) controlled a gas leak in the Barbacoas sector of the city of Barcelona located...
(Bloomberg, 22.Jan.2021) — It may be the oil market’s worst-kept secret: Millions of barrels of Venezuelan heavy crude, embargoed by the U.S., have been surreptitiously going to China. The cat-and-mouse...
(Argus, 20.Jan.2021) — The new US administration is considering whether to reinstate Venezuelan crude-for-diesel swaps and ease a key sanctions waiver, but policy reversals alone would not be enough to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Jan.2021) — US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control, or OFAC, slapped sanctions on three individuals, 16 companies and seven vessels for their alleged ties to...
(US Treasury, 19.Jan.2021) — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated three individuals, fourteen entities, and six vessels for their ties to a...
(Reuters, 18.Jan.2021) — Venezuelan authorities issued an arrest warrant for a new member of the board of directors of U.S.-based refining firm Citgo Petroleum Corp named by the opposition this...
(Reuters, 18.Jan.2021) — Representatives of fuel suppliers to Venezuela, importers of Venezuelan oil and advocacy groups said this month they plan to press the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Joe...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Jan.2021) — Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro reiterated earlier claims that US President Donald Trump ordered the sabotage of the OPEC country’s Amuay and Cardón refineries in Punto...
(Reuters, 14.Jan.2021) — Venezuelan officials have met in recent months with small domestic oilfield contractors to propose letting them operate fields owned by state-owned PDVSA while pocketing part of the...
(Xinhua, 14.Jan.2021) — Venezuela's National Assembly on Thursday established a Special Commission for Dialogue, Peace and National Reconciliation, made up of ruling coalition and opposition legislators, to resolve the economic...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Jan.2021) — Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, during his annual speech to the nation on 12 January 2021, announced the OPEC country was eyeing oil production of 1.5...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Jan.2021) — OPEC’s voluntary crude oil production levels for the months of January, February, and March. OPEC_Voluntary-Production-LevelsDownload __________ By Ian Silverman. © Energy Analytics Institute (EAI). All...
(MEHR, 10.Jan.2021) — Tankertrackers reported that the Iranian oil and gasoline tankers have reached near Syria and Venezuela. According to Tankertrackers, an Iranian tanker carrying two million barrels of crude...
