(Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó saying the solution to the Venezuelan tragedy is “free and fair” elections; Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE American:...
(Reuters, 16.Mar.2022) — Venezuelan drivers are feeling the squeeze of nagging gasoline shortages as state oil company PDVSA gradually boosts the number of its gas stations that charge them in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Argentina Lithium & Energy Corp. (TSXV: LIT) (FSE: OAY3) (OTC: PNXLF) receiving TSX Venture Exchange approval of a definitive agreement with vendors; and...
(Bloomberg, 15.Mar.2022) — A more realistic policy toward the Maduro regime would free up oil supplies and weaken Russian influence. In a bid to ease pressure on global energy supplies,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Mar.2022) — A brief history of Venezuela’s initial crude discovery in 1914 and the eventual move to focus on the Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt. Brief History In...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Mar.2022) — Venezuela has historically utilized various thermal recovery methods to assist in the production of its heavy and extra-heavy crude oil (EHCO). A summary of the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Venezuela’s ability to boost production over the short-term by around 200,000 b/d; and an oil spill occurring offshore eastern Venezuela near Barcelona....
(Bloomberg, 11.Mar.2022) — Much has been written about the hurdles to a U.S.-Venezuela detente that would allow oil from the South American nation to start flowing more freely into international...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Ecuador’s state-owned EP PetroEcuador laying out plans for investments of $12bn to almost double production to 804,323 boe/d by2026; Venezuela’s VP Delcy...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Washington courting Venezuela amid the Ukraine invasion by Russia and Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro likely being the biggest benefactor amid high oil...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Mar.2022) — “Rain, thunder or lightning, Venezuela will produce 2 million barrels per day in 2022,” the country’s President Nicolás Maduro proclaimed during a national television broadcast. “Now,...
(France24, 9.Mar.2022) — Venezuela released two jailed US citizens on Tuesday in an apparent goodwill gesture toward the Biden administration, which has reached out to the regime of Nicolas Maduro...
(House Foreign Affairs Committee, 9.Mar.2022) — Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to reports that a delegation of senior...
(Miami Herald, 9.Mar.2022) — Now that President Biden has announced a ban on imports of Russian oil, the United States should reevaluate sanctions against Venezuela, double down on targeted sanctions...
(Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, 8.Mar.2022) — Guyana submitted to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, its Memorial on the Merits of its Case against...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Cameron LNG announcing that Whitney "Whit" Fairbanks has been named president of the co. effective 9 Mar. 2022; a webinar on 7 Apr....
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Colombia’s state owned Ecopetrol aims to boost combined oil and gas production to 730 Mboe/d in 2024 and between 800-850 Mboe/d in...
(Ft.com, 6.Mar.2022) — A high-level US delegation has met top government officials in Venezuela, as the world seeks alternative suppliers to replace Russian oil if western sanctions on Moscow are...
(Reuters, 6.Mar.2022) — U.S. and Venezuelan officials discussed the possibility of easing oil sanctions on Venezuela but made scant progress toward a deal in their first high-level bilateral talks in...
(Telesur, 4.Mar.2022) — Oil prices have risen this week due to supply concerns amid international sanctions directed at Russia for its military operation in Ukraine. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Argentina’s state-owned entity YPF reporting a major reduction in gross debt; officials from CARICOM and SICA coming together at a summit in...
(Argus, 4.Mar.2022) — The Venezuelan oil ministry publicly reported the price it received for its crude for the first time in nearly two years this week, but observers say the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 2.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Frontera spudding its first exploration well in the Espejo Block in Ecuador; Argentina's YPF holding its 4Q:21 and FY:21 webcast to discuss...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro chatting over the telephone with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin; Invenergy naming Mary King as Executive VP People &...
(Reuters, 1.Mar.2022) — Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA has agreed to allocate cargoes to producers ONGC from India and Maurel & Prom from France to settle debts, but the deals...
(Foreign Policy, 25.Feb.2022) — The highlights this week: how the war in Ukraine could prolong Venezuela’s political crisis, Colombia decriminalizes abortion, and a Mexican marathoner completes a cross-country journey. When Anti-Imperialism Meets Noninterference In the weeks...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Feb.2022) — Energy briefs including Argentina’s state oil entity YPF revealing details of 4Q:21 and YE:21 results conference call on 4 Mar. 2022; Ecopetrol S.A. releasing details...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Feb.2022) — Energy briefs including Argentina looking to import 65 LNG cargoes in 2022 compared to 56 in 2021; Trinidad and Tobago’s reemergence over the short-term as...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Feb.2022) — Energy briefs including TotalEnergies and APA Corp. reporting another significant find offshore Suriname in Block 58; APA Corp. announcing 4Q:21 financial results and planning a...
(Bloomberg, 17.Feb.2022) — In the hinterland of Argentina, Mario Pizarro’s office looks like a shrine to China. There’s the framed photo of a Chinese peasant with Pizarro’s face superimposed beneath...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Feb.2022) — Venezuela and Russia signed an agreement of intent aimed at strengthening strategic alliances and comprehensive cooperation between the two countries under the context of a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Feb.2022) — Energy briefs including the International Energy Conference and Expo Guyana saying it will allow the first 80 University of Guyana students to enter its conference...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Feb.2022) — Energy briefs including Frontera Energy anticipating Guyana exploration CAPEX of $110-$130mn in 2022 and CGX Energy anticipating further investments of $5-$10mn for the Berbice Deepwater Port Project; Kootenay...
(Bloomberg, 10.Feb.2022) — TotalEnergies SE is negotiating an exit from its natural gas operations in Venezuela, just months after the French energy giant closed its oil business in the country. The...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Feb.2022) — Energy Analytics Institute's photo journalistic recap of 10 of our top headlines on Instagram in recent weeks. ____________________ By Ofelia Paredes. © Energy Analytics Institute...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Feb.2022) — Energy briefs including Colombia signing a MOU w/ The Netherlands to create a hydrogen export channel; Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro saying there will be no...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Feb.2022) — Energy briefs including Grupo Energía Bogotá commencing assembly of the first tower of its north project in Chocontá (Cundinamarca); Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez visiting Russia...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Feb.2022) — Energy briefs including Venezuela’s income from foreign currency sales to the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) obtained from PDVSA reaching $3.292bn in 2021; and ExxonMobil...
(Reuters, 31.Jan.2022) — An Iranian supertanker carrying about 2 million barrels of condensate this week began discharging at Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA's main oil port, according to a company...
(AP, 28.Jan.2022) — Italy’s highest court confirmed Friday that Venezuela’s former oil czar cannot be extradited to face corruption charges at home because of his country’s record in violating human...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Jan.2022) — Energy briefs including CSI Compressco LP’s (NASDAQ: CCLP) BODs of its general partner declaring a cash distribution attributable to the 4Q:21; and PDVSA’s US refining arm...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Jan.2022) — Energy briefs including road blockages impacting gas service to at least 5,618 users in the municipalities of Cantagallo and San Pablo, in southern Bolívar department;...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Jan.2022) — Energy briefs including Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro visiting w/ his counterparts in Suriname and Guyana to discuss oil and gas matters; and Venezuela’s state oil...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Jan.2022) — Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, during his 15 January 2022 annual address to the nation, said the OPEC country’s oil production goal in 2022 was to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Jan.2022) — Energy briefs including Chile’s state oil and gas entity ENAP celebrating 66 yrs of operations at the Aconcagua Refinery; construction of Mexico’s Olmeca Refinery progressing...
(Reuters, 12.Jan.2022) — Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA on Wednesday blamed an explosion along a major gasoline pipeline on "criminal sabotage", adding that the line would be repaired swiftly. Authorities...
(Al Jazeera, 11.Jan.2022) — Despite a symbolic victory in Hugo Chavez’s home state, analysts say the opposition has few options left. Venezuela’s opposition has won an important symbolic battle in securing...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Jan.2022) — Energy briefs including results from the 9 Jan. 2022 governor election in Venezuela’s Barinas state; and the Deer Park refinery sale to Pemex surviving a...
(Bloomberg, 3.Jan.2022) — Oil exports from Venezuela doubled in December from a year earlier as the country raises production of revenue-generating hydrocarbons in defiance of U.S. sanctions. Shipments averaged 619,000...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Jan.2022) — Energy briefs including power outages in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Brazilian fuel distributors supplying 1.3bn liters of biofuels in the 1Q:22; Venezuela’s opposition-led National Assembly deciding...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Dec.2021) — Energy briefs including Ecuador expecting to restart ops at OCP on 31 Dec. 2021; and Y&V Ingeniería y Construcción saying it hasn’t diminished its operational...
(S&P Global Platts, 29.Dec.2021) — Venezuelan state-owned PDVSA and its foreign joint venture partners recorded average crude oil production of 560,000 b/d in 2021, according to an internal report reviewed...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Dec.2021) — Energy briefs including Colombia’s state-controlled Ecopetrol agreeing to ship 1 MMbbls of Castilla blend oil to PetroChina for delivery in Feb. 2022; Venezuela’s opposition lawmakers...
(Bloomberg, 27.Dec.2021) — Venezuela says it’s pumping the most oil since harsh U.S. sanctions strangled state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA more than two years ago. Not everyone believes it. PDVSA,...
(Reuters, 27.Dec.2021) — Venezuela this year almost doubled its oil production from last year's decades-low as its state-owned company struck deals that let it pump and process more extra heavy...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Dec.2021) — Energy briefs including Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro talking in a special interview w/ Arab media house Al Mayadeen broadcast on Venezuelan national TV; Venezuela’s GDP...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Dec.2021) — Energy briefs including Venezuela supposedly reaching the 1 MMb/d oil production mark; and SSR Mining Inc. (NASDAQ: SSRM) (TSX: SSRM) (ASX: SSR) commencing commissioning and ramping...
(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. PS-GJ.1.2.6.21.2094 of 2021, imposed a 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 two oil pipelines and one...
(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 senior source close to the...
(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 a new Ryder Scott gas...
(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 October, Nov. 30 PDVSA production...
(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 four years, one of six...
(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 for the second quarter. Marking...
(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 energy infrastructure. PDVSA cut its...
(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 chance for relief around the...
(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 US sanctions. Output has surpassed...
(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 the expiry of his constitutional...
(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 in Caracas and was transferred...
(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. entering into a binding agreement...
(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 for cash outstanding notes due...
(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 talks with U.S. officials in...
(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 extradition of Alex Saab to...
(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 project the government hopes will...
(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; TotalEnergies extending the contract for...
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