(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 10.Oct.2013) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro seems to be allowing Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez to take charge of moving forward […]
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Venezuela energy
1St Venezuela-India Round-table in Caracas
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 7.Oct.2013) – The 1st Business Round-table meetings between Venezuelan and Indian companies took place in Caracas from October 7-9, 2013. […]
Rafael Ramirez Speech in Caracas
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 7.Oct.2013) – PDVSA President Rafael Ramirez spoke with journalist in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. What follows are excerpts from the […]
Rafael Ramirez Speech in Puerto La Cruz
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 4.Oct.2013) – Venezuela’s Oil Minister President Rafael Ramirez spoke with journalist in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. What follows are excerpts […]
LatAmNRG: Heard On The Street 3Q:13
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2013) – Information in this section, provided by Energy Analytics Institute editors and reporters, is hearsay and thus should be treated as […]
Venezuela Reactivates Fuel Exports to Colombia
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 24.Sep.2013) – The Venezuelan government plans to reactivate a plan to supply Colombia with combustibles, according to Energy and Mining […]
Petronas Exits Carabobo Project in Venezuela
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 11.Sep.2013) – Malaysia’s Petronas will exit the Petrocarabobo project in Venezuela’s Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt or Faja, according to Venezuela’s […]
PetroPar Debt Will Not Be Forgiven
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 10.Sep.2013) – PDVSA President Rafael Ramirez, who also serves as Venezuela’s Oil Minister, said that the debt owed to PDVSA […]
Q&A with PDVSA Refining Director Jesus Luongo
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 9.Sep.2013) – PDVSA Refining Director Jesus Luongo spoke briefly with Energy Analytics Institute on the sideline of a press conference […]
PDVSA Flatboat Overturns, Sinks in Zulia
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 8.Sep.2013) – PDVSA announced a flatboat with 20 workers overturned and sank in Lagunillas in Zulia state. All the workers […]
Venezuela’s Merentes Comments on OPEC
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 8.Sep.2013) – Venezuela’s Finance Minister Nelsen Merentes comments on Venezuelan state television or VTV. “OPEC production restrictions limit growth of […]
Ramirez Talks PDVSA on ‘Jose Vicente Hoy’
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 8.Sep.2013) – Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez comments on the oil worker’s strike in 2002-2003 against PDVSA. “Venezuelan opposition has […]
Eni CEO comments on Perla
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 28.Aug.2013) – Eni Chief Executive Officer Paolo Scaroni comments during a special event at PDVSA’s headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela about […]
Venezuela, Trinidad Meet Over Border Gas
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 26.Aug.2013) – Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez met with his counterpart from Trinidad and Tobago, Kevin Ramnarine in Caracas to […]
PDVSA initiates production at Dragon gas field
CARACAS, VENEZUELA (By Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Aug.2013, Words: 650) – Development of the offshore fields Dragon, Patao, Mejillones and Rio Caribe located […]
PDVSA President Comments on Citgo
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 25.Aug.2013) – During a trip with reporters in Guiria, PDVSA President Rafael Ramirez commented about the company’s CITGO Corporation refineries […]
Oil Analyst Speak at IESA Energy Forum
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 20.Aug.2013) – Energy sector analyst from Medley to Harvard Kennedy spoke at an energy forum at IESA in Caracas. Quote […]
Rosneft and PDVSA Evaluate Gas Projects
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 15.Aug.2013) – Rosneft and PDVSA are reviewing plans to extract gas in Sucre state and in the Gulf of Venezuela, […]
Venezuela Inaugurates Nororiental Gas Pipeline
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 15.Aug.2013) – Venezuela inaugurated the first part of the Northeastern Gas Pipeline in Jefe Jose Francisco Bermudez. The pipeline extends […]
Rosneft to Use Russian Technology at PetroMonagas
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 14.Aug.2013) – Rosneft President Igor Sechon said his company would utilize Russian technology at the Petromonagas heavy oil project to […]
Rosneft, PDVSA Agree to Create PetroVictoria
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 14.Aug.2013) – PDVSA and Russia’s Rosneft signed an agreement to create the JV company Petrovictoria, which will operate Carabobo Block […]
Amuay Explosion in 2012 Cost PDVSA $1.8 Bln
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 13.Aug.2013) – The Energy Orientation Center (COENER) announced the Amuay refinery explosion will cost PDVSA $1.8 billion. The explosion at […]
Q&A with Oil Outlook President Carl Larry
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 9.Aug.2013) – Oil Outlook President Carl Larry spoke with Energy Analytics Institute in a brief interview from Houston, Texas. […]
Q&A with Chevron LatAm’s Susana Brugada
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 7.Aug.2013) – Chevron Latin America Business Unit Public Affairs and Communications Coordinator Susana Brugada spoke with Energy Analytics Institute […]
Journalist Round Table with Rafael Ramirez
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 31.Jul.2013) – PDVSA President Rafael Ramirez held a small round table with journalist in Caracas, Venezuela. What follows are excerpts […]
Bolivar State Governor Comments On Faja
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Jul.2013) – The Governor of Bolivar state in Venezuela, Francisco José Rangel Gómez, commented on the Faja. “Chavez gave us […]
Ramirez Comments on Oil, Mining Sectors
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Jul.2013) – Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez comments on development of the Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt and the Venezuelan mining […]
Speech by Rafael Ramirez from Puerto Ordaz
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Jul.2013) – PDVSA’s and Venezuela’s Oil Minister President Rafael Ramirez spoke at the closing of the Sixth National Production Meetings […]
Q&A with Fitch’s Lucas Aristizabal
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 19.Jul.2013) – Fitch’s Latin America Corporates Group Director Lucas Aristizabal spoke with Energy Analytics Institute in a brief interview […]
Rafael Ramirez Speech in from Cumana
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 18.Jul.2013) – PDVSA’s and Venezuela’s Oil Minister President Rafael Ramirez spoke with journalist in Cumana, Venezuela. What follows are excerpts […]
Q&A with Brookshire’s Gianna Bern
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 19.Jul.2013) – Brookshire Advisory and Research President Gianna Bern spoke with Energy Analytics Institute in a brief interview from […]
Sinovensa Signs $4 Bln Financing Agreement
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Jul.2013) – Sinovensa President Erwin Hernandez and China’s Development Bank Vice President Wang Yongshen signed a financing agreement in Beijing […]
Japan, Venezuela Sign Energy MOU
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 10.Jul.2013) – Venezuela’s Energy and Petroleum Minister Rafael Ramirez and his Japanese counterpart Toshimitsu Motegi meet in Tokyo to review […]
Paraguana Refining Center Running at 717 Mb/d
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 6.Jul.2013) – With the five distillation plants at Amuay Refinery operating, average processing levels at the Paraguana Refining Center (CRP) […]
PDVSA Says Paraguana Wind Park Advances
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 3.Jul.2013) – PDVSA initiated wind studies in 2007 and by December 2012 the company had 23 turbines in place with […]
Companies Launch New Phase of the Yucal Placer Gas Field in Venezuela
(Total, 9.Jul.2012) — Total announces, together with its partners Repsol, Inepetrol and Otepi, having taken the final investment decision for a new development phase of […]
Brazil, Venezuela, and Mexico: Three Ways To Nationalize Oil
(CSMonitor, 12.May.2012) — Argentina’s renationalization of its biggest oil company, YPF, recently caused an outcry. But the cases of oil nationalization in Brazil, Mexico, and […]
Venezuela Seizes Helmerich & Payne Rigs
(TulsaWorld, Rod Walton, 2.Jul.2010) – The action comes amid a payment dispute in which the company left the equipment idle. Helmerich & Payne’s 52-year business […]
Paraguaná Wind Farm In Venezuela Operational In 2011
(EVWind, 14.Apr.2010) — Paraguana peninsula in Falcon state, located in the northwestern region, about 453 kilometers from the city of Caracas, is the first place […]
Petro-Canada Joins Venezuelan Oil Exodus
(Reuters, 26.Jun.2007) — Petro-Canada has pulled out of Venezuela by rejecting new nationalistic terms for oil projects and passing its stake in one discovery to […]