CARACAS, VENEZUELA (Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Jan.2024) — If the US experiences the return of Donald Trump as president, or if in Venezuela Maria Corina Machado’s handpicked successor wins, or both, no one is sure what will happen. So international oil companies (IOCs) will likely sit tight and not invest but […]
Tag: Carlos Rossi
NRGBriefs: Ecopetrol Sends First Carbon-Neutral Cargo to PetroChina
(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 voting to for the continuity of the National Assembly and its leader Juan GuaidĂł; and more. LATIN AMERICA AND THE […]
Venezuela’s Parliamentary Election: Change Expected
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Dec.2020) — Venezuela’s National Assembly leader and Interim President Juan Guaido could be coming to the end of his short two-year reign this 6 December 2020 as the country its holds parliamentary election and selects a new leader to preside over the institution. Decisions by numerous factions […]
Scorch Earth Suicide in Venezuela
(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 you are against me and get out. If you choose none of the above: Starve.” Cornered by a hyperinflation over […]
Cure for Venezuela’s Mercantilism, Rentism Disease
(EnergyNomics, Carlos A Rossi, 18.Aug.2018) – Are natural resource endowed countries victims of their own wealth? Is there a richness threshold beyond which the institutions designed to protect a country’s citizens turn against them and become their worst enemy by annihilating their productive apparatus riddling it with the miseries of […]
Smuggling of Venezuelan Gasoline to Aruba to Continue
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 1.Oct.2015) – The smuggling of Venezuelan gasoline to Aruba and other countries will continue as long as a large gap between gasoline prices exists, said EnergyNomics President Carlos Rossi in an interview in Houston, Texas. “Contraband is a way to keep the military happy […]
Venezuela’s Good, Bad Position
(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Sep.2015) – In terms of decisions made by Venezuelan government, a former AVHI executive in Caracas shares his thoughts. “What is good for you is bad for everybody else, that’s not a good position for Venezuela,” EnergyNomics President Carlos Rossi tells Energy Analytics Institute in a phone […]
PDVSA Output to Likely Fall in Default Scenario
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Sep.2015) – In terms of a much talked about default, PDVSA would continue to function but the levels of output will likely decline due to a lack of investment and could see an increase in accidents at the company, said EnergyNomics President Carlos Rossi in […]