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Latin America and the Caribbean Venezuela

PDVSA Extends Diesel Sales in Dollars, Cutting Subsidy

(Reuters, 30.May.2022) — Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA has ordered over a hundred stations to begin selling diesel in dollars, reducing a subsidy that had allowed truckers [more…]

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Latin America and the Caribbean Venezuela

Venezuela, In Historic Shift, Scales Back Fuel Subsidy

(WSJ, 31.May.2020) — The regime of Nicolás Maduro, grappling with intense gasoline shortages, said it will scale back its longstanding fuel subsidy and privatize service [more…]

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Bolivia Latin America and the Caribbean

YPFB Dispatches Fuel, LPG From Senkata Plant

(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 23.Nov.2019) — Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos announced the dispatch of 1.8 million liters of gasoline and [more…]

Brazil Latin America and the Caribbean

Petrobras Announces Adjustment Of Diesel Sale Price

(Petrobras, 29.Nov.2018) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on October 29, 2018 informs that, due to the methodology established in the National Petroleum [more…]

Latin America and the Caribbean Mexico

Mexico’s Next Government Faces Bind In Pemex Ethane Deal

(Reuters, Diego Oré, 17.Oct.2018) — Mexico’s incoming government will soon inherit a costly dilemma over an ethane supply contract between national oil company Pemex and [more…]

Latin America and the Caribbean Mexico

Pemex Rolls Out New Fuel Additive To Protect Gasoline Engines

(Pemex, 11.Oct.2018) — Pemex introduced the new gasoline additive that will be added into Pemex Magna and Pemex Premium fuels, the additive will be promoted [more…]

Guyana Latin America and the Caribbean Trinidad and Tobago

Kamla Floats Guyana Help for Trinidad Refinery

(Stabroek News, 2.Sep.2018) — Trinidad Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar has raised the prospect of Guyana oil being used to rescue the beleaguered Petrotrin refinery [more…]

Brazil Latin America and the Caribbean

Brazil’s Energy Agency Opts for Argus Prices

(Argus Media, 30.Aug.2018) — Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) will start using prices published by leading global energy and commodities [more…]

Argentina Latin America and the Caribbean Uruguay Venezuela

PDVSA Leaves Argentine Gas Station to Fend for Itself

(Reuters, Luc Cohen, 15.Aug.2018) – As Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA saw its finances devastated by low oil prices and mismanagement, it funneled millions of [more…]

Latin America and the Caribbean Venezuela

Venezuela Petrol Prices Need to Rise to Stop Smuggling

(Reuters, Deisy Buitrago and Brian Ellsworth, 14.Aug.2018) – Venezuela’s heavily subsidised domestic gasoline prices should rise to international levels to avoid billions of dollars in [more…]

Latin America and the Caribbean Mexico

Pemex Lets Contract for Tula Refinery

(Oil and Gas Journal, Robert Brelsford, 11.Jun.2018) – Mexico’s Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), through its processing subsidiary Pemex Transformacion Industrial (formerly Pemex Refinacion), has let a [more…]

Ecuador Latin America and the Caribbean

PetroEcuador Highlights Benefits of Esmeraldas Workover

(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Apr.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – EP PetroEcuador stands to gain the most from the recent workover to the Esmeraldas Refinery, reported the [more…]

Ecuador Latin America and the Caribbean

PetroEcuador Refineries Have 175 Mb/d Capacity

(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Apr.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – EP PetroEcuador’s three refineries — Esmeraldas, La Libertad and Shushufindi — had a combined processing capacity of [more…]