(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Sep.2020) — Venezuela captured an alleged American spy near its Amuay refinery located in Falcón state. “We have captured an American in Falcón, spying on the Amuay...
(Argus, 12.Aug.2020) — Venezuelan state-owned PdV plans to restart gasoline production in 10-15 days at its 940,000 b/d CRP refining complex after restarting two crude distillation units yesterday, according to...
(Fars News Agency, 28.May.2020) — Iran's fourth tanker full of gasoline has entered the Caribbean and is close to the Venezuelan territorial waters. Venezuelan armed forces are due to escort...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.May.2020) — The first of five Iranian tankers carrying gasoline and additives for making fuel from Iran to Venezuela has reached the Caribbean country’s shores....
(Argus, 24.Mar.2020) — Some gasoline is trickling into Venezuela, while a few crude cargoes are still getting out, but the volumes and revenue are dwarfed by the US-sanctioned country's dire...
(US Treasury, 24.Sep.2019) — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four entities that operate in the oil sector of the Venezuelan economy...
[caption id="attachment_810" align="alignnone" width="1280"] PDVSA's 140,000 barrel-per-day El Palito refinery in Carabobo state. Source: PDVSA[/caption] (Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 23.Jun.2018) – PDVSA’s El Palito refinery has been in service...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 14.May.2018) – Venezuela’s state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) is bankrupt, at least that what its former president Luis Giusti thinks. “If you...
(Kallanish Energy, 28.Mar.2018) – Chinese and Russian state oil companies PetroChina and Rosneft will not pay the costs of repairing and modernizing Venezuela’s Cardón and Amuay refineries for PDVSA, according...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 27.Mar.2018) – Venezuela’s PDVSA owns six domestic refineries with a combined processing capacity of 1,303 thousand barrels per day (Mb/d), according to data from...
(Platts, 22.Mar.2018) – PDVSA is planning to close three of its four large refineries in Venezuela indefinitely due to of lack of crude to process and because the state company...
[caption id="attachment_564" align="alignnone" width="1088"] Amuay refinery in Venezuela. Source: Pietro D. Pitts[/caption] (Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 14.Sep.2016) – On a brief taxi ride from Punto Fijo’s Josefa Camejo...