(AP, 2.Nov.2018) The former finance chief of Venezuela's state oil company pleaded guilty on Wednesday to participating in an alleged US$1.2-billion embezzlement scheme, a major breakthrough for US prosecutors targeting...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 23.May.2017) – PDVSA President Eulogio Del Pino announced that he fully backs Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in the Constituent Assembly process to defeat what he...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 20.May.2017) – PDVSA announced that clean-up activities continue along the Venezuelan coast off Sucre state, related to the spill of crude oil at the Pointe-à-Pierre...
(PDVSA, 22.Feb.2017) – On February 21, 2017, Schlumberger CEO Paal Kibsgaard, visited the headquarters of Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) to hold a meeting with PDVSA President Eulogio Del Pino....
(PDVSA, 14.Feb.2017) – Members of the China-Venezuela High Level Joint Commission toured the facilities of the Puerto La Cruz Refinery in Anzoátegui state, to review the progress of the Deep...
(PDVSA, 13.Feb.2017) – The 15th China-Venezuela High Level Joint Commission took place at the José Félix Ribas Hall of Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas, with the aim of discussing the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 2.Feb.2017) – PDVSA reduced operating costs by more than 30 percent, announced the entity in an official statement, citing company President Eulogio Del Pino. No...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 29.Jan.2017) – Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro announced changes to the Board of Directors at PDVSA and said the members would be expected to assume...
(PDVSA, 5.Dec.2016) – During a meeting in Miraflores Palace, the People’s Power Minister of Petroleum and President of PDVSA Eulogio Del Pino and the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 4.Jul.2016) – Venezuela plans to soon initiate shipments of natural gas to Colombia, reported Venezuela's new agency AVN, citing the country's Oil Minister Eulogio Del...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 4.Jul.2016) –Venezuela is producing 3.8 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, PDVSA President Eulogio Del Pino said during an interview on the television program...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 24.Jun.2016) – PDVSA President Eulogio Del Pino ordered the investigation into presumed acts of corruption and bribery within the state oil company, reported the daily...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 14.Jun.2016) – Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said his country needs to boost its crude oil output over the next six months in accordance with the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 11.Jun.2016) — Schlumberger's fourteen drilling rigs in Venezuela will soon commence to operate under a different financial scheme, reported PDVSA in an official statement on...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 11.Jun.2016) – Authorities from the governments of Aruba, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and officials from Venezuela's state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 2.Jun.2016) — Venezuela again proposed establishment of a production band during the 169th OPEC meeting in Vienna. The band system consists of minimum and maximum...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.May.2016) — PetroCaribe member countries evaluated the creation of a joint-venture company that would distribute Venezuelan gas to them, reported Venezuela's news agency AVN, citing...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 23.May.2016) – Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Keith Rowley were both present during an energy-related signing ceremony in Port...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 1.Apr.2016) – Venezuela plans to immediately focus efforts on the exploitation and export of its massive gold resources located in Bolivar state in an attempt...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 8.Oct.2015) – “OPEC should convert itself into a stronger actor in geopolitical, geo-economics, and social areas as well in the permanent search for peace,”...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 1.Oct.2015) – Venezuela will soon start offshore gas production at the Mariscal Sucre project. Production from Cardon IV block is currently at 300 million...
(PDVSA, 10.Sept.2015) – The World Energy Council (WEC) and the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), with the support of the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy (MEER) of Ecuador,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Sep.2015) – “Let’s overcome our differences of opinion between OPEC and non OPEC producers to achieve consensus,” Venezuela's oil ministry posted via twitter , citing the country's oil...