(Energy Analytics Institute, 31.Oct.2020) — Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YFB) announced plans to boost fuel volumes to supply the general population over the weekend and through the “Todos Santos” holiday,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Oct.2020) — Venezuela continues to suffer from severe shortages of fuel from gasoline to diesel and across the entire country despite the recent arrival of three Iranian...
(Wbur, 9.Sep.2020) — The economic hardship in Venezuela has been a huge burden for neighboring Colombia. Finally, a silver lining: the collapse of Venezuela's oil industry has stopped gas smuggling...
EP PetroEcuador will apply the fixation and publication of prices in Ecuador’s clean products terminals in compliance with executive decree no. 1054 of 19 May 2020, by means of which the “regulation of prices of petroleum derivatives” was amended.
(Reuters, 28.Jun.2020) — Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA has told independent gas station operators it can revoke their licences “at any time”, only weeks after it cut generous fuel subsidies...
(Reuters, 15.Jun.2020) — Iran could send two to three cargoes a month in regular gasoline sales to ally Venezuela, sources say, helping offload domestic oversupply but risking retaliation from U.S....
(Argus, 8.Jun.2020) — Venezuela's US-backed political opposition is promising to restore stable fuel supply in two weeks if it takes power, kicking off with crude-for-products swaps. In an initial stage,...
(Reuters, 7.Jun.2020) — Hundreds of Venezuelans queued up in miles-long lines to try to fill their cars with subsidized gasoline over the weekend, a week after President Nicolas Maduro launched...
(Financial Times, 4.Jun.2020) — For the Islamic republic, it was a mission fraught with risk: send five Iranian-flagged fuel tankers through some of the world’s most crucial maritime gateways to...
(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 stations, in a significant shift...
(Reuters, 27.May.2020) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday pledged to begin charging citizens for gasoline, as the fourth cargo of a five-tanker flotilla bringing fuel from Iran approached the...
(Reuters, 26.May.2020) — The third cargo of an Iranian tanker flotilla carrying fuel for gasoline-thirsty Venezuela was approaching the nation’s exclusive economic zone on Tuesday as the previous two were...
(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....
(Wall Street Journal, 20.May.2020) — The Trump administration is weighing new sanctions and other legal steps to disrupt Iranian oil exports to Venezuela, U.S. officials said, in response to what...
(Argus, 19.May.2020) — Iran's gasoline shipments to Venezuela are helping to ease a supply glut at home, where demand has collapsed because of strict measures to check the Covid-19 pandemic....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 7.May.2020) — EP PetroEcuador on 2 May 2020 started dispatching super gasoline from the Barbasquillo Clean Products Terminal located in Manta in order to satisfy...
(Reuters, 12.Mar.2020) — Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras cut gasoline prices at refineries in the country by almost 10% on Thursday, the first cut since this week’s oil price collapse,...
(Reuters, 14.Feb.2020) — Venezuela’s state energy firm PDVSA has been shipping more oil this month to close ally Cuba, as tighter U.S. sanctions have worsened fuel shortages on the Caribbean...
(Argus, 30.Jan.2020) — Argentina's government said Thursday it has extended a freeze on diesel and gasoline prices until the end of February, as it tries to reel in one of...
(Reuters, 31.Dec.2019) — With an emoji of a flexing bicep, Venezuelan state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., or PDVSA, on Tuesday celebrated what was once a routine task in...
(Petrobras, 22.Apr.2019) — Petrobras informs that as of today, the daily prices of gasoline and diesel in each of its points of sale throughout the national territory are available on...
(NYT, Elisabeth Malkin, 11.Apr.2019) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador envisions a future in which Mexico produces more oil, gasoline and electricity. But his strategy to get there relies on...
(The New York Times, Ioan Grillo, 26.Mar.2019) — In the first months of this year, the word “huachicolero” — once a rarely used term — has been on the lips...
(Wood Mackenzie, 2.Feb.2019) — The sanctions the US government has imposed against Venezuela aim to curb the Maduro government’s access to revenue from crude export. But impact could they have...
(Reuters, 20.Jan.2019) — Mexico’s state oil firm, Pemex, did not close the valve at a leaking gasoline pipeline when first notified because it was not initially thought to be an...
(Reuters, 15.Jan.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday that widespread fuel theft extended to oil drilling platforms and he pledged to take actions to alleviate shortages...
(Pemex 10.Jan.2019) — Petróleos Mexicanos continues to make progress in its efforts to normalize fuel supply. The new strategy set in motion by the Mexican Government to end “huachicoleo” (the...
(Pemex 9.Jan.2019) — The Mexican Government, through Petróleos Mexicanos, calls for the public to avoid panic shopping, as this could generate a fuel shortage. Once more, it reminds the public...
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 7.Jan.2019) — Mexican drivers in several states are struggling to fill their tanks as the new government fights massive fuel theft by seeking to move more gasoline...
(Reuters, 7.Jan.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday that his crackdown against fuel theft was yielding positive results, even as the intervention sparked severe fuel shortages...
(Pemex, 6.Jan.2019) — By mandate of the Mexican Government, Pemex has made significant progress in restoring fuel distribution, using various alternative supply lines in the affected states. Although there have...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 5.Jan.2019) — In Guanajuato, the capital city of Guanajuato state, an estimated nine-out of a total of 14-gas stations reportedly don’t have fuel to supply...
(Pemex, 5.Jan.2019) — Petróleos Mexicanos reports that safer transportation methods are being used as part of the Joint Plan of the Mexican Government to combat fuel theft, which has caused...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 3.Jan.2019) — The Mexican Association of Gasoline Businessmen (Amegas by its Spanish acronym) confirmed the shortage of gasoline in various regions of Mexico, which could...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 1.Jan.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on fluctuating prices for super gasoline in Ecuador; and Ecuador’s government favoring $50.05 per barrel oil...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 14.Dec.2018) — Petrobras said the average subsidized price of diesel to be utilized by the company at its refineries and terminals will be R$ 1.8115...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 1.Dec.2018) — Bolivia envisions a 30% increase in its hydrocarbon subsidy due to the rise in the price of oil in international markets. The higher...
(Trinidad Express, Sandhya Santoo, 7.Nov.2018) — Is super gasoline burning faster? This is the claim by some motorists who are insisting that the fuel is burning faster, leading to lower...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 5.Nov.2018) — Commercialization of Bolivia’s new ‘Super Ethanol 92’ gasoline reached nearly 200,000 liters in the first four days after it was introduced in the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 30.Oct.2018) — Bolivia announced it expects to initiate sale of its new Super Ethanol 92 fuel on November 1, 2018. Santa Cruz will initiate the...
(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 a consortium led by a...
(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 under the brand name of...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Julien Neaves, 26.Sep.2018) — Energy Minister Franklin Khan has assured there would be no disruption in fuel supply to the travelling public with the closure of...
(Jamaica Gleaner, 12.Sep.2018) — Gas prices are to go down by $0.72 tomorrow Thursday, September 13 The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 will sell for $137.82 per litre and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 3.Sep.2018) — During the first seven months of 2018, the average consumption of gasoline in Mexico was 778,000 barrels per day, or 124 million liters...
(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 but Prime Minister Keith Rowley...
(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 price reporting and news agency...
(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 dollars to Petrolera del Conosur...
(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 annual losses due to fuel...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 13.Aug.2018) — The price of Venezuela’s subsidized petrol, long one of the cheapest in world, is set to rise. Effective August 20, 2018, the price...
(AFP, Esteban Rojas, 5.Aug.2018) – In Venezuela's inflation-hit economy, a single US dollar can buy 3.5 million liters of gasoline -- an absurdity that the government says it will tackle...
(Pemex, 1.Aug.2018) – The CEO of Pemex Transformación Industrial stated that the new concept will help the franchise maintain its leadership in the national market The first “Flagship” service station...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Jul.2018) – The price of gasoline in Venezuela is likely to increase. For some services such as gasoline, there will be a relative increase in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Jul.2018) – Hiking the price of gasoline in Venezuela won’t fix the OPEC country’s fiscal problem. That’s according to recent statements from an opposition leader....
(Jamaica Gleaner, 13.Jun.2018) – Gas prices are to go down by $0.21 effective Thursday, June 14. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 will sell for $132.12 per litre...
(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 contract to a partnership of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 19.May.2017) – In recent weeks, a reported 66 companies in Venezuela dedicated to the collection of milk have closed their doors and stopped distribution activities...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 15.May.2017) – Venezuela expects to receive between $120,000 and $150,000 per day from the sale of its gasoline along the Colombian border, reported the daily...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Fidencio Casillas, 12.Mar.2017) – Mexico consumed 193 million liters of fuel in January 2017, state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Gasolinera wrote in a twitter post. Of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Fidencio Casillas, 16.Jan.2017) – The average gasoline price in Mexico, the largest Spanish speaking country in the Americas, is still the lowest amongst select countries in the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Fidencio Casillas, 5.Jan.2017) – The prices of gasoline in Mexico is set to increase gradually and up to 20 percent on average, effective January 1, 2017, although...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – EP PetroEcuador revealed some of its goals for 2016, reported the state company in an official statement. The goals for 2016 include,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – Ecuador has decided it will allow its service stations to again distribute alcoholic beverages. The distribution of alcoholic beverages at the stations...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Fidencio Casillas, 5.Jun.2016) – The consumption of premium gasoline in Mexico has evolved favorably over the last six years with the Premium grade gaining territory on the...
EEnergy Analytics Institute, 1.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – EP PetroEcuador has a gasoline network comprising 276 service stations, reported the state company in an official statement. PetroEcuador affiliates operated 215...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 1.May.2016) – Ten gasoline stations – which form part of Venezuela’s Exclusive and Special Service stations – are selling PDVSA’s 91 grade gasoline for 200...
(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 state company in an official...
(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 175,000 barrels per day at...
