VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (By Aris Mining , 19.Nov.2025, Words: 517) — Aris Mining Corporation has entered into a settlement and termination agreement with the Republic of Colombia, represented by the National Agency for Legal Defense of the State (ANDJE), to end the arbitration proceeding brought under the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (ICSID […]
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US Oil Service Group Seeks $100mn From Mexico In Arbitration Claim
(Reuters, 18.May.2021) — A U.S. oil service group introduced a $100 million claim before a World Bank arbitration court alleging Mexico violated investor protections under the NAFTA trade pact by failing to honor agreements, lawyers for the firms and court documents showed. The World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of […]
Damages Awarded To Perenco For FET Breach In Ecuador
(Institutional Institute for Sustainable Development, 17.Dec.2019) — A long-standing tribunal under the France–Ecuador BIT has issued its final award on compensation. The award orders Ecuador to compensate oil and gas investor Perenco Ecuador Limited (Perenco) almost USD 449 million for Ecuador’s imposition of a 99 per cent windfall profit tax […]
Venezuela’s Citgo Refineries At Risk Of Seizure
(Forbes, Robert Rapie, 12.Aug.2018) – In 2007, following Venezuela’s expropriation of billions of dollars of assets from U.S. companies like ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, I suggested a potential remedy. Since Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA (PetrĂłleos de Venezuela, S.A.) owns the Citgo refineries in the U.S., I felt the companies that […]
ICSID Orders Ecuador Pay ConocoPhillips $380 Mln
(ConocoPhillips, 8.Feb.2017) – ConocoPhillips’ wholly owned subsidiary, Burlington Resources Inc., received an arbitration award of $380 million from an international arbitration tribunal, constituted under the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), for Ecuador’s unlawful expropriation of Burlington’s significant investment in breach of the U.S.-Ecuador bilateral investment treaty. […]
Paris Court Favors with Gold Reserve
(Gold Reserve Inc., 7.Feb.2017) – Gold Reserve Inc. announced that on February 7, 2017, the Paris Court of Appeal rejected all of Venezuela’s arguments and issued a judgment dismissing the annulment applications filed by Venezuela pending before the French courts in relation to the arbitral award dated September 22, 2014 […]
Court Enters Default Against Venezuela
(Gold Reserve Inc., 30.Mar.2015) – Gold Reserve Inc. reported on developments in the proceedings instituted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to confirm the $740 million arbitral award dated 22.Sep.2014 rendered against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. On 27.Mar.2015, the Court entered a default against Venezuela […]
Venezuela Seeks Disqualification of ICSID Judges
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 26.Mar.2015) – Venezuela presented a letter to the ICSID court requesting the dismissal of judge Kenneth Keith. Keith is the president of the arbitration tribunal in the case brought to the court by ConocoPhillips in its wrongful expropriation case against the government of Venezuela which […]
Owens-Illinois Wins Venezuelan Arbitration
(Owens-Illinois, Inc., 12.Mar.2015) – Owens-Illinois, Inc. reported that its Dutch subsidiary, OI European Group B.V. (OIEG), has prevailed in an international arbitration against Venezuela. OIEG has been awarded more than $455 million for Venezuela’s unlawful expropriation of OIEG’s majority interest in two plants in Venezuela. The award was issued March […]
Harvest Withdraws Venezuelan Arbitration Request
(Harvest Natural Resources, 29.Jan.2015) – Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. announced that its affiliates, HNR Finance B.V. (Harvest BV) and Harvest Vinccler S.C.A. (HVSCA), have withdrawn without prejudice a Request for Arbitration (the Arbitration Request) against the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela before the International Centre for Settlement of […]
Harvest Files Arbitration Request Against Venezuela
(Harvest Natural Resources, 16.Jan.2015) – Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. announced that its affiliates, HNR Finance B.V. (Harvest BV) and Harvest Vinccler S.C.A. (HVSCA), submitted a Request for Arbitration against the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) regarding Harvest BV’s […]