BELIZE CITY, BELIZE (Aaron Simonsky, Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Jan.2025) — Argentina’s state-owned YPF SA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with 3 Indian companies for [more…]
Tag: Juan Guaido
Venezuela’s Dictator Maduro is Shameless
(Miami Herald, 16.Jun.2023) — It’s official: The Venezuelan regime will pick a new electoral tribunal to oversee the 2024 presidential elections, and — guess what! — [more…]
Exiled Venezuela Lawmakers Chosen to Lead Anti-Maduro Fight
(AP, 5.Jan.2023) — Venezuela’s opposition has selected an all-female team of mostly unknown exiled former lawmakers to replace the beleaguered Juan Guaidó as the face [more…]
Are Talks Over Detained Americans Slowing the Fight for Democracy in Venezuela?
(CNN, 16.Aug.2022) — A growing number of US citizens are being detained in Venezuela — and though exactly how many is unknown, the detentions could give authoritarian [more…]
US Officials Return to Venezuela Amid Gas Price Hike
(AP, 27.Jun.2022) — Senior U.S. government officials have quietly traveled to Caracas in the latest bid to bring home detained Americans and rebuild relations with [more…]
NRGBriefs: Marathon’s Equatorial Guinea Output; Murphy on Brazil and Mexico
(Energy Analytics Institute, 4.May.2022) — Energy and political briefs including Marathon Oil reporting 1Q:22 production from Equatorial Guinea of 64 net Mboe/d; the US providing [more…]
NRGBriefs: Colombia Commences Two Green Hydrogen Pilots [PDF Download]
(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Colombia commencing operations at the first of two green hydrogen pilots in Cartagena; Ecopetrol announcing plans to [more…]
US Sanctions on Venezuela and What They Don’t Tell You: Luis Vicente León
(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Mar.2022) — Datanalisis President Luis Vicente León commented on social media about the rumors around an easing of US sanctions on Venezuela [more…]
Defaulted Venezuela Bonds Are Luring Buyers Betting on US Deal
(Bloomberg, 18.Mar.2022) — A bond that trades at 10 cents on the dollar is about as distressed as distressed gets. And yet in Venezuela, which [more…]
NRGBriefs: Juan Guaidó Reiterates Call For “Free and Fair” Elections in Venezuela
(Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó saying the solution to the Venezuelan tragedy is “free and fair” elections; [more…]
Engaging Venezuela Is Worth the Gamble
(Bloomberg, 15.Mar.2022) — A more realistic policy toward the Maduro regime would free up oil supplies and weaken Russian influence. In a bid to ease [more…]
US Extends Citgo Protection
(AFP, 21.Jan.2022) — The US Treasury on Thursday extended by one year a rule that shields Citgo, a US-based unit of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA, [more…]
State Win for Venezuela’s Opposition Masks Deeper Problems
(Al Jazeera, 11.Jan.2022) — Despite a symbolic victory in Hugo Chavez’s home state, analysts say the opposition has few options left. Venezuela’s opposition has won an [more…]
NRGBriefs: Buenos Aires Power Outages
(Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Jan.2022) — Energy briefs including power outages in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Brazilian fuel distributors supplying 1.3bn liters of biofuels in the 1Q:22; [more…]
Venezuela Asset Debacle Splits Guaidó Camp
(Argus, 2.Nov.2021) — Two major Venezuelan opposition parties today voted against a decree issued by US-backed shadow parliamentary leader Juan Guaidó, an unprecedented rupture that foreshadows [more…]
Venezuela Talks Suspended In Mexico City
(AP, 24.Sep.2021) — The latest round of negotiations between Venezuela’s government and the country’s opposition were suspended Friday when the government’s delegates failed to appear [more…]
Venezuela Negotiations By Eric Farnsworth
(AS/COA, 12.Aug.2021) — A new round of negotiations is set to start on Friday, August 13, in Mexico between representatives of the de facto regime of Nicolás Maduro and the interim administration [more…]
LatAm Briefs: Argentine Output, Colombian Renewables
(Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Jul.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: daily production details from Argentina’s Neuquén region to 13 renewable [more…]
Trump Hits Venezuela With Sanctions
(AP, 19.Jan.2021) — The Trump administration issued a parting shot at Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday, announcing a sweeping round of stiff financial sanctions [more…]
Venezuela Orders Arrest Of New Citgo Board Member
(Reuters, 18.Jan.2021) — Venezuelan authorities issued an arrest warrant for a new member of the board of directors of U.S.-based refining firm Citgo Petroleum Corp [more…]
Judge Approves Citgo Parent Share Sale
(Argus, 14.Jan.2021) — Venezuela inched closer to losing control of its US refining subsidiary Citgo today after a federal judge began crafting a sale process [more…]
EU’s Declaration On Backing Venezuela’s Juan Guaido
(EU Council, 6.Jan.2021) — The Venezuelan elections of 6 December 2020 for the National Assembly regrettably went ahead without a national agreement on electoral conditions. [more…]
EU, Lima Group Sour On Juan Guaido
(Argus, 6.Jan.2021) — The EU and the Lima Group of Latin American countries and Canada have implicitly dropped support for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido [more…]
Venezuela’s New National Assembly Steps In
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Jan.2021) — Venezuela’s new National Assembly, elected in parliamentary elections on 6 December 2020, assumed power today in Caracas. Jorge Rodriguez will [more…]
Carlos Vecchio Says Guaidó Govt Saved Citgo
(Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Dec.2020) — Houston-based refiner Citgo Petroleum, owned by Venezuela’s state oil and gas company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), continues to benefit from [more…]
Biden Presidency To Reset US Sanctions Focus
(Argus, 14.Dec.2020) — Washington’s failure in the past two years to force regime change in Caracas by means of severe sanctions gives the incoming US [more…]
Venezuelan Opposition Fills PdV Chair On Election Eve
(Argus, 7.Dec.2020) — Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly named another oil industry veteran to chair a shadow board of Venezuela’s national oil company PdV. The key [more…]
Venezuela’s New Assembly To Battle Sanctions
(Argus, 7.Dec.2020) — Venezuela’s National Assembly elections yesterday thrust the Opec country’s last democratic institution under the thumb of President Nicolas Maduro, who has defied [more…]
Venezuelans Vote In Legislative Election
(Al Jazeera, 6.Dec.2020) — Venezuelans voted on Sunday in legislative elections set to tighten President Nicolas Maduro’s grip on power and weaken his US-backed rival, [more…]
Venezuela’s Parliamentary Election: Change Expected
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Dec.2020) — Venezuela’s National Assembly leader and Interim President Juan Guaido could be coming to the end of his short two-year reign [more…]
Dems Statement Ahead Of Elections In Venezuela
(US Senate, 4.Dec.2020) — US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) issued the following statement [more…]
Latin America Peers Warily Into US Election Mirror
(Argus, 30.Oct.2020) — The region’s recovery from Covid-19 will depend heavily on who is dictating US policy, writes Patricia Garip. Waves of political chaos that [more…]
Citgo-backed Bonds Boosted By US Court Ruling
(Reuters, 19.Oct.2020) — Bond market brokers marked up prices on some of Venezuela’s battered debt more than four-fold on Monday after a U.S. judge dealt [more…]
Attack On Venezuela Refineries A Playbook US Regime Change Scenario
(Sputnik, 14.Sep.2020) — In the last two years, Venezuela has thwarted a coup attempt organised by opposition leader Juan Guaido, one attempt to kidnap President [more…]
PdV Ad Hoc Chairman Joins Opposition Flight
(Argus, 9.Sep.2020) — The chairman of the Venezuelan opposition’s “ad hoc” board of national oil company PdV has joined a flight of exiled technocrats from [more…]
Venezuelan Opposition Politician Backs Elections
(Wall Street Journal, 2.Sep.2020) — A prominent Venezuelan opposition figure on Wednesday said he is supporting congressional elections in December that Juan Guaidó, the opposition [more…]
Venezuela Faces Possibility Oil Output Drops To Zero
(Oilprice.com, 1.Sep.2020) — Venezuela once considered one of Latin America’s prosperous countries has plunged into the abyss. Years of economic mismanagement, cronyism and corruption have [more…]
Maduro Pardons Political Prisoners Ahead Of Vote
(Bloomberg, 31.Aug.2020) — Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro issued a surprise decree pardoning more than 100 of his opponents as a concession ahead of upcoming congressional [more…]
Russia Is Winning The Battle For Venezuela’s Oil
(Oilprice.com, 24.Aug.2020) — In just over a year Venezuela, and the push to oust socialist leader President Nicolas Maduro, has gone from being one of [more…]
Trump Seeks To Slap More Sanctions On Venezuela
(Oilprice.com, 19.Aug.2020) — The U.S. federal government is considering more sanctions to add to a list aimed at severing the lifeline between the Venezuelan government [more…]
Trump Govt Weighs Tighter Sanctions On Venezuelan Oil
(Bloomberg, 18.Aug.2020) — The Trump administration is considering additional sanctions on Venezuela aimed at halting the remaining fuel transactions permitted with the South American nation, [more…]
Joint Support Declaration For Change In Venezuela
(US State Department, 14.Aug.2020) — The text of the following declaration was released by several members of the Lima Group, the International Contact Group, the [more…]
New Players Emerge In Venezuela Amid Sanctions
(AP, 13.Jul.2020) — As U.S. sanctions scare away the world’s largest shippers from Venezuela’s oil industry, new players are willing to brave the heightened risks [more…]
Politics Entangling Exile PdV Board
(Argus, 1.Jul.2020) — An “ad hoc” board of state-owned PdV that is a key part of US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido’s parallel administration is running [more…]
Russia Backs Venezuela In Fight Against US
(Newsweek, 24.Jun.2020) — Russia vowed to support Venezuela in its campaign to counter U.S.-backed regime change after the Pentagon sailed warships nearby in the Caribbean [more…]
Guaido Team Favoring COP In Citgo Fight
(Argus, 19.Jun.2020) — Another senior Venezuelan opposition figure has resigned following the government’s leak of a strategy to favor ConocoPhillips in an escalating battle for [more…]
Opposition Asks Court To Recognize Citgo Changes
(Argus, 18.Jun.2020) — Venezuelan ownership of the country’s most valuable overseas asset may rest on opposition leadership convincing a US court that it restored refiner [more…]
Guaido Team Promises Fuel Surge In Venezuela
(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 [more…]
Iran’s Message To US With Venezuela Oil Shipments
(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 [more…]
Q&A: PdV Exile Board Has ‘Levers’ To Keep Citgo
(Argus, 28.May.2020) — Luis Pacheco is chairman of a parallel board trying to exert control over the future of Venezuela’s state-owned PdV. Appointed by the [more…]
PdV’s Board Of Exiles Loses Two Technocrats
(Argus, 21.May.2020) — Two members of the parallel board of Venezuela’s national oil company PdV have resigned, a development that exposes brewing frustration in the [more…]
Venezuela Spurned By US Court In Citgo Clash
(Bloomberg, 18.May.2020) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Venezuela in its fight to retain control of oil refiner Citgo Holding Inc., putting [more…]
Venezuelan Oil Plan Runs Aground
(Argus, 8.May.2020) — A sweeping proposal to draw investment into an Opec nation would normally turn some heads. That is what Venezuela’s US-backed political opposition [more…]
Pipeline Blast Halts PetroPiar
(Argus, 10.Mar.2020) — Venezuelan state-owned PdV’s PetroPiar joint venture with Chevron suspended upgrading operations following a pipeline explosion early today, three oil workers at the [more…]
Venezuela Cause Drifting Off International Agenda
(Argus, 10.Mar.2020) — Venezuela’s US-backed opposition is scrambling to stay relevant at home and abroad as the US and other foreign patrons turn inward to [more…]
Trump Wants Pressure Raised On Maduro
(Bloomberg, 21.Feb.2020) — President Donald Trump is frustrated that pressure is building too slowly on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and is still considering military options [more…]
Ask No Questions, Tell No Lies
(Argus, 11.Feb.2020) — Juan Guaido is finally returning to Caracas today, with a vow to dislodge the “usurper” so he and his team of exiles [more…]
Russia Sends Lavrov To Venezuela
(Reuters, 4.Feb.2020) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Venezuela on Friday in a show of support for President Nicolas Maduro, a socialist who [more…]
Guaido Rubbing Elbows In Surprise Foreign Trip
(Argus, 20.Jan.2020) — The US government is hoping a high-profile international tour by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido will re-inject momentum into its protracted campaign [more…]
Oil Is The Only Way Back Up For Venezuela
(Oilprice.com, 19.Jan.2020) — There’s only one path to rebuilding Venezuela, and it’s paved with oil. For the time being, that path leads nowhere. The key [more…]
Chevron Gets 4th Reprieve From Venezuela Sanctions
(Argus, 17.Jan.2020) — Washington will allow Chevron and four US oil field service providers to continue operating in Venezuela until 22 April by granting a [more…]
Maduro Seeks Oil Contract Changes: Lawmakers
(Reuters, 8.Jan.2020) — Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party hopes legislators it recently declared to be in charge of congress will approve changes to ownership of some [more…]
Guaido Survival Likely To Buy Chevron More Time
(Argus, 7.Jan.2020) — The White House appears likely to extend a waiver for Chevron to operate in Venezuela after US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido overcame [more…]
US Considering More Venezuela Sanctions
(S&P Global Platts, 6.Jan.2020) — The US may respond to escalating political disarray in Venezuela by allowing a sanctions waiver for Chevron and four US [more…]
US Says Maduro Rigging Coming Vote
(NYT, 20.Dec.2019) — At stake is control of the country’s National Assembly, which is controlled by the opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who has accused President [more…]
Venezuela Gov’t, Opposition Weigh Giving Firms Operating Rights
(Reuters, Luc Cohen, Deisy Buitrago, Mayela Armas, 6.Dec.2019) — Venezuela’s government and opposition have discussed allowing private companies in joint ventures with state oil company [more…]
LatAm, US Ban Travel For Venezuela’s Maduro, Allies
(Reuters, Luis Jaime Acosta, 3.Dec.2019) — Fifteen countries in the Americas agreed on Tuesday to ban 29 Venezuelans, including the oil-producing country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, [more…]
US Acts Against Movement Of Venezuelan Oil To Cuba
(US Department of State, 3.Dec.2019) — On December 3, the United States identified six PDVSA-owned vessels, pursuant to E.O. 13884 or 13850, being used by [more…]
Maduro Sent $900mn In Oil To Cuba, U.S. Official Said
(El Nuevo Herald, Nora Gámez Torres, 27.Nov.2019) — Embattled leader Nicolás Maduro sent about $900 million in oil to Cuba this year despite the humanitarian [more…]
Guaido Sacks Colombia Envoy, Oil Boss Freites Quits
(Argus, 27.Nov.2019) — Another prominent figure in Venezuela’s US-backed parallel administration has abruptly departed and an oil union leader has quit the main opposition political [more…]
Rosneft Undermining US Plans In Venezuela?
(Atlantic Council, Matthew Bryza, 27.Nov.2019) — US President Donald Trump is conducting policies of “maximum pressure” on two countries, Venezuela and Iran. In Venezuela, Russia’s [more…]
Third Circuit Rejects Citgo Rehearing
(Argus, Elliott Blackburn, 21.Nov.2019) — Federal appeals court judges have denied Venezuela’s request to rehear a July decision upholding the pursuit of the country’s US [more…]
US Court Denies Citgo Rehearing
(S&P Global Platts, 21.Nov.2019) — A US appeals court Thursday denied Venezuela’s request for it to reconsider its ruling allowing a PDVSA creditor to go [more…]
CITGO: Worth Protecting?
(AFPM, Chet Thompson, 22.Oct.2019) — In the last ten years the fracking revolution has led to amazing growth and vastly increased energy security for the [more…]
Guaido Team Proposes Truce To PDVSA Bondholders
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga and Corina Pons, 18.Oct2019) — Venezuela’s opposition last week sent holders of state oil company PDVSA’s 2020 bond a proposal to suspend [more…]
Chevron To Receive Venezuelan Oil Cargo
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 18.Oct.2019) — U.S. oil major Chevron Corp is scheduled this month to receive at least one cargo of crude oil from sanctioned [more…]
