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EAI commentary, talking points, and concluding points around privatizing Venezuela’s PDVSA

HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 7.Feb.2026, Words: 743) — Energy Analytics Institute’s case for the privatization of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. […]

Chrysopigi Lady sets sail from Venezuela with initial LPG shipment

HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Feb.2026, Words: 253) — Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez announced that the Chrysopigi Lady vessel set sail […]

EAI analysis: approval of Venezuela’s Organic Hydrocarbons Law in first reading

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (By Ana Sanches, Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Jan.2026, Words: 440) — It’s official: the reform to Venezuela’s Organic Hydrocarbons Law was approved by the […]

EAI analysis: Venezuela, Siembra Petrolera and Chávez’ 235 bn bbl Faja incorporation goal

HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Jan.2026, Words: 370) — Stepping back in time, in Aug. 2006, Venezuela’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum […]

EAI analysis: Exxon, ConocoPhillips and Chávez’ nationalization decree of 2005

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (By Ana Sanches, Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Jan.2026, Words: 176) — For what it’s worth, Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez announced a nationalization decree […]

EAI analysis: Venezuela’s sleeping giant … natural gas for export via pipelines or as LNG

HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Jan.2026, Words: 1,448) — Venezuela, with its large conventional and unconventional crude oil reserve base, was a […]

EAI analysis: a look at Machado’s vision, seemingly inherited by Trump, for Venezuela

HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Jan.2026, Words: 997) — A few years back, the recent Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Venezuela’s leading […]

EAI brief: Venezuela’s Mariscal Sucre projects fields and production potential

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (By Ana Sanches, Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Jan.2026, Words: 150) — Venezuela’s Mariscal Sucre project offshore comprises 4 fields: Dragón, Patao, Mejillones and Río […]

Venezuela grants Dragon gas field license

HOUSTON, TEXAS (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Dec.2023) — The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC) and Shell were granted a license for […]

The lifting of sanctions and the oil collapse of Venezuela [PDF download]

(Rafael Ramírez, 16.Nov.2023) — On 18 Oct., the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)[1] issued Licenses 43 and 44,[2] lifting the sanctions on the Venezuelan oil and mining sector […]

Venezuela: On the Exercise of Hydrocarbon Extraction Activities

(Contributor, Adaelizabeth Omaira Guerrero Rodríguez, 18.Sep.2023) — The hydrocarbons industry constitutes the main resource of Venezuela, therefore, the study of this area should be the […]

Italy Top Court: Venezuela’s Ex-oil Czar Can’t be Extradited

(AP, 28.Jan.2022) — Italy’s highest court confirmed Friday that Venezuela’s former oil czar cannot be extradited to face corruption charges at home because of his […]

NRGBriefs: ANP Resolution, Ramirez Extradition Request

(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Sep.2021) — Energy briefs from the LAC region including: Brazil’s ANP approving a resolution to regulate a reduction in royalties, a court […]

Rome Court Rejects Extradition Bid For Ex-Oil Czar

(AP, 20.Sep.2021) — A Rome court has rejected a request by Venezuela to extradite its former oil czar to face corruption charges, citing the country’s […]

Venezuela Supports Three Month Opec Extension

(Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Nov.2020) — Opec producer Venezuela continues to support a three month extension of production levels of 7.7 million barrels per day. “Venezuela […]

Does Venezuela Need A New Hydrocarbon Law? Webinar

(Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Nov.2020) — Does Venezuela need a new organic hydrocarbons law? That’s the question to be addressed on 5 November 2020 by four […]

Case Against Venezuela’s Oil Minister Hits Another Snag

(AP, 3.Nov.2020) — The prosecution of Venezuela’s Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami for violating U.S. sanctions has run into another snag after a federal judge […]

Former PDVSA Head Criticizes Anti-Blockade Law

(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Oct.2020) — The former president of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Rafael Ramírez, criticized Venezuela’s Anti-Blockade Law, which was approved by the country’s […]

India Sticks To Venezuelan Crude

Venezuela to Continue in Defense of Oil Market Equilibrium

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 29.Sep.2018) — Venezuela’s Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo announced the South American country would continue to seek equilibrium in the petroleum […]

Former PDVSA Director Detained in Argentina

(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 17.Aug.2018) – A former PDVSA director has been detained and accused of money laundering. Luis Abraham Bastidas Ramírez, the cousin […]

PDVSA President Says Venezuela Production Stabilized

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 10.Aug.2018) – PDVSA President Manuel Quevedo assured that Venezuelan crude oil production had stabilized. Quevedo, who also serves as Venezuela’s […]

Venezuela Facing Compounding Oil Woes

(UPI, Daniel J. Graeber, 10.Aug.2018) – Though it holds the largest reserves of oil in the world, production levels put it only in the middle […]

Venezuela’s Oil Ministry Has New Website

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 29.Jun.2018) – Venezuela’s Oil Ministry launched its new website and promotional video regarding the same. 🇻🇪🌐 #WEB | Desde @MinPetroleoVE […]

Venezuela Producing 3.8 MMboe/d, PDVSA President Says

(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 […]