(Argus, 6.Sep.2019) — Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro ordered state prosecutors to lodge treason charges against opposition leader Juan Guaido for…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 22.Aug.2019) — The two new top executives at Citgo Petroleum disclosed this week that net income in…
(Argus, 20.Aug.2019) — The Chinese government is so far showing no sign of curtailing its oil ties to Venezuela, despite…
(AP, 20.Aug.2019) — Parts of Venezuela’s capital and at least one state endured a power blackout on Tuesday lasting several…
(Reuters, By Luc Cohen, 15.Aug.2019) — Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress is considering reforms to the country’s oil law that would open…
(Reuters, Luc Cohen, 14.Aug.2019) — Foreign joint venture partners with Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA are concerned the latest set…
(WSJ, Vivian Salama, 6.Aug.2019) — The Trump administration imposed a total economic embargo against the government of Venezuela, a significant…
(Bloomberg, 6.Aug.2019) — President Donald Trump imposed further sanctions on Venezuela, freezing the government’s assets in the U.S. and adding…
(Platts, 6.Aug.2019) — The US escalated sanctions against Venezuela late Monday and may use the executive order to target crude…
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 5.Aug.2019) — Six U.S. executives at Citgo, the U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-held oil firm PDVSA, were…
(Reuters, Matt Spetalnick and Roberta Rampton, 5.Aug.2019) — U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets…
(Citgo, 2.Aug.2019) — A Delaware court affirmed the authority of the Guaido Government to make appointments to the Citgo Petroleum…
(Bloomberg, 1.Aug.2019) — Russian oil products are making their way to sanction-stained Venezuela, affording a reprieve for the Latin American…
(WSJ, Paulo Trevisani, 1.Aug.2019) — U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross laid out a plan including credit and investment to help…
(Reuters, Timothy Gardner, 26.Jul.2019) — The Trump administration is split over whether to renew a license this week for energy…
(Bloomberg, Kevin Crowley, Lucia Kassai and Kevin Cirilli, 25.Jul.2019) — Pressure is mounting on U.S. President Donald Trump to end Chevron…
(Argus, 25.Jul.2019) — A US government decision over Chevron’s expiring license to work in Venezuela is the first test of…
(Ford Tanner, 23.Jul.2019) — Venezuela’s political crisis remains in stalemate. Escalating oil-sector sanctions imposed by the United States have contributed…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga and Luc Cohen, 28.Jun.2019) — Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA is revamping one of its major processing…
(Reuters, 26.Jun.2019) — A U.S. court will decide whether a board of directors appointed by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro or…
(Reuters, 19.Jun.2019) — An ad-hoc board of directors for U.S. oil refiner Citgo, named by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido,…
(AFP, 5.Jun.2019 ) — Maria Lopez complains about gasoline rationing that Venezuela — home to the world’s largest oil reserves…
(VOA, Martin Arostegui, 21.May.2019) — Spain’s Repsol, the last western oil giant with major operations in Venezuela, is leaving the…
(Bloomberg, Lucia Kassai, 20.May.2019) —Venezuela, which sits atop more oil than Saudi Arabia, has fallen behind three other Latin American…
(AP, Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, 17.May.2019) — When her daughter was 4 years old, Jennifer Jean started a small catering business…
(AFP, 17.May.2019) — The United States last Friday imposed sanctions on two shipping companies for delivering Venezuelan oil to ally…
(CNN, Allan Dodds Frank, 16.May.2019) — Venezuela’s future is in limbo, as its embattled president continues to fend off a…
(Reuters, Corina Pons and Mayela Armas, 16.May.2019) — Venezuela’s ad-hoc board of directors for state oil company PDVSA, appointed by…
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 14.May.2019) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting on Tuesday…
(Energy.gov, 13.May.2019) — Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry was in Bogotá, Colombia for the Concordia Americas Summit, a…
(Reuters, Collin Eaton , 30.Apr.2019) — Oil prices rose on Tuesday above $73 a barrel but then eased off the…
(Reuters, 19.Apr.2019) — The cash-strapped government is becoming increasingly reliant on the Kremlin. (Corrects April 18 story to make clear…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 18.Apr.2019) — President Nicolas Maduro is funneling cashflow from Venezuelan oil sales through Russian state energy giant…
(Reuters, Collin Eaton and Marianna Parraga, 17.Apr.2019) — Spain’s Repsol suspended its swaps of refining products for crude with Venezuela’s…
(S&P Global Platts, 10.Apr.2019) — Colombia could use its oil expertise to assist in, and benefit from, the secondary recovery…
(The Katy News, 8.Apr.2019) — Rep. Pete Olson (TX-22) issued the following statement calling on the Maduro regime to release…