Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. Source: PDVSA (Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Jan.2019) — Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro announced plans to…
(Bloomberg, Patricia Laya and Fabiola Zerpa, 14.Jan.2019) — Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro ordered a 300 percent increase in the monthly…
(Oilprice.com, Matthew Smith , 14.Jan.2019 ) — The Russian bear is on the prowl once again as President Putin seeks…
(The Wall Street Journal, Kejal Vyas, 14.Jan.2019) — The U.S. is evaluating whether to impose tougher sanctions against Venezuela’s military…
(Reuters, Neil Marks, 10.Jan.2019) — Seismic research vessels hired by Exxon Mobil to explore for oil off Guyana’s coast have…
(Jamaica Observer, Kamina Johnson Smith, 9.Jan.2019) — Below are the notes from Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamina Johnson Smith in…
(Jamaica Observer, 9.Jan.2019) — The Government of Jamaica has announced that it will take legislative action for ownership of the…
(AFP, 7.Jan.2019) — French oil company Maurel & Prom will invest $400 million in an oil field in Venezuela, whose…
(Reuters, Luc Cohen and Brian Ellsworth, 7.Jan.2019) — Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] has signed a deal with little-known…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman and Piero Stewart, 4.Jan.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Bolivia seeking…
(Bloomberg, Noah Smith, 3.Jan.2018) — It’s hard to overstate how disastrous the reign of Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas…
(Bloomberg, Lucia Kassai, 2.Jan.2019) — Venezuela, once Latin America’s largest oil exporter, ended 2018 with a whimper as overseas sales…
(Oilprice.com, Nick Cunningham, 27.Dec.2018) — Last Friday, the Guyanese government fell after a no-confidence vote, a move that likely was…
(Reuters, Alexandra Ulmer and Marianna Parraga, 26.Dec.2018) — Last July 6, Major General Manuel Quevedo joined his wife, a Catholic…
(ExxonMobil, 26.Dec.2018) — ExxonMobil said today that drilling and development operations offshore Guyana are unaffected by an incident involving seismic…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, Ian Silverman, and Piero Stewart, 26.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 26.Dec.2018) — Shares of Goldman Sachs shares have fallen 30% due to the investment firm’s…
(S&P Global Platts, 19.Dec.2018) — OPEC enters a pivotal third year of production cuts in a volatile oil market with…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs from Venezuela related to Nicolás Maduro…
(OilPrice.com,Tsvetana Paraskova, 6.Dec.2018) — Back from a visit to Moscow, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tweeted a video on Thursday, in…
(ABCNews, Anastasia Bagaeva, 5.Dec.2018) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro visited Moscow Wednesday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 21.Nov. 2018) — Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro said an $100 oil price is a “fair…
(Wall Street Journal, Kejal Vyas and Bradley Olson, 8.Nov.2018) — For nearly a century, Chevron Corp. has weathered dictatorships, coups and…
(AP, 2.Nov.2018) The former finance chief of Venezuela’s state oil company pleaded guilty on Wednesday to participating in an alleged…
(El Nuevo Herald, Jay Weaver And Antonio Maria Delgado, 31.Oct.2018) — A former top official of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company…
(Express, Ciaran McGrath, 30.Oct.2018) — Venezuela represents a “clear threat to regional stability” and a “direct challenge” to the United…
(Ft.com, Gideon Long, John Paul Rathbone, 28.Oct.2018) — Gideon Long in Caracas and John Paul Rathbone in Washington October 28,…
(Miami Herald, Andres Oppenheimer, 17.Oct.2018) — There is a major inconsistency in President Trump’s stand on Venezuela: He talks tough…
(Reuters, Roberta Rampton, 17.Oct.2018) — The United States plans to turn up sanctions pressure on Venezuela but sees less need…
(Reuters, Alexandra Ulmer, 10.Oct.2018) — Venezuela on Wednesday increased wages for workers at state energy company PDVSA after employees staged…
(OilPrice.com, Irina Slav, 3.Oct.2018) — A delay in port repairs following a tanker collision is putting additional pressure on already…
(Washington Examiner, 1.Oct.2018) — Meeting with the president of Chile at the White House on Friday, President Trump pledged to…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 29.Sep.2018) — Venezuela’s Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo announced the South American country would continue to…
(AP, 20.Sep.2018) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday that new investments from China will help his country dramatically boost…
(Steve Hanke, Contributor to Forbes, 19.Sep.2018) — Two hallmarks characterize capitalist economies. Firstly, property is predominately in private hands. Consequently,…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 18.Sep.2018) — Venezuela, the struggling OPEC producer, is now planning to double its production of…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 18.Sep.2018) — In terms of bilateral cooperation, Venezuela and China are seeking a ‘win-win’ scenarios.…
(Afp, 12.Sep.2018) — Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro departed Wednesday for China in search of agreements to bolster the oil-exporting country’s…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Sep.2018) — The decline is consistent and constant as well as consistently and constantly bad,…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 6.Sep.2018) — Crude exports by Venezuela’s PDVSA have slowed after a tanker collision at its main port…
(CNNMoney, Talib Visram, 4.Sep.2018) — The South American country with the smallest GDP is about to burst with oil. ExxonMobil…
(EnergyNomics de Venezuela, Carlos A Rossi, 1.Sep.2018) — Nicolas Maduro has drawn the line in the sand: “Either you are…
(Trinidad Guardian, 27.Aug.2018) — Government is giving no details on the pricing structure this country will pay for gas from…
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Richardson Dhalai, 26.Aug.2018) — The Dragon gas deal may be “public relations and political gimmicks” which…
(Loop News, 26.Aug.2018) — On August 25, 2018, an historic agreement was made between Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Aug.2018) — Venezuela will send its Dragón field natural gas to Trinidad for processing. That’s…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 21.Aug.2018) — Oil workers at state oil company PDVSA marched in Caracas and across the…
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 21.Aug.2018) – After nearly two years of negotiations between this country and Venezuela the…
(ZeroHedge, 21.Aug.2018) – As previewed yesterday, on Monday Venezuela officially slashed five zeros from prices and its currency as part…
(Bloomberg, Andrew Rosati & Fabiola Zerpa, 21.Aug.2018) — Beaten-down Venezuela on Tuesday began confronting a 95 percent currency devaluation and…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 19.Aug.2018) – Former PDVSA President Rafael Ramírez says Venezuela produced 3 million barrels per day…
(Express, Simon Osborne, 16.Aug.2018) – Venezuela’s oil assets are being targeted by angry creditors after a US court granted a…
(Reuters, Deisy Buitrago and Brian Ellsworth, 14.Aug.2018) – Venezuela’s heavily subsidised domestic gasoline prices should rise to international levels to…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 13.Aug.2018) — The price of Venezuela’s subsidized petrol, long one of the cheapest in world,…
(OilPrice.com, Nick Cunningham, 12.Aug.2018) – The bad news from Venezuela continues. In July, Venezuela’s oil production came in lower than…
(AFP, 10.Aug.2018) – Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA on Friday appealed a US court ruling that would allow a Canadian…
(Associated Press, 9.Aug.2018) – A Canadian gold mining company on Thursday won the right to go after Venezuela’s prized U.S.-based…
(S&P Global Platts, Brian Shield, 7.Aug.2018) – Just more than a year ago, it was not a question of ‘if’,…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 7.Aug2018) – Aside from wasting paper, more importantly, the recent Gaceta Oficial in Venezuela also…
(AFP, Esteban Rojas, 5.Aug.2018) – In Venezuela’s inflation-hit economy, a single US dollar can buy 3.5 million liters of gasoline…
(AFP, 3.Aug.2018) – A power failure cut electricity to 80 per cent of the Venezuelan capital Caracas Tuesday, provoking transport…
(AP, 31.Jul.2018) – Most of Venezuela’s capital is without power following a failure at an electrical plant. Energy Minister Luis…
(Washington Post, Megan McArdle, 27.Jul.2018) – According to the International Monetary Fund, by the end of the year, the annual…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Jul.2018) – The continued decline in Venezuela’s oil production acts to squeeze the government of…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 23.Jul.2018) – It has been 11 years and the 7,000 direct and indirect Venezuelan workers…
(Bloomberg, Andrew Rosati, 23.Jul.2018) – Venezuela’s inflation will skyrocket to 1 million percent by the end of the year as…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Jul.2018) – Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro introduced ‘el petro’ during a presentation in Turkey. Maduro…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Jul.2018) – Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro announced the two countries could soon sign a new…
(Bloomberg, 4.Jul.2018) – Venezuela’s distressed oil sector may get some much needed financing from China, Finance Minister Simon Zerpa said…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 5.Jun.2018) – Venezuela’s Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo says the state oil company has identified 23,319…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 23.May.2017) – PDVSA President Eulogio Del Pino announced that he fully backs Venezuelan President Nicolás…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 23.May.2017) – Venezuelan petroleum sector workers accompanied Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a march for…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 13.May.2017) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said during a speech televised on national TV that…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 26.Mar.2017) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announced that this year the South American country would…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 15.May.2017) – Venezuela expects to receive between $120,000 and $150,000 per day from the sale…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 17.Feb.2017) – Venezuela signed 22 agreements with China, including eight (8) related to heavy and…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 17.Feb.2017) – Citgo Petroleum Corporation has yet to the report on a possible replacement to…
(PDVSA, 13.Feb.2017) – PDVSA ratified its cooperation with the People’s Republic of China with the signing of eight agreements at…
(PDVSA, 4.Feb.2017) – PDVSA Vice President of Exploration and Production Nelson Ferrer, led a tour of the facilities of the…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 2.Feb.2017) – A newly appointed Board of Directors at PDVSA will be charged with taking…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 2.Feb.2017) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro called on the Venezuelan citizens to reduce their consumption…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 2.Feb.2017) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro named Ricardo Sanguino as the new President of the…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 29.Jan.2017) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announced changes to the Board of Directors at…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 27.Jan.2017) – Taiwan’s president got the call, Mexico’s president will get a wall. At…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 20.Jan.2017) – Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro announced the appointment of Nelson Martínez, the actual president…
(PDVSA, 5.Dec.2016) – PDVSA and Shell Venezuela signed two agreements at Miraflores Palace. Both companies have stakes in the joint…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 2.Jul.2016) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro held a meeting with Citizens Energy Corporation founder Joseph…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 25.Jun.2016) – U.S. President Barack Obama insists the Venezuelan government respect the democratic process regarding…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 16.Jun.2016) – Venezuela has to learn to live with oil prices between $40 per barrel…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 23.May.2016) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 15.Sep.2015) – Venezuela’s Foreign Minister and Vice President of International Affairs at PDVSA, Delcy Rodríguez,…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 6.Mar.2015) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro says the Caribbean region has to always be together.…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 10.Oct.2013) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro seems to be allowing Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez to…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 14.Aug.2013) – PDVSA and Russia’s Rosneft signed an agreement to create the JV company Petrovictoria,…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 31.Jul.2013) – PDVSA President Rafael Ramirez held a small round table with journalist in Caracas,…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 19.Jul.2013) – Tissot Associates Consultant Roger Tissot spoke with Energy Analytics Institute in a…