(Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Jan.2021) — The president of the Ad Hoc Board of PetrĂłleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) called US-based refiner Citgo Petroleum the “crown jewel” of the company’s international assets. Horacio Medina, the President of PDVSA’s Ad Hoc Board, said the situation regarding actions taken during 2019-2020 by Interim President […]
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PdV Keeps Nynas Board Seat After Restructuring
(Argus, 13.May.2020) — Venezuela’s state-owned PdV has retained one seat on the new corporate board of European specialty refiner Nynas after a restructuring that freed the venture from US sanctions. The new board composition illustrates PdV’s small but enduring role in the European downstream business that it acquired in the […]
Nynas Exits US Sanctions
(Nynas, 12.May.2020) — The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) announced today that Nynas is no longer being blocked pursuant to the Venezuela Sanctions Regulations. As a result of a corporate restructuring of the ownership of Nynas AB sanctions are lifted, and US persons and companies no […]
Nynas: Removal Of Venezuela-related License
(OFAC, 12.May.2020) — The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is revoking and archiving on its website Venezuela-related General License (GL) 13E “Authorizing Certain Activities Involving Nynas AB,” and is issuing GL 3H (“Authorizing Transactions Related to, Provision of Financing for, and Other Dealings in Certain […]
Nynas Applies For Company Reorganization
(Nynas, 12.Mar.2019) — Nynas AB (publ) has today filed for company reorganisation at Södertörn’s District Court. Nynas loans have not been extended by the banks. Thus, Nynas cannot pay due debts forcing the company to apply for a reorganisation of the company. “Despite loyal customers and dedicated work by our […]
OFAC Gives Nynas AB Time
(Sputnik, 18.Oct.2019) — The United States has extended a license that allows certain transactions with PDVSA’s joint venture Nynas AB despite US sanctions on the Venezuelan oil sector, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said in a notice on its website on Wednesday. “All transactions and activities […]
Finnish Refiner Neste Hit By Venezuela Oil Sanctions
(Reuters, Tarmo Virki, 26.Apr.2019) — Finnish biofuel producer and oil refiner Neste reported a bigger than expected fall in quarterly profit on Friday, with U.S. sanctions against Venezuela having curbed crude oil supply to its Nynas joint venture. First-quarter core operating profit fell 6 percent to 378 million euros ($421 […]