(Citgo, 14.Aug.2019) — The Board of Directors of Citgo Petroleum Corporation has selected Carlos E. Jorda to occupy the Chief…
(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…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 1.Aug.2019) — Venezuela’s oil exports fell 17.5% in July to their second-lowest level since Washington imposed sanctions…
(WSJ, Paulo Trevisani, 1.Aug.2019) — U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross laid out a plan including credit and investment to help…
(Argus, 29.Jul.2019) — India’s imports of Venezuelan crude jumped by 25pc year on year in June and by 37pc from…
(Reuters, 29.Jul.2019) — Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA said on Monday the Petropiar extra-heavy crude upgrader, part-owned by U.S. oil…
(Citgo, 25.Jul.2019) — The Simón Bolívar Foundation, the 501(c)(3) non-profit, private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, held an educational and…
(Argus, 25.Jul.2019) — A US government decision over Chevron’s expiring license to work in Venezuela is the first test of…
(Reuters, Luc Cohen, 25.Jul.2019) — A proposal to modify U.S. oil sanctions on Venezuela to allow crude exports to be…
(NPR, 20.Jul.2019) — It sounded like such a good idea at the time. The year was 2005. Global oil prices…
(Reuters, 18.Jul.2019) — Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA partly restarted activity at its 645,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Amuay refinery where a…
(Argus, 9.Jul.2019) — Venezuela’s national oil company PdV is seeking to adapt its infrastructure to cope with a shortage of…
(Argus, 8.Jul.2019) — Venezuela´s state-owned PdV plans to restart crude processing at the 940,000 b/d CRP refining complex by 10…
(Reuters, 2.Jul.2019) — Venezuela will stick to its plan of blending domestic and foreign crude to maintain and even increase…
(Bloomberg, Fabiola Zerpa, Peter Millard and Kevin Crowley, 2.Jul.2019) — Chevron Corp. is lobbying the U.S. for sanctions relief so…
(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…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 22.Jun.2019) — New data from BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy (2019) provides two…
(Reuters, 19.Jun.2019) — An ad-hoc board of directors for U.S. oil refiner Citgo, named by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido,…
(Argus, 18.Jun.2019) — Venezuela’s severe motor fuel deficit is starting to weigh on the Opec country’s crude production, as oil…
(Reuters, Collin Eaton, 18.Jun.2019) — Heavy crudes have poured into the United States this spring, offsetting the loss of Venezuelan…
(Argus, 11.Jun.2019) — Trinidad and Tobago has cleared Shell to develop the country’s side of a shallow-water natural gas field…
(Argus, 11.Jun.2019) — Deadly street protests have erupted in Haiti following the publication of a court report alleging that recent…
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Sean Douglas, 7.Jun.2019) — The refined oil imported by Paria Fuel Trading Company for local consumption…
(Reuters, Roberta Rampton, 6.Jun.2019) — The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday tightened its pressure on Venezuela’s state-owned oil company by…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 6.Jun.2019) — Citgo Petroleum Corp, the U.S. arm of Venezuela’s state-run oil firm PDVSA, is moving toward…
(AFP, 5.Jun.2019 ) — Maria Lopez complains about gasoline rationing that Venezuela — home to the world’s largest oil reserves…
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 28.May.2019) — Tankers carrying gasoline and ships transporting food for Venezuela were sabotaged last week to prevent…
(CNN, Stefano Pozzebon, 26.May.2019) — For many Venezuelans, oil is a birthright in the country blessed with the largest crude…
(Reuters, Julia Payne and Dmitry Zhdannikov, 23.May.2019) — The United States told some large foreign firms this week they should…
(Reuters, 22.May.2019) — Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol said on Wednesday its crude exports to the United States rose nearly…
(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…
(Bloomberg, Sheela Tobben, 20.May.2019) — Petroleum exports from Russia to the U.S. are growing rapidly as the supplier takes advantage…
(Argus, 20.May.2019) — Venezuela’s political opposition contracted with an international adviser to prepare for restructuring the country’s external debt that…
(AP, Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, 17.May.2019) — When her daughter was 4 years old, Jennifer Jean started a small catering business…
(Reuters, Mircely Guanipa and Marianna Parraga, 16.May.2019) — Gas station lines reappeared across oil-rich but crisis-stricken Venezuela this week as…
(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…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to OPEC’s Monthly Oil Market…
(NACLA, Zophia Edwards and Timothy M. Gill, 14.May.2019) — Trinidad and Tobago used to be as dependent on oil as…
(Argus, 14.May.2019) — Venezuela’s crude production has dropped to around 500,000 b/d as sluggish export loadings and replete storage force…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 3.May.2019) — Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA exported 1.06 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude and refined products…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 2.May.2019) — Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA exported 1.06 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude and refined products…
(Reuters, Collin Eaton , 30.Apr.2019) — Oil prices rose on Tuesday above $73 a barrel but then eased off the…