BELIZE CITY, BELIZE (Aaron Simonsky, Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Feb.2025) — SMC Global announced further expansion into Latin America with establishment of SMC Argentina. This follows [more…]
Tag: PetroCaribe
Caribbean Seeks Venezuela’s Oil and Gas as U.S. Relaxes Sanctions
(WSJ, 3.Feb.2023) — Caribbean countries battered by high energy costs are turning to Venezuela for oil and gas as the U.S. eases sanctions that have kept its [more…]
UWI Economist Urges CARICOM to Look Within for Oil Supplies
(The Gleaner, 20.Mar.2022) — A day after Russia invaded Ukraine, sending oil prices skyrocketing to heights not seen since 2014, McCarthy Marie, a former University [more…]
Fallout From Sweet Oil Deal For Venezuela’s Neighbors
(NPR, 20.Jul.2019) — It sounded like such a good idea at the time. The year was 2005. Global oil prices were climbing dramatically. Countries in [more…]
Ad Hoc PDVSA Board Suggest Jamaica Suspending Petrojam Takeover
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 16.Jun.2019) — The ad hoc administrative board of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) appointed by interim Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó requested [more…]
Haitians Decry Squandered Venezuelan Oil Funds
(Argus, 11.Jun.2019) — Deadly street protests have erupted in Haiti following the publication of a court report alleging that recent governments mishandled about $2bn in [more…]
Without Venezuela’s Oil, Haiti Struggles To Keep Lights On
(AP, Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, 17.May.2019) — When her daughter was 4 years old, Jennifer Jean started a small catering business in Bourdon, a lower middle-class [more…]
Fuel-Starved Haiti In Crisis As Venezuela Deal Dies
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 15.Apr.2019) — The poorest nation in the Western hemisphere has seen its fuel supply increasingly challenged since a program designed by Venezuela [more…]
Wigton Windfarm To List On Jamaica Stock Exchange
(JIS, 3.Dec.2018) — The Wigton Windfarm (WWF) initial public offering (IPO) on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) is expected for March 2019. General Manager of [more…]
In Guyana, Exxon Oil Project Stirs International Tensions
(Houston Chronicle, James Osborne, 2.Nov.2018) — Almost 4,000 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, off the northern coastline of South America, Exxon Mobil [more…]
President Moise Wants Full Transparency in PetroCaribe Probe
(CMC, 19.Sep.2018) — President Jovenel Moise has called on newly installed Prime Minister Jean-Henry Céant to ensure that there’s total transparency in the investigation regarding [more…]
Jamaica’s Economy Gets $5 Bln From PetroCaribe Over 13 Years
(CMC, 12.Sep.2018) — Jamaica says it has benefitted from projects estimated at US$5 billion under the Venezuela-led PetroCaribe initiative over the past 13 years. CEO [more…]
PDVSA Leaves Argentine Gas Station to Fend for Itself
(Reuters, Luc Cohen, 15.Aug.2018) – As Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA saw its finances devastated by low oil prices and mismanagement, it funneled millions of [more…]
PetroCaribe Fund to Flow into Government Coffers
(Jamaica Gleaner, 11.Jul.2018) – In a matter of months, the US$1.6 billion, or more than J$208 billion, now in the PetroCaribe Development Fund (PDF) is [more…]
Jamaica, Venezuelan Officials Discuss Bilateral Issues
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 22.Mar.2018) – Jamaica’s Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson-Smith and her Venezuelan counterpart Jorge Arreaza held a high-level bilateral meeting in Caracas [more…]
PetroCaribe Evaluates Creation of JV Company to Distribute Gas
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.May.2016) — PetroCaribe member countries evaluated the creation of a joint-venture company that would distribute Venezuelan gas to them, reported [more…]
Guyana To Assure No Fuel Shortages
(Guyana Government Information Agency, 4.Sep.2015) – The government of Guyana believes that its responsibility and obligation are to ensure that there will be no shortage [more…]
PetroCaribe Important Instrument for Venezuela
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 20.Mar.2015) – Petrocaribe is an important instrument that has allowed our Caribbean brothers to overcome their problems, reported Venezuelan state [more…]
Venezuela Opening Ops to Nicaragua, Caribbean
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 9.Mar.2015) – “We are advancing with Nicaragua and opening up possibilities to the rest of the Caribbean,” said Venezuela’s Oil [more…]
Maduro Says Caribbean Must be Together
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 6.Mar.2015) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro says the Caribbean region has to always be together. “Petrocaribe is our road of [more…]
Honduras Awaits Initial PetroCaribe Shipments
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 13.Sep.2013) – Honduras does not expect to receive its first shipment of oil from Venezuela under PetroCaribe until Dec.2013, reported [more…]
11th Meeting of PetroCaribe Ministers
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 8.Sep.2013) – Venezuela’s Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez participated in the 11th meeting of the Council of Petrocaribe Ministers in Port-au-Prince, [more…]
Q&A with Tissot Associate’s Roger Tissot
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 19.Jul.2013) – Tissot Associates Consultant Roger Tissot spoke with Energy Analytics Institute in a brief interview from Canada. What [more…]
Q&A with Brookshire’s Gianna Bern
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 19.Jul.2013) – Brookshire Advisory and Research President Gianna Bern spoke with Energy Analytics Institute in a brief interview from [more…]