(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Sep.2022) — A lightning strike at the oxidation and water treatment lagoon of PDVSA’s Puerto La Cruz Refinery on 19 September 2022 didn’t impact the operations of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 7.May.2022) — OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo arrived in Caracas, Venezuela, on 6 May 2022 for a working visit to the South...
(AFP, 3.May.2022) — Iran's oil minister has paid an official visit to ally Venezuela to meet President Nicolas Maduro and discuss ways to "overcome" the effects of US sanctions against...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 2.May.2022) — Venezuela’s Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami held a working meeting in Caracas with his Iranian counterpart Javad Owji to discuss deepening bilateral cooperation mechanisms between...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Feb.2022) — Venezuela and Russia signed an agreement of intent aimed at strengthening strategic alliances and comprehensive cooperation between the two countries under the context of a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Jan.2022) — Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, during his 15 January 2022 annual address to the nation, said the OPEC country’s oil production goal in 2022 was to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Dec.2021) — Energy briefs including EP PetroEcuador announcing it has sufficient fuel supplies at all its terminals despite transport issues impacting Ecuador’s two oil pipelines and one...
(Argus, 10.Dec.2021) — Venezuela's oil minister Tareck El Aissami returned to work this week after a prolonged medical leave and will not be replaced, a senior source close to the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Dec.2021) — Energy briefs including Argentina aspiring to produce 1 MMb/d in five yrs; Trinidad and Tobago looking to reveal details of a new Ryder Scott gas...
(S&P Global, 29.Jun.2021) — In the second half of the year, Venezuela's state-owned PDVSA will restart the drilling of oil wells while intensifying work to open 3,700 shuttered wells and...
(Bloomberg, 21.Jun.2021) — In Venezuela, waiting in line at a gas station -- sometimes for days -- has become so routine that it’s hard to imagine life without it. But...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Mar.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Russia and Venezuela strengthening their cooperation and Argentina’s state oil producer YPF eyeing shareholders’ meeting...
(Reuters, 11.Dec.2020) — Venezuela's Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami said on Friday that authorities had disrupted a plan to attack Venezuela's 146,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) El Palito refinery, and had arrested two...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Nov.2020) — Opec producer Venezuela continues to support a three month extension of production levels of 7.7 million barrels per day. “Venezuela ratifies its commitment to continue...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Nov.2020) — Venezuela’s state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) dispatched 60 vehicles to the Paraguaná Refining Center (CRP by its Spanish acronym), located in the state...
(AP, 3.Nov.2020) — The prosecution of Venezuela’s Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami for violating U.S. sanctions has run into another snag after a federal judge allowed one of his co-defendants...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Oct.2020) — Venezuela plans to initiate activities at 1,571 petrol stations across the country starting 5 October 2020 as part of a plan to normalize fuel distribution...
(US Department of Treasury, 18.Jun.2020) — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated three individuals and eight foreign entities, and identified two vessels...
(Argus, 1.Jun.2020) — A two-tiered gasoline pricing system rolled out by Venezuela today maintains generous subsidies for limited volumes but allows private-sector operators to charge international prices for imports. The...
(WSJ, 31.May.2020) — The regime of Nicolás Maduro, grappling with intense gasoline shortages, said it will scale back its longstanding fuel subsidy and privatize service stations, in a significant shift...
(Panam Post, 27.May.2020) — A Cuban vessel arrived in Venezuela to allegedly provide the island gasoline that has just arrived from Iran. According to the Marine Traffic portal, this is...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.May.2020) — The first of five Iranian tankers carrying gasoline and fuel additives, Fortune, has made it to Venezuela’s Exclusive Economy Zone. The five tanker...
(Argus, 4.May.2020) — Venezuela's state-owned PdV rolled out the appointment of up to 26 new presidents of joint ventures that are mostly inactive. The appointments, some of whom may have...
(Oilprice.com, 29.Apr.2020) — Venezuela seems to be changing tactics when it comes to managing its oil resources. PDVSA is considering a major industry reform that would increase private company activities...
(Argus, 27.Apr.2020) — The two Maduro loyalists who have been effectively running Venezuela's national oil industry for two months were officially appointed today as acting heads of the oil ministry...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 3.Apr.2020) — Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) activated a Special Fuel Supply Plan to counter a naval blockade by the US...
(Reuters, 22.Feb.2020) — Members of a committee tasked with overhauling Venezuelan state oil firm Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., or PDVSA, asked the company's vice presidents on Friday to offer their...
(Argus, 20.Feb.2020) — Venezuela's embattled government is vowing to overhaul the national oil industry one day after the US administration sanctioned the Russian trading company that channels most Venezuelan crude...
(Reuters, 19.Feb.2020) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday he would create a presidential commission to restructure the country's beleaguered oil industry, which will be led by Vice President...
(Bloomberg, 19.Feb.2020) — Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro declared an “energy emergency” as he announced a commission to revamp state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, redoubling efforts to shore up...