Tag: PDVSA

• Saturday, August 30th 2014 - 07:10 UTC

  Venezuela cheap oil and fuel shipments to allies fall to a five-year low

  

  Venezuela’s shipments of crude oil and fuel to its allies have fallen to a five-year low as a weak economy hits its ability to uphold accords that former president Hugo Chávez struck to lower energy costs for friends and expand his diplomatic clout.

• Tuesday, August 12th 2014 - 06:10 UTC

  Venezuelan oil company begins operations with China’s Citic Bank

  

  Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA has started using China Citic Bank to collect money from crude and fuel sales instead of Portugal’s Banco Espirito Santo, according to media reports in Caracas.

• Monday, July 28th 2014 - 07:30 UTC

  Cash-short Venezuela considering the sale of its US downstream subsidiary

  

  Venezuela's state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) is considering offers to sell its U.S. downstream subsidiary Citgo, industry research group Argus Media reported on its website last Friday.

• Friday, May 16th 2014 - 09:37 UTC

  YPF wants to create a G10 of Latin American state oil companies CEO's

  

  Argentina's YPF CEO Miguel Galuccio proposed on Thursday in Bolivia a G10 of Latin American state owned oil corporations to strengthen their bargaining power based on their resources and development synergy.

• Monday, February 17th 2014 - 09:42 UTC

  Uruguay and Venezuela will further increase energy related cooperation

  

  Uruguay will renew the contract for the purchase of Venezuela oil and accept the stake increase of that country in a local bio-fuels corporation during the scheduled visit of President Nicolas Maduro to Montevideo next month; it was announced by the Uruguayan Foreign affairs ministry.

• Saturday, February 15th 2014 - 05:50 UTC

  Spain's Repsol signs 1.2bn dollars financing deal with Venezuela's PDVSA

  

  Repsol signed a financing deal Friday with Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA that calls for the Spanish energy major to invest 1.2 billion dollars to boost the output of the companies' Petroquiriquire joint venture.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 06:43 UTC

  China will help Venezuela develop a huge oil field investing 14bn dollars

  

  China’s hydrocarbons company Sinopec and Venezuela’s PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela SA) agreed investments to develop the Junin 1 oil field in the Orinoco oil strip, which will demand 14 billion dollars for a daily extraction of 200.000 barrels, said PDVSA president Rafael Ramírez currently in Beijing.

• Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 01:39 UTC

  Falklands’ Argentina banned oil companies linked to YPF partner Chevron

  

  An Argentine lawmaker claims that the US oil corporation Chevron which is investing heavily in developing shale resources in Neuquen with YPF is a partner of Oil Spill Response Limited that is also involved with the oil companies operating in the South Atlantic in Argentine waters but licensed by the Falkland Islands government.

• Saturday, May 18th 2013 - 06:53 UTC

  Venezuelan oil monopoly in joint ventures with Chevron and China Petroleum

  

  PDVSA, Venezuela’s government oil and gas giant will allow joint ventures with China National Petroleum Corp. and Chevron Corp. to manage 6 billion dollars in loans designed to revert oil output declines, said a PDVSA official.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2013 - 23:13 UTC

  Venezuela net importer of gasoline in 2012 because of Amuay refinery fire

  

  Venezuela in 2012 became a net importer of gasoline as a result of escalating problems at its refineries and increasing demand for fuel in its internal market, joining a growing list of countries that struggle with fuel supplies despite ample oil reserves.