Venezuela
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January 29, 2019
The Trump administration dealt its toughest blow yet to the authoritarian Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, issuing new sanctions on the nation’s state-owned oil company PDVSA that effectively block his regime from exporting crude to the U.S.
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January 28, 2019
President Donald Trump sanctioned Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA and its central bank on Monday, the latest U.S. move intended to raise pressure on the regime of President Nicolas Maduro.
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January 25, 2019
Oil prices moved higher as analysts predicted the mounting political crisis in Venezuela could take a chunk out of global crude flows.
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January 24, 2019
Oil climbed as growing instability in Venezuela outweighed fresh reminders of the American shale boom.
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January 24, 2019
A possible move by Donald Trump to hurt Venezuela’s oil industry could prove a shot in the arm for the Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi administrations.
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January 09, 2019
Venezuela will remap its Caribbean oil and gas prospects in a move that could further stoke a century-long border dispute with Guyana and collide with Exxon Mobil Corp.’s venture in the region, people with knowledge of the plan said.
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December 25, 2018
Hess Corp. tumbled the most in almost three years, wiping out $1.5 billion in market valuation, after work at the oil explorer’s most promising international investment was halted by a Venezuelan blockade.
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November 25, 2018
Venezuela’s fuel shortages are worsening as mass resignations at the state oil company’s tanker fleet have delayed gasoline shipments.
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October 25, 2018
ConocoPhillips’ decade-old legal war with Venezuela began paying off this week as the embattled Latin American country started making good on a $2-billion arbitration settlement one barrel of crude at a time.
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September 13, 2018
The International Energy Agency warned that oil prices could break out above $80/bbl unless other producers act to offset deepening supply losses in Iran and Venezuela.
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August 26, 2018
Trinidad and Tobago will continue to ship super-chilled natural gas all over the world, with a little help from Venezuela.
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August 20, 2018
ConocoPhillips said it will recover about $2 billion in a settlement pact with Petroleos de Venezuela, the state-owned oil company, for oil assets seized in 2007.
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August 06, 2018
Saudi Arabia is sending the most crude oil to the U.S. in 15 months.
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June 17, 2018
Iran says Venezuela and Iraq will join it in blocking a proposal to increase oil production that’s backed by Saudi Arabia and Russia when OPEC and its allies meet in Vienna this week.
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June 13, 2018
Iran and Venezuela could lose almost 30% of their oil output next year due to U.S. sanctions and economic upheaval, requiring extra supplies from OPEC's Gulf members.
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June 12, 2018
OPEC will probably overcome internal disputes to agree on a production increase next week to temper rallying prices.
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March 01, 2018
Crude production from OPEC countries fell to a 10-month low in February, mainly due to maintenance at a field in the United Arab Emirates and continued output declines in Venezuela.
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February 27, 2018
The U.S. is leaning toward imposing oil-sector sanctions on Venezuela before the country holds April 22 elections that opposition leaders have vowed to boycott, according to a senior State Department official.
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February 26, 2018
The outlook for declining oil production in Venezuela may get grimmer if the U.S. bans supply of a key commodity used to help Venezuelan crude flow from oilfields to the coast.
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February 22, 2018
At 6:40 a.m., Pablo Ruiz squats at the gate of a decaying refinery in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, steeling himself for eight Sisyphean hours of brushing anti-rust paint onto pipes under a burning sun. For breakfast, the 55-year-old drank corn-flour water.
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February 19, 2018
Former Venezuelan oil minister Rafael Ramirez, already accused of corruption by his own country, now faces a lawsuit from a Houston energy firm alleging that it lost almost half a billion dollars over its refusal to pay bribes for contracts.
