Russian deputy prime minister Yuri Ivanovich Borisov led a delegation to Caracas yesterday in a sign of renewed bilateral ties. Russia is among Venezuela’s leading international patrons and a vocal opponent of the US-led sanctions […]
Venezuela’s oil exports rose in February to over 700,000 barrels per day (bpd), their highest level in 10 months, pushed by more sales of fuel oil cargoes to new clients in Asian markets, according to […]
The Iran-flagged Forest, one of Iranian state-owned NIOC’s vessels that has supplied irregular shipments of gasoline to Venezuela since mid-2020, unloaded 277,000 bl of gasoline at Venezuelan state-owned PdV’s El Palito terminal on 20 February, according […]
Energy News Beat Publishers Note: An excellent article by David Yager for CBC News. Very sharp and to the point. Well done David. The rest of Canada concluded long ago that the living dinosaurs who […]
Venezuela’s navy has taken custody of two Guyanese fishing boats in the latest flare-up of a protracted border dispute that encompasses oil-rich deepwater acreage. The Venezuelan foreign ministry today refuted yesterday’s statement from Guyana alleging […]
The country with the largest proven oil reserves in the world, clocking in at a whopping 299,953,000,000 barrels of proven oil, is currently suffering a fuel shortage so great that it is being viewed by […]
It may be the oil market’s worst-kept secret: millions of barrels of Venezuelan heavy crude, embargoed by the U.S., have been surreptitiously going to China. The cat-and-mouse games that avoid detection and sanctions include ship-to-ship transfers, […]
India is hoping U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration will take a softer line against adversaries Iran and Venezuela, enabling the world’s third-largest oil importer to diversify its sources of crude. The country would be happy […]
Venezuelan officials have met in recent months with small domestic oilfield contractors to propose letting them operate fields owned by state-owned PDVSA while pocketing part of the proceeds, according to six people with knowledge of […]
The island nation of Palau says a tanker that recently loaded Venezuelan crude was using a false signal to disguise its identity, potentially putting the Pacific country in the crosshairs of U.S. sanctions. Palau is […]
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