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 […]
After the Second World War crude oil and control of its production became an important driver of global geopolitics. Crude oil became an essential component in a world economy powered by fossil fuels and experiencing a massive […]
Energy News Beat Publishers Note: We have to applaud the leadership in India for looking at the lowest cost energy for their people. They also look at all forms of power to include solar, wind, […]
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