Venezuela
News
August 14, 2015
For generations, Venezuela has formally laid claim to most of its tiny neighbor, Guyana. Many dismissed the case, given Venezuela’s oil wealth and Guyana’s penury. Hugo Chavez, longstanding president of Venezuela, even let it slide, referring to the Guyanese as his brothers.
News
August 04, 2015
For nearly a century, the petroleum deposits beneath giant Lake Maracaibo served as a cash cow for successive Venezuelan governments. In return, especially in the years since the company’s energy industry was nationalized by former President Hugo Chavez, it has received little back but neglect.
News
July 06, 2015
Eni has started production from the giant gas field Perla, in the Gulf of Venezuela. The first production well has been opened and is currently in the clean-up phase.
Article
May 2015
Responding to falling oil prices, some Latin American governments push energy investment, while others slash E&P budgets.
News
April 29, 2015
Few countries have been hit harder by falling crude oil prices in recent months than Venezuela; an OPEC member and the holder of the world’s largest volume of oil reserves.
News
February 25, 2015
Venezuela, plagued with shortages of basic goods, was offered a reprieve by the Prime Minister of neighboring Trinidad & Tobago: exchange oil for tissue paper.
News
January 12, 2015
MELBOURNE and LONDON (Bloomberg) -- Oil extended losses from the lowest level in more than five and a half years as Goldman Sachs Group reduced its price forecasts and Venezuela called on OPEC producers to work together to spur a recovery.
