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Brazil’s Petrobras says it will not hire oil tankers that visited Venezuela

(Reuters) - Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro SA has told shippers it will not hire any tankers that have visited Venezuela in the past 12 months, the state-controlled oil company said on Friday, signaling adherence to U.S. sanctions on the Latin...

U.S. court tosses $1.4 billion judgment against former Venezuelan oil minister

(Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas set aside a $1.4 billion default judgment against a former Venezuelan oil minister, ruling he was not properly notified of the lawsuit, but said the U.S. company that alleged fraud and bribery...

Oil tankers turn away from Venezuela as more sanctions loom

(Reuters) - Oil tankers that were sailing toward Venezuela have turned around and others have left the country’s waters as the United States considers blacklisting dozens of ships for transporting Venezuelan oil, according to shipping data and industry sources. The...

U.S. to cut off Iran-Venezuela trade by sanctioning oil tankers

(Bloomberg) - The Trump administration is preparing sanctions on as many as 50 oil and fuel tankers as part of an effort to cut off trade between Iran and Venezuela, according to a person familiar with the matter. The sanctions...

Underperforming offshore wells rack up over $100 billion in abandonment liabilities worldwide

(Bloomberg) - Aging offshore oil wells that once brought market prominence to Europe, the U.S. Gulf and Brazil are increasingly money losers that companies want to shut down amid low oil prices and a struggling global economy. But the...

Days of cheap gas are over in country with largest oil reserves in the world

Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has said fuel prices will increase in the cash-strapped South American country from June, putting a limit on state subsidies that for decades had allowed citizens to fill their gas tanks virtually for free. Although the...

Venezuela’s oil exports sink to 17-year low, choked by U.S. sanctions

(Reuters) - Venezuela’s oil exports plummeted in May to their lowest level since 2003 as U.S. sanctions choked exports and two Mexican firms that had acted as intermediaries for Venezuelan crude sales stopped receiving oil, Refinitiv Eikon data and...

Brazil’s Petrobras opens access to natural gas processing units in antitrust deal

Brazilian state-led energy company Petrobras will grant rival producers and other companies access to onshore natural gas processing facilities in a two-step process in the latest move toward opening Latin America's biggest market under the terms of an antitrust...

COVID-19 spreads to multiple offshore installations in Brazil

Norway’s Equinor ASA and Anglo-French firm Perenco are among at least five oil producers that have registered coronavirus cases among employees or contractors at facilities off the coast of Brazil, industry and regulatory sources told Reuters on Tuesday. Royal Dutch...

Oil-starved Venezuela celebrates arrival of tankers from Iran

(New York Times) An oil tanker called “Fortune” has sailed into Venezuela from Iran, the first of five ships expected to arrive in a nation so starved of gasoline that the docking of a single tanker was hailed on...

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U.S. Congresswoman says Guyana succeeded where Venezuela failed with oil wealth

U.S. Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar on Tuesday praised Guyana’s management of its oil revenues while criticizing Venezuela’s government amid...