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Venezuela sells cheap heating oil to Delaware poor

AFP CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 02 15 06 - story

Spain's Repsol to invest 150 million
in a JV with YPFB in Bolivian gas

AFP/File/Bru Garcia

Repsol YPF president Antoni Brufau (L) talks to newly elected Bolivian President Evo Morales on January 4.

AFP LA PAZ
Petroleumworld.com 02 15 06 - story

Oil prices keep downward momentum, fall below 60 dollars - story

Global refining capacity set to increase 8.0 mpbd by 2015: study - story

Iran resumes enrichment despite global warnings - story

Haiti's frontrunner rejects electoral results, calls for more protests - story

Spanish electric group Endesa loses takeover appeal - story

Bolivian president Morales remains head of coca farmers group - story

Gas crisis forces Italy to raid gas reserves - story

Saudi to double oil refining capacity in five years: Nuaimi - story

Gazprom incorporated two companies in Venezuela - story

Morales to investigate Repsol for environmental damage in Bolivia - story

Brazil asks US to organize UN meeting on Haiti

AFP/Walter Astrada

Supporters of Haitian presidential candidate Rene Preval show pictures of him in front of a burning barricade in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince. An eruption of gunfire left one person dead in Port-au-Prince, amid protests over the result of Haiti's presidential election.

AFP BRASILIA
Petroleumworld.com 02 14 06 - story

Annan warns against Iran nuclear 'escalation'

AFP/POOL/File/Matt Dunham

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, pictured here in January 2006, urged Iran for a new round of talks on its nuclear program to resume and warned against actions that might escalate its tense dispute with the West.

By Olivier Knox AFP
WASHINGTON Petroleumworld.com 02 14 06 - story

Protests mar Haiti vote count, one person dead - story

US calls for Haitians to accept vote results - story

Amid strong supplies, crude oil stays on downward trend - story

Annan warns against escalation in Iran nuclear dispute - story

Kuwaiti opposition blasts new government - story

Asian nations want Iran to abide by IAEA: Japan - story

US' ConocoPhillips approves senior management changes - story

Petrobras in negotiations to expand with Bolivia's new government - story

Venezuela strongly supports Iran's nuke issue - story

Bolivia's Morales says constitution
rewrite will give majority power

Evo Morales, Bolivia's president

AFP LA PAZ
Petroleumworld.com 02 13 06 - story

Group of Eight powers warn of energy threat to world economy

Viktor Korotayev/Reuters

Finance Ministers Karl-Heinz Grasser of Austria (L), Peer Steinbrueck of Germany (C) and Giulio Tremonti of Italy laugh during a photo call at a G8 Finance Ministers' meeting in Moscow February 11, 2006.

By David Williams AFP
MOSCOW Petroleumworld.com 02 13 06 - story

Oil prices lower in Asian trade - story

Demonstrators demand Preval be declared president of Haiti - story

Statoil lifts 2005 profit but production disappoints - story

Rice expresses concern about Russian reform - story

Drawn into confrontation: timeline of the cartoons crisis - story

British govt in veiled warning over Gazprom's Centrica ambitions - story

Russia presses for development of world gas market - story

Oil fever subsides, but many remain cautious - story

China's oil consumption to rise 5.4- 7.0 pct in 2006 - story

Britain refuses to rise to Venezuela's Falklands jibes - story

Pentagon document mentions Venezuela as a concern - story

IEA could compensate for halt
in Iranian crude: director

U.S. strategic oil reserves

AFP PARIS
Petroleumworld.com 02 10 06 - story

Repsol YPF has not exported oil from Bolivia without authorization- spokesman

By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
Caracas Petroleumworld.com 02 10 06 - story

Oil prices dip - story

Russia pledges to ratify energy charter but can't say when - story

Nigerian govt accuses state of training "jihadists" - story

Hip-Hop star Wyclef Jean hopes elections bring stability to Haiti - story

Annan, Bush to zero in on Iran, Iraq, Darfur, Mohammed cartoons - story

China, Japan officials meet in sour mood - story

Production at huge Mexican oil field could collapse: report - story

CERAWeek: Mexico has vastly underexploited gas resource - Fernando Canales , Mexico's Energy Secretary - story

Ecuador's oil force majeure to be lifted - story

Kuwaiti oil minister keeps job in new cabinet - story

Venezuela to begin building NGL, ethane plant this quarter - story

Oil prices steady as caution prevails - story

Preval scores big election wins
in Haitian capital: unofficial tally

AFP

By Patrick Moser AFP PORT-AU-PRINCE
Petroleumworld.com 02 09 06 - full story

CERAWeek starts in Houston with
top oil executives views of the future

Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum & Mineral Resources, ofSaudi Arabia, delivers the Opening Keynote Address

Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 02 09 06 - full story

Oil prices turn higher in Asian trade - story

Italy may cut power exports if gas supplies shrink further: minister - story

Russian atomic chief advocates creation of nuclear 'Gazprom' - story

India energy minister says New Delhi committed to Iran pipeline - story

Costa Rica begins manual recount of votes in its tightest race ever - story

Europe seeks to boost biofuel drive - story

CERA: Mexico could see changes to energy law - Energy Secy - story

Enarsa, Repsol, Sipetrol-ENAP signed Exploration venture - story

Ecuador's new oil law to increase revenues from private-sector - story

OPEC January output falls 555,000 b/d to 29.605-mil b/d: EIA - story

Venezuela to boost oil shipments to China - story

Oil prices lower as market discounts risk factors - story

Exxon Mobil force out of Venezuela's
Pequiven $3b petrochemicals project

Jose petrochemical complex, near Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela

By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 02 08 06 - full story

John Browne : BP has no
intention to buy Repsol YPF

Reuters

BP Chief Executive John Browne

Petroleumworld CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 02 07 06 - full story

Oil prices tumble as Iran fears ease - story

Ecuador shuts off oil pipeline amid unrest - story

Kuwaiti emir appoints crown prince, prime minister - story

Russian president faces human rights protests during Spain visit - story

Four dead in latest cartoon rage in Asia - story

Reliance Industries demerger wrangles resolved - story

Blair warns Iran against 'serious mistake' on nuclear programme - story

New count delays Costa Rica poll result - story

Four dead, dozens injured as volatile Haiti elects new president - story

Arias, rival neck-and-neck in Costa Rica's tightest presidential race

AFP/Yuri Cortez

Costa Rica's presidential candidate for National Liberation Party, Oscar Arias, gives a thumbs up after casting his vote during presidential elections in San Jose. Voters in Costa Rica went to the polls to cast ballots in a presidential election that could bring Nobel Peace Prize winner Arias back as the Central American country's leader.

By Arturo Gudino AFP
SAN JOSE Petroleumworld.com 02 06 06 - full story

Russian press warns of escalating Iran crisis

Nuclear weapon

By Nick Coleman AFP
MOSCOW Petroleumworld.com 02 06 06 - full story

Iran says enrichment to start 'in due course' - story

Oil prices jump on Iran sanctions worries - story

Saudi government 'taken aback' by Bush call to end US 'oil addiction' - story

Danish embassies torched as Muslim protests grow - story

Nigerian oil refinery shut because of damaged pipeline - story

Still-scarred Houston awaits justice in Enron saga - story

Chavez taunts Washington as he launches re-election bid - story

Yukos investors take Russian government, oil chiefs to court in US: press - story

Tense ties further strained as US expels Venezuelan diplomat - story

Stranded oil tanker refloated on Alaska coast - story

Oil prices up amid Iran nuclear row - story

Nigeria's oil-rich delta braced for more bloodshed - story

Venezuelan minister labels Repsol 'colonialists': report - story

Bolivia energy Co. chief touts alliance - story

Venezuela 'to buy more weapons' - story

Haiti imposes tough security for election - story

Petrobras to buy stake in Texas refinery - story

Rumsfeld compares Venezuela's Chavez to Hitler

Reuters/Molly Riley

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld answers
a question during a media briefing in Pentagon, Washington

By Al Pessin Voice of America
Pentagon Petroleumworld.com 02 03 06 - Full Story

Venezuela expels US Navy
attache over spy claims

US embassy building in Caracas.

By Diego Urdaneta AFP
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 02 03 06 - Full Story

Witness says Enron chiefs hid losses from investors - story

Enron chiefs misled about 'underperforming' units: witness - story

Oil prices rise in Asian trade but below 65 dollars - story

Oil tanker runs aground off Alaska, no spill reported - story

Spain set to clear Gas Natural bid for Endesa - story

Iranian UN referral near, Iran threatens nuclear fuel work - story

Oil prices slide despite Iran concerns - story

Shell profits gush to record 22.94 billion dollars in 2005 - story

Venezuela-Brazil-Argentina pipeline couldbe ready by 2011 - story

Costa Rica elects president and Legislative - story

Ecuadorian Court's expert report confirms safety of Texaco remediation - story

Venezuela sends first oil shipment to India - story

US religious group boycotts Citgo - story

Petrobras Energía sets aside USD 137 million for agreements in Venezuela - story

Bush: US must wean itself off Mideast oil

Reuters/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Pool

U.S. President George W. Bush delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress while Vice President Dick Cheney (L) and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R) look on at the U.S. Capitol in Washington January 31,

By Olivier Knox AFP
WASHINGTON Petroleumworld.com 02 02 06 - Full Story

OPEC hopes for extra 0.5 mbd
spare capacity by June: president

Reuters/Heinz-Peter Bader

OPEC President Edmund Daukoru of Nigeria addresses a news conference in Vienna February 1, 2006. Daukoru, reacting to President George W. Bush's aim to break U.S. dependence on Middle East oil, said on Wednesday energy security should not be a unilateral issue.

AFP VIENNA
Petroleumworld.com 02 02 06 - Full Story

Oil prices slip in technical correction - story

Sanctions against Iran would backfire - Russian envoy - story

Bush congratulates Bolivia's Morales - story

Hydrocarbon pollution detected near wrecked tanker off France - story

Scepticism over Bush's call for dramatic cut in Mideast oil imports - story

Wind power capacity surged by 18 percent in EU in 2005 - story

US crude stocks rise - story

Iran threatens to resume industrial-scale enrichment - story

Shell resumes production at Nigerian oilfield after hostage-taking - story

China domestic oil, gas output up in 2005 - story

PDVSA "Kim Jacob" tanker aground in Puerto La Cruz to transfer cargo - story