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OPEC president says cartel must
be cautious on output Mar 8


Reuters

OPEC's Nigerian president Edmund Daukoru

By Jacinta Moran PLATTS
PARIS Petroleumworld.com 03 01 06 - story

Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil in Caracas to plan on South American pipeline



By Elio Ohep PETROLEUMWORLD

CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 03 01 06 - story

Oil prices creep up - story

Saudi announces new gas find - story

Gas Natural declines to raise bid for Endesa - story

Chavez spends millions on 'extravagant' foreign policy: US - story

France defends GDF-Suez merger in face of criticism - story

Niger Delta militants storm fuel tanker ship - story

World car makers eye year ahead with caution - story

 

Venezuela cautions U.S.
it may curtail oil exports


Venezuela's oil minister Rafael Ramírez

By Juan Forero
The New York Times
BOGOTÁ
Petroleumworld.com 02 28 06

Venezuela's oil minister, in blunt comments published in a Caracas newspaper on Sunday, warned the United States that it could steer oil exports away from the United States and toward other markets. - story

Iran sticks to tough line for
crunch nuclear talks in Moscow


AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri

Iranian vice president Gholam Reza Aghazadeh (L) and Russia's atomic energy head Sergei Kiriyenko give a joint press conference at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, in southern Iran, 27 February 2006. Iran and Russia will resume 11th-hour talks in Moscow on Tuesday to try to resolve worldwide angst over the Islamic republic's nuclear program, feared by the United States to be a covert grab for an atomic bomb, a senior Russian official said.

By Dario Thuburn AFP
MOSCOW Petroleumworld.com 02 28 06

Iran insisted Tuesday on its right to nuclear technology ahead of 11th-hour talks in Moscow aimed at heading off fears it is seeking atomic weapons, sticking to its tough line despite huge international pressure.- story

Oil prices continue downwards trend - story

Quarter-century on, survivor looks back on N.Ireland turning point - story

Saudi oil plant bombing suspect arrested in Iraq: report - story

Iranian FM upbeat on Russian nuclear compromise - story

Sinopec says in talks with BP, but not over stake sale - story

Colombia-rebel talks on after overcoming differences - story

The top 10 energy companies in the world - story

US: Iran has one-week 'opportunity' to defuse standoff - story

Oil prices sink on profit-taking - story

Iran defying with nuclear program: UN watchdog - story

Niger Delta rebels deny oil hostages to be released soon - story

Bolivia seeks arrest of top Repsol exec. - story

Repsol labels Bolivian spat a "misunderstanding'


Repsol chairman Antonio Brufau to Bolivia this week

AFP
MADRID
Petroleumworld.com 02 27 06

A complaint by the Bolivian authorities accusing Spanish oil giant Repsol of illegally exporting 230,000 barrels of oil between June 2004 and June 2005 is a "misunderstanding," the Spanish firm said Monday.- story

Oil-hungry Asia stays friendly with Iran

By Shaun Tandon AFP TOKYO
Petroleumworld.com 02 27 06 - story

Harvest Natural Resources announce reserves reduced in Venezuela and excellent financials results for 2005 - story

 

GDF-Suez deal breaches spirit of EU policy: commissioner - story

Oil prices dip on profit-taking - story

Palestinian Authority check bounces, petrol cut off- story

Oil-hungry Asia stays friendly with Iran - story

Venezuela delays sanctions on US flights - story

Gulf oil supplies secure despite Qaeda threats: Qatar - story

Iran to award gas contracts to Total, Shell, Repsol - story

Trapped Mexican miners have perished: authorities - story

Suez to merge with Gaz de France: French PM - story

Iran to sign oil deal with China: official - story

Al-Qaeda claims attempt to blow up Saudi oil processing plant - story

Oil prices surge after Saudi attack - story

Niger Delta rebels display hostage, demand military pullout - story

 

Venezuela's PDVSA will buy back $83-mil in US-issued debt and stop filing with the SEC




By Elio Ohep CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 02 24 06
- story

Petrobras: world’s second best
in corporate governance



By Nielmar de Oliveira Agencia Brasil
RIO DE JANEIRO Petroleumworld.com 02 24 06 - story

 

Oil prices fall in New York - story

Public debates in Nigeria to consider possible third term for Obasanjo end - story

New Canadian FM, in London, pledges more focused foreign policy - story

India, Iran pledge committment to build gas pipeline - story

Hopes fade for rescue of 65 trapped Mexican miners - story

EU energy liberalisation sparks merger frenzy - story

Nigerian officials hopeful on fate of oil hostages - story

Ecuador lifts state of emergency as oil protests ease - story

Peru presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, would tighten control over energy - story

Ecuador declares state of emergency
in oil producing region


AFP/File/Santiago Armas

Employees of Ecuador's Petroecuador oil company work on clean up operations after an oil spillage. Protesters demanding a bigger cut in oil profits for the Amazon region have taken over a privately owned pipeline pumping station, even as another group abandoned another government-owned pumping station

By Elio Ohep CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 02 23 06
- story

Deputy oil minister : Iran
vows not to use oil as weapon

Reuters

Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Mohammad Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian at his office in Tehran, Iran February 20, 2006.

Middle East on line TEHRAN
Petroleumworld.com 02 23 06
- story


Russian energy minister sees problems with Caspian pipeline venture - story

Mexico in hope and despair as mine rescue effort drags on - story

Iran nuclear talks 'not going easily': Putin - story

Oil prices drop as market focuses on US inventories - story

Kuwaiti Islamist group calls for funding Hamas - story

Spanish PM says national interest is key to future of Endesa - story

IEA official says unrest overshadows Iraqi oil production - story

Russia plans sharp boost in energy exports to Asia: minister - story

PDVSA to buy back $83 million in foreign debt it has registered with the SEC - story

Bolivia demands “fairer” prices for gas sold to neighbours - story

Ecuador resumes oil exports after protest


AFP QUITO
Petroleumworld.com 02 23 06 - story

Venezuela's Petrozuata extra heavy crude project to double its drilling capacity this year


Orinoco Faja ( belt) basing

By Elio Ohep CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 02 22 06
- story

Petrobras Venezuela: No change of output with joint venture co with PDVSA - story

US brushes off Chavez barbs to Rice - story

Oil prices up as market tracks Nigeria unrest - story

Brookings Institution to open branch in Qatar - story

Spanish caught off guard as E.ON targets Endesa - story

Iran will not limit nuclear talks to EU-3 - story

Nigeria seeks 'human shield' hostages as oil prices surge - story

Shell again most sustainable/ethical oil company in 2006; Petrobras supplants Exxon in the top-5 - story

China to build new generation nuclear reactor - story

Ecuador oil exports in turmoil as protests continue - story

 

Nigeria violence may lead
OPEC to hold output: analyst




By Perrine Faye
LONDON
Petroleumworld.com 02 21 06 - story

Chavez could seek green
light for multiple reelection bid




By Perrine Faye
CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 02 21 06 - story

Venezuela's JV contract with oil companies to be analyze by National Assembly this week - story

Petroecuador halts oil exports after pipeline shut - story

Bush calls for nuclear construction by 2010 - story

Oil prices spike after rebel attacks in Nigeria - story

China, EU to sign cleaner energy deal - story

Petrobras: Bolivia trying to pressure co. - story

Latin America drifts East -- Evo Morales stakes Bolivia's future on China - story

PDVSA to increase gas supply to Venezuela - story

US 'must not be hostage to foreign oil' - story

PDVSA aims to supply some 300,000b/d of crude to Petrocaribe countries - story

European refiners see ample supply despite Nigerian disruption - story

 

Preval, Aristide himself to determine his return to Haiti: Mbeki - story

US oil contractor confirms nine workers kidnapped in Nigeria - story

Venezuela to increase heavy oil production - story

Shell suspends loading at Nigerian export terminal - story

Hands off Venezuela, London mayor tells US - story

Chavez threatens to cut off oil to US if it goes too far - story

Venezuela's Inspecciones C.A., received its Certification ISO 9001:2000 - story

Oil prices rebound ahead of US holiday weekend - story

Petrobras 4th-qtr net soars on prices, lower costs - story

UN, others relieved at Haiti's peaceful end to vote crisis - story

Nigerian airforce battles militants in oil-rich delta - story

Commodities prices tumble - story

Chavez blasts US officials as 'crazy' after Rice comments - story

Petrobras studies seven new partnerships with Bolivian government enterprise - story

Venezuela's Chavez warns Rice:
'Don't mess with me, girl'


Venezuela's presidential Miraflores palace

By Elio Ohep CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 02 20 06 - story

Opec may cut oil output
as markets oversupplied



LONDON CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 02 20 06 - story

Oil prices rebound ahead of US holiday weekend - story

Petrobras 4th-qtr net soars on prices, lower costs - story

UN, others relieved at Haiti's peaceful end to vote crisis - story

Nigerian airforce battles militants in oil-rich delta - story

Commodities prices tumble - story

Chavez blasts US officials as 'crazy' after Rice comments - story

Petrobras studies seven new partnerships with Bolivian government enterprise - story

Rice calls for international "united front" against Venezuela

Reuters/Larry Downing

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the House of Representatives International Relations Committee, February 16, 2006.

AFP WASHINGTON Petroleumworld.com 02 17 06 - story

Preval declared Haiti president after vote deal



AFP PORT-AU-PRINCE
Petroleumworld.com 02 17 06 - story

US says it would not bow to North Korean boycott threat - story

Oil prices rebound as Iran tensions back in focus - story

Shell defends use of Nigerian airfield by attack chopper - story

House condemns Iran nuclear program - story

France: Iran nuclear programme is 'military' - story

IAEA warns may need compromise on Iranian enrichment: diplomats - story

Venezuela and Iran plan joint development fund - story

Petrobras an d YPFB will sign a MOU in early March - story

Venezuela's Ramirez: "Everyone is building inventories, Japan, the U.S., and that is very dangerous," - story

 

British MPs back Venezuela President Chavez's social policies

AP

The House of Commons in London, Tuesday Feb. 14, 2006

AFP LONDON
Petroleumworld.com 02 16 06 - story

Haiti's vote counting system reconsidered amid protests, fraud claims

AFP/Roberto Schmidt

Haitian men walk through partially destroyed ballots in a trash dump on the outskirts of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Several ballot boxes and ballots, both blank and marked, were found in a dump and showed to the press one day after Presidential front-runner Rene Preval claimed "massive fraud or gross errors" in the 07 February Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

By Patrick Moser AFP
PORT-AU-PRINCE Petroleumworld.com 02 16 06 - story

Oil prices extend losses on strong US inventories - story

New demonstrations in Haiti amid efforts to avert runoff - story

Total joins record-setting oil majors with profit of 12.0 billion euros - story

Morales rejects call to expel US drug agents from Bolivia - story

Nigerian helicopter gunship fires on 'oil smugglers' - story

Ford first to build hybrid vehicles in Canada - story

US oil and gasoline inventories higher - story

OPEC predicts 1.89 percent rise in oil demand this year - story

Venezuela: Total refuses to pay tax bill - story

Trinidad and Venezuela to continue unitization talks - story

Gallogly named ConocoPhillips executive VP - story

PM Manning: More gas for TT - story

Enap to report LNG terminal bid choice - story


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