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Previous Stories: 2006
Iran defiant as cracks show
in top powers' united front
By Deborah Cole AFP
BERLIN Petroleumworld.com 03 31 06 - story
Petrobras CEO: Doubts on
Bolivian gas nationalization
Sergio Gabrielli, Petrobras CEOBy Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 03 31 06- story
Oil prices ease in Asian trading - story
India's training of Iranian military could dampen nuclear deal: US lawmaker - story
Crude oil prices march to fresh highs - story
Venezuela takes on ExxonMobil as it squeezes oil industry - story
US energy dependence a new major worry for Americans: poll - story
Sanctions on Iran would not bring settlement: Russian FM - story
Iraq needs 8-12 months to resume northern oil exports: minister - story
Mexican tanker sinks in the Gulf - story
Venezuela's tax Authority sen OPEN oil a tax bill of US$1mn in back taxes - story
Venezuela warns Exxon Mobil - story
Venezuela's Ministry of Energy:
Exxon Mobil must go
By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 03 30 06 - storyKey Security Council members agree
text on Iran nuclear crisis: envoy
AFP UNITED NATIONS
Petroleumworld.com 03 30 06 - storyGerman ex-chancellor Schroeder voted in as pipeline boss - story
Japan urges Iran to abide by UN statement - story
Pemex oil output to drop without private investment, chief says - story
Venezuela has the highest crude reserves in the world - story
World oil prices jump on tumbling US gasoline stocks- story
Oil industry mergers, takeovers reached 160 billion dollars in 2005 - story
Pakistan rejects report on secret nuclear help to Saudi Arabia - story
US crude oil inventories higher, gasoline supplies sink - story
Britain set to approve nuclear clean-up strategy - story
Iran to stage massive Gulf military maneuver - story
World's top diplomats to take long view on Iran at Berlin talks - story
Chevron gives “Micro Businessmen Training Workshop” for Venezuelan entrepreneurs- story
Bolivia to review taxes of oil companies - story
Bolivia licenses U.S. company for petrochemical plant - story
OPEC: Oil to stay above $50
during next two to three years
By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 03 28 06 - storySaudis, with Pakistani help, working
on nuclear programme: report
AFP
BERLIN
Petroleumworld.com 03 29 06 - story
Oil prices dip before US inventories data - story
Norwegian, US groups to win huge Shtokman gas project: report - story
Total to pay back taxes to Venezuela: tax official - story
Oil prices rocket as supply fears deepen - story
Canada's new government 'starting from scratch' on Kyoto Protocol - story
Clashes at Paris demo, more than 200 arrested - story
Norwegian oil giants woo Russians for Barents Sea reserves - story
Havel delivers protest to Belarus embassy - story
Nigerian president convenes meeting on Niger Delta crisis - story
Ecuador's Congress to debate controversial oil reforms Wednesday - story
US House Republican leader expects broad energy bill this year - story
Ecuador returns to normal levels of oil production - story
Total interested in partnership with with Bolivia's YPFB - story
Petrobras announces refinery location for Benzene & PX - story
Petrobras to work with Bolivia's YPFB - story
Iran budgets $213 mln
for 2 atomic power plants
Iran nuclear facility in constructionIranMania LONDON
Petroleumworld.com 03 28 06 - storyVenezuela and Trinidad to advance in border reserves unitization
By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 03 28 06 - storyEnergy and salmon on the menu for Russian PM in Norway - story
France hit by strikes, protests over jobs law - story
Oil prices flat in Asian trade after Nigeria hostages freed - story
Howard upbeat on possible Australian nuclear deal with China - story
Oil prices stable after foreign hostages released in Nigeria - storyIran nuclear programme aimed at peaceful uses: vice president - story
Plot afoot to annul Venezuela vote: Chavez - story
US aircraft carrier to deploy to the Caribbean - story
Nigerian guerrillas release
last three oil hostages: officialGeorge Esiri/Reuters
A militant stands in the Nigeria's Delta state, February 24, 2006. Three foreign oil workers, two Americans and a Briton, were freed on Monday by Nigerian militants who had held them hostage for five weeks, officials said.
By Dave Clark AFP
LAGOS Petroleumworld.com 03 27 06 - storyPETROCARIBE: Guyana hopes for
crude refining pact with Trinidad
By Miranda La Rose Stabroek News
GUYANA Petroleumworld.com 03 27 06Guyana is hoping that current talks between Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) and Venezuela, as well as Caricom and Venezuela on the Petrocaribe Initiative, would conclude in an arrangement whereby Caricom countries could buy crude oil from Venezuela and have it refined in T&T. - story
Oil prices fall; remain close to 64.0 dollars - story
China takes small step to closing oil price gap - story
Chinese village suffers second gas blast, 11,500 people evacuated - story
Venezuela: Four new gas licenses in addition to operational agreement to be awarded - story
Iran to build nuclear bomb within three years: report - story
Iran supports Russian, Chinese line on nuclear dispute - story
France is going through a 'deep, moral, social and political crisis:' Lang - story
Venezuela slaps British oil giant BP with back-tax bill - story
Venezuela freezes oil group Eni's accounts over unpaid taxes - story
Oil prices inch up after new cuts in Nigeria - story
Rice "certain" US, Iran will hold talks on Iran - story
Bush, Obasanjo to discuss Darfur, Taylor's fate - story
Niger Delta crisis: Italian oil giant cuts exports after pipeline blast - story
Iran supporting militias, insurgents: US ambassador - story
Iran to build nuclear bomb within three years: report - story
Iran supports Russian, Chinese line on nuclear dispute - story
France is going through a 'deep, moral, social and political crisis:' Lang - story
Venezuela slaps British oil giant BP with back-tax bill - story
Venezuela freezes oil group Eni's accounts over unpaid taxes - story
Oil prices inch up after new cuts in Nigeria - story
Rice "certain" US, Iran will hold talks on Ira - story
Bush, Obasanjo to discuss Darfur, Taylor's fate - story
Niger Delta crisis: Italian oil giant cuts exports after pipeline blast - story
Iran supporting militias, insurgents: US ambassador - story
No more stalling on Iran: Rice
AFP/File/Jewel Samad
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, displaying impatience with slow UN talks on Iran's nuclear activities, warned "there can't be any stalling" in dealing with the potential threat.AFP WASHINGTON
Petroleumworld.com 03 24 06 - storyPDVSA's will hold its annual meeting in April with its audited 2005 financial report
By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 03 24 06 - story
Venezuelan government sets back-tax deadline for Sincor - story
Oil prices surge towards 64 dollars - story
Rosneft profits quadruple, oil output to double by 2015 - story
Oil prices gain after unexpected fall in US inventories - story
US lobbies for nuclear trade with India - story
Internet surges as source for news in US - story
EU airline blacklist inappropriate: industry - story
Lukashenko re-election confirmed with 83 percent of vote - story
Venezuela to cut size of oil drill areas - story
FuelNation names Jose Marsicobetre, Managing Director of South American operations - story
Venezuela and U.S. reach Airline agreement - story
Chavez unveils OPEC meeting;
output levels an issue
By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 03 23 06 - storyExxon Exxposed: WSJ reported
oil group try to get IRS audit of GP
Throwing stones in glass gas stations
GNN NEW YORK
Petroleumworld.com 03 23 06 - storyVenezuela: Exxon to halt oil production from la Ceiba - story
Oil prices dip despite surprising US stocks report - story
Enel board makes no decision on bid - story
US dispatches senior officials to Vienna to press case for India nuclear deal - story
Bolivia's Morales says US government behind 'terrorism' - story
Niger Delta hostage-takers dismiss appeal from British government - story
Surprise fall for US crude oil stockpiles - story
Spain hails 'priority' project for gas pipeline to Algeria - story
Venezuela civilians train to resist possible US invasion - story
If Oxy deal dropped, all assets immediately to state:Petroecuador - story
Too early to predict OPEC action at June 1 meeting: Naimi - story
Venezuela's template for oil joint ventures ready - story
Vinccler Oil and Gas Acquires West Falcon Unit in Western Venezuela - story
US may propose tough UN nuclear
resolution against Iran
UN Security Council
By Michael Adler AFP
VIENNA Petroleumworld.com 03 22 06 - storyVenezuela's Chavez: US tell lies
on Iran's nuclear capability
President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez (c) makes a speech next to Rafael Ramirez, minister of energy (r) and Luis Felipe Acosta Carles (l), Governor of Carabobo state during a inauguration ceremony at power station Valencia.
By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
Pedro Camejo Power Station, Valencia, Venezuela
Petroleumworld.com 03 22 06 - storyDiplomacy on Iran 'heading in right direction': US - story
US spied on French nuclear program: documents - story
Bush suggests US troops will still be in Iraq into 2009 - story
Tymoshenko rejects Ukrainian two-party alliance proposal - story
Belarus protests far from Ukraine's "orange revolution": analysts - story
ConocoPhillips plans to boost stake in LUKoil - story
GDF, Suez have 'broken off' talks with Enel: companies - story
Putin says Russia planning gas pipeline to China - story
Oil prices climb on eve of US energy report - story
One person was killed and four injured Tuesday in a fire at PDVSA Amuay refinery, unit down after fire- story
Six major powers kick off
meet on Iranian nuclear crisisReuters
Technicians at Iran's nuclear facility
AFP NEW YORK
Petroleumworld.com 03 20 06 - storyUS oil firm offers Ecuador
millions to end legal row
Drilling site
AFP QUITO
Petroleumworld.com 03 21 06 - storyTotal offices reopen in Venezuela amid tax row - story
Barroso pleads for common EU energy policy - story
Oil prices skid lower - story
No one can take away Iran's nuclear know-how: president - story
Nigerian security agents arrest opposition leader - story
EU warns Hamas that it stands at 'crossroads' - story
Iran nuclear work progresses as UN debates action - story
Saudi's Naimi not worried by US crude stock build
Reuters
Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi
Reuters RABEGH, Saudi Arabia
Petroleumworld.com 03 20 06 - storyVenezuela demands back
taxes from ChevronTexaco
Chevron's 114.000 bd Boscan field, in Venezuela
By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 03 20 06 - storyVillepin vows not to back down as unions threaten strike over French jobs plan - story
Saudi to continue aid to Hamas government - story
Government steps in to prevent a worse oil spill - story
Mexico's Lopez, Fox clash on energy policy ahead of elections - story
Anticipation, oil spills spike pump costs - story
Offer made to settle Ecuador oil dispute - story
Lula to propose changes in super gas pipeline - story
China, Cuba, Iran, Radical Islam, and Venezuela all threaten USA with information operations attacks - story
Venezuela presents proposed oil contract - story
Doubts greet Pemex's claim of big deepwater strike - story
Petrobras-PDVSA venture begins gas drilling - story
Oil pices dip, OPEC revises demand forecast down - story
Government steps in to prevent a worse oil spill - story
Mexico's Lopez, Fox clash on energy policy ahead of elections - story
Anticipation, oil spills spike pump costs - story
Offer made to settle Ecuador oil dispute - story
Lula to propose changes in super gas pipeline - story
China, Cuba, Iran, Radical Islam, and Venezuela all threaten USA with information operations attacks - story
Venezuela presents proposed oil contract - story
Doubts greet Pemex's claim of big deepwater strike - story
Petrobras-PDVSA venture begins gas drilling - story
Oil pices dip, OPEC revises demand forecast down - story
US: Iran may be worst security threat
By Olivier Knox AFP
WASHINGTON Petroleumworld.com 03 17 06 - storyVenezuela closes offices of TOTAL and ENI
SENIAT Superintendent Jose Vielma Mora
By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 03 17 06 - story
Oil prices jump as US attacks Iraq insurgents - story
G8 calls for 'wide-scale' nuclear energy development - story
US strategy review outlines threats - story
Venezuela to close Total office over back taxes - story
Venezuela eyes oil cooperation in Africa - story
US urges hostages' release, promises development in Niger Delta - story
GDF-Suez merger to test EU Commission's credibility: Mandelson - story
France to invest 1.8 billion dollars in two gas pipelines: report - story
Japan cuts Iran oil imports over nuke crisis - story
Ecuador's president warns of coup - story
Nigerian kidnappers threaten foreign oil workers
AFP/File/Dave Clark
Nigerian separatist rebel brandish their weapons in a show of strength for reporters, February 2006. Nigerian separatist guerrillas dashed official hopes for an imminent release of three US and British oil workers being held hostage in the Niger Delta swamps, amid mounting fears for their safety.By Dave Clark AFP
LAGOS Petroleumworld.com 03 16 06 - storyVenezuela Oil Min: Present oil prices are fair
Rafael Ramirez, Venezuela's oil minister and Venezuela's oil company PDVSABy Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 03 16 06 - storyOil prices turn south as US crude stocks jump - story
Repsol Andina executives in Bolivia arrested, freed on bail - story
Westinghouse has edge in bid for Chinese nuclear plants: source - story
Russia, EU close to accord on gas flows: French minister - story
UN General Assembly overwhelmingly endorses new rights council - story
Indonesia's Pertamina, ExxonMobil sign Cepu deal - story
US, Russia press for global nuclear energy network - story
Ecuador oil law proposal unconstitutional: private oil group - story
Brazil closely monitoring ethanol exports to secure local supply - story
Kuwaiti oil plan stirs nationalist fervor - story
Fearful EU aims to take energy policy from governments - story
Avante Petroleum appoints Luis Giusti as Chairman - story
