petroleumworld

Abril 15 - 30

Chavez, allies wrap up summit with promises of cooperation - story

China dream a nightmare for climate change - story

Chavez and allies meet in Venezuela to bolster alliance - story

Gore blasts Canada's greenhouse-gas plan - story

Chavez's press rights commitment questioned - story

Nigeria stages rerun votes across the country - story

India, US officials to push again for nuclear deal in Washington - story

Putin decrees Russian nuclear industry restructuring - story

Ecuador says it wants ties to World Bank at a minimum - story

Oil prices jump on Saudi arrests - story

Saudi thwarts plot to fly planes into oil facilities - story

Ecuador president accuses Texaco of pollution 'barbarity' - story

Chavez wants missiles, arms to protect Venezuela - story

Putin freezes military pact, attacks
foreign 'interference' in Russia

Russia's President Vladimir Putin

By Sebastian Smith AFP
MOSCOW Petroleumworld.com 04 27 07 - story

PDVSA Credit default protection to soar, Lehman Brothers says - story

PDVSA to renew offshore bidding for Delta Caribe blocks - story

Ecuador president calls former Texaco operations a 'barbarity' - story

Ecuador expels World Bank representative - story

Mexico's Cantarell oil output inches up in March - story

Bolivian president faces rocky road - story

Baker Hughes pleads guilty in Kazakh oil bribery case - story

Canada targets 20 pct cut in CO2 emissions by 2020 - story

ExxonMobil profits gush above 9 bln dlrs - story

Putin freezes military pact, attacks foreign 'interference' in Russia - story

Oil prices dip on potential Iran breakthrough - story

Nigeria's biggest party urges re-run of disputed poll - story

ExxonMobil, Chevron, Total, agree to
hand over the JV of the Orinoco faja

By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworldtt.com 04 26 07 - story

Putin attacks democratic 'colonialists' in Russia - story

Greenpeace urges poor nations to use clean energy - story

NKorea set to invite UN inspectors in: SKorea - story

Defiant China to expand presence in world hot spots - story

Oil prices rally as US fuel reserves dive - story

Nigeria's opposition calls mass protests next week against poll - story

Bolivia takes control of energy reserves from foreign firms - story

Lawmakers flee Ecuador as political crisis hits

AP Photo/Eduardo Valenzuela

Ecuador's congressmen, who were dismissed last month by the country's top electoral court and reinstated Monday by the Constitutional Tribunal, speak prior to a press conference in Quito, Tuesday, April 24, 2007.

AFP QUITO
Petroleumworldtt.com 04 25 07 - story

Trinidad and Tobago was requested not
to attend South America's Energy Summit

Presidents of 12 South American nations in the Energy Summit

By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld Trinidad & Tobago
Port Spain Petroleumworldtt.com 04 25 07 . - story

Oil prices marginally higher in Asian trade- story

China becomes Japan's top trade partner - story

Ethiopia says Eritrea behind Chinese oil field bloodbath - story

China's March oil import up 8.8 percent - story

Nigeria's Obasanjo picks successor, oil majors carry on pumping - story

Ecuador Congress fires judges who reinstated ousted lawmakers - story

Bolivian police search home of former president - story

Oil prices slide despite Nigeria supply fears - story

BP profit hit as production drops further - story

Ecuador to define biofuels program in mid-May:minister - story

Iran, Venezuela joint oil company - story

Venezuela announces fusion of electric firms - story

Venezuela and Chile strengthen the union between their countries - story

Colombia Economy: Full Speed Ahead - story

Protests as ruling candidate
wins Nigerian presidential poll

AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei

Presidential candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and president elect Umar Yar'Adua.

By Helen Vesperini AFP
ABUJA Petroleumworld.com 04 24 07 - story

CGES: 'Now is the time for OPEC to raise output'

CGES Monthly Oil Report

AFP LONDON
Petroleumworld.com 04 24 07 - story

Oil prices mixed in market nervous over Nigeria - story

BHP Billiton on track for record profit - story

Nigeria's president-elect faces tough task after flawed election - story

Ecuador high court reinstates 57 fired lawmakers - story

Sarkozy and Royal back on campaign trail in presidential duel - story

Bolivia orders pension funds to transfer telecom stocks to state - story

Oil prices rise as Nigerian election concerns linger - story

US cautions Austrian oil giant over gas deal with Iran - story

Yar'Adua: the calculated rise of an obscure state governor - story

Ahmadinejad rejects nuclear suspension ahead of EU talks - story

Kuwait Petroleum Corp. to get new chief in September - story

Cartagena refinery upgrade now to cost $2 bil: Ecopetrol - story

Ecuador to offer blocks for gas exploration: Petroecuador chief - story

Lukoil, CNPC to announce Orinoco reserves study results end-2007 - story

Ecopetrol to enter in Brazil round 9 - story

Ecuador's idea to halt oil exploration in Amazon draws welcomed: FM - story

Venezuela takeover may harm Orinoco oil projects - story

Sarkozy, Royal in duel for the French presidency

Reuters

Conservative leader Nicolas Sarkozy (R) finished first in the opening round of France's presidential election on Sunday and will meet Socialist rival Segolene Royal (L) in a run-off vote, initial returns showed April 22, 2007.

By Carole Landry AFP
PARIS Petroleumworld.com 04 23 07 - story

Nigeria awaits poll results amid international concern

AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo

Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo casts his vote in Abeokuta,
21 April 2007. (AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)

AFP ABUJA
Petroleumworld.com 04 23 07 - story

Troops on streets as trouble mars landmark Nigeria vote - story

Austria's OMV signs MOU with Iran to develop South Pars gas field - story

High-level talks set amid US frustration at Indian nuclear deal - story

Bolivia cuts gas supplies to Argentina, Brazil amid protests - story

Oil prices spike as market awaits Nigerian elections - story

Russians pull out of London forum amid tensions - story

FM: Iran, Venezuela to increase financial ties up to USD 18bn - story

No threat to Venezuela compensation, says ConocoPhillips chief - story

US oil firm hopeful about renegotiations with Venezuela - story

South America united on energy - story

US warns Iran of 'step backward' on nuclear issue

AFP

Iran missiles

AFP WASHINGTON
Petroleumworld.com 04 20 07 - story

Bolivia protesters free police held over gas revenues

Reuters/David Mercado

Bolivian policemen are released after they were held hostage by protesters for over 20 hours in Yacuiba, southeastern Bolivia, April 19, 2007.

AFP LA PAZ
Petroleumworld.com 04 20 07 - story

Gates in Iraq as US patience wears thin - story

Europe-Russia mistrust at Cold War levels: EU Commissioner - story

President calls for voter fraud clampdown ahead of Nigeria poll - story

Kuwait readies for possible US-Iran war - story

Bolivia Congress OKs new contracts with foreign oil firms - story

Nigerian opposition withdraw boycott threat - story

Oil prices mixed amid global supply concerns - story

Iranian foreign minister visits Venezuela - story

London oil exchange to sell Middle East heavy crude - story

Iran leaves options open on 'oil weapon'

Iran's oil minister Kazem Vaziri

By Hiedeh Farmani AFP
TEHRAN Petroleumworld.com 04 19 07 - story

South American presidents agree
to form strategic energy alliance

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, and Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Paraguay's President Nicanor Duarte and Bolivia's President Evo Morales gather at the Energy Summit in Isla Margarita April 16, 2007.

AFP Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela
Petroleumworld.com 04 18 07 - story

US says nuclear deal with India at risk - story

Oil prices mixed in Asian trade - story

Business world urged to play role on climate: UN meeting - story

Boycott, violence threaten historic Nigerian election - story

Possible Putin successor backs state control of energy resources - story

Iraq's oil reserves could be almost double current estimates: report - story

Chile's Bachelet, Venezuela's Chavez lower tone after diplomatic spat - story

Gazprom takes control of Sakhalin-2 gas project from Shell - story

Argentine Petrobras unit plans $2.5 mln debt issue - story

South American leaders mull