petroleumworld

Aug 1- 15

Storm threats stoke oil prices higher - story

Last Yukos auction held amid mystery and controversy - story

Unsettled world markets hit by more turbulence - story

US to scrap nuclear deal if India tests weapons - story

Iraq's deputy oil minister kidnapped - story

North Sea oil rig partially evacuated after fire - story

PDVSA would consider complete purchase of Isla refinery: official - story

PDVSA denounces international campaign - story

Venezuela: Businessman to cooperate in cash suitcase case - story

PDVSA: Venezuela setting up 'our own Halliburton' - story

Brazil's Petrobras threatened with ousting from Bolivia - story

Petrobras wants to be one of the world's five leaders in energy by 2020 - story

Ecopetrol plans to raise $2.82 billion in share sale - story

Cuba: Reactivation works advance in oil refinery in Cienfuegos - story

Slight drop for President Calderón in Mexico - story

Bolivia seeks hefty energy investments - story

PDVSA awards 4,400 km of Caribbean 2D work to scan - story

Venezuela has executed 11 security energy agreements with Central and Caribbean countries - story

Ecuador: Rental of drills to be discussed with PDVSA - story

PM Manning: "Venezuela's gas not
coming soon" to Trinidad and Tobago

TG

Patrick Manning, Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago

By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
Port Spain Petroleumworld.com 08 15 07

We must plan our energy future without Venezuela's gas said The Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning said on Tuesday at the Government energy conference at the Port Spain Hilton.- story

Argentina's Kirchner warns
oil companies about investments

Kirchner promise to invest heavily in the exploration and production of natural gas

Mercosur MONTEVIDEO
Petroleumworld.com 08 13 07 - story

Iran, Iraq sign oil pipeline deal - story

UN expands mission in Iraq despite violence - story

Oil prices mixed as US credit woes raise demand worries - story

Canada to build first Arctic deep-water port, military base - story

IEA calls for OPEC oil production boost - story

Venezuelan government denies link to cash-filled suitcase scandal - story

Colombia's refinery investment doubles - story

Caribbean heads of state in Petrocaribe Regional Energy Summit in Caracas - story

Venezuela's President Chavez sign
energy security treaty with Ecuador

AP

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, left, holds up Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez's hand as they greet supporters from the Government Palace balcony in Quito, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007.

PETROLEUMWORLD CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 08 10 07 - story

US troops must go, Iran tells Iraqi PM

Fars News/Reuters

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L) and Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wave to journalists
as they attend an official meeting in Tehran August 8, 2007.

By Stuart Williams AFP
TEHRAN Petroleumworld.com 08 09 07 -story

World's largest nuke plant closed for 'months' - story

Rescuers break through US collapsed mine - story

Mexico's Calderon: US Congress 'insensitive' to immigrants - story

Lukoil not to get special treatment in Iraq: minister - story

US NOAA now sees 13 to 16 named storms and 7 to 9 hurricanes - story

Chevron reports oil find in Angola - story

Mexican journalist shot and wounded for writing of theft and corruption in Pemex - story

Ecuador/Venezuela plan largest oil refinery in Pacific coast - story

Bolivia turns electricity top priority - story

PDVSA's conected suitcase of cash sparks new scandal in Argentina - story

Bush warns Iraq over ties with Iran - story

Oil prices slide on prospects of weaker energy demand - story

Venezuela oil minister says enough oil in market

REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian

Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez enters the Argentina's
Government House in Buenos Aires, August 6, 2007.

Reuters MONTEVIDEO
Petroleumworld.com 08 09 07 - story

Venezuela sign energy security
agreement with Uruguay

AP/Matilde Campodonico

Uruguay's President Tabare Vazquez, left, sign an energy agreement with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez during a meeting at the Presidential Residence in Montevideo, Uruguay, Aug. 8, 2007.

Xinhua MONTEVIDEO
Petroleumworld.com 08 09 07 - story

SKorea says summit to help NKorea nuclear issue - story

Biofuels shift seen to put major squeeze on food prices - story

Canada's Harper heads north to counter Russia Arctic claim - story

US withdrawal likely unless Iraq violence falls: study - story

Brazil air safety now top priority: new Brazil defense minister - story

Oil prices fall as speculators sell off - story

Briton and Bulgarian oil workers freed in Nigeria - story

Gunmen release six Russians in Nigeria - story

Somalia debates law to open oil exploration up to foreign firms - story

LUKoil unperturbed over possible loss of its American filling stations - story

Brazil’s Petrobras reaffirms interest in Mozambique hydrocarbons, biofuels projects - story

Chavez keeps up South American energy diplomacy - story

Total and Chevron agree to work together in Iraq - story

Lula da Silva invites Mexico to join South American trade space - story

Labor dispute continues in Venezuela’s state-owned oil industry - story

Ahmadinejad says Iran defiant over nuclear energy

AFP

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

By Hassen Zenati AFP
ALGIERS Petroleumworld.com 08 08 07 - story

Lukoil, denies charges of price fixing
with PDVSA and Aramco on US market

Vagit Alekperov, Lukoil CEO

Platts Moscow
Petroleumworld.com 08 08 07 - story

Oil prices rise despite fears demand could falter - story

Fed keeps US rates on hold; acknowledges market turmoil - story

Georgia accuses Russia of bombing raid - story

Central American presidents celebrate 20 years of peace accords - story

Uganda says engineer killed in raid on oil venture was British - story

Moscow puts new conditions on nuclear fuel for Iran reactor - story

Belarus paying off Russian gas debt - story

Argentina to expand gas supply by 43 mil cu m/d by 2010: minister - story

CARICOM: ''Region must slash energy bill' -Edwin Carrington - story

Morales, Kirchner and Chávez will seal the beginning of industrialization process of hydrocarbons - story

Consumption of gasoline to average 273,000 bpd this year - story

Ecuador hopes oil plan with Venezuela to boost hemispheric integration - story

Mexico and Brazil sign energy agreement on deep-water exploration technology - story

Ecuador to invest 358 mln USD on energy company PetroEcuador - story

Chevron to explore gas fields
with China's Petrochina's parent

AFP BEIJING
Petroleumworld.com 08 07 07 .- story

III Petrocaribe Summit seeks to
deepen regional energy integration

ABN CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 08 07 07 - story

SKorea checks nuclear safety after Japan quake - story

Rescuers dig for trapped men after mine collapse in Utah - story

Envoys debate aid for NKorea in "historic" meeting - story

Oil prices lower in Asian trade - story

S.African petroleum workers end crippling strike - story

SKorean shipyards receive record orders - story

S.African petroleum workers end crippling strike - story

One year on, war pollution still stains Lebanon's shores - story

Brazil's Lula calls for regional alliance Brazil-Mexico - story

IDB to help Guyana, Caribbean nations in bio-fuel research - story

Oil prices tumble three dollars - story

Mexico and Brazil sign energy agreement on deep-water exploration technology - story

Ecuador to invest 358 mln USD on energy company PetroEcuador - story

Chavez, Kirchner to Boost industrialization - story

Japan refiners buy Venezuelan crude after two decades - story

Unions reject call for strike at Chile's ENAP - story

Indonesia says no sign of OPEC raising output

AFP JAKARTA Petroleumworld.com 08 06 07 - story

IAEA inspects Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant - story

Brazil's Petrobras wants to sell gas to Chile - story

Venezuela condemns using crops to produce biofuels - story

Cuba pays more than half of Venezuela oil bill in services, ambassador says - story

Petrobras - PDVSA Pernambuco refinery secure environmental license to build - story

PETROBRAS to adquire of Suzano Petroquímica - story

Suez: LNG complex in northern Chile, to be controlled by Codelco. - story

Bush calls September climate conference - story

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez lavishes largesse throughout the Americas - story

Oil prices slide after record-breaking week - story

Enel, Acciona appeal some strings attached to Endesa bid - story

Russia cancels gas cut-off to Belarus after payment - story

Israel considers building nuclear power plant - story

Nuclear plant adviser quits after calling quake "experiment" - story

Russia 'amazed' by Western mockery of Arctic expedition - story

West pressures OPEC to increase oil production

By Veronique Dupont AFP
PARIS Petroleumworld.com 08 03 07 - story

Russia plants flag in North Pole
seabed as race for riches hots up

By Conor Humphries AFP
MOSCOW Petroleumworld.com 08 03 07 - story

Libya and France sign 168-million-euro arms deal - story

Oil prices rise despite improved refining picture - story

Areva says contracts renewed with Niger following row - story

Arctic wealth: Why countries are jockeying over the roof of the world - story

Bush blocks assets of those deemed posing threat to Lebanon - story

Belarus to pay Russia to avoid gas cut-off - story

Canada rejects Arctic flag-planting as a 'just a show by Russia' - story

Shell to sell three refineries in France - story

Chiles' Enap and Fracture Technologies sign contract for Lago Mercedes exploration - story

Petro Rubiales Energy announces increased oil production at Rubiales, Colombia - story

President Chávez heads for Bolivia to kick off a JV with YPFB - story

IEA urges OPEC again to increase oil production

AFP PARIS
Petroleumworld.com 08 02 07 - story

New York oil price hits record high:
78.77 dollars a barrel

AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei

View of an offshore oil and gas production platform in the
Niger delta, Nigeria. Global oil prices traded record highs Monday

By Roland Jackson AFP
LONDON Petroleumworld.com 08 02 07 - story

Total's profits, sales weaken on rising costs - story

Energy sector at risk from extremist attacks: US expert - story

Oil prices slip from record New York high point - story

Australia calls Chavez 'rogue bull' - story

At last, Murdoch wins Dow Jones and its Journal - story

Developing world seeks funds, technology to tackle climate change - story

Russia to cut gas supplies to Belarus - story

UN decision on Darfur wins global applause - story

Argentina's Indupa H1 net profits up 54% on higher PVC sales - story

Mexico's state of discontent - story

Sabotage causes oil spill in Ecuador - story

Bolivia's president nationalizes tin deposit - story

Bolivar falls near record low as Venezuela doesn't sell bonds - story

National Contractors' Registry Office accused of wrongdoing at PDVSA - story

Shutdown in Cardón refinery - story

Pemex contracts 3 semi-submersible drilling rigs - story

UN chief urges new climate change deal by 2009

AFP / Timothy A Clary

UN chief Ban Ki-moon

By P. Parameswaran AFP
UNITED NATIONS Petroleumworld.com 08 01 07 - story

PDVSA and CUPET to begin oil exploration off Cuba

Petroleumworld CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 08 01 07 - story

Cheney: Iraq crackdown yielding results - story

Oil flirts with record highs - story

Rice, Gates meet Saudi King amid Iraq concerns - story

Abortive attack on Italian oil pipeline feeding NATO bases - story

Algeria to pump 20 bln dollars into oil, gas sectors - story

US Congress targets Iranian energy investment - story

France-Libya accord plans further nuclear cooperation - story

Nine EU states oppose split of energy producers and distributors - story

German FM due in Nigeria, Ghana for energy talks - story

Areva buys Canadian uranium producer, sees production boost - story

PDVSA to continue Corocoro's offshore drilling - story