petroleumworld

Aug 16- 30

IAEA says Iran nuclear accord 'significant step'

By Michael Adler AFP VIENNA
Petroleumworld.com 08 31 07 - story

Venezuela wants two US oil firms to leave

Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez

By Michael Adler AFP
VIENNA Petroleumworld.com 08 31 07 - story

Oil prices higher ahead of Bernanke speech - story

China's key oil producers may suspend gasoline exports: report - story

China vice-PM ranked world's 2nd most powerful woman after Merkel - story

Chavez frees Colombian paramilitaries ahead of Bogota visit - story

Sarkozy makes proposal to unblock stalled Suez-GDF merger - story

Oil prices close in on 74 dollars a barrel - story

Iran must suspend uranium enrichment: US - story

Chilean workers clash with police in street protests - story

Argentina seeks extradition in case of briefcase scandal - story

Bolivia won't allow the United States cooperation through USAID - story

Harvest Vinccler to transfer six field to a JV with PDVSA - story

Nigerian president scraps state-owned oil group NNPC

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua

AFP ABUJA
Petroleumworld.com 08 30 07 - story

Total to receive quarter of Shtokman gas output: report

AFP MOSCOW
Petroleumworld.com 08 30 07 - story

Oil prices surge after surprise plunge in US reserves - story

Mugabe defiant as war veterans march for Zimbabwe leader - story

Sarkozy to launch Phase II of economic reforms - story

Turkey's new president receives cold military reception - story

Canada top oil supplier, Venezuela in fourth place oil supplier to US in June : EIA - story

Pemex plans 10-year contract to maintain pipelines - story

Venezuela: PetroFalcon begins natural gas deliveries to PDVSA from La Vela - story

Booming oil and gas sector boosts Keppel's business in Brazil - story

Petrobras seeks partners to invest in agro-energy - story

Argentine company strikes gas in Magallanes Region - story

Rio de Janeiro wants bigger share of Brazil’s oil money - story

OPEC's ministers for finances meeting to be carried out in Venezuela - story

Bush warns of 'holocaust' if Iran gets nukes

AP /Rich Pedroncelli

George W. Bush gestures while addressing the American Legion 89th Annual Convention in Reno, Nev,, Tuesday, August 28, 2007.

By Olivier Knox AFP
RENO, Nevada Petroleumworld.com 08 29 07 - story

OPEC policy will hit the poorest hardest, says IEA chief

Claude Mandil, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA)

AFP PARIS
Petroleumworld.com 08 29 07 - story

Oil prices slip as global equities slide - story

Noriega: the brutal dictator who fell out of US favor - story

OPEC chief visits Angolan state oil firm - story

Norwegian group to build seven Bosnian power plants - story

Iran dismisses threat of US attack - story

Kidnapped Iraqi deputy oil minister set free - story

Bolivians split over moving capital to Sucre - story

Argentina official presents Shell gasoil case to judge: source - story

Petrobras sees cellulosic ethanol output by 2015 - story

China may expand oil exploration, refining investments in Peru - story

Transredes to invest $1 bln in Bolivian natgas - story

Mexico's Cemex seen unaffected by Venezuela threat - story

Sarkozy calls for troop exit from Iraq

Reuters/Benoit Tessier

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy addresses ambassadors
at the opening of the French Ambassadors Conference at
the Elysee Palace in Paris, August 27, 2007.

By Carole Landry AFP
PARIS Petroleumworld.com 08 27 07 - story

Ecopetrol seeks $2.7 billion in biggest Colombian IPO

Reuters

By Steven Bodzin Bloomberg
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 08 27 07 - story

Iran says it has answered plutonium questions - story

Crude oil prices higher as economic fears receded - story

Iran to supply crude oil to Senegal - story

Pakistani hostage freed in Nigeria - story

Russia blasts Swiss refusal to allow Yukos probe - story

Norsk Hydro buys British oil interests from Chevron - story

OPEC chief visits new member Angola - story

Iraq leaders vow to boost national reconciliation - story

China to kick off construction on second West-East gas pipeline in 2008 - story

SCAN Geophysical awarded another contract by PDVSA - story

Iran says current OPEC production is enough

AFP TEHRAN
Petroleumworld.com 08 27 07 - story

Venezuela's winning firends and helping other countries - story

Bolivia's Transredes announces one billion dollars investment - story

Georgia plays risky power game with Russia - story

Venezuela's Chavez denies rumors of Fidel Castro's death - story

Mexico's Pemex restores 81 percent of oil production after storm - story

Kuwait cabinet line-up - story

Algeria's state oil company records 3 pct drop in half-year exports - story

French confident in Sarkozy government: poll - story

Chavez constitutional reform faces timid opposition - story

Shell accuses Argentina of discrimination in fuel battle - story

Oil prices jump as Wall St. gains, home sales rebound - story

US intelligence gives grim outlook on Iraq - story

Venezuelan assembly asks for December referendum on constitution - story

Bolivia’s constitutional assembly temporarily suspended: Conflict trumps compromise - story

Eni CEO sees closing on Corocoro contract in Venezuela shortly - story

Venezuela's PetroFalcon signs agreement for Lundin transaction - story

Venezuela's Harvest Vinccler to increase production - story

Pluspetrol mulls increase gas
reserves at Camisea- source

Camisea pipeline

Petroleumworld LIMA
Petroleumworld.com 08 24 07 - story

Ryder Scott: Trinidad and Tobago's
gas production will plateau in 12 years

Source: Ministry of Energy. / 2006,* estimated reserves.

By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 08 24 07 - story

Global markets wobble as credit fears persist - story

Iraqi leadership precarious, US intelligence warns - story

Oil prices climb amid markets recovery - story

Death toll rises as remnants of Hurricane Dean cause landslides in Mexico - story

Textron fined 4.65 mln for UN oil-for-food scam - story

Swiss supreme court throws out Russian Yukos probe - story

Curfew extended on Nigerian oil city - story

Norsk Hydro's CEO is the new chairman of the new Norway's oil company StatoilHydro - story

Qatar: Oil market balanced, no Opec act needed

Gulf Times DUBAI
Petroleumworld.com 08 23 07 - story

Financial turmoil not 'dramatic' for global growth: IMF

AP Andre Penner

Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),
speaks during a press conference in Sao Paulo, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007.

AFP SAO PAULO
Petroleumworld.com 08 23 07 - story

Japan's Mitsubishi links with Indonesian energy giant Medco - story

Oil prices firm amid markets recovery - story

Iran threatens German banks over pull-out - story

Downgraded Dean drenches Mexico, raises flood fears - story

LatAm-East Asia build trade bridges across the Pacific - story

Venezuela's PDVSA shows cautious in dealing with Orinoco heavy crude creditors - story

Venezuela, Bolivia to create company to exploit mine in Santa Cruz - story

Petrobras inaugurates US$900-million oil rig - story

On the Quintero Bay LNG Project, Chile - story

Oil prices mixed on surprise jump in US crude reserves - story

Mexico braces for monstrous Hurricane Dean

Map shows projected path of Hurricane Dean
and its proximity to oil rigs and ports

By Jennifer Gonzalez AFP
CANCUN, Mexico
Petroleumworld.com 08 20 07 - story

IEA concerned about hurricane's impact on Mexico oil production - story

Oil prices lower as Hurricane Dean avoids US energy facilities - story

Hurricane reaches monstrous category five as it barrels to Mexico - story

Londoners to benefit from Venezuela fuel deal - story

Iran warns against further nuclear sanctions - story

Mexico shuts down oil installations ahead of hurricane's landfall - story

Chavez puts Venezuela's clock ahead 1/2 hour - story

Mexico shuts in output ahead of hurricane - story

Pemex shuts platforms; tourists flee as Dean nears - story

Peru's post-quake reconstruction to create 8,000 jobs - story

Bolivia ratifies oil investment deadline - story

Sacked Iran minister warns of energy 'catastrophe'

AFP/Hassan Ammar

Iran's sacked oil minister Kazem Vaziri Hameneh, seen here in May 2007, has issued a parting warning to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, predicting a looming "catastrophe" in the Iranian energy sector because of high consumption.

By Stuart Williams AFP
TEHRAN Petroleumworld.com 08 20 07 - story

Venezuela's Chavez: PDVSA to begin
pumping oil from its first offshore rig

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez,
on his Aló, Presidente, program, number 290

By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 08 20 07 - story

Hurricane Dean threatens Mexico after battering Jamaica- story

Venezuela's clock ahead 1/2 hour, on Jan 1st, 2008 - story

Oil prices lower as Hurricane Dean veers from US coast for now - story

PDVSA faces political campaign - story

Bachelet : Chile could be open to Bolivian sea access - story

Peru deploys army to halt looting after earthquake - story

Petrobras cuts output target on Venezuela takeovers - story

Chile Enap, Peru Romero, Brazil Petrobras eye Repsol fuel stations in Chile - story

Curfew imposed on Nigerian oil city after bloody battle - story

India's dependence on oil imports to grow - story

NKorea nuclear talks productive: US envoy - story

Transocean plans more Hurricane Dean evacuations in GOM - story

Chevron says Pascagoula crude unit offline after fire - story

PDVSA VP resignation confirmed - story

Quake halts operations at Peru's Cerro Lindo, other mines unaffected - story

Oil prices rebound, London back above 70 dollars - story

Petrobras announces US$ 112.4 b
business plan 2008 - 2012

Petrobras' Platform P40

Petroleumworld CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 08 17 07 - story

Oil demand doubts likely
to prompt OPEC caution

By Alex Lawler REUTERS
LONDON Petroleumworld.com 08 17 07 - story

Global oil prices fall as stock markets tumble - story

Dozens feared dead in Nigerian oil city battles - story

'Ring of Fire' shows its power with Peru quake - story

Lithuania joins EU carbon revolt - story

Lukewarm response to Cyprus oil exploration plans - story

UAE energy firm starts Canadian operation - story

Peru LNG says does not expect major project delays due to quake - story

Petrobras to appeal $42 million fine over Brazil gas deliveries - story

ICA Fluor signed an IPC contract for facilities at PEMEX's Chicontepec oil field - story

Iran to maintain OPEC policy despite oil minister's resignation - story

PDVSA: Accord with Exxon & Conoco is within reach - story