petroleumworld

Stories: 2008

April 01 - 15

NPA: Brazil finds a new huge
oil field, PETROBRAS clarifies

CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com, April 15, 2008 - story

Political 'earthquake' in Italy,
but scepticism over Berlusconi

Conservative leader Silvio Berlusconi won Italy's general elections by an unexpectedly wide margin on Monday, securing a third term as prime minister but warning of tough times ahead for the country in the grip of an economic downturn.

ROME
Petroleumworld.com, April 15, 2008 - story

Oil prices touch record highs - story

TMK aims to be world No1 pipemaker with Ipsco acquisition - story

Siemens chief slams 'criminal practices' within the group - story

Putin to lead Russia's ruling party as premier - story

Iran would 'eliminate Israel' if attacked: army general - story

Repsol stock climbs on Brazil oil discovery - story

Italy's final vote result - story

Chevron denies 16.5-billion-dollar pollution damage in Ecuador - story

Oil prices surge to new records on supply woes, weak dollar - story

Speculation pushing up oil prices:
Venezuela Minister

Reuters

Venezuela’s Petroleum and Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez

CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com, April 14, 2008 - story

UN official calls biofuel production
'a crime against humanity'

BERLIN
Petroleumworld.com, April 14, 2008

Massive production of biofuels is "a crime against humanity" because of its impact on global food prices, a UN official said Monday on German radio. - story

Oil prices easier below 110 dollars - story

Final day of voting in Italy's elections - story

Crisis summit delivers no quick fix to Zimbabwe deadlock - story

Biofuel's impact on food crops under study at FAO meeting - story

IMF, World Bank meet as financial crisis bites - story

Taiwan, China see from historic talks - story

Clinton fights to keep White House quest alive - story

Venezuela seeks new Exxon - PDVSA 's Chalmette refinery operator - story

Tenaris venezuela pipe unit targeted for takeover - story

Bush says no plans to attack Iran: interview - story

Oil hits record in London amid stock market turmoil - story

Mugabe clamps down, pulls out of Zimbabwe crisis summit - story

Netherlands and Brazil sign agreement to cooperate on biofuels - story

Calderon will ask congress to lower taxes on Pemex - story

Shut down Mexican congress to block energy reform - story

Ecuador pays Oxy $100 million - story

Italians head to polls as economy falters - story

Bush ties Iran, Al-Qaeda,
among 'greatest threats'

AFP/Saul Loeb

US President George W. Bush speaks on the war in Iraq at the White House in Washington, DC. Bush on Thursday lumped Iran with the Al-Qaeda terrorist group as "two of the greatest threats to America in this new century" and said both hoped for a US defeat in Iraq.

WASHINGTON
Petroleumworld.com, April 10, 2008 - story

Brazil's President Lula rejects
biofuels link to rising food prices

AP / Fred Ernst

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, during his speech
at Palace Noordeinde in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday April 10, 2008.

THE HAGUE
Petroleumworld.com, April 11, 2008 - story

IEA says slowdown cuts global oil thirst, but prices could stay high - story

Oil prices ease in Asian trade - story

Colombia plans to build Cuba ethanol plant: Colombian spokeswoman - story

Argentina's Indupa to pay $14.1 million in dividends - story

Bolivia will produce fertilizers and will have a plant of Petrochemical - story

Leftists lawmakers storm Mexico congress - story

Curacao oil refinery online after power outage - story

US lawmakers delay vote on Colombia trade pact - story

Costa Rica aims to be 'carbon neutral' by 2021 - story

Oil prices dip slightly from record highs - story

Zimbabwe's Mugabe, Tsvangirai headed for summit showdown - story

Nigeria renews call for Gulf of Guinea guard force - story

Qatar signs deals to provide LNG to China - story

Gazprom says planning Libyan gas projects with Eni - story

Total oil head sees no limit to oil speculation, as price rises - story

Saudi Arabia says oil demand does not justify output rise - story

France probes Russian suit against Total - story

Petrobras inks CVA contract for Gulf of Mexico FPSO - story

OVL may get to dig 2 more blocks in Venezuela - story

Total head calls for balanced approach to China

Total oil giant chief executive Christophe de Margerie

PARIS
Petroleumworld.com, April 10, 2008 - story

Venezuela's Vice president: Government
to nationalize steel firm Ternium-Sidor

ABN

Venezuela's Vice President Ramon Carrizalez talks during a press conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Wednesday, April 9, 2008, back dropped by a banner with the signature of Venezuela's most important hero Simon Bolivar.

CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com, April 10, 2008- story

Oil prices steady after fresh highs - story

Brazil to promote shipbuilding and a merchant fleet - story

Venezuelan PDVSA mulls investment in refinery and petrochemical project in India - story

PETROTRIN: No escape plan - story

Venezuela to interfere with Peru, say Bolivia senators - story

Mexico opposition party welcomes energy plan - story

Colombia prepares petroleum contingency plan - story

Total says Gulf state funds could take stake in company - story

Venezuela ponders 'windfall' oil tax - story

Next-generation nuclear fuel may be too hot to handle: report - story

Iran envoy offers nuclear technology to all Muslim states - story

With US in crisis, global economy in peril: IMF - story

Mideast oil powers spend their way out of economic woes: IMF - story

New Venezuela oil tax will not be retroactive: Ramirez - story

Venezuela aiming for big jump in oil output, refining by 2021 - story

Calderon says Mexican energy reforms will adhere to Constitution - story

Oil hits new record on sliding US inventories - story

Venezuela to nationalize steel firm
Ternium-Sidor: media - story

Venezuela, India sign joint venture in oil-gas-rich Orinoco

AP /Howard Yanes)

India's Oil Minister, M.S Srinivasam listens during the agreement
signing ceremony of Petrolera IndoVenezolana in Caracas, Tuesday,
April 8, 2008.

CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com, April 09, 2008 - story

Westinghouse strikes deal to
build US nuclear power plants

GE's next evolution of advanced BWR technology, the ESBWR reactor

WASHINGTON
Petroleumworld.com, April 09, 2008 - story

Oil prices near 109 dollars in Asian trade - story

Mexico's Calderon seeks to overhaul Pemex - story

Trinidad: Workers evacuated after gas leak - story

Venezuela to demand Exxon relinquish refinery control - story

Colombia's Ecopetrol says closes Propilco deal - story

Venezuela to supply 150,000 bpd to India's Reliance - story

Bolivia to confirm gas reserves volume - story

CNPC to supply over 30 rigs to Russia and Africa in 2008 - story

Iran risks more sanctions over nuclear program: US - story

BP, ConocoPhillips team up to build vast gas pipeline - story

Top US general calls for pause in Iraq troop withdrawal - story

US wind power advocates see change in the air as oil prices soar - story

US, Mexico, Canada discuss trade, security ahead of summit - story

Oil prices fall after flirting with record highs - story

Top Russian oil firm Rosneft earnings soar - story

Iran sets March target for second yellowcake plant - story

Holcim hopes Venezuela nationalisation talks please both sides - story

OPEC will not examine the issue
of output until September

CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com, April 08, 2008 - story

Bush clashes with Congress
over Colombia trade deal

AP

US President George W. Bush

WASHINGTON
Petroleumworld.com, April 08, 2008 - story

Oil trades slightly lower in Asia - story

CEMEX response to the nationalization announcement made by Venezuela - story

Rice hosts talks with Mexican, Canadian counterparts - story

Mugabe under fire over Zimbabwe poll results - story

Iran nuclear talks due by mid-April: US - story

Sudan gives UN access to disputed oil area - story

Talks urged in Bolivia before crisis erupts - story

Vietnam to build second oil refinery with Kuwait, Japan firms - story

Shell seeks European help in developing carbon storage - story

Brazil's Petrobras, Mitsui to sign ethanol plant deal in May - story

Petrobras CEO José Sergio Gabrielli visits refinery in Okinawa - story

ENAP, Antofagasta form Chile geothermal venture - story

PetroFalcon signs definitive agreement to acquire Anadarko Venezuela - story

Oil prices breach 109 dollars after OPEC rejects output hike calls- story

OPEC chief rejects calls for output hike

TEHRAN
Petroleumworld.com, April 07, 2008 - story

Firms cautious as Venezuela
nationalizes cement industry

Reuters

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez

CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com, April 07, 2008 - story

Oil inches higher near 107 dollars in Asia - story

NKorea says SKorean leader running risk of war - story

Little progress at Bush-Putin summit: Russian press - story

China's Sinopec says 2007 profit up 5.5 percent - story

Zimbabwe awaits outcome of legal bid to force poll results - story

France keeps up pressure for access to Colombian hostage - story

World cooling on biofuel solution to climate change - story

Oil prices spike as US currency slides - story

Norway reforms massive oil fund - story

Peru advances $2bn electricity project - story

Chile's Methanex Cabo Neto methanol complex to recover full capacity production in 2011 - story

Chinese, Venezuela's PDVSA oil majors start E & P joint venture - story

Trinidad: Pipeline bursts into flames - story

Mexicans open to Pemex forging alliances - story

Bolivia, Argentina to build L America's largest natural gas liquid segregation plant - story

PDVSA: Projects to explore and produce oil in Caribbean offshore - story

Venezuelan congress okays tax on windfall oil revenues - story

Chavez to nationalize cement
industry in Venezuela

Cemex Pertigalete plant in Venezuela

CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com, April 04, 2008
- story

Nations inch towards new climate deal

BANGKOK
Petroleumworld.com, April 04, 2008 - story

Oil prices turn higher in Asian trade - story

Bush tells Putin 'Cold War is over': Spanish minister - story

Colombian rebels rule out unilateral hostage release - story

EDF might make takeover bid for British Energy: report - story

Holcim says it takes Venezuela cement move 'very seriously' - story

Tensions rise at Russia-NATO summit - story

Mugabe party plans fightback as Zimbabwe tensions mount - story

'I can win' : Clinton - story

Oil prices dip as economic outlook weighed - story

Venezuela Assembly gives initial ok to new windfall profits tax - story

Exxon's actions against PDVSA 'coercive': Venezuela's Alvarez - story

Two ethylene cargoes moving to El Tablazo, Venezuela: sources - story

Deficit rolls off-target to $50b - Petrojam deal nets $4.5b in February - story

Mexico Senate sees oil reform draft next week - story

Petrobras secures preliminary license for Mexilhão gas project - story

Ecuador says seeks to end Petrobras contract - story

Chevron blamed for jungle pollution in Ecuador - story

Chilean demand for gasoil pushes
Carib clean freight rates higher

LONDON
Petroleumworld.com, April 03, 2008 - story

Venezuela to levy windfall tax
when oil above $70/b: report

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez takes a sample of crude during his weekly broadcast at a nationalized oil field at Orinoco's belt in the southern strip of the eastern Orinoco River.

LONDON
Petroleumworld.com, April 03, 2008 - story

Oil prices drop as profit-taking sets in - story

Total says Asian investors will follow China in taking stake - story

In a first, Boeing says it has flown a hydrogen-powered plane - story

Mugabe party ready for run-off to save president - story

NATO expansion rifts widen as summit opens - story

Nigerian state oil reform set for end April: minister - story

Shell reports pipeline fire in southern Nigeria - story

Oil prices rocket as market frets over US gasoline stocks - story

World pressure mounts on Zimbabwe
to release poll results

AFP/ Alexander Joe

A group of men are waiting for results of the weekend elections, on March 30, 2008.

WASHINGTON
Petroleumworld.com, April 02, 2008 - story

Argentina putting floating LNG
terminal in place for winter

floating LNG regasification terminal

BUENOS AIRES
Petroleumworld.com, April 02, 2008 - story

Republican McCain tacks away from Bush - story

France to send mission to treat FARC hostage Betancourt - story

Oil prices fall as economic growth seen slowing - story

US truck driver stage strikes to protest high fuel costs - story

Mugabe ready to step down: sources - story

US backs Georgia, Ukraine NATO bids - story

Oil Minister Odein Ajumogobia: Nigeria can reach 2010 oil production target - story

Colombia's Ecopetrol sees output up - story

Congress grills oil execs on record pump prices - story

SAFE: Big problems extend beyond big oil - story

Nigeria can reach 4 MBD by 2010

ABUJA
Petroleumworld.com, April 01, 2008 - story

Opposition claim clear victory in
Zimbabwe vote as riot police deploy

HARARE
Petroleumworld.com, April 01, 2008 - story

Oil prices below 102 dollars in Asian trade - story

Hopes -- and fears -- for French-Colombian hostage - story

Canada calls on Zimbabwe to release election results now - story

McCain hits general election trail, as Democrats battle - story

Qaeda in Yemen says it attacked foreign oil assets: SITE - story

Bush starts Europe tour in NATO aspirant Ukraine - story

Oil prices skid on renewed demand worries - story

Opposition claim clear lead in Zimbabwe vote - story

Nigeria can reach 2010 oil production target: minister - story

Anglo American buys Brazilian iron ore projects for 5.5 billion dollars - story

Petrobras begins construction of $8.4 billion plant - story

Petrobras inks $4 billion for Noble deepwaters rigs - story

Bolivia for talks with Camiri on gas fields - story

PDVSA's debt compromises 28.5 percent of assets, to expand in S. A. - story

Petrobras to reluctantly mull big venezuela's Carabobo stake - story

Pemex missteps pare oil revenues, pave way for Petrobras entry - story

Aberdeen's Lord Provost meets Venezuela's PDVSA delegation to discuss Maracaibo links - story