petroleumworld

Aug 16 - 31

Brazil energy minister cancels Bolivia
talks after gov't move on refineries

Geraldo Falcão/ Petrobras /0206

Refinaria Guilhermo Elder Bell, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolívia.

By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 09 15 06 - story

Ahmadinejad in Havana as NAM
backs Iran in nuclear row

AFP/Georges Gobet

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shortly after arriving at Jose Marti Airport in Havana.

By Patrick Moser AFP
HAVANA Petroleumworld.com 09 15 06 - story

Brazil-Bolivia tensions rise over oil plans - story

Oil prices near six-month lows - story

Swedish nuclear plants still too unsafe to re-open - story

South Korean FM emerges as frontrunner in race to succeed Annan as UN chief - story

Russia's Rosneft has no plans for further privatization: company - story

Anti-US 'Axis of Castro' talks tough in Cuba - story

Nigeria oil unions suspend strike - story

Bangladesh and Thai firms sign oil deal - story

E.ON chief sees 'encouraging' signs in Endesa takeover - story

Close but no Fidel - bearded Castro still a no-show at NAM summit - story

Giant Caspian gas field to start feeding Europe in weeks: BP - story

World economy resilient but inflation threat looms: IMF - story

Argentina's lower house approves tax breaks for exploration - story

Lukoil plans to boost refining to 1.5 million b/d in 10 years - story

The Colombian Congress expected to approve the sale of 20% of Ecopetrol - story

A British trade mission to visit Venezuela between 16th and 23rd September - story

Iran seeks relief from US threats at Cuba summit

AFP/Seyllou

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade (L) welcomes Iran's hardline leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he arrives at Dakar's airport, in Senegal.

By Stuart Williams AFP
TEHRAN Petroleumworld.com 09 14 06 - story

Nigeria's oil exports flowing despite strike: firms

REUTERS/George Esiri

Ijaw militants wait to claim the remains of their dead at a hospital in Warri, in the volatile Niger Delta region September 2, 2006.

By Joel Olatunde Agoi AFP
LAGOS Petroleumworld.com 09 14 06 - story

Oil prices mixed as downtrend consolidates - story

Cuba slams US as Non-Aligned diplomats work to counter US heft - story

Iranian leader in Senegal to discuss nuclear programme - story

Russia's Gazprom signs LNG supply agreement with BP - story

US crude reserves down, gasoline up - story

Embattled BP reports oil spill off California coast - story

Nigeria oil shortfall expected to last about six months: minister - story

Nigerian oil minister plays down impact of strike - story

Refinery bottlenecks to dog oil industry until 2010 - story

Brazil, India tighten ties before summit with South Africa - story

Chavez to send cheap oil to London to run buses: report - story

NAM summit calls for unconditional negotiations on Iranian nuclear issue

AFP/Adalberto Roque

Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Perez Roque delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the high officers' meeting in the framework of the XIV Non-Aligned Movement summit in Havana.

By Patrick Moser AFP
HAVANA Petroleumworld.com 09 13 06 - story

Venezuela: The transformation of risk & profit sharing E&P contracts "still pending"

AP Photo/Ronald Zak

Minister of Energy and Petroleum of Venezuela, Rafael Ramirez talks to journalists during the meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) at the OPEC's headquarters in Vienna, Monday, Sept. 11, 2006.

By Elio Ohep Petroleumworld
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 09 13 06 - story

Russia angry at Sakhalin-2 cost overruns - story

Venezuela locks in UN Security Council seat: diplomat - story

Oil prices drop gathers momentum - story

Brazil to help India, South Africa make ethanol - story

Russia plans massive boost in uranium production - story

Oil price slump fuels fears of end to commodities price boom - story

Zapatero sees happy end to Endesa saga - story

Iran eyes new Armenian pipeline - story

Cuban dissident slams Non-Aligned over human rights - story

IEA sees signs of end to seven-year oil hunger - story

Energy giants to face more competition under EU proposals: report - story

Colombia awards new concession for Niscota oil field - story

Thousands march in France against gas privatisation - story

Oil and gas sector in Brazil to receive US$ 199 billion - story

Brazil needs more investment, Petrobras to concentrate its investments in Latin America, Africa, and in the U. S. - story

Ecuador Petroecuador's oil output show 11% decline - story

OPEC targets stability, vows vigilance on prices

AP / Ronald Zak

OPEC group President and Nigeria's Minister for Petroleum Resources Edmund Daukoru gestures as he talks during a press conference after a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) at their headquarters in Vienna, Monday, Sept. 11, 2006.

By Adam Plowright AFP
VIENNA Petroleumworld.com 09 12 06 - story

Havana summit opens with
attacks on US, defense of Iran

AP / Javier Galeano

Cuba's Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque speaks to the media during a news conference ahead of the Nonaligned Movement summit in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Sept.10,2006.

By Patrick Moser AFP
HAVANA Petroleumworld.com 09 12 06 - story

Oil prices rise in Asian technical rebound - story

OPEC quota cut comes into view as prices fall - story

Non-Aligned no apologists for terror: South Africa diplomat - story

Asia, Europe leaders hammer out pledges on global warming, trade, terror - story

ExxonMobil's Sakhalin-1 ready to ship oil to Asia - story

World in no danger of running out of oil, says top Australian industry exec - story

India's state-run oil company signs oil exploration deal with Cuba - story

Oil prices slide to near six-month lows - story

Petrobras, Respol keep up Mexilhao partnership talks - story

Venezuela's Min: PDVSA will secure majority stakes in heavy-oil projects by the end of the year - story

Brazil to offer Bolivia options to gas prices - story

Colombian ambassador to the OAS suspects that Venezuela extracts uranium - story

Colombia may sell Ecopetrol shares in New York, Martinez says - story

PDVSA still mulling over domestic debt issuance - story

Petrotrin suspends production for two days - story

Falling oil prices focus OPEC ministers' minds

By Adam Plowright AFP
VIENNA Petroleumworld.com 09 11 06 - story

Ahmadinejad to visit Venezuela next week

AP

Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

AFP TEHRAN
Petroleumworld.com 09 11 06 - story

Lopez Obrador suspends downtown Mexico City protests - story

Iran mulls raising petrol prices to limit imports: report - story

60 feared burnt to death in Nigerian tanker accident - story

Norwegian nuclear reactor shut down after alarm - story

Asia nuclear power boom threatens world uranium supply, price - story

Massive protest grips Bolivia in challenge to leftist president - story

Oil prices fall sharply as supply worries ease - story

Merkel optimistic on possible compromise in E.ON/Endesa deal - story

BHP Billiton faces second strike threat in Chile - story

Belarus, PDVSA to study Orinoco block: Chavez office statement - story

Talks on Iran nuclear crisis to
resume Monday by phone: US

AFP WASHINGTON
Petroleumworld.com 09 08 06 - story

OPEC steers steady course for Vienna meeting

AFP GENEVA
Petroleumworld.com 09 08 06 - story

ONGC to pump 500 mln dollars investment into oilfields - story

EU accepts French golden share in gas privatisation: report - story

Oil prices extend losses in Asian trade as supply concerns ease - story

US lawmakers grill top BP execs over Alaskan oil spills - story

Oil prices fall as US gasoline stocks rise - story

US fuel inventories mixed - story

Ukrainian president eyes Caspian oil resources on Azerbaijan trip - story

Nigeria to host OPEC meeting in December - story

Lithuania, Poland plan 'energy bridge': officials - story

Mexico's Fox, Calderon plan transition; Lopez Obrador fights on - story

Mexicans ready to move past election battle as loser fights on - story

Gazprom contacts candidates for Shtokman gas field prize - story

Nigeria says not notified of upcoming oil worker strike - story

Peru, Camisea group reach deal on new formula for gas price hikes - story

Argentina to weigh plan to improve gas exports to Chile: governor - story

Calderon, declared Mexico's
president, reaches out to rival

Mexico's new elected President Felipe Calderon (left) and political rival, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

By Pablo Perez AFP
MEXICO CITY Petroleumworld.com 09 06 06 - story

Chevron strikes promising
Gulf of Mexico oil prospect

AP Photo/Devon Energy

This June 2006 photo provided by Devon Energy Corporation shows the Jack 2 well located in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 170 miles southwest of New Orleans in approximately 7,000 feet of water.

AFP NEW YORK
Petroleumworld.com 09 06 06 - story

Lawmakers debate breaking Iraq into rival regions - story

Oil prices ease in Asian trade - story

Australian treasurer says world experiencing "third oil shock" - story

ADB raises developing Asia's economic growth forecast for 2006-07 - story

Putin vows new era in ties on historic South Africa visit - story

Russia no longer top oil supplier to Morocco in 2006 - story

Oil prices mixed, US supply concerns ease - story

Russian environment agency asks court to halt Sakhalin-2 energy project - story

China's vice president in high-level warning as forex reserves keep soaring - story

E.ON, Endesa merger problems 'isolated' incident: EC's Kroes - story

Elnusa wait on approval for IPO - story

Pemex reveals plan to stanch production drop - story

Ecuador's oil spill controlled in nature reserve - story

Bolivia negotiates oil nationalization - story

Bush marks Labor Day with call
for nuclear energy, lower taxes

AFP/Jim Watson

US President George W. Bush, seen here, marked Labor Day with a call for lower taxes and expanding nuclear power to ease US dependence on foreign oil.

AFP PINEY POINT, Maryland
Petroleumworld.com 09 05 06 - story

Bolivia's wealthy provinces
to go on strike against president

BBC

Opposition leader, ex Bolivian president Jorge Quiroga (2001-2002)

By Coco Cuba AFP
LA PAZ Petroleumworld.com 09 05 06 - story

Chad to negotiate settlement with oil firms - Deby - story

Greenpeace files Spanish pollution action - story

Lebanon army nears border control after 40-year break: UN - story

Russia, Greece and Bulgaria to sign new pipeline agreement by year end - story

Oil price slides below 68 dollars in London - story

Iraq to provide Jordan with oil within 10 days - story

Chilean LNG group, BG close to final deal on imports: minister - story

Gazprom to finance German-Russian pipeline with cash, assets - story

Venezuela's fight for U.N. seat divides - story

Camisea's contract talks to finish soon - story

Latin America is the world's second largest source for oil reserves after the Middle East - story

Repsol threatens to sue Bolivian govt - story

Indonesia to propose OPEC maintain current quotas: Purnomo

AFP

Indonesia Energy and Mines Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro

Platts Jakarta
Petroleumworld.com 09 04 06 - story

Global economy to withstand impact
from Iran nuclear issue: Forbes

AFP SINGAPORE
Petroleumworld.com 09 04 06 - story

Lopez Obrador to fight to bitter end on Mexico vote - story

Toxic chemicals spill into Spanish river - story

Venezuela's power grab to erode big oil's profits, analysts say - story

Glencore wins bid to expand Colombia's oil refinery - story

BP scraps Colombian natural gas project due to high cost - story

Pemex needs to invest $18 billion in 2007, CEO says - story

New Lebanese oil slick soils Syrian shores - story

France, Saudi agree to boost defense links - story

Deputy leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq captured - story

Putin seeks to breathe life into stalled Balkan oil pipeline project - story

Iran sees Japan mega oil deal finalised in two weeks - story

Iran sees no OPEC quota change at September meeting - story

Chavez announces 2010 referendum; socialist Venezuela - story

Cuba's Castro on TV with Venezuela's Chavez - story

US Senator Obama talks Darfur and oil with Chad's President Deby - story

Oil prices slide as market discounts Iran sanctions - story

Lebanese worker freed by Nigeria kidnappers - story

Kazakh president's son-in-law calls for monarchy - story

Bush rejects Iraq withdrawal, warns Iran

AP Photo/Evan Vucci

President Bush gestures during a fundraiser for the reelection campaign of Sen Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006 in Salt Lake City.

By Olivier Knox AFP SALT LAKE CITY, Utah
Petroleumworld.com 09 01 06 - story

Chavez forges new-oil based partnership with Angola

REUTERS

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (L) and Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos shake hands during a welcoming ceremony in Luanda August 31, 2006.

AFP LUANDA
Petroleumworld.com 09 01 06 .- story

Oil prices firm as Iran crisis rumbles on - story

Hope and despair in the rubble of Lebanon's Bint Jbeil - story

UAE to host major oil conference in November - story

IMF agrees to boost voice of developing countries - story

Kadhafi says nobody can "steal power from the people" after son's comments - story

At UN, no immediate action on Iran's defiance - story

Kenya seeks millions in compensation for 2005 oil spill - story

Oil prices drift up as market mulls Iran situation - story

Petrobras optimistic on Bolivia - story