petroleumworld

Nov 16 - 30

Iraq, US leaders rush to save foundering nation

AP Photo/Sabah Arar, Pool

Coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006. US and Iraqi forces have killed or captured at least 7,000 al-Qaida fighters in the last two years and 30 senior leaders were taken out of action since July, said the US military spokesman.

By Paul Schemm AFP
BAGHDAD Petroleumworld.com 11 29 06 - story

A Brazilian court suspended
the oil licensing round Tuesday

Petroleumworld RIO
Petroleumworld.com 11 29 06 - story

Oil prices at three-week highs on cold weather, OPEC - story

Shadow of Russia looms large over NATO summit - story

Leftist declared official winner of Ecuador presidential vote - story

Gazprom turns towards Asia as EU problems grow: executive - story

Russian energy giants sign vast partnership deal - story

Ecuador elects latest Latin
American leftist to presidency

AFP/Paul Navarrete

Ecuadorean presidential candidate Rafael Correa waves to supporters celebrating his victory in the run-off presidential election in Quito. Correa, joined the tide of leftist leaders elected to office in Latin America, according partial results of Ecuador's run-off presidential election.

By Patrick Moser AFP
QUITO Petroleumworld.com 11 28 06 - story

PDVSA says "operational event"
hits Amuay hydrodesulfurizer

File

Platts CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 11 28 06 - story

Cuba rumbles out military flair amid the uncertainty over Castro - story

Iberdrola to buy Scottish Power for 11.6 billion pounds - story

Scandal-hit AWB's former money man vows to fight charges - story

Crude prices gain in Asian trade on geopolitical worries - story

US ambassador congratulates leftist for apparent win in Ecuador - story

Qatar condensate refinery gets new Japanese shareholders - story

Oil prices climb as Saudi Arabia hints at OPEC cut - story

Iraq's northern oil center in flames after attack - story

Bolivian government, opposition at loggerheads over reforms - story

Petrobras begins oil exploration in Mozambique by March 2007 - story

Ecuador's Correa rejects energy nationalization-aide - story

PetroFalcon : Vinccler, announces presidential transfer decree for PetroCumarebo jv - story

Bolivia expects Brazil agreement on gas prices in two weeks - story

Leftist Correa celebrates victory
in Ecuador's presidential election

AP

Rafael Correa ( left) and Alvaro Noboa

By Patrick Moser AFP
QUITO Petroleumworld.com 11 27 06 - story

Chavez ends campaining with Caracas rally

Reuters

Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
flood Caracas's centre streets during Chavez's
closing campaign rally in Caracas November
26, 2006. Venezuela's presidential election
will be held December3, 2006

AFP, CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 11 27 06 - story

Rosales gaining momentum as
Venezuela campaign winds down

sinmordaza.net.
More than a millon Venezuelans jammed a major highway Saturday to show their support for opposition's only presidential candidate Manuel Rosales, vowing to vote the incumbent President Hugo Chavez out of office in Dec. 3 elections.

By Elio Ohep, Petroleumworld
CARACAS, Petroleumworld.com 11 26 06 - story

Crude prices gain in Asian trade on hints of further OPEC cuts - story

Ecuadorans vote; leftist Chavez friend, conservative tycoon vie for presidency - story

Council of Europe should probe Russian spy's death: German official - story

Nissan to launch electric cars in three years: report - story

British conference on globalization draws US treasury secretary as star speaker - story

Technip shares soar on mooted bid by Italian oil group ENI - story

World oil prices climb after new attack in Nigeria - story

Russian regulators seek to
withdraw 140 oil/gas licenses

AFP
MOSCOW
Petroleumworld.com 11 24 06 - story

OPEC rivals set to pump more oil next yr

The Peninsula QATAR
Petroleumworld.com 11 24 06 - story

Oil lower in Asian trade after US Thanksgiving holiday - story

Leftist raises specter of fraud as Ecuador's presidential campaigns wrap up - story

Nigeria to stay tough over hostage-takers despite Briton's death - story

World oil prices remain under pressure - story

Europe should push Russia on rights: watchdog - story

Ecuadoran candidate jokes about Bush's alleged ties to bin Laden clan - story

Romania boosts Black Sea as energy transit region for EU - story

EU energy ministers meeting hit by power blackout - story

Noboa: Bible-thumping anti-communist banana magnate, presidential hopeful - story

Ecuador's Correa: leftist Christian or communist devil? - story

Russia blamed for mysterious death of former spy Litvinenko - story

Worst bombing in Baghdad since war kills 152 - story

YPFB, Brazil's Petrobras yet to agree on new gas price - story

Venezuela's private oil sector shrinks for three consecutive quarters - story

OPEC to approve new oil cut: Venezuela

AFP CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 11 23 06 - story

US, Colombia ink free trade accord

Aljazeera Net

President Bush is seeking Congressional approval for trade pacts with several countries

AFP WASHINGTON
Petroleumworld.com 11 23 06 - story

India, China can dominate next century, Hu Jintao says - story

Huge crowds gather for funeral of slain Lebanon minister - story

Iran vows to press on with Arak reactor - story

Russian ex-spy's condition worsens as objects found in intestine - story

Boom or new bubble? Internet stocks are red hot again - story

Al Jazeera's US face feeling like the 'belle of the ball' - story

British oil worker hostage killed, Italian injured - story

Crude prices fall as US inventories increase - story

Gazprom in talks with BP over possible gas trading joint venture - story

Atlantic end of Panama Canal closed briefly Tuesday on high winds - story

Mexico's Gulf oil ports reopen, Salina Cruz still shut - story

Chavez opponent to seek more private investment in oil - story

Petrobras to add 480,000 b/d in crude output capacity in 2007:CEO - story

Political crisis deepens in Bolivia - story

Colombia's Congress in favor of Ecopetrol sale - story

In Venezuela, it's support Chavez — or else - story

US could bomb Iran nuclear sites in 2007: analysts

By Jerome Bernard AFP
WASHINGTON Petroleumworld.com 11 22 06 . - story

Oil prices too high, no need for Opec cut: IEA chief

AP /Katsumi Kasahara

Claude Mandil, executive director of International Energy Agency,
speaks to reporters at a press conference in Tokyo Friday, Nov. 10, 2006.

Middle East Business News Brussels
Petroleumworld.com 11 22 06 story

Oil prices rise over 60 dollars on Alaska supply outage - story

Organized crime 'everywhere' in Russian energy sector: prosecutor - story

Suez-GDF merger faces delay until February - story

Endesa tells shareholders to wait for E.ON's improved takeover bid - story

UN atomic agency defers decision on Iran reactor: diplomats - story

Gazprom executive seeks to assure over gas supplies - story

Bush warns Syria, Iran after Lebanon killing - story

Bunker demand surges in Houston ahead of US holiday weekend - story

Russia's Gazprom says ready to compete EU gas market - story

Saudi Arabia is the sole OPEC
member cutting production: CGES

AFP LONDON
Petroleumworld.com 11 21 06 - story

EU has no external energy policy: Solana

AP / Virginia Mayo

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana speaks with the media on arrival for a meeting of EU foreign and defense ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels, Monday Nov. 13, 2006.

AFP BRUSSELS
Petroleumworld.com 11 21 06 .- story

Crude prices rally on talk of new OPEC output cut - story

Debate intensifies over US troop options in Iraq - story

IAEA likely to block aid for Iran nuclear reactor - story

Freeport-McMoRan to acquire Phelps Dodge - story

Oil futures slip further on OPEC uncertainty - story

OPEC struggles to halt price sag but with mixed results - story

Chirac to lead signing ceremony on international test reactor - story

Russian Evraz to buy US group Oregon Steel Mills - story

Defiant Iran vows to expand nuclear work - story

OPEC likely to approve production cut in December: Daukoru - story

Fitch affirms PDVSA corporate at 'BB-'; outlook stable - story

Killings and Threats Rattle Journalists in Venezuela - story

Venezuela bids for stake in Curacao's refinery - story

OPEC should wait before studying output cut: Barkindo

Rodrigo Arangua/AFP

Acting OPEC secretary general Mohammed Barkindo arrives for the 141st Extraordinary Meeting of OPEC in Caracas in May 2006. Barkindo has said in Tehran that the cartel would have to wait several weeks before examining a new production cut to support oil prices.

AFP TEHRAN
Petroleumworld.com 11 20 06 - story

World economic leaders call for energy reforms as protesters kept at bay

AFP/William West

Policemen baton protesters attempting to break through barriers as masked anti-globalisation protestors hurled bottles and dustbins at police, attacked newsmen and tried to scale barricades in skirmishes around the G20 finance summit being held in Melbourne

By David Brooks AFP
MELBOURNE Petroleumworld.com 11 20 06 - story

Lopez Obrador to launch alternative
government in Mexico - story

Peru's FM tries to patch up with Japan - story

Regional governors break with Bolivian government - story

Oil futures slip - story

Kuwait to start gas production by end-2007 - story

Oil and debt relief bring economic hope to Mauritania - story

Chile's Bachelet congratulates France's Royal on presidential bid - story

Tata Steel boss caught off-guard by CSN bid for Corus: report - story

PKN Orlen buy out of Lithuania's Mazeikiu due on December 14: Polish PM - story

Four years after Spain's worst oil slick, risk seen high as ever - story

Violent clashes at meeting of world economic chiefs - story

China, Japan seek 'concrete results' at NKorea's nuclear talks - story

Putin holds diplomatic, energy cards at APEC summit - story

Oil prices mixed as OPEC's next moves debated - story

Nigerian opposition call for oil scandal probe - story

Lukoil to refine Venezuelan crude in the US - story

OPEC's Daukoru: Around $60.00 a barrel isn't high enough to encourage investment

Reuters

Edmund Daukoru, OPEC's President and Nigeria's oil minister

Petroleumworld CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 11 17 06 - story

Russia's Gazprom, Lukoil plan joint
venture for foreign expansion

AFP MOSCOW
Petroleumworld.com 11 17 06 - story

NY oil prices drop to lowest levels in a year - story

Nobel winner Friedman influenced Reagan, Thatcher economics - story

Ex-KGB agents secure hold in Russian business world - story

UN, Nigerian state sign deal to prevent unrest in volatile Niger Delta - story

France says proposed carbon tax is making headway - story

E.ON bid for Endesa approved by Spanish market regulator - story

Top Gazprom manager fired amid pre-election power struggle: reports - story

Repsol third quarter net profit falls due to tighter margins - story

Daukoru says DPR chief 'redeployed' to his office, denies arrest - story

Gazprom says Russia has no plans to form gas cartel - story

Poll/US : Chavez losing poll
in Venezuela and influence

Public Opinion Poll, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates.
Dr. Douglas E. Schoen, November 15th, 2006

By Elio Ohep PETROLEUMWORLD
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 11 16 06 - story

OPEC slightly increases estimate of world oil demand

By Michael Adler AFP
VIENNA Petroleumworld.com 11 16 06 - story

Repsol third quarter net profit falls due to tighter margins - story

Crude prices flat in Asian trade after surprise drop in US distillates - story

Enron's ex-chief accounting officer gets 66 months in prison - story

Oil prices climb as US heating fuel reserves plunge - story

Navy officers kill two attackers at Shell facility in Nigeria - story

Al-Jazeera English hits airwaves to take on Western giants - story

EU chief defends bloc's emissions trading scheme - story

Poland continues to block EU-Russia deal - story

Venezuela adds 6,000 barrels a day in new production in two new wells in lake Maracaibo area - story

Iran pressing ahead with enrichment - IAEA

AFP

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seen here addressing the press, said Iran's long-term target should be to install 60,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium, insisting the fuel is for civilian energy production only.

By Michael Adler AFP
VIENNA Petroleumworld.com 11 5 06 - story

Russia reiterates refusal to sign on to EU energy pact

AFP/Yuri Kadobnov

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech on the Red Square in Moscow, in 2005

AFP MOSCOW
Petroleumworld.com 11 15 06 .- story