petroleumworld

Dec 1- 15

Enlarged OPEC aims for 60-dollar oil

By Adam Plowright AFP
ABUJA Petroleumworld.com 12 15 06 - story

OPEC to cut production by 500,000 bpd from February 1: minister

AFP ABUJA
Petroleumworld.com 12 14 06 - story

Oil prices rise as traders digest OPEC cut - story

Oil installation attacked in southern Nigeria - story

Washington and Caracas again on talking terms - story

OPEC widens influence with new member Angola - story

Exxon-led project in Russia to cost 19.3 billion dollars - story

IEA sends winter warning on oil prices to OPEC

AFP PARIS
Petroleumworld.com 12 14 06 - story

Oil prices soar after OPEC announces February output cut - story

Angola wins OPEC membership bid, to join from March 1: Qatar - story

2006 set to be sixth warmest on record: UN weather agency - story

OPEC agrees on need for cut, to decide on timing: minister - story

Venezuela seeking OPEC output cut of 500,000 bpd: minister - story

New Year's gas crisis looms for Russia's neighbors - story

Ahmadinejad predicts Israel
will disappear 'like USSR'

AFP TV

Iran 's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a press conference during a Holocaust conference in Tehran, December 12, 2006.

By Farhad Pouladi AFP
TEHRAN Petroleumworld.com 13 11 06 - story

Angola to become OPEC member
this week: Qatari minister

Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde

Angola's Minister of Petroleum, Desiderio da Graca Verissimo da Costa (L), speaks with an OPEC official after arriving in Nigeria's capital Abuja, December 12, 2006. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA)

By Adam Plowright AFP
ABUJA Petroleumworld.com 13 11 06 - story

Oil prices dip ahead of OPEC - story

Russia to deliver nuclear fuel to Iran - story

Gazprom, Shell 'close' to deal on Sakahalin-2: Medvedev - story

OPEC ministers gather for talks on oil output, Angola - story

E.ON, RWE, Vatenfall Europe confirm raids by EU Commission - story

Blair blasts Iran ahead of Middle East trip - story

Morales calls on military to prevent Bolivia from splitting - story

OPEC-10 Nov output was 665,000 b/d over 26.3 mil b/d target: EIA - story

OPEC comfortable with prices around $60/barrel: Kuwait minister - story

Anadarko outlines Venezuela asset sales - story

Venezuela offers Ecuador oil-refining help at summit heavy on energy talks - story

PDVSA placed 58 percent of oil exports in North America in 2004 - story

Iran calls for OPEC output cut at summit

AFP TEHRAN
Petroleumworld.com 12 11 06 - story

Venezuela and Brasil ratify joint
strategies for hydrocarbons

Brazilian president Lula Da Silva ( L) with
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez

Petroleumworld CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 12 11 06 - story

OPEC to weigh fall in dollar: UAE - story

Iran defies outcry with Holocaust forum - story

Kuwait signs security agreement with NATO - story

Japan presses Russia on mega-gas project - story

Japanese partners await Shell's lead on Russia's Sakhalin project - story

Biofuels seen as a luxury China cannot afford - story

Oil prices narrowly mixed on mild US weather, ahead of OPEC meeting - story

Nigeria, a country rich in oil yet mired in poverty - story

Gulf alarmed by 'confusion' of US ally - story

Oil prices fall on US weather forecasts ahead of OPEC meet - story

OPEC set to cut output amid carping over quotas

By Adam Plowright AFP
PARIS Petroleumworld.com 12 11 06 - story

Chile bids farewell to Pinochet

AFP/David Lillo

Supporters of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet hold a vigil in front of the Military School in Santiago where his body will lie in state. Riot police clashed with thousands of demonstrators late December 10 celebrating the death of Pinochet, as his body lay in a humble military school chapel.

By Gideon Long Reuters
SANTIAGO, Chile Petroleumworld.com 12 11 06 - story

Oil prices fall on mild US weather, before OPEC meet - story

Drilling begins for oil in Kenya - story

South American summit open despite Bolivia unrest - story

Oil prices fall on profit-taking despite Nigeria concerns - story

Russian oil firms overproducing by 10 percent: officials - story

Russia keeps foreign majors guessing on Shtokman gas project - story

OPEC likely to cut output by up to 1.5 million bpd: Indonesia - story

PetroVietnam may join Venezuela oil project - story

OPEC 'most likely' will agree new oil cut Dec 14: senior delegate - story

Venezuela sends power plants to ease Nicaraguan energy crisis - story

Foreign investors still welcome in Shtokman: Putin

AFP MOSCOW
Petroleumworld.com 12 08 06 - story

One killed, four kidnapped at
Italian oil facility in Nigeria

By Helen Vesperini AFP
LAGOS Petroleumworld.com 12 08 06 - story

Chevron initiates seismic activity for plataforma Deltana block 3 - story

Petrobras and PDVSA sign agreements extensions - story

Venezuela fire contained after gas pipeline blast - story

Bolivia: unrest won't stop South American summit - story

Oil prices mixed after Nigeria attack - story

Nigeria signs oil, gas deal with Equatorial Guinea - story

Lithuania wants Poland in nuclear project, Estonia, Latvia object - story

Chavez talks energy with Lula in Brazil - story

Iraq and Kurds fail to agree on budget, oil - story

Faced with GDF merger delay, Suez board must find a way forward - story

Oil to remain a key growth driver in Asia - story

Russia suspends licenses for Shell-run energy project firm - story

ICA Fluor wins a $90m contract for modular construction of offshore living quarters for PEMEX - story

Technip awarded contract by Ecopetrol for refinery in Colombia - story

World economy on track for another
year of strong growth in 2007

By Amelie Herenstein
AFP
PARIS
Petroleumworld.com 12 07 06 - story

Venezuelan, Brazilian presidents
to discuss energy agreements

Agencia Brazil

Lula da Silva ( left) and Hugo Chavez

Platts CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 12 07 06 - story

Oil prices nudge lower - story

White House cool to Chavez victory - story

Gazprom 'not optimistic' on gas talks with Belarus - story

Russia oil exports could decrease after 2025: minister - story

US energy stockpiles fall - story

Over 100 violations at Sakhalin-2 energy project: prosecutor - story

China's issues rules on opening of oil market - story

Putin drive to restore Russian power a source of concern: Gates - story

Petrobras wraps gas pipeline repair work up in the Sábalo Block, Bolivia - story

Occidental to shed oil holdings in Peru - story

PDVSA restarts Amuay cracker - story

Bolivia's president signs into law contracts nationalizing natural gas - story

Colombia: EEB won a bid to buy Ecogas - story

Petrobras in Tanzania production sharing oil deal - story

Tehran defiant as powers meet
on Iran nuclear sanctions

AFP PARIS
Petroleumworld.com 12 06 06 - story

World's largest oil consumers to
meet in Beijing December 15-16

By Takeo Kumagai Platts
Tokyo Petroleumworld.com 12 06 06 - story

Oil prices dip as market mulls OPEC moves, weather - story

Venezuela's re-elected Chavez vows socialism, doubt US intentions - story

Spain angry at prospect of Chavez sheltering ETA members - story

Venezuela president doubts Washington's offer of dialogue - story

Eni, Gazprom to swap stakes in production activities - story

CNPC to double gas supplies by 2010 - story

Energy security must be cornerstone of EU-Russia cooperation: Lithuania - story

US natural gas consumption to reach 26.1 Tcf in 2030: EIA - story

OPEC chief estimates oil
oversupply at one million bpd

AFP ABU DHABI
Petroleumworld.com 12 05 06 - story

Colombia launch its Caribbean Offshore Oil Round

Petroleumworld CARTAGENA
Petroleumworld.com 12 05 06 - story

General Assembly backs Kimberley to curb 'blood diamonds' - story

US should extend olive branch to Cuba: analysts - story

US foes welcome Chavez election, US offers cooperation - story

US offers hand of cooperation after firebrand Chavez reelected - story

Oil prices melt on warmer US weather - story

Russian gas production chief shot dead - story

Decisive electoral victory in Venezuela polls boosts Chavez's revolution - story

Record oil investments in Norway seen in 2006, 2007, and 2008 - story

Fifteen years after Soviet collapse, Kremlin recaptures Siberia's black gold - story

Bolivia nationalizes natural gas industry

AFP

Bolivian President Evo Morales, pictured 01 December 2006, issued a decree formalizing Bolivia's takeover of the natural gas industry, which he proclaimed as the final step in his country's "fight to reclaim its natural resources" from foreign investors.

AFP LA PAZ
Petroleumworld.com 12 04 06 - story

Chavez wins re-election, promises
'new democracy'

ABN

Chavez, proclaimed victory from the balcony of the presidential palace in Caracas.

By Patrick Moser AFP
CARACAS Petroleumworld.com 12 04 06 - story

Fifteen years after Soviet collapse, Kremlin recaptures Siberia's black gold - story

Oil prices lower in Asian trade