(Oil Price) – China, the biggest buyer of oil from Venezuela, saw trade with Venezuela stall on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday 25% tariffs on the goods of any country buying Venezuelan oil. Traders and refiners in China were caught off guard by Monday’s executive order and are waiting to see whether Beijing will have some direction on the
(Investing) – LONDON – Oil prices rose on Tuesday for a fifth day on expectations that global supply may tighten after the U.S. announced tariffs on countries that buy Venezuelan crude, although OPEC+ plans to go ahead with an output hike in May limited gains. Brent crude futures were up 46 cents, or 0.6%, at $73.46 a barrel by 1023 GMT.
(Oil Price) – President Donald Trump is considering extending Chevron’s sanction waiver for Venezuela, which he earlier this year refused to do, letting the waiver lapse, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with developments. Per the report, the possibility of extending the waiver arose during Trump’s meeting with oil and gas executives in the White House on Wednesday.
(Oil Price) – PDVSA, the state oil firm of Venezuela, will continue to produce alone crude from its joint ventures with Chevron after the Trump Administration axed the U.S. supermajor’s license to operate in the South American country, Reuters reports, citing a PDVSA document it has seen. At the end of February, U.S. President Donald Trump canceled a sanction waiver for Chevron that allowed
(Oil Price) – Petronas has launched a process to potentially sell its interest in a Vaca Muerta joint venture which would see Malaysia’s national oil and gas firm exit the Argentinian shale region, sources with knowledge of the matter have told Bloomberg. Petronas has already held discussions with a potential buyer about a sale of its 50% stake in La Amarga Chica
(World Oil) – Venezuelan oil contractors are continuing their work with Chevron Corp. and have not been warned of an impending shutdown despite a U.S. government deadline to stop producing oil there by early April. Local service companies working for three of Chevron’s joint ventures with state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA have not slowed down work, according to five people
(World Oil) – Ecuador President Daniel Noboa’s plan to revitalize the nation’s biggest oil field is crumbling as he scrambles to secure re-election weeks before a runoff vote. Since striking a deal last year to hand Ecuador’s Sacha field to Sinopetrol, an obscure consortium of foreign oil companies, Noboa has faced mounting criticism over his handling of the deal. His
(Oil Price) – ExxonMobil’s eighth oil project offshore Guyana will also be the biggest natural gas development of the Exxon-led consortium in the prolific Stabroek Block. Exxon and its partners in Guyana’s oil projects, U.S. Hess Corp and CNOOC of China, expect to produce up to 1.5 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) of natural gas and 290,000 barrels per day
(World Oil) – Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has ordered a consortium seeking to take over the nation’s top oil asset to pay an entry fee of $1.5 billion by March 11, moving up the deadline by more than three weeks. Noboa has warned he will cancel the deal without the early payment. “The motive is simple: If they don’t respond with
(Investing) – WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration said on Tuesday it is ending a license that it had granted to U.S. oil producer Chevron (NYSE:CVX) since 2022 to operate in Venezuela and export its oil, after Washington accused President Nicolas Maduro of not making progress on electoral reforms and migrant returns. Chevron will have through April 3 to wind
(Oil Price) – Norway’s energy major Equinor has held early talks to sell stakes in Argentinian shale operations to Argentina’s state-owned oil firm YPF, its joint venture partner in the assets, Bloomberg reports, quoting an unnamed source with knowledge of the development. Equinor, which entered Argentina in the 2010s, has both offshore and onshore interests in the South American country. Onshore, the Norwegian oil
(World Oil) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to revoke an oil license to operate in Venezuela, citing the country’s failure to take back migrants to the U.S. as quickly as it promised. The U.S. president referred to a concession agreement from November 2022, which would match the date that Chevron Corp. was granted a license to produce and
