Halliburton has joined rival Schlumberger in curbing activity in Venezuela due to lack of payment during the oil industry’s worst financial crisis. “During the first quarter of 2016, we made the decision to begi...
Schlumberger will reduce activity in Venezuela after the world’s largest oil services provider failed to collect enough payments from the national oil company, FuelFix reported. The reduction will take place in April ...
Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA has launched one of its largest oil tenders ever, seeking to buy some 8m barrels of US or Nigerian light crude for delivery from April through June, according to a documen...
A key meeting between Latin American oil producers and exporters planned to unify the region in backing an output freeze or other measures to bolster prices, has been postponed due to scheduling difficulties, Ecuador&...
Venezuela’s state-run firm PDVSA faces around $5.2b in payments to bondholders in 2016, a sum that some experts say it will be hard-pressed to meet after the government used nearly all of its available cash rese...
Russia’s top oil producer Rosneft and Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA signed an agreement to set up a joint venture to develop natural gas in the South American country, Reuters reported. Each firm wil...
The global oil market has witnessed first coordinated move in years to boost crude prices. Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world’s two largest crude-oil exporters, said they would halt production increases as long as oth...
Venezuela and Saudi Arabia held talks about mutual cooperation between OPEC members to stabilize the global oil market, currently flooded with a surplus of 2mb/d, reported Reuters. Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister, A...
Venezuela has made four formal proposals to OPEC and non-OPEC states to hold talks in an attempt to summon a joint emergency meeting to tackle the continuously declining oil prices and stabilize the market, Reuters re...
In the wake of Venezuela’s call for an emergency OPEC meeting, Iran’s Oil Minister, Bijan Zanganeh, said that such a meeting would hurt the crude oil market, unless it reached a decision to shore up falling pric...