- VENEZUELA EMPHASIZES NATURAL GAS AS IT PURSUES FOREIGN ENERGY INVESTMENT
The search for new foreign capital brought Venezuelan energy leaders to Houston last week, where they implored U.S. companies to invest in the country's petroleum industry, especially in the development of its vastly unutilized natural gas resources. Under the 2000-2009 Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. business plan, outlined by officials of ......
- Offshore natural gas talks.
OFFSHORE NATURAL GAS TALKS. Trinidad and Venezuela will hold talks on how to divide offshore natural gas fields that a U.S.-based oil company seeks to develop, officials said, reports AP (Feb.16, 2006). Trinidadian Prime Minister Patrick Manning announced the talks in a joint news conference with Chevron Corp. CEO David ......
- Chavez promotes unlikely Caribbean
pipeline.
CARACAS -- On a visit to Puerto Rico, President Hugo Chavez promoted the construction of a gas pipeline between Venezuela and the island. However, the proposal has come too late because nearly all of the Puerto Rican market is supplied by exports from Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad has more than ......
- VENEZUELA - Gas E&P.
PDVSA produces the largest amount of natural gas in Venezuela, most of which is being re-injected into oilfields. There is limited participation in the gas sector by private firms. Repsol/YPF is the largest private gas producer in Venezuela, with an output of over 400 MCF/day, up from 337 MCF/d ......
- VENEZUELA - The Gas Sector.
Venezuela has 152 TCF of proven gas reserves, the second largest in the Western Hemisphere behind the US. In 2006, the country produced and consumed 1 TCF of natural gas. About 90% of Venezuela's gas reserves are associated. According to Enagas, the state regulator the gas sector, the petroleum ......
- Venezuela, Colombia agree to build
pipeline.
On July 14, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Colombian counterpart, Alvaro Uribe, signed an agreement to build a 177-km gas pipeline that will interconnect both nations. The project will first supply the western region of Venezuela with natural gas. Later, once the offshore natural gas production projects set forth ......
- VENEZUELA - The T&T Option.
The Chavez government has rejected proposals that, instead of the Sucre province location, a single 3m t/y Venezuelan LNG train be built in neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago next to T&T's 3.2m t/y LNG train which came on stream 1999. T&T's LNG venture is expanding rapidly, with a second train to ......