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April 26 -mayo 11

 

Week's Top Story


OTC: "There is plenty oil in the world' - Sandrea


Dr. Rafael Sandrea, president of IPC Petroleum Consultants Inc.

HOUSTON
Petroleumworld.com, May 8, 2008

There is no oil scarcity in the world, "there is plenty of oil in the world", Dr. Rafael Sandrea, president of IPC Petroleum Consultants Inc., a Tulsa base International consulting firm, speaking at a press conference at the OTC energy conference in Houston, on Wednesday, insisted.- story



Week´s Editorial Commentary

 

 

VenEconomy:
Destructive shows of bravado


Week`s Lagniappe

 

Sarah Knopp : Who will control Mexico's oil?

 


WEEKS'S TOP HEADLINES

Oil price strikes record 126.98 dollars



NEW YORK
Petroleumworld.com, May 14, 2008
- story

PDVSA and GALP to form joint
venture to development LNG plant


CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com, May 14, 2008
- story

Petroleumworld.com rated in top 100 energy sites - story

Norwegian island runs on wind power,
even when all is still

Statoil / G.Lindberg

The facility currently supplies 10 local households with electricity produced with wind power and hydrogen. When the wind blows strongly, the windmills provide enough power both for the houses and for an electrolyser.

UTSIRA, Norway
Petroleumworld.com, May 13, 2008
- story

Oil demand set to ease, high
prices turn on stockpiling: IEA




PARIS
Petroleumworld.com, May 13, 2008
- story

Chavez nationalizes biggest steelmaker

Reuters/Miraflores Palace

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (L) poses with steel workers at the nationalized Ternium Sidor steel plant in Puerto Ordaz May 12, 2008.

CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com, May 13, 2008
- story

Chavez says Colombia seeks
war with Venezuela


President Hugo Chavez


CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com, May 12, 2008
- story

OTC: PDVSA is acquiring for
the first time ever a new jack-up


Jack-up rig



HOUSTON
Petroleumworld.com, May 9, 2008
- story

US calls computer files linking Chavez
to FARC authentic: report

Reuters

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (R) and senior rebel
commander Ivan Marquez of the Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia (FARC) walk at Miraflores Palace in Caracas
November 8, 2007.


NEW YORK
Petroleumworld.com, May 9, 2008 b
- story

World oil prices strike fresh record




SINGAPORE
Petroleumworld.com, May 8, 2008
- story

OTC: Petrobras still evaluating
proposals in Venezuela



Petrobras/Barchfeld

Jose Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, president of Petrobra,
speaking at a press conference at the OTC energy conference in Houston



HOUSTON
Petroleumworld.com, May 7, 2008
- story

Oil records shattered
as price spike extends





NEW YORK
Petroleumworld.com, May 7, 2008
- story

OTC : Angola the new frontier

Rigzone

OTC 2008

HOUSTON
Petroleumworld.com, May 6, 2008
- story

New York oil price crosses
120 dollars for first time


AFP

Chart showing New York sweet light crude oil prices since May 2007. Oil prices crossed 120 dollars a barrel for the first time Monday following fresh unrest in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, and rising tensions
between the West and Iran.

NEW YORK
Petroleumworld.com, May 6, 2008
- story

Bolivian province votes for autonomy

AFP

Map of Bolivia, showing regional differences.

SANTA CRUZ
Petroleumworld.com, May 5, 2008 - story

Mexican oil production is a concern for U.S.


Mexicans protesting the propose changes in oil law

NEW ORLEANS
Petroleumworld.com, May 5, 2008- story

Bolivia seizes control of energy,
telecoms firms


Bolivia's President Evo Morales

LA PAZ
Petroleumworld.com, May 2, 2008 - story

Chavez calls for take-over
of Argentine-owned steel plant


President Hugo Chavez speaks during a meeting outside Miraflores Palace in Caracas April 13, 2008.

CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com, May 2, 2008 - story

ONS 2008: Press sees Norway from toe to tip
ONS

Journalists from the UK, US, Canada, Russia, Sweden,
Austria, Venezuela and Brazil took part in the ONS trip.

STAVANGER
Petroleumworld.com, April 30, 2008
- story

Bridging the energy gap is ONS 2006 theme,
from 22-25 August, in Stavanger, Norwa
y

Non-OPEC oil producers hampered
in efforts to boost output

PARIS
Petroleumworld.com, May 1, 2008 - story

Iran remains most active state
sponsor of terrorism: US

Reuters/Larry Downing

U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack briefs the press in the briefing room of the State Department in Washington

WASHINGTON
Petroleumworld.com, May 1, 2008 - story

OPEC might hold extraordinary
meeting over prices: Kuwait

KUWAIT
Petroleumworld.com, April 30, 2008 - story

'Biofuels frenzy' fuels global food crisis: experts

AFP/Vanderlei Almeida

A taxi driver refuels his car with biodiesel in Brazil. A "biofuels frenzy," and other misguided policies have led to the global food crisis in which rice consumption is outpacing production, threatening a billion people with malnutrition, experts said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON
Petroleumworld.com, April 30, 2008 - story

British oil refinery workers end strike

Reuters/David Moir

Striking oil refinery workers shout at INEOS chairman Jim Ratcliffe as he leaves a building on site during the second day of strike action at the INEOS oil refinery in Grangemouth, central Scotland on April 28, 2008.

GRANGEMOUTH, Scotland
Petroleumworld.com, April 29, 2008 - story

Saudi, Norway discuss stabilising oil market

Saudi press agency

Saudi King Abdullah welcomes Norway’s Foreign Minister
Jonas Gahr Stoere at the Royal Palace in Riyadh, April 28, 2008

RIYADH
Petroleumworld.com, April 29, 2008 - story

Lula to rich nations: 'Stop your hypocrisy,'
buy Brazil biofuel


Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

BRASILIA
Petroleumworld.com, April 28, 2008 - story

Venezuela and Iran agree to boost cooperation



CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com, April 28, 2008
- story

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WSJ Further Exposes Chávez's Deep
Collaboration with FARC:
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FARC guerrilla commander Luis Edgar Devia Silva, better known
by his alias Raul Reyes with his computer.

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