OGPSS - Venezuela after Hugo Chavez

With the death of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez the future production, and exports of Venezuelan crude are gaining a little new atten...

OGPSS - Production from Venezuela and new customers for them

Last week I wrote a little about the planned production of heavy oil from the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela and used that as the basis for a d...

OGPSS - Venezuela, heavy crudes, API gravity and refinery gains

Because the world market is increasingly having to accommodate crudes that are heavier and less easy to refine into desirable, profitable pr...

P17. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Well that’s a turn up for the book, Cesar Chavez is looking for help in the Venezuelan oilfields. W...