Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

The Venezuelan national petroleum company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. According to Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ), Venezuela had 211 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in 2011, the second largest the world. billion barrels in 2010, due to the the inclusion of the massive reserves of extra-heavy oil in Venezuela’s Orinoco belt.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2013

PetroJunín, joint venture formed by PDVSA (60%) and Eni (40%), has started production from the Junín-5 giant heavy oil field, located in the Faja del Orinoco—the area with the largest untapped hydrocarbon reserves in the world, according to Eni.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Venezuelan state oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, SA (PdVSA), has signed agreements with two major Indian energy companies, Reliance and OVL, for work in Venezuela’s Orinoco heavy oil belt. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and PDVSA signed a Joint Study Agreement for Ayacucho Block 8 in Orinoco Oil Belt.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2012

The amount of crude oil the United States imported from its top five foreign suppliers—Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria—increased slightly during 2011, even though total US crude oil imports fell to their lowest level in 12 years, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Crude oil imports of 1.1

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2013

Venezuela’s PDVSA signed a $4.0-billion, Venezuela will also receive two other loans from China: one for $1.5 China and Venezuela are developing Orinoco blocks Junin 1, 4 and 8; Boyaca 4 and MP3. PDVSA holds a majority 64.25% stake in the Sinovensa JV; CNPC owns the remaining 35.75% stake. Schenk C.J., Charpentier, R.R.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and Venezuela’s PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela SA) will invest about $14 billion to develop the Junin 10 block in the Orinoco extra heavy oil belt in Venezuela, according to a tweet sent out by Rafael Ramirez, the Venezuelan petroleum minister. degree API crude to upgraded crude of 35.7

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2010

Venezuela state-owned PDVSA and Italy-based Eni are finalizing a planned 60:40 joint venture to produce heavy crude oil in Junin Block 5 in the Orinoco Oil Belt in Venezuela in 2014. Venezuela contains billions of barrels in extra-heavy crude oil and bitumen deposits, most in the Orinoco Belt in central Venezuela.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Eni has been present in Venezuela since 1998. In Venezuela, Eni is also co-operator of Cardon IV, the operating company that manages the Perla gas field, the reserves of gas in place of which are estimated at about 480 billion cubic meters (3.1 The pipeline is 25 km (15.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2013

Rosneft’s President and Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin and Venezuelan Oil Minister and PDVSA President Rafael Ramirez, in the presence of the President Vladimir Putin, signed a cooperation agreement for implementation of offshore projects in Venezuela. Total reserves are estimated at 21 trillion cubic feet.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Until you see what our counterparts in Venezuela are paying for gas--with the nation''s subsidies, drivers pay a nominal 5 cents per gallon.' If you have friends in Europe, you might have heard them complaining of gas prices topping $8 per gallon. It''s certainly enough to make you feel better about the average $3.60

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2014

Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2022

For that reason, crude oil production that is offline in Iran, Libya, Venezuela, and now Russia, is excluded from surplus capacity estimates.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. PDVSA), the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. EPA further alleged that CITGO failed to sample and test reformulated gasoline blendstock at its Lemont refinery, as required by the CAA. CITGO is owned by PDV America, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Rosneft, the leader of Russia’s petroleum industry and majority owned (75.6%) by the state, and PDVSA, Venezuela’s state-owned oil and gas company, have signed a tentative memorandum of understanding (MoU) to set up a joint venture to develop heavy crude oil reserves in Venezuela as part of the Carabobo-2 project.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2014

Because production levels from Iran, Libya, and Sudan and South Sudan dropped since 2011, China replaced the lost shares of crude oil and other liquids imports from these countries with imports from Oman, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Angola, Venezuela, and Russia.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Ford Explorer is built in North America at Chicago Assembly Plant, as well as in Venezuela and now, Russia. An active wastegate controls boost more precisely during light load operation to help save fuel. A higher compression ratio results in more efficient fuel combustion. It is sold in more than 100 markets across the globe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Although crudes derived from the Canadian oil sands are more carbon-intensive than the average oil refined in the United States, they are within the range of some other crude oils produced, imported, or refined in the United States, including crudes from Venezuela, Nigeria, Iraq, and California heavy oil production, according to the report.

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Electrek

JULY 11, 2024

The 2024 hurricane season is here, and we’ve already had our first record-breaking hurricane in Beryl, which caused billions in damage and deaths in Texas, Grenada, Venezuela and nearby areas. Importantly, climate change helped this storm break these records and do so much damage.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Renewed disruptions in Libya and smaller drops in Nigeria, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela more than offset higher output in Iran, Iraq and Angola. OPEC crude supply fell by 160 kb/d in November to 29.73 mb/d, its fourth consecutive monthly decline. Global refinery crude runs plunged to 73.6

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Canada is the largest supplier of foreign oil to the United States, followed by Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and Venezuela. The vast majority of Canada’s reserves and the expected future growth in Canada’s liquids production will derive from unconventional resources. Almost 99% of Canadian oil exports are sent to the US market.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2010

GM South America includes GM’s existing sales and manufacturing operations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela as well as sales activities in those countries and Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. Ardila becomes president, GM South America and will report to GM Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2015

With the huge reduction in its revenues and growing discomfort among its members such as Venezuela, Libya and Nigeria over its current production levels, is OPEC really getting weaker? Containing some of the largest proven oil and gas reserves in the world, Venezuela is one of the founding members of OPEC. Nigeria’s dilemma.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The ‘Fragile Five’ petrostates—Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria and Venezuela—continue to see supply disruption potential, with northern Iraq crude exports at risk due to an escalation of tensions between the (Kurdistan Regional Government), Baghdad and Turkey, while the United States has decertified the 2015 Iran nuclear deal,” U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

OPEC registered zero growth as production in the Arab Gulf countries were offset by losses in Iran and Venezuela due to geopolitical issues. In 2018, global oil reserves rose slightly (+0.4%), mainly due to growth in the US. also rose in Brazil and Norway. Source: Eni World Oil Review 2019.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2011

This follows the completion of the deal announced last October in which BP’s existing partner, PdVSA of Venezuela, agreed to sell its 50% interest in the joint venture to Rosneft. Rosneft has joined BP as a new partner in BP’ German refining joint venture, Ruhr Oel GmbH (ROG). The deal became effective from 1 May 2011.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

Comprising countries such as Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Venezuela, the Heavy Oil Working Group will collaborate on clean energy research to reduce the impact of fossil fuel development.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

In addition, GM Daewoo provides market and brand-specific vehicle kits for assembly at GM facilities in China, Thailand, India, Colombia and Venezuela. It has five manufacturing facilities in Korea as well as an assembly facility in Vietnam. In 2008, GM Daewoo sold in Korea and exported more than 1.9

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). The Top 10 companies in this year’s rankings are: Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia. National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC). China National Petroleum Company (CNPC). ExxonMobil, US. Royal Dutch Shell, Netherlands/UK. Rosneft, Russia. Gazprom, Russia. Total, France.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Then we have Venezuela, where production costs hover just over $23 per barrel on average, but where disaster is imminent. For Venezuela, the breakeven point is particularly elusive because the country’s oil is very heavy and very dirty —and thus very expensive to extract and refine. Venezuela is already on its knees.

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Teslarati

JULY 30, 2024

Elon Musk has found himself on the crosshairs of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, who recently dubbed the Tesla CEO as an “arch-enemy” of the country. Venezuela recently held its presidential election, and on Sunday, Maduro was declared the winner with about 51% of the vote by the National Electoral Council. You want a fight?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2011

Hovensa LLC, a joint venture between subsidiaries of Hess Corporation and Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., and the owner of the second-largest petroleum refinery in the United States, has agreed to pay a civil penalty of more than $5.3

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Today on Green Car Reports: We look at what could raise fuel efficiency in the next Ford F-150 pickup truck, we run down electric motorcycle options this year, and cheer the passing of Venezuela''s soon-to-vanish gas price: 5 cents per gallon. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The Gas Exporting Countries Forum is an international governmental organization of 20 Member Countries—Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Angola, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Norway, Oman, Peru, and the United Arab Emirates—which jointly control 71% (..)

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Cars That Think

APRIL 29, 2024

Cisco Certification Opened Doors Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, Contrera says her first introduction to technology came from playing video games with her older brother. At the time, Venezuela was going through a period of political unrest. That gave me a lot of freedom to put my knowledge into practice.”

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So a friend-group that included a computer science major from China, an AI-focused management science and engineering (MSE) major from Russia, and a business-oriented MSE major from Venezuela isn't an anomaly. He's the member of the trio from Venezuela.) "And And then came the pandemic.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

But you may wish you were in Caracas, Venezuela, where enormous government subsidies cut the price to a ridiculous 6 cents per gallon. What did you pay for gasoline the last time you filled up? If you're in the U.S., probably about $2.70 per gallon. Yep, six pennies. And you may thank your stars you're not in Asmara, Eritrea, where taxes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

It brings an additional cause of concern for global energy security at a time of heightened geopolitical risks in some major producer countries, such as Venezuela, the IEA said. This sharp slowdown in activity in the conventional oil sector was the result of reduced investment spending driven by low oil prices.

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