Below is a “Special Reprint of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly for The Global Barrel”–I was quoted in three EIG articles last week.
A special thanks to James Bourne, Energy Intelligence’s Senior Editor for Latin America. James is moving on to new challenges in Singapore His frequent calls with probing questions and insightful analysis of Venezuela and Latin America will be sorely missed here!! Una buena despidida – mucho éxito en todo!
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Posted in Chavez, Chavez legacy, Chavezsuccession cancer, Faja of the Orinoco, heavy oil, Hugo Chávez, PDVSA, PDVSA weakness, Venezuela update, Venezuelan elections, Venezuelan Nationalism, Venezuelan weak institutions
Tagged Business and Economy, energy intelligence, Hugo Chávez, James Bourne, Latin America, Nicolás Maduro, Social Sciences, South America, United States, Venezuela
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On Thursday, the lead headline story in the WSJ asserted “New Cracks in Oil Cartel: OPEC Fails to Agree on Production Boost Amid Rising Saudi-Iran Tensions.” The “cracks” may have widened at this meeting, but they are hardly “new.” Continue reading
Posted in OPEC
Tagged Ali Al-Naimi, Business and Economy, geopolitics, Iran, MENA, Middle East, Northampton Massachusetts, oil rents, OPEC, Persian Gulf, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United States, Wall Street Journal
