BloombergMan Who Ran Venezuelan Oil Giant for Decade Predicts Fast DemiseBloombergDuring Ramirez's time as head of the company, output dropped about 10 percent. It has slumped more than 30 percent since he left, especially over the past two years as th …

BloombergMan Who Ran Venezuelan Oil Giant for Decade Predicts Fast ...BloombergRafael Ramirez, the once all-powerful Venezuelan oil czar, says the state producer he ran for almost 10 years is on the brink of collapse.Platts: Venezuela's Oil Production …

ReutersVenezuela to open criminal probe of ex oil czar Ramirez: prosecutorReuters“We have decided to open a criminal investigation ... of Rafael Ramirez, ex Oil Minister and (ex) President of PDVSA,” said Prosecutor Tarek Saab in a televised address. He sa …

Norway reduces oil riskIPE.comI don't think anyone expected the fund to ever reach a trillion dollars when the first transfer of oil revenue was made in May 1996,” Yngve Slyngstad, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, wrote following the announcem …

XinhuaCNPC reports new oil field discovery in northwestern ChinaFinancial TimesChina's largest energy group has discovered a new oil field in the country's northwestern reaches with more than 500m tonnes of crude reserves after more than a decade o …

BloombergVenezuela Arrests Former Oil Heads as Maduro Widens PurgeBloombergBut Maduro has seized control of a deeply troubled nation, subject to international sanctions and riven by conflict and hunger as the oil profits remain insufficient. “It's stra …

Seeking AlphaHow To Play Rising Oil PricesSeeking AlphaOil prices have risen 40% in the last five months, but this is just the beginning. I expect oil equities to outperform the major indices in 2018. In this article, I propose a diversified way to play th …

Reuters.comVenezuela arrests ex-oil bosses for graft in widening purgeReuters.comMaduro has promised a vast anti-corruption purge to cleanse the oil industry of “mafias.” Some 65 executives have been detained so far, panicking PDVSA workers, depriving Vene …

ReutersVenezuela arrests ex-oil bosses for graft in widening purgeReutersMaduro has promised a vast anti-corruption purge to cleanse the oil industry of “mafias.” Some 65 executives have been detained so far, panicking PDVSA workers, depriving Venezuela&#3 …

Voice of AmericaUS Asks China To Cut Off Oil Supply To North KoreaOilPrice.comChina should cut off North Korea's access to crude oil following the latest missile launch from Pyongyang, and Washington has asked it to do just that, the U.S. ambassador to …