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volume 13, Issue #17,  Tuesday, September 23, 2008

• Production at Petrobras remains stable
• Cantarell's July output lowest since 1995
• No private involvement in talks for pre-salt layer oil exploitation in Brazil
• Peru government issues emergency decree to guarantee supply
• Venezuelan MTBE export ban limits options for US producers
• Brazil's first LNG terminal inaugurated in Ceara
• Revenues from pre-salt oil reserves in Brazil to stay with government
• Petrobras to invest $ 31 bn in new refineries
• Brazil's energy consumption grows 6.1 % in July
• Venezuela promises to meet Paraguay's energy needs
• Peru reports on July oil/products output
• Pemex production to come from new fields
• Petrobras to double drilling rigs operating by 2017
• PdVSA to look for light crude in four states
• Argentina's exports of crude and refined products down 60 % in 10 years
• Petrobras to increase oil output by 460,000 bpd this year
• Pemex increases budget and number of oil rigs

volume 13, Issue #16,  Thursday, September 04, 2008

• Vietnam and Venezuela boost oil cooperation
• Nigeria overtakes Venezuela in oil exports to US
• Trinidad and Tobago has nothing to fear from PetroCaribe
• Petrobras agrees to new oil deal with Ecuador
• Bolivia and Venezuela bolster gas cooperation
• Petrobras to spend $ 6.8 bn on its refineries
• Pemex study unveils need for additional refineries and pipelines
• Argentina and Venezuela sign agreements
• Venezuelan navy to explore for oil and gas
• Thank you, President Chavez
• Opening Pemex to some private investment would help the country
• Mexico expects Cantarell output to fall to 1 mm bpd by end-2008
• Trinidad and Tobago to provide expertise to Ghana' petroleum industry
• Enap and PetroEcuador look for gas in Gulf of Guayaquil
• Oil rights auction in Barbados includes Venezuelan waters
• Mexican voters resist foreign investment in Pemex
• Petrobras starts commercial biodiesel production
• Ecuador and Venezuela to raise output at Sacha oil field
• Petrobras starts production at Biquara 1 platform
• Dominican leader wants oil-rich nations to help poor states

volume 13, Issue #15,  Friday, August 22, 2008

• The upside and downside risks of Venezuela's oil-led foreign policy
• Venezuela and Belarus sign oil deal
• Ryder Scott audit reveals 13 years of gas reserves in Trinidad and Tobago
• ECOWAS seeks collaboration with Trinidad and Tobago
• Russia and Venezuela strengthen energy ties
• Chile to invest $ 300 mm to explore for oil and gas
• Argentina to increase power and gas prices by 20 %
• Venezuela may help Iran with extra heavy oil production
• Venezuela increases Caribbean cheap oil deal
• Ecuador looks to Iran and China in new oil refinery project
• Mexico's Cantarell oilfield reduces production
• Ecuador and Venezuela enter oil pact
• New Hampshire will accept free oil from Chavez after all
• PetroCaribe oil alliance invites Costa Rica to join
• Petrobras reports on June overall gas and oil output
• PetroCaribe members received 59 mm barrels of oil since 2005
• Russia registers Mexican heavy crude upgrading patent
• Chavez assigns oil block to PetroCaribe countries
• Brazil to sell oilfields at auction
• Brazil may increase country's oil stake after review of deposit rules

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