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US Treasury allows Chevron to resume oil production in Venezuela, delivery to US only

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The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued Venezuela General License (GL) 41 , authorizing Chevron Corporation to resume limited natural resource extraction operations in Venezuela. This authorization prevents PdVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.) 41, whichever is later.

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PDVSA signs $4B loan agreement with China Development Bank for expansion of heavy oil production in Orinoco

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Venezuela will also receive two other loans from China: one for $1.5 billion dollars to promote projects for local refineries and the other one for $500 million dollars that will be used to purchase drills and Chinese oil equipment. China and Venezuela are developing Orinoco blocks Junin 1, 4 and 8; Boyaca 4 and MP3. Schenk C.J.,

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EIA: nearly 69% of US crude oil imports in 2011 originated from 5 countries; Canada alone accounted for 25%

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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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Platts: June OPEC output of 32.73M barrels of crude per day, highest since Aug. 2008

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Venezuela acted as a check on the overall level though, as the crisis-hit country’s production continues to hit fresh lows. Polish refiner Grupa Lotos bought a one-off test purchase of 2 million barrels of Iranian light crude recently, and Europe has returned as a key destination for Iranian crude.

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Electric cars to account for 64 per cent of car sales by 2030

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This level of adoption is made possible by the lower purchase price and reduced per-mile driving cost of electric cars with switchable batteries as compared to gasoline-powered cars. million barrels per day, equivalent to the amount currently imported daily from the Persian Gulf region and Venezuela. light-vehicle fleet by 2030.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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Venezuela, an OPEC member, has even proposed an emergency summit meeting. While the sharp decline in crude prices has saved crude consuming nations hundreds of billions of dollars, the loss in revenues has caused crude exporting countries intense economic and financial pain.

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US Lifted The Crude Oil Export Ban, And Exports Went Down

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oil, purchasing some 300,000 barrels of U.S. crude oil is Venezuela. In early February, Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA imported a 550,000-barrel cargo of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) through its U.S. In Asia, even China’s state-run Sinopec—the world’s second-largest refiner—has imported a consignment of U.S.

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