Monthly Archives: January 2012

I know you guys love this stuff, so I’ll post it even though it’s pretty much fish in a barrel. El Universal today: Electricity system will have an additionsl 4,000 megawatts in 2012 Caracas.- The departing minister of Popular Power … Continue reading →

* by “rich” I mean “scammed and turned into a laughingstock” In which a faithful correspondent with a Malaysia Hotmail account invites me to earn millions of dollars marketing crude oil.

Have you wondered why my pace of posting has been very slow for a while? Along with paid work, I have a new project: Tuerto magazine. Check it out. And come write for us. Seriously. We want stories about South … Continue reading →

I spent the last couple days hanging around the Shale Oil & Tight Gas 2012 conference in Buenos Aires. While I have heard a lot about environmental protection, tax issues and infrastructure development, I didn’t once hear anyone say the … Continue reading →

Louisiana, here they come. Bloomberg reports: Methanex Corp. (MX), the world’s biggest methanol maker, plans to dismantle an idled Chilean factory and ship it to Louisiana where it will be reassembled to capitalize on the lowest U.S. natural-gas prices in … Continue reading →

Since nobody ever reads the Colombia stories, I thought I’d throw in a little brain candy. Platts says: Blaming labor unrest and community demonstrations directed at its client Ecopetrol, oil field services company Estrella International Energy Services said it has … Continue reading →

But no, not for pollution, even though the tailpipe emissions I’ve seen in Argentine farm country are the worst I’ve seen anywhere in modern-day South America. No, these companies didn’t just cause asthma or pollute drinking water or muck up … Continue reading →

They have been talking about it for years, and they keep talking. Here’s a tidbit from a PDVSA statement from last night: El presidente de PDVSA informó la decisión del Gobierno Bolivariano de retirar a nuestro país del CIADI: “de … Continue reading →

Lungs of the Earth, newly and improvedly expanding beyond Brazil, takes on Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA for saying that its refinery emissions are A-OK. This reminds me of one time when after months of trying to reach the Venezuelan … Continue reading →

Yes, I know I have a reputation to uphold as the guy with a skeptical eye on the Colombian oil miracle. But credit where it’s due: They said they’d double output to a million barrels a day, and here we … Continue reading →