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Analysis: Caracas OK's windfall-profit tax
Analysis: Caracas OK's windfall-profit tax
MIAMI, April 16 (UPI) -- Venezuela has approved a 50-percent tax on foreign oil companies for oil when priced at more than $70 a barrel.
Chavez lauds 'win' over ExxonMobil
CARACAS, Venezuela, March 25 (UPI) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his country's recent victory in a lawsuit over ExxonMobil was akin to "a win against the Yankees."
Analysis: U.S. terror list eyes Venezuela
Analysis: U.S. terror list eyes Venezuela
MIAMI, March 19 (UPI) -- Two U.S. representatives from Florida introduced legislation seeking to designate Venezuela a state sponsor of terror, a move that could hurt the country's oil sector and U.S. relations in the region.
Analysis: Lat Am spat may hit energy
MIAMI, March 5 (UPI) -- The specter of war among Latin American neighbors Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, the region's top oil producer, could prove harmful to international oil markets.
Analysis: Venezuela eases 'cut-off' threat
MIAMI, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Officials at Venezuela's state-owned oil and giant PDVSA appeared Tuesday to back away from threats to "cut-off" oil supplies to the United States amid a multi-billion dollar legal fight with ExxonMobil.
Analysis: PDVSA to increase ranks
MIAMI, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he wants to increase the workforce of state-run petroleum company PDVSA by 35 percent in the coming year, a move some say is an effort to increase the government’s hold on the country’s oil and gas industry and win additional political support ahead of a key vote.

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“ PDVSA is financially stretched as a result of declining oil prices and its growing obligations, casting a dark cloud over Venezuela's future production outlook, ”
Venezuela takes over oil service contracts
United Press International
“ PDVSA is financially stretched as a result of declining oil prices and its growing obligations, casting a dark cloud over Venezuela's future production outlook, ”
Venezuela muscles oil service contractors
United Press International
“ The Venezuelan government has become more and more dependent on oil, and oil exports to the U.S. in particular, making it highly unlikely that Venezuela will cut off oil supplies to the U.S., despite the latest threats, ”
Venezuelan oil troubled by economy?
United Press International
“ The Venezuelan government has become more and more dependent on oil, and oil exports to the U.S. in particular, making it highly unlikely that Venezuela will cut off oil supplies to the U.S., despite the latest threats, ”
Venezuela cutting oil production
United Press International
“ The Venezuelan government has become more and more dependent on oil, and oil exports to the U.S. in particular, making it highly unlikely that Venezuela will cut off oil supplies to the U.S., despite the latest threats, ”
Venezuelan oil output way down
United Press International
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