Chavez extends oil largesse at Caribbean summit
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CIENFUEGOS, Cuba  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proposed on Friday extending a barter scheme used by Cuba to other Caribbean and Central American nations to help them pay for oil supplies with products and services.
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Venezuela announced a dramatic increase in royalties for foreign oil companies operating in the petroleum-rich country, El Nacional reported Monday.
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Oil prices eased from record highs on  Monday as victory for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in a  referendum on his rule eased fears that unrest could upset the  country's oil exports.
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Cuba, which for decades has struggled with crippling energy crises, has black gold and could be OPEC-bound, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said with a smile.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez  stopped oil exports to Exxon Mobil Corp  on Tuesday,  escalating a multibillion-dollar fight with the U.S. company  two days after threatening to cut off all supplies to America.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made an unannounced trip to Havana on Tuesday to visit Cuban leader Fidel Castro, his ideological mentor and ally.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday the price of oil should not fall below $60 a barrel, two days after the OPEC country cut its production to stem price declines.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Oil exports by Venezuela  have not been disturbed by the referendum on the rule of  President Hugo Chavez, shipping sources said late Sunday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited a Harlem church Thursday and promised to more than double the amount of discounted heating oil his country ships to needy Americans. He also took another swipe at President Bush.
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France's Total SA oil company is involved in talks with Venezuelan authorities to launch a $5 billion project to develop heavy oil in eastern Venezuela, the company's president said Friday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez bolstered his cooperation with Cuba on Saturday by signing energy, farming and finance accords, including a deal to expand of one of his socialist ally's oil refineries.
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The Venezuelan leader wants to export more oil to China
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Some oil majors have rejected Venezuela's terms for the takeover of their multi-billion dollar projects and can leave the OPEC nation, President Hugo Chavez said on Friday, days before a deadline for nationalization deals to be concluded.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatens to cut off his country's oil shipments to the United States if a court ruling goes forward ordering Venezuelan assets be frozen in a case brought by Exxon Mobil.
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OPEC production levels are increasing to meet escalating demand but over-inflated prices can only be brought down by resolving global conflicts, the organisation&#39;s president has said.
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Venezuela's President Chavez says he wants the state to take over oil projects on the Orinoco Belt by May.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela on Sunday ordered  foreign oil firms operating in its huge Orinoco heavy crude  belt to pay much higher taxes in what President Hugo Chavez  called a drive to tighten sovereign control over petroleum  resources.