Exxon to freeze $12 billion in Venezuelan assets
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Exxon Mobil has obtained a court order freezing up to $12 billion of Venezuela's state-owned oil company's worldwide assets after the government of President Hugo Chavez forced the company out of two joint ventures last year, a company spokeswoman said Thursday.
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The oil giant won court orders freezing as much as $12 billion in petroleum assets controlled by Venezuelaâs government.
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President Hugo Chavez said Friday that diplomatic and commercial relations with Colombia would be put on hold until it apologizes for paying bounty hunters to abduct a rebel leader from inside Venezuela, insisting the neighboring country's actions were indefensible.
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Venezuela's oil operations and cash flows have not been affected by court orders won by Exxon Mobil Corp  to freeze up assets as the U.S. giant fights for compensation for a project nationalized last year, the nation's energy minister said on Friday.
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Venezuela's oil operations and cash  flows have not been affected by court orders won by Exxon Mobil  Corp  to freeze up assets as the U.S. giant fights for  compensation for a project nationalized last year, the nation's  energy minister said on Friday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday set the world's biggest oil companies a May Day deadline to surrender control of multibillion-dollar crude projects, accelerating his raft of nationalizations.
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By Pascal Fletcher CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela on Sunday orderedforeign oil firms operating in its huge Orinoco heavy crudebelt to pay much higher taxes in what President Hugo Chavezcalled a drive to tighten sovereign control over petroleumresources.
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Oil prices ranged widely Monday, supported by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's threat to cut off sales to the United States
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Venezuela minimized the compensation it owes Exxon Mobil Corp for an oil project on Thursday, the latest volley in hard-ball negotiations that have prompted a threat to stop sending America oil.
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The chemicals arm of US-based oil giant ExxonMobil is to expand the capacity of its hydrocarbon fluids plant in Antwerp, Belgium to 70,000 tons per year. The company has not disclosed any financial details but the project is expected to be completed during the fourth quarter of 2007.
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President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to stop sending oil to the United States if it continued to attack Venezuela as he said it had done through an Exxon Mobil  lawsuit that has frozen the assets of the OPEC nation.
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Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt plans to freeze excise duties on oil products to combat a surge in prices, according to a newspaper report Sunday.
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Venezuela's state-run oil firm denies that Exxon Mobil has won a court order to freeze up to $12bn of its assets.
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Exxon Mobil Corp.  plans to spend about $20 billion annually through 2011 and start production at 25 major oil and gas projects over the next three years, the world's largest publicly traded oil company said on Wednesday.
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ExxonMobil  sought court orders  in Europe to freeze $12 billion in Venezuela's overseas energy  assets because getting a similar order in the United States  before it won its arbitration case against Venezuela's state  oil company PDVSA would be too difficult under U.S. law, court  papers showed.
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A top river oil transport company threatened to halt Yukos shipments by September 1 over payment worries, in a move that would hit 12 percent of the production by Russia's largest oil company.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States in an "economic war" if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.