Venezuela-Exxon rift deepens
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Venezuela accuses Exxon Mobil of exaggerating the value of firm's former investments in the country.
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Venezuela's oil industry will enter a new period of stability and growth after Sunday's referendum on Hugo Chavez's presidency, the president of the state-run oil company said Sunday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA on Saturday said an "operational event" had affected a unit of the 640,000 barrel per day (bpd) Amuay refinery.
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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.
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Venezuela's top oil official accused Exxon Mobil Corp. of "judicial terrorism" on Friday, but said court orders won by the oil major do not amount to confiscation of $12 billion (8.3 billion euros) in assets.
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Venezuelan energy minister Rafael Ramirez said Friday that the South American state would not be "intimidated" by US energy giant ExxonMobil in a legal spat tied to the nationalization of key oil fields.
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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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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela on Sunday slapped  higher taxes on foreign oil companies operating in its huge  Orinoco heavy crude belt in what President Hugo Chavez called a  drive to tighten sovereign control over petroleum resources.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez escalated the bitter war of words between Caracas and Bogota on Wednesday by accusing Colombia and the United States of plotting to kill him.
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Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez met on Friday with a dozen leaders of Caribbean and  Central American nations he is supplying with cheap oil that  has bolstered his regional influence.
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The Venezuelan leader wants to export more oil to China
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Exxon Mobil Corp  has won court  orders freezing up to $12 billion in Venezuelan assets around  the world as it fights for compensation for operations lost to  President Hugo Chavez's nationalization drive.
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Venezuela's state petroleum company PDVSA said Tuesday it suspended oil supplies to ExxonMobil in retaliation for the US energy giant's effort to freeze billions of dollars in global PDVSA assets.
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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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Venezuela plans talks with Panama next week on a proposal to pump oil through a Panamanian pipeline to the Pacific in order to cut shipping costs to China, the Venezuelan foreign minister said Wednesday.
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Venezuela has announced a 16-point increase in the royalties payable by foreign oil companies operating in one of its richest oil fields.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez froze ongoing bilateral accords and energy deals with  Colombia on Friday in retaliation for the abduction of a  leading Colombian Marxist rebel from Venezuela.