New Venezuela Tensions Worrying Oil Executives
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Venezuela may be making decisions that are confounding oil companies, but the government there says it is merely seeking more income.
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Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira is more worried about playing rank outsiders Venezuela than the likes of Germany or Argentina.
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Venezuela's plan to strip some of  the world's biggest oil companies of their controlling stakes  in the heavy oil projects of the country's Orinoco Belt is a  "disturbing trend" that could harm the OPEC member's economy, a  U.S. Energy Department spokesman said on Thursday.
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Business & money: Concerns that a fresh wave of hurricanes could hit American oil installations.
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A video game which features mercenaries invading Venezuela to guarantee oil supplies for the United States has become the latest source of tension between the two nations.
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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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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is ordering foreign oil companies to pay much higher taxes, in a move to tighten state control over his country&#39;s vast petroleum resources.
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The U.S. government must respect Venezuela's sovereignty and stop meddling if it wants to improve ties with its fourth-largest oil supplier, Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez said on Wednesday.
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Exxon Mobil Corp  has moved to  freeze up to $12 billion in Venezuelan assets around the world  as the U.S. company fights for payment in return for the  state's takeover of a huge oil project last year.
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Venezuela on Thursday vowed to strip some of the world's biggest oil companies of their controlling stakes in the heavy crude projects of the Orinoco Belt "within months".
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Governments around the region are warning that rising oil prices have started to hurt their economies.
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French oil major Total  fears Venezuela's drive to take over complex heavy oil projects run by foreign oil companies in the Orinoco belt could lead to operational problems, chairman Thierry Desmarest said on Tuesday.
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President Hugo Chavez&#039;s plans to build the first Kalashnikov factory in South America are stirring fears Venezuela could start arming his leftist allies in the hemisphere with Russian assault rifles.
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US oil giant Exxon Mobil is seeking arbitration over a stand-off with Venezuela about seized oil assets.
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As record high prices raise concerns about future supplies of oil, the International Energy Agency, in a new report, stressed the need for oil-producing countries and international
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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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President Hugo Chavez threatened on Saturday to take control of banks that fail to meet state-imposed loaning requirements designed to benefit Venezuela's farmers.