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The Coordinadora Democrática, led by the business federation Fedecámaras and the trade union federation Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela (CTV), called for a fourth paro cívico, which turned out to be the most serious, and is known as the 2002–2003 oil strike, to begin on 2 December 2002. The opposition also called a recall ...
Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (acronym PDVSA, Spanish pronunciation: [peðeˈβesa]) (English: Petroleum of Venezuela) is the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company. It has activities in exploration, production, refining and exporting oil as well as exploration and production of natural gas.
On February 15, 2019, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury announced that Manuel Quevedo, along with four other officials of the Government of Nicolás Maduro, was included in the list of those sanctioned by the North American body.
Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corporation started refinery construction in January 1966 having purchased the property from Annie de Chabert and, in October of the same year, the refinery started operating. [4] [5] In 1974, the capacity of refinery was expanded up to its peak at 650,000 barrels per day (103,000 m 3 /d). Hovensa LLC, which took over ...
In 1982, T. Boone Pickens, founder of Mesa Petroleum, offered to buy Cities Service Company.Citgo responded by offering to buy Mesa, [12] which was the first use of what became known as the Pac-Man take-over defense; i.e., a counter-tender offer initiated by a takeover target.
The Paraguaná Refinery Complex (Spanish: Centro de Refinación de Paraguaná) is a crude oil refinery complex in Venezuela. It is considered the world's second largest refinery complex, just after Jamnagar Refinery (India). The Paraguaná Refinery Complex was created by the fusion of Amuay Refinery, Bajo Grande Refinery and Cardón Refinery.
Español: En el concierto que Ska-P, Dame Pa Matala, El Pacto-EP y Tiburcio brindaron este 6 de abril de 2013 en homenaje al Comandante Hugo Chávez en la plaza Diego Ibarra de Caracas, organizado por la Alcaldía de Caracas y PDVSA.
In April 2020, was appointed by Nicolás Maduro to run the troubled state-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA). [1] He is the former president of Citgo, a subsidiary of Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA. [2] He has served as deputy to the National Assembly of Venezuela and Minister of Petroleum and Mining.