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Following the successful Cuban Revolution (1953–59), a socialist state was established in Cuba. In total, Cuba nationalized roughly 6,000 American owned properties. [4] The many individual oil and gas facilities were compacted into a single, state controlled company, The Cuba Oil Union (Spanish: Unión Cuba-Petróleo).
Cuba has three producing offshore oil fields within 5 km of its north coast. [2] A 2004 partnership between Spanish oil company Repsol-YPF and Cuba's state oil company Cupet estimated Cuba's off-shore reserves to be able to ultimately produce between 4.6 and 9.3 billion barrels of crude oil. [3]
Oil prices bounced around quite a bit in 2024. They rallied more than 20% at one point -- topping $85 per barrel -- before cooling off toward the end of the year. Oil was recently below $70 a ...
In 1958, drilling contracts with the seven largest U.S. oil producers included wells 40 miles (64 km) north of Isabela, Cuba, near the island Cay Sal. In 1959 Bush bought control of Zapata Off-Shore, funded with $800,000, [ 13 ] splitting Zapata Corporation into two independent companies with the Liedtkes still in control of Zapata Petroleum.
Communist-run Cuba on Tuesday imposed sweeping price controls on all state and private businesses as it battles a deepening economic crisis and mounting U.S. sanctions. Resolutions published in ...
Gunvor also has trading offices in Singapore, Houston, Stamford, London, Calgary, and Dubai, with a network of representative offices around the globe. The company operates in the trade, transport, storage and optimization of petroleum and other energy products, as well as having investments in oil terminal and port facilities. Its operations ...
In 1995, the company acquired Dekalb Energy Canada, marking the company's return to Canada, in a $285 million stock transaction. [14] In 1995, the company also acquired 315 oil and gas fields in the Permian Basin, the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast, western Oklahoma, East Texas, the Rocky Mountains and the Gulf of Mexico from Texaco. [15]
The stock declined 5% in 2023 after skyrocketing 119% in the prior year, when oil peaked, making it the best-performing equity of the S&P 500 that year. Since the start of 2024 shares are up more ...