News of petrol

Protesters reject Ecuador president's 'insensitive' fuel price cut

27-06-2022 13:32 Unrest continues as indigenous protesters reject a fuel price cut announced by the government as insufficient and "insensitive."

BRAZIL UNDER BOLSONARO

Brazil's Bolsonaro fires third Petrobras chief as fuel prices soar

24-05-2022 08:56 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro dismisses president of state oil giant Petrobras – who had been in the job for only 40 days.

FEATURE: VENEZUELA IN CRISIS

Venezuela: the decline of an oil giant in crisis

17-01-2022 08:15 The Maracaibo basin in Venezuela was once a flurry of oil activity, with a halo of light over the complex visible at night from a fair distance. Today, it is a humid swamp that stinks of oil from leaking pipes floating on the water.

Energy & Environment

Climate crisis puts oil in the crosshairs, but dependence persists

27-12-2021 23:20 The climate crisis has put the end of oil onto the agenda, but achieving that is a colossal task given the world economy's deep dependence on petroleum.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina’s oil workers getting 15% wage increase in December

05-11-2021 14:09 Workers in the oil industry in Argentina will receive wage increases next month, according to a government statement.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina is first in South America to regain pre-Covid fuel demand

05-11-2021 02:17 Argentina is the first major country in Latin America to see gasoline demand recover to pre-pandemic levels.

THE WEEK

What we learned this week: February 13 to 20

20-02-2021 08:27 The stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

AND THAT REMINDS ME...

Your petrol frizzled

23-01-2021 10:19 If Vaca Muerta is indeed a dead cow, then Argentina will end up importing fuel, a move which will surely cost more dollars than those denied YPF to service its debts.

by Michael Soltys