From The Houston Chronicle Houston’s Citgo Petroleum is under attack on multiple fronts. Creditors for its parent company want to seize its refineries. It’s at the center of a fight for control over Venezuela. The Justice Department is investigating it and its parent company’s role in an alleged foreign bribery scheme. And its facing mounting pressure to do something about
From The Houston Chronicle In a victory for Venezuela’s opposition government, a U.S. judge confirmed Citgo Petroleum’s board of directors appointed by Juan Guaido, squashing socialist leader Nicolas Maduro’s efforts to regain control over the Houston oil refiner. On Wednesday a Delaware judge issued a final order approving the Guaido board, who have been effectively leading Citgo since the opposition
From The Houston Chronicle CITGO’s board of directors has appointed former Venezuelan oil executive Carlos Jorda as CEO of the embattled Houston refining company. In a statement released on Wednesday morning, the company’s board reported that the year-long search for a new CEO ended Jorda being selected for a role. A fomer executive with the Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., or
From Reuters Citgo Petroleum Corp has selected Carlos Jorda as its next chief executive, according to three people familiar with the matter, turning to a seasoned refinery expert and native Venezuelan to run a company facing legal attacks and working under U.S. sanctions against parent Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). Citgo cut ties with PDVSA earlier this year after U.S. President
From Reuters Global oil major BP is deepening its ties with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries by forging a fuel retailing joint venture to capitalize on rising demand in Asia’s third-biggest economy. The move comes days after BP said it would build a network of charging hubs for electric vehicles with China’s Didi Chuxing, betting on the world’s largest market for
From Reuters Harris County, Texas sued Exxon Mobil Corp on Thursday over pollution from a fire a day earlier at the company’s Baytown Olefins Plant, according to an attorney for the county. The fire was being investigated by federal and state agencies. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) were at
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 TC Energy to sell three natural gas-fired power plants to Ontario Power Generation subsidiary for USD $2.18 billion TC Energy Corporation (stock ticker: TRP), an energy infrastructure company based out of Calgary, has entered into an agreement through its wholly-owned subsidiary, TransCanada Energy Limited, to sell interests in three Ontario natural-gas
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Columbia Gas and parent company NiSource will allocate a total of $1 billion to address the needs of affected communities Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, in conjunction with its parent company NiSource (stock ticker: NI), has reached a $143 million settlement in relation to last September’s Merrimack Valley natural gas explosion that
From Reuters Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA has relinquished control of the country’s biggest fuel distributor in a share offering, pushing ahead with a privatization drive under new Chief Executive Roberto Castello Branco. The offering of Petrobras Distribuidora SA was priced at 24.50 reais per share, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. Final pricing implied
From Reuters Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA is set to relinquish control of the country’s biggest fuel distributor in a share offering due to be priced late on Tuesday, pushing ahead with a privatization drive under new Chief Executive Roberto Castello Branco. Each of Branco’s three predecessors discussed privatizing Petrobras Distribuidora SA. The share offering of the gas
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Daryl Schofield named EVP of business development at Delek US Holdings Delek US Holdings (stock ticker: DK), a downstream subsidiary of the Israeli-based Delek Group, has hired Daryl Schofield as the company’s new executive vice president of business development. Schofield, who will join Delek this August, has more than 35 years
From Reuters An intensifying tropical storm in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico on Thursday cut more than half the region’s oil output, with energy companies evacuating staff from nearly 200 offshore facilities and a coastal refinery. Oil firms shut more than 1 million barrels per day of oil production, 53% of Gulf of Mexico’s output, and 1.2 billion cubic feet
