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Setty’s big stories | Setty's notebook

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Steven Bodzin's energy and natural resources notes, mostly about Latin America. Setty’s big stories. Setty’s big stories. 8221; I follow the news cause I like to. Plus you never know, maybe one day I can write a book. Some of my greatest hits:. Arevenca: The world’s biggest nonexistent oil company. I had an eye on Arevenca for years. When they claimed to have the biggest oil deal in world history, I couldn’t resist writing about the company. Arevenca’s new airline, Fly Aruba, hired dozens of local ...

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ALFA wants to spend billions of dollars on this | Setty's notebook

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Steven Bodzin's energy and natural resources notes, mostly about Latin America. Setty’s big stories. ALFA wants to spend billions of dollars on this. Thanks to the indispensable Otto Rock, always with his ear to the ground for community (ahem). I hear about this situation. A police officer goes on to explain that some workers were briefly held captive until the police moved in. The host comes back to say that several vehicles have been burned in the protest. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. I cont...

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Dept. of WTF: Chavez to partly privatize PDVSA? | Setty's notebook

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Steven Bodzin's energy and natural resources notes, mostly about Latin America. Setty’s big stories. Dept of WTF: Chavez to partly privatize PDVSA? The most famous cases of this sort of semi-privatization are Petrobras ( PBR. On the New York Stock Exchange) and Ecopetrol ( EC. For years, the idea has been bounced around of doing the same to PDVSA, Venezuela’s state oil company. But President Hugo Chavez, with his fierce rhetoric against privatization, has been an obvious obstacle. He added that the PdVSA...

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Derwick Associates takes the show to Mexico | Setty's notebook

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Steven Bodzin's energy and natural resources notes, mostly about Latin America. Setty’s big stories. Derwick Associates takes the show to Mexico. In Venezuela, they insisted they were a construction company. Now, they just “intervene”. In infrastructure projects, whatever that means. (My slightly edited Google translation below). Published on Feb 4, 2015. Ciudad Obregón, Sonora 03 February 2015. Solar farm installation ensures electricity savings in the municipality. In addition to saving 20 percent in e...

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Steven Bodzin's energy and natural resources notes, mostly about Latin America. Setty’s big stories. Steven Bodzin is a reporter. He blogged when he was a freelancer. González jailed in Venezuela (Updates on everything #1). Yes, this blog is mostly shut down, as I am now working full-time. I’m just updating some old stories. Please note that this is just my personal research and thoughts, no connection to my employer. An oil refining and shipping company. I first covered Arevenca here. Says “Extrad...

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Post-deal-collapse comment on Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. | Setty's notebook

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Steven Bodzin's energy and natural resources notes, mostly about Latin America. Setty’s big stories. Post-deal-collapse comment on Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. Speak louder than words. Adding (later): At least nobody can accuse him of front-running anything. Practically pegged the bottom there. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. July 15, 2015. Latin American currency: Colombia goes bananas →. Why I’m here. Join 2,060 other followers. Ratty old notebook pages. See something you like? On Latin Americ...

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The lighter (heavier?) side of devaluation | Setty's notebook

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Steven Bodzin's energy and natural resources notes, mostly about Latin America. Setty’s big stories. Turns out it can be a good thing to have your biggest banknote worth only USD 0.20. That way nobody can carry a significant amount of money. Just too damn heavy. Thieves in Caracas today hit a bank at the very moment when its vault was open, allowing them to get the unusually large haul of BSF 2.4 million, newspaper El Nacional reports. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. July 8, 2015. Your $5, $20 or...

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Latin American currency: Colombia goes bananas | Setty's notebook

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Steven Bodzin's energy and natural resources notes, mostly about Latin America. Setty’s big stories. Latin American currency: Colombia goes bananas. Against the CAD, the Colombian peso long tracked other currencies in the region, particularly the Peruvian nuevo sol and the Chilean peso. Here’s what the same currencies have looked like over the past calendar year:. Here’s the 5-year chart. Colombia has detached from its usual peers and is devaluing mightily. The upshot for me, as a consumer of Colombian H...