Today, May 22, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela celebrated the International Day of Biological Diversity by kicking off its third annual National Congress on Biological Diversity to coordinate environmental conservation efforts.
The third meeting of the South American Regional Energy Council is being held today in Caracas, Venezuela, with the participation of seven energy ministers and three vice ministers from the member states of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR).…
The state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) expects to increase production by 870,000 barrels per day through projects being developed in eastern part of the country as part of a plan to increase national oil production to 3.5 million…
Venezuela was the first country in the world to establish a National Strategy for the Conservation of Ecological Diversity for the period 2010 to 2020, said the Environment Ministry’s director for biological diversity, Jesús Manzanilla, in an interview on state…
As part of the modernization of the Venezuelan oil industry, the state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) plans to improve the country’s refineries so that they can process crude from the Orinoco Oil Belt, which contains the world’s largest…
Venezuela’s Minister of Electric Energy, Hector Navarro, said that the country’s electricity generation capacity will reach over 20,000 megawatts (MW) per day by late 2012.
Venezuela’s electrical grid will have a capacity of 30,000 megawatts by 2015, according to an announcement Saturday by Balmiro Villasmil of the National Electric Corporation (Corpoelec).
Venezuela’s National Assembly has enacted the Penal Law of the Environment, which is aimed at outlining crimes against natural resources and the environment and the corresponding penalties.
The state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela has enough fuel to satisfy national demand, announced Mauricio Herrera, the company’s executive director for trade and supply, on Wednesday.
Five years ago on May 1st, 2007, the Venezuelan government finished the process of nationalization of the Orinoco Oil Belt and agreements on risk exploration and shared profits to end the privatization of the Venezuelan oil industry that began…