Tag: Exxon Mobil
Os grandes media, a Exxon Mobil e o Pentágono tiveram uma derrota esmagadora na tentativa de ocupar um território rico em petróleo pertencente à Venezuela. Em 3 de dezembro de 2023, a população venezuelana participou massivamente num referendo consultivo e respondeu afirmativamente às cinco perguntas sobre se os eleitores reconheciam a soberania do seu país sobre o Esequibo. Uma larga maioria (direita e esquerda juntas) votou a favor do respeito pela integridade territorial.
Guyana’s High Court handed down a historic ruling in May against both the country’s Environmental Protection Agency and Exxon Mobil’s subsidiary in the region. If it sounds strange that the EPA and Exxon were co-defendants in a case, yes, that’s precisely the point.
President Donald Trump has rejected Exxon Mobil waivers to operate in Russia, which it had asked for and received in 2015 and 2016. In 2012, the then CEO Rex Tillerson negotiated a deal with Rosneft, worth as much as $500 billion in joint investments, to explore deposits in the Black Sea, the Arctic and Russia’s Far East.
The European Union summit which took place on May 22 is a landmark event and an important step further after the adoption of the 2009 Third Energy Package… The traditionally anti-Russian energy policy of the European Union gets a new content. Nothing proves that the European Union wants to lower the dependence on energy imports as such. For instance, at the very same time the possibility of gas imports from Ukraine in distant future is part of the agenda. What lies at the bottom of the European Union’s stance is finding the ways to become independent from Russia…
