Join us for an exclusive webinar to explore how recent developments in Venezuela are affecting the crude oil market today and what it all could mean going forward.
Venezuela holds the largest oil reserves in the world, but over the last two decades, production has been falling, turning what was once a high-impact player in global oil markets into a minor supplier mired in operational issues and sanctions.
David Fyfe is Group Chief Economist for Argus Media based in London. Argus provides pricing benchmarks, market intelligence and advisory/consulting services to the global commodity industry.
David has over 35 years of oil, energy and commodity market experience. Prior to joining Argus in April 2019, he spent six years as Chief Economist for global commodity trader Gunvor in Geneva. That was preceded by ten years at the IEA in Paris, where David headed the IEA’s Oil Industry and Markets Division and edited the monthly Oil Market Report. He has also worked in oil and gas market fundamentals consulting and began his career with an engineering consortium supplying North Sea oil and gas operators. David has a degree in geological sciences and a Masters in Energy Policy & Economics from Imperial College in London.
Gus Vasquez is the Editorial Manager for Crude and LPG for Argus in the Americas and has been in charge of crude pricing since the beginning of 2008. Prior to that, he was a member of Argus’ European crude team, based in London, where he covered the North Sea, Mediterranean, Russian, and west African crude markets.
Before joining Argus in 2006, he spent four years as a market analyst for Venezuela’s national oil company, working out of their London office.
