Rosaria: ‘Myanmar moving on with refinery without GZE: lessons for Curaçao’
Since visiting Myanmar late 2016, I’ve written extensively about the failure of Guangdong Zhenrong Engergy (GZE) to deliver on promises made to this Asian country to build a refinery as part of China’s imperial More...
MDPT disagrees with Standard & Poor’s
WILLEMSTAD - Clift Christiaan, chairman of the Multi-Disciplinary Project Team, which is the organization that is in charge of finding a strategic partner for the oil refinery, disagrees with the Standard & More...
MDPT’s new composition and SOAB’s investigation
WILLEMSTAD - The Multidisciplinary Project Team (MDPT) is in charge of the negotiations for the future and the modernization of the oil refinery in Curaçao. The MDPT is currently negotiating with the Chinese State More...
Prime Minister Rhuggenaath meets with PDVSA executives
WILLEMSTAD - On October 24 a delegation from Venezuela, consisting of the President of the Venezuelan Oil Company PDVSA Dr. Nelson Martinez and Vice Minister of Caribbean Relations Mr. Raul Licausi, visited Curaçao More...
The devil is in the details
The devil is in the details. Everyday it becomes more evident that local politicians who sold the Guangdong Zhenrong Energy (GZE) project as a celestial answer to the economic standstill we’ve been confronting More...
The carrot-and-stick policy
WILLEMSTAD - It is evidently a carrot on a stick, which induces the government of Curaçao to offer its entire economy on a silver platter to a state-owned Chinese corporation. Curaçao is at this moment governed More...
The management and control or maybe even the future ownership of the deep seaport at Bullenbay
WILLEMSTAD - The government of Curaçao is contemplating to grant a concession to a state-owned corporation of China to build, own and operate an LNG-terminal at Bullenbay, but has not yet decided in which legal More...
Public companies sign MoU with Guangdong Zhenrong
WILLEMSTAD - The latest in a series of MoU’s between government companies in Curaçao and Guangdong Zhenrong Energy Co. Ltd. (GZE) / China Zhenrong Holding Limited was signed yesterday. Since signing the Addendum More...
Nahar: “The Curaçao Government has been led by a ring through the nose by the Chinese”
WILLEMSTAD - In a masterful stroke the Chinese succeeded in outsmarting the Curaçao Government for the second time in a row during their ongoing mutual negotiations to achieve a scenario which presumably has to More...
A refinery at Bullenbaai; Not so fast!
For the past couple of years, and more intensively during the last, there has been a lot of public discussions about reconstructing the Isla refinery in the Bullenbaai area; next to COT, the Curaçao Oil Terminal. More...
