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05/20/2020 CITGO Private Foundation Announces Almost $500,000 in COVID-19 Donations for Venezuela

The Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc. (Simón Bolívar Foundation), the non-profit, private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, is awarding up to $278,380 from its COVID-19 Small Grants...

Categories: National, Simon Bolivar Foundation
05/06/2020 CITGO Private Foundation announces more support for Venezuela

The Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc., the non-profit, private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, announced today two grants of its Emergency Relief Fund to two nonprofit organizations...

Categories: National, Simon Bolivar Foundation
04/29/2020 CITGO Private Foundation announces early applicants' grantees for COVID-19 program

The Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc. ( Simón Bolívar Foundation ), the non-profit, private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, is awarding up to $200,000 to five non-profit organizations...

Categories: National, Simon Bolivar Foundation
04/06/2020 CITGO Reports Results for FY 2019

The CITGO Petroleum Corporation Board of Directors recently reviewed the Company's 2019 annual financial results with the PDVSA Ad Hoc board. The Company's steady financial and operational...

Categories: Financial, Houston, National
04/02/2020 Olmeta Retires from CITGO Board of Directors

The CITGO Petroleum Corporation Board of Directors and the CITGO President and Chief Executive Officer Carlos Jordá, announced today that Angel Olmeta is retiring from the Board, effective Thursday, April 2, 2020.

Categories: Houston, Personnel
03/26/2020 CITGO Private Foundation to Award Special Grants Supporting COVID-19 Efforts in Venezuela

The Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc. (SBF), the non-profit, private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, is launching a special round of its small grants program to help alleviate the...

Categories: National, Simon Bolivar Foundation
03/14/2020 CITGO E-Recycle Day Keeps 9 Roll-Off Boxes of Unwanted Electronics Out of Landfills

Hundreds of Southwest Louisiana residents recycled their unwanted electronics at the annual CITGO E-Recycle Day Saturday at the McNeese Cowboy Stadium parking lot. The CITGO Lake Charles Refinery...

Categories: Lake Charles
03/08/2020 Mariela Poleo Appointed President Of Simón Bolívar Foundation

CITGO Petroleum Corporation announced the appointment of Mariela Poleo as President of the Simón Bolívar Foundation (SBF), the company's non-profit, private foundation dedicated to catalyzing...

Categories: National, Personnel, Simon Bolivar Foundation
03/05/2020 CITGO® Announces the Launch of Mystik® GoBox™ for Improved Farm Inventory Management

CITGO Petroleum Corporation, through its Mystik Lubricants, is launching a new GoBox System that packages lubricants in biodegradable boxes, making oil delivery to equipment simpler and faster....

Categories: Mystik Lubricants
02/28/2020 Gerd Knutsen Released from Seizure

CITGO confirms that the Gerd Knutsen and its crew have safely reached international waters, and that the Company intends to pursue the Maduro regime, and any entities that may have assisted it, for unlawful seizure of its cargo.

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