(By Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 30.Dec.2016) – On 29 December 2016, Chile’s state oil company Empresa Nacional de Petróleo (Enap) celebrated 71 years since the first oil well discovery...
(Petrobras, 28.Dec.2016) – Petrobras concluded the sale of its 100% stake in Nansei Sekiyu (NSS) to the Taiyo Oil Company. The transaction was done by Taiyo paying $165 million, after...
(Petrobras, 28.Dec.2016) – These transactions are part of the company’s partnerships and divestments program. The target for the period 2017-2018 is $21 billion … On December 28, 2016, Petrobras closed...
(PDVSA, 27.Dec.2016) – PDVSA announced implementation of an agreement to reduce production reached by member and non member countries of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Under the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Dec.2016) – OPEC member nation Venezuela, which produced 2.097 million barrels per day (MMb/d) in November, according to the December 2016 Monthly Oil Market Report...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Dec.2016) – An accident between a fuel transport truck owned by PDVSA and a vehicle carrying six persons from Venezuela’s armed forces unfortunately claimed resulted...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 26.Dec.2016) – Three officials from PDVSA participated in a graduation ceremony in San Tomé, south of Anzoátegui state, whereby 124 graduates received diplomas and were...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 25.Dec.2016) – PDVSA maintains full ownership and control over its Houston-based subsidiary Citgo Petroleum Corporation. PDVSA, in an official statement, also downplayed media versions and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 23.Dec.2016) – Looting in Bolivar state will not yet affect Venezuela’s crude oil production or export capacity. However, fears of similar looting spreading to oil...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 23.Dec.2016) – Venezuela’s relentless search for a fair oil price continues as President Nicolas Maduro prepares to travel to various oil producing countries to finalize...
(Petrobras, 21.Dec.2016) – Petrobras signed a Master Agreement with the French company Total, in connection with the Strategic Alliance established in the Memorandum of Understanding signed on 10/24/2016, as previously...
(Exxon Mobil, 20.Dec.2016) – Exxon Mobil Corporation subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), announced that it has awarded contracts to SBM Offshore for a floating production, storage and...
(PDVSA, 15.Dec.2016) – As of 2019, PDVSA, through Puerto La Cruz Refinery’s Deep Conversion Project, will industrialize crude oil from the Orinoco Oil Belt using HDHPLUS®, a Venezuelan technology, announced...
(Ecopetrol, 12.Dec.2016) – Ecopetrol S.A. reported the risk rating agency Fitch Ratings kept the company at investment grade, with an international rating of BBB. Fitch notes the important link between...
(Ecopetrol, 10.Dec.2016) – Ecopetrol S.A. announced that on December 10, 2016, as established in the Offering Notice of Second Stage, the company published the offering notice regarding the fourth auction...
(PDVSA, 5.Dec.2016) – PDVSA and Shell Venezuela signed two agreements at Miraflores Palace. Both companies have stakes in the joint venture Petroregional del Lago, S.A. and plans to boost its...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 5.Dec.2016) – Together with President Nicolas Maduro and Prime Minister of Trinidad Keith Rowley we reached historic energy agreements, wrote PDVSA President Eulogio Del Pino...
(PDVSA, 5.Dec.2016) – During a meeting in Miraflores Palace, the People’s Power Minister of Petroleum and President of PDVSA Eulogio Del Pino and the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago...
(Eco-Stim Energy Solutions, Inc., 1.Dec.2016) – Eco-Stim Energy Solutions, Inc. finalized a $2 million secured loan from existing shareholders. The loan will have a one-year term with the proceeds used...
(GeoPark Limited, 1.Dec.2016) – GeoPark Limited obtained final regulatory approval for its acquisition of the Morona Block in Peru. In its first project returning to the upstream business, the Peruvian...
(Gran Tierra Energy Inc., 29.Nov.2016) – Gran Tierra Energy Inc. closed the previously announced underwritten public offering of shares of its common stock. The company sold 43,335,000 shares of its...
(Gran Tierra Energy Inc., 28.Nov.2016) – Gran Tierra Energy Inc. announced that it submitted winning bids totaling a combined $30.4 million for two blocks which Ecopetrol S.A., Colombia's national oil...
(GeoPark Limited, 23.Nov.2016) – GeoPark Limited announced the successful testing of the Jacana 6 appraisal well in the Jacana Oil Field in the Llanos 34 Block (GeoPark operated with a...
(Harvest Natural Resources, Inc., 9.Nov.2016) – Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. reported a third quarter 2016 net loss of approximately $7.1 million, or $0.55 per diluted share, compared with net income...
(Reuters, 23.Sep.2016) — Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA said on Friday that Maroil Trading Inc has won a $138 million contract to remove a large pile of petroleum coke at...
(Oilprice.com, Charles Kennedy, 15.Sep.2016) — The Permian Basin has become so hot that some oil companies are starting to stay away, instead looking at frontiers that are less picked over....
[caption id="attachment_564" align="alignnone" width="1088"] Amuay refinery in Venezuela. Source: Pietro D. Pitts[/caption] (Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 14.Sep.2016) – On a brief taxi ride from Punto Fijo’s Josefa Camejo...
(The Oxford Business Group, 25.Sep.2016) — Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago CEO Thackwray “Dax” Driver talks about the expanding marketplace. What is the significance of recent oil and gas...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 14.Aug.2016) – Venezuela, the resource-rich South American country known for its chocolates, Caribbean beaches, lively citizens and beauty queens, still reigns as the country...
(CNN Money, 28.Jul.2016) – Argentina has exceptional hydrocarbon reserves, but politics has greatly affected its development. The economy in Argentina is best described as a "pendulum", going from loose economic...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 11.Jul.2016) – The 6th version of the congress will take place from July 12-13, 2016 at the Los Tajibos Hotel in Santa Cruz de la...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 4.Jul.2016) – Venezuela will not hold its annual Latin American Petroleum Show (LAPS). The decision to cancel the event this year is due to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 4.Jul.2016) – Venezuela plans to soon initiate shipments of natural gas to Colombia, reported Venezuela's new agency AVN, citing the country's Oil Minister Eulogio Del...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 4.Jul.2016) –Venezuela is producing 3.8 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, PDVSA President Eulogio Del Pino said during an interview on the television program...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 2.Jul.2016) – Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro held a meeting with Citizens Energy Corporation founder Joseph Kennedy in Caracas to discuss matters related to the U.S.-based...
(Exxon Mobil, 30.Jun.2016) – Exxon Mobil Corporation said that drilling results from the Liza-2 well, the second exploration well in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana, confirm a world-class discovery with...
(Wood Group, 28.Jun.2016) – Wood Group was awarded a multimillion dollar contract to provide detailed engineering and design, and procurement services to South Atlantic Holding (owned by Statoil and partner...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – EP PetroEcuador announced its Shareholder's Equity rose to $5.659 billion in 2015 compared to $3.914 billion in 2014, reported the state company...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – Ecuador's SOTE pipeline spans 503 kilometers from the pumping station Lago Agrio No. 1 in the Amazon to the Balao Maritime Terminal...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – The TranEcuadorian Oil Pipeline (SOTE by its Spanish acronym) was inaugurated on June 26, 1972 with a capacity to transport 250,000 barrels...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – Trafigura PTE LTD won a bid by EP PetroEcuador whereby the former will export 950,000 barrels of No. 6 Fuel Oil, announced...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – EP PetroEcuador revealed some of its goals for 2016, reported the state company in an official statement. The goals for 2016 include,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 25.Jun.2016) – U.S. President Barack Obama insists the Venezuelan government respect the democratic process regarding calls for a recall referendum against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Jun.2016) – PDVSA's inventory of drilling rigs in Venezuela at the end of May 2016 reached 311 units, of which 156 were owned by the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Jun.2016) – Venezuela sent two fuel tankers at full capacity to Singapore, reported Reuters. The tankers, New Dream, rented by PetroChina, Britanis, and Trafigura, are...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 24.Jun.2016) – PDVSA President Eulogio Del Pino ordered the investigation into presumed acts of corruption and bribery within the state oil company, reported the daily...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – EP PetroEcuador turned over formal activities related to the containment, cleaning and monitoring along the Daule river, kilometer 24 in the Merced...
(Ecopetrol S.A., 24.Jun.2016) – Ecopetrol S.A. announced that it launched 'Ronda Campos 2016,' a public and competitive bidding process, the objective of which is to offer to oil and gas...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 21.Jun.2016) – PDVSA has increased the recovery factor to 35 percent from 20 percent in the South Junín district of the Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – Ecuador has decided it will allow its service stations to again distribute alcoholic beverages. The distribution of alcoholic beverages at the stations...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – Ecuador's oil output reached 556,000 barrels per day in May of 2016, up sequentially from 555,000 barrels per day in April of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 20.Jun.2016) – PDVSA's Western Petroleum Services division has performed services on a total of 70 drilling wells with the recent completion of work on a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 17.Jun.2016) – YPFB and Gazprom signed an agreement for the evaluation of the hydrocarbon potential of three areas reserved for YPFB. The agreement was signed...
(Exxon Mobil, 18.Jun.2016) – Exxon Mobil Corporation has reached an agreement with PBF Energy Inc. for the sale and purchase of its 50 percent interest in Chalmette Refining, LLC in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 16.Jun.2016) – Venezuela has to learn to live with oil prices between $40 per barrel and $45 per barrel in order to stop its oil...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – Three companies, Adelca, Novacero and Practipower, presented their bids to buy an estimated 6,500 tons of salvage left over from the Esmeraldas...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 15.Jun.2016) – Latin American oil producer Venezuela plans to increase the supply of natural gas in its domestic market by reducing flaring and using the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 15.Jun.2016) – PDVSA and Japan's Inpex invested $350 million to improve gas compression operations at the Copa Macoya plant in Guarico state, and boost output...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 15.Jun.2016) – Demand for fuels in Colombia increased 11 percent due to the closing of the border with Venezuela, wrote Colombia's Energy Vice Minister in...
(Petrobras, 15.Jun.2016) – Petrobras informed the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an order granting Petrobras’s petition to permit an appeal from the order of the...
(Petrobras, 15.Jun.2016) – Petrobras started the competitive process to sell Liquigás Distribuidora S.A., a wholly-owned, privately-held subsidiary operating in the bottling, distribution and selling of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Liquigás...
(Petrobras, 15.Jun.2016) – The Libra Consortium has concluded the drilling and evaluation of the seventh well in the block, located in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin. The well found...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 14.Jun.2016) – Venezuela continues to discuss matters with China regarding a grace period for the South American country to pay back loans to the Asian...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 14.Jun.2016) – Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said his country needs to boost its crude oil output over the next six months in accordance with the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Jun.2016) – PDVSA continues to seek a friendly settlement with PetroPar in regards amounts it is owed by its Paraguayan counterpart, announced PDVSA in an...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 11.Jun.2016) – Officials from YPFB and its Paraguayan counterpart PetroPar meet with LPG distributors in Paraguay to evaluate the expansion of sales and purchase agreements....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 11.Jun.2016) — Schlumberger's fourteen drilling rigs in Venezuela will soon commence to operate under a different financial scheme, reported PDVSA in an official statement on...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 11.Jun.2016) – Authorities from the governments of Aruba, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and officials from Venezuela's state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A....
(Ecopetrol, 10.Jun.2016) — Ecopetrol S.A. reports that, on 8 June 2016, based on the authorization granted by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Resolution 1657 of 7 June 2016)...
(Ecopetrol S.A. 10.Jun.2016) – Ecopetrol S.A. reports that, on June 8, 2016, based on the authorization granted by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Resolution 1657 of June 7,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 10.Jun.2016) — PDVSA and oil field services giant Schlumberger continue to maintain their operational relationship, reported PDVSA in an official statement, citing a Schlumberger legal...
(Wood Group, 9.Jun.2016) – Wood Group Mustang and Grupo Diavaz, a Mexican oil & gas operator and services company, created a joint venture engineering business to capitalize on Mexico's energy...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – Ecuador will benefit financial from the recently completed overhaul of the Esmeraldas refinery. The country will save more than an estimated $1...
(GeoPark Limited, 8.Jun.2016) – GeoPark Limited announced the start-up of its drilling program in the Llanos 34 Block (GeoPark operated with a 45 percent working interest) in Colombia. GeoPark’s 2016...
(Gran Tierra Energy Inc., 8.Jun.2016) – Gran Tierra Energy Inc. announced the receipt of a positive decision from the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá Center for Arbitration and Conciliation tribunal...