(SQM, 28.Feb.2019) — Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. reported earnings today for the twelve months ended December 31, 2018 of US$439.8 million (US$1.67 per ADR), an increase from...
(IHS Markit, 28.Feb.2019) — IHS Markit announces the 26th Annual Coal Conference of the Americas on March 19-21, 2019 in Cartagena, Colombia. Held at the Hyatt Regency Cartagena Hotel, this...
(Stabroek News, 28.Feb.2019) — Speaking at an oil and gas forum on Tuesday in Houston, Texas, Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson boasted of the numerous investment opportunities and called...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 28.Feb.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on plans by the Bolivian and Paraguayan presidents to discuss LPG, urea, and gas, Brazil's Petrobras...
(Reuters, 28.Feb.2019) — The Brazilian government will offer in an auction in October production sharing contracts for companies to explore areas that it says hold “significant volumes of oil and...
(Renewables Now, 28.Feb.2019) — Japan’s Shizen Energy Inc announced on Wedneday it has started construction on January 29 of a 1.1-MW direct current (DC) solar power plant in Brazil. The...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 28.Feb.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol reporting an attack along the Caño Limón-Coveñas pipeline, and Brazil’s...
(Compelo, 28.Feb.2019) — Central Puerto has acquired the Brigadier Lopez plant, a gas-fired power plant in Santa Fe, Argentina from state-owned IEASA for a total sum of $326m. The Brigadier...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 28.Feb.2019) — Peru’s state company Petro-Peru began repair work along a section of the Norperuano Pipeline (ONP) nearly three months after it was attacked by...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 28.Feb.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Shell Argentina’s Sean Rooney comments on the productivity of Vaca Muerta, YPFB Foundation training in...
(Reuters, 28.Feb.2019) — Mexican state oil company Pemex said on Wednesday its losses narrowed in 2018, helped by currency exchange gains as crude production and refining rates continued to decline....
(S&P Global Platts, 28.Feb.2019) — Repsol expects output from around 10 of its new international plays to outweigh any possible declines from Libya and Venezuela and drive it towards its...
(Fairfield Current, Lisa Matthews, 28.Feb.2019) — Morgan Stanley started coverage on shares of New Fortress Energy (NASDAQ:NFE) in a research note released on Monday morning, Marketbeat.com reports. The brokerage issued...
(KBR, 28.Feb.2019) — KBR, Inc. has been awarded a pre Front End Engineering Design (Pre-FEED) contract by Mexico Pacific Limited (MPL) for a midscale LNG liquefaction project in Puerto Libertad...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 28.Feb.2019) — Two remodeled buildings make up the new Hovde House in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras, opening its doors to children coming from abandonment,...
(The Costa Rican News, Abelardo Canelo, 27.Feb.2019) — The President of the Republic, Carlos Alvarado and the Minister of Environment and Energy, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, signed a decree that extends...
(Petrobras, 27.Feb.2019) — Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors, at a meeting held today, approved dividends to shareholders who own non-voting shares, in the amount of R$ 106,678,312.41, corresponding...
(Petrobras, 27.Feb.2019) — Petrobras informs that, in February, it pre-paid bank debts totaling R$ 5,9 billion and US$ 1 billion, according to the table below: Table: pre-payment operations (in million)...
(Reuters, 27.Feb.2019) — Colombia on Feb. 26 failed to award 23 energy generation and commercialization contracts in its first renewable energy tender, because the results would have violated antitrust rules,...
(S&P Global Platts, 27.Feb.2019) — Pampa Energia and Tecpetrol, two of the largest energy companies in Argentina, plan to launch the first exploration for unconventional oil and natural gas in...
(Kaieteur News, Kiana Wilburg, 27.Feb.2019) — From all indications, it is quite clear that the Coalition Administration is still too focused on painting a rosy picture regarding the preparations for...
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 27.Feb.2019) — Russian companies in Venezuela are not experiencing any problems resulting from the escalation in the political situation in the country and have not incurred any...
(S&P Global Platts, 27.Feb.2019) — Total expects to see its market-leading oil and gas production growth driven by rising deepwater volumes from Brazil and the Gulf of Mexico over the...
(S&P Global Platts, 27.Feb.2019) — Colombia's Ecopetrol has taken its polyethylene operations offline for preventative maintenance due to feedstock issues stemming from an incident at the Barrancabermeja refinery, a company...
(Bloomberg, Lucia Kassai and Ezra Fieser, 27.Feb.2019) — U.S. Gulf refiners are bidding up prices for Colombian crude amid sanctions on Venezuelan imports, historically one of America’s top oil suppliers....
(Reuters, 27.Feb.2019) — Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said on Tuesday that it is studying a voluntary layoff programme at its administrative headquarters in Sao Paulo to cut...
(Ecopetrol, 27.Feb.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. informs the 2018 earnings distribution proposal, approved by a majority of the members of its Board of Directors, which will be submitted for the consideration...
(Baker Institute, Mark P. Jones, 27.Feb.2019) — On March 10 the Argentine province of Neuquén will hold gubernatorial and legislative elections. Neuquén is home to the Vaca Muerta, one of...
(Petrobras, 27.Feb.2019) — Petrobras informs that today it published its 2018 Integrated Report, comprised of: (i) Annual Report, which brings key information about the company, presenting how the organization generates...
(Jamaica Observer, Kimone Thompson, 26.Feb.2019) — The state-owned oil refinery Petrojam, which is currently embroiled in a management scandal, has begun the search for a new HR manager, following Yolande...
(Bloomberg, Jonathan Gilbert, 27.Feb.2019) — Vista Oil & Gas is breathing a new kind of life into Vaca Muerta, the vast shale play under development in Argentina. Eight years ago,...
(Nabors, 26.Feb.2019) — Nabors Industries Ltd. reported fourth quarter 2018 operating revenues of $782 million, compared to operating revenues of $779 million in the third quarter. Anthony G. Petrello, Nabors...
(BPTT, 26.Feb.2019) — BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) announced first gas production from its Angelin development. The project was delivered on time and under budget. The Angelin development, originally discovered...
(Reuters, Jennifer Hiller, 26.Feb.2019) — Exxon Mobil Corp has resumed seismic exploration for oil and gas off of the coast of Guyana after halting work in December due to a...
(The Daily Express, Mary King, 26.Feb.2019) — Sometime ago I wrote about the petroleum find in Guyana and given the state of our planet, climate change, global warming, sea level...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 26.Feb.2019) — EP Petroecuador, within the preventive maintenance plan for its offshore installations, carried out work related to changing a 42-inch off buoy hose along...
(Petrobras, 26.Feb.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release dated 01/21/2019, reports that its Board of Directors, in a meeting held today, approved the nomination of Mr. Nivio Ziviani as...
(Chile’s Energy Ministry, 27.Feb.2019) — Susana Jiménez holds a Business Degree and a Master's Degree in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She also obtained a Diploma in Free...
(Reuters, 26.Feb.2019) — Greenpeace activists in Argentina blocked access on Tuesday to a waste site used by companies that extract oil and gas from the Vaca Muerta shale formation, the...
(Reuters, 26.Feb.2019) — Colombia on Tuesday failed to award 23 energy generation and commercialization contracts in its first renewable energy tender, because the results would have violated antitrust rules, the...
(Reuters, Tatiana Bautzer and Carolina Mandl, 26.Feb.2019) — Brazilian state-owned bank Caixa Economica Federal is close to selling a 9-billion-real ($2.4 billion) stake it owns in oil company Petroleo Brasileiro...
(Bloomberg, Lucia Kassai and Fabiola Zerpa , 26.Feb.2019) — Venezuela is running out of space to store its sanction-stained crude that few dare to buy, forcing it to reduce output...
(Reuters, 26.Feb.2019) — Petrobras Distribuidora SA, the distribution unit of Brazilian state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA, posted a major boost in quarterly net profit on Tuesday thanks to the...
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 26.Feb.2019) — More than eight million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil is sitting in tankers as U.S. sanctions are preventing the country from selling the commodity worth...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 26.Feb.2019) — U.S. refiner Citgo Petroleum Corp is formally cutting ties with its parent, state-run oil firm Petroleos de Venezuela SA, to meet U.S. sanctions imposed on...
(Echo Energy, 26.Feb.2019) — Echo Energy plc announced the safe and efficient completion of the 3D survey on schedule across the eastern cube on Tapi Aike. Initial indications suggest very...
(Ecopetrol, 26.Feb.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. announced the Business Group’s 2018 fourth quarter and full-year financial results, prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) applicable in Colombia. In words...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 25.Feb.2019) — McDermott International, Inc. reported revenues of $2.1 billion and net loss of $(2.8) billion, or $(15.33) per diluted share, for the fourth quarter...
(Stabroek News, 25.Feb.2019) — Local training and recruitment firm, Strategic Recruitment Solutions (SRS), has placed 26 sailors on ships involved in the oil and gas sector since it began operating...
(BBC, Jack Goodman, 25.Feb.2019) — The United States has imposed tough sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry to put pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to step down. Oil dominates Venezuela’s economy,...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Letter to Editor, Arthur Dash, 25.Feb.2019) — Having recently returned from Guyana, I could not help but think of Trinidad the entire trip. Both countries are...
(Sebastian Rodriguez, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 25.Feb.2019) — Costa Rica’s president has launched an economy-wide plan to decarbonize the country by 2050, saying the Central American nation aims to show other...
(President Energy, 25.Feb.2019) — President Energy plc will today launch an offer for subscription for up to £6.5 million by the issue of up to 81,250,000 new ordinary shares at...
(Sempra, 25.Feb.2019) — Sempra Energy announced that, in support of the company’s North American strategy, it will launch a formal process in March for the previously announced sale of its...
(Wintershall, 25.Feb.2019) — A new Managing Director in Argentina is expected to be appointed after the closing of the upcoming merger between Wintershall and DEA Deutsche Erdöl AG Change of...
(Reuters, 25.Feb.2019) — Brazil’s oil regulator said on Monday that is has started an investigation into an oil spill at an offshore platform owned by Petroleo Brasileiro SA. On Saturday,...
(Stabroek News, Marcelle Thomas, 24.Feb.2019) — ExxonMobil is expected to receive its permit from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week for its Liza Phase 2 operations in the Stabroek...
(Jamaica Observer, Karena Bennett, 24.Feb.2019) — After 100 years of operating Texaco gas stations in Jamaica, GB Energy says it is on track to become the dominant player in the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 23.Feb.2019) — Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol S.A. will release its financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and full year 2018 on February...
(Reuters, 23.Feb.2019) — Mexico’s Pemex produced 1.62 million barrels of crude per day in January, less than any month in almost three decades, the state-owned oil company said on Friday,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Ian Silverman, 23.Feb.2019) — Argentina, Bolivia and Chile hold the largest lithium resources in the world and consequently in the Latin America and Caribbean...
(Petrobras, 23.Feb.2019) — Petrobras reports the occurrence, in the early hours of today 23 Feb. 2019, of a hose rupture at P-58 during the offloading of oil to a relief...
(Citgo, 22.Feb.2019) — CITGO Petroleum Corporation confirmed its newly appointed Board of Directors, which held its first official meeting today, Friday, Feb. 22. The Board includes Luisa Palacios as Chairwoman,...
(Petroleum Economist, Charles Waine, 22.Feb.2019) — Despite severe US sanctions, President Maduro is standing firm. But how long can the political impasse last while oil production continues to decline? Venezuela...
(Petrobras, 22.Feb.2019) — Petrobras announced that in January its total production of oil and gas, including natural gas liquids (NGL), was 2.61 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed),...
(S&P Global Platts, 22.Feb.2019) — US sanctions could more than halve Venezuela's crude production by the end of the year, hitting heavy oil joint ventures in the Orinoco Belt and...
(DOF, 22.Feb.2019) — DOF has been awarded contracts for three ROV Support Vessels (RSV) with Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras). All contracts have a firm duration of three years and can...
(Reuters, 21.Feb.2019) — Colombia hopes to increase its oil reserves by 1 billion barrels by auctioning 20 possible production areas as part of its push to bolster the oil sector,...
(Reuters, 21.Feb.2019) Brazil’s Energy and Mines Minister Bento Albuquerque said on Thursday that a long-awaited auction of the so-called transfer-of-rights area in which oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA operates could...
(Energy Chamber, 26.Feb.2019) — On February 21st, 2019, the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago hosted the first Downstream Forum which was open to its membership only. The main intent...
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, 21.Feb.2019) — Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is freezing new joint-venture contracts with Petroleos Mexicanos, squashing investors’ final hopes that the Mexico energy reforms can be...
(Spectrum, 20.Feb.2019) — Spectrum is commencing a new 20,000 km 2D survey in Colorado and Salado basin offshore Argentina. This new program ties with Spectrum’s existing 38,000 km survey that...
(Shale Support, 21.Feb.2019) — Shale Support, a provider of frac sand and logistical solutions to the oil and gas proppant market, has announced a strategic partnership with Fracht Group, an...
(Petrobras, 21.Feb.2019) — Petrobras informs that the rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) raised its stand-alone credit profile (SACP) to “bb” from “bb-”, with a stable outlook, affirming its global...
(The Conversation, 21.Feb.2019) — When ExxonMobil begins oil production in Guyana next year, mining crude from its seven new deepwater wells, life may change dramatically in this small South American...