(TPHL, 31.May.2019) — Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Limited (TPHL) announced that in connection with its ongoing negotiations with a syndicate of financial institutions to enter into a new senior secured term...
(Sempra, 31.May.2019) — Sempra LNG, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, announced that Cameron LNG has shipped the first commissioning cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the first liquefaction train...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 31.May.2019) — Bristow Group Inc. signed a new deal with BP plc to support its North Sea operations. The contract, with a five year primary...
(bptt, 31.May.2019) — BP’s Upstream chief executive Bernard Looney yesterday emphasized the company’s long-term commitment to Trinidad and Tobago during a meeting with the Honourable Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley...
(Reuters, Anastasia Moloney, 31.May.2019) — Colombia is fighting a losing battle against the destruction of its rainforests in war-hit regions where the government remains weak, a Norwegian climate envoy said...
(ANH Colombia, 30.May.2019) — After having been validated by the firm ‘Gestión y Auditoría Especializada S.A.S., independent auditor, the National Hydrocarbons Agency of Colombia published the final list of investors...
(Frontera, 30.May.2019) — Frontera Energy Corporation’s board of directors has declared a dividend of C$0.205 per common share, which will be paid on or about July 17, 2019 to shareholders...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 30.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to Brazil’s Petrobras requesting lower natural gas volumes from Bolivia’s YPFB, investments to industrialize Bolivian...
(AP, 30.May.2019 ) — Guyana's top energy official said Thursday that interest in oil drilling and development operations in the South American country is unprecedented. Department of Energy head Mark...
(Reuters, 30.May.2019) — At least twenty-two companies are qualified to bid for new exploration contracts for 20 oil blocks in Colombia, the government said on Thursday, as the Andean country...
(Reuters, 30.May.2019) — Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras has received a request for information from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission regarding the firm's trading activities, the company said in...
(Reuters, Ricardo Brito, 30.May.2019) — Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras and sectors of the government are mobilizing in the lead-up to a Supreme Court session next week that could have...
(Baker Institute, Mark P. Jones, 30.May.2019) — Chubut will elect its governor and the members of its provincial legislature for four-year terms on June 9. The pragmatic centrist Peronist governor...
(Canadian Solar, 29.May.2019) — Canadian Solar Inc. announced that it has signed a multi-year module supply agreement with EDF Renewables North America to deliver 1,800 MW of high efficiency poly...
(WoodMac, 29.May.2019) — Canadian Natural Resources today announced a C$3.8 billion (US$2.8 billion) acquisition of Devon Energy's Canadian assets, marking the company's seventh major acquisition since 2014. Taking into account...
(AP, Bert Wilkinson, 29.May.2019) — Guyana's State Assets Recovery Agency said Wednesday it has launched an investigation into whether corruption played a role in the previous government's 2015 decision to...
(Scoot, 28.May.2019) — Scoot, the original shared electric vehicle company, is launching their new shared ebike in the Las Condes district of Santiago, Chile. Mayor Lavin with Scoot at ebike...
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 28.May.2019) — Tankers carrying gasoline and ships transporting food for Venezuela were sabotaged last week to prevent them from reaching Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro said in a televised...
(Chron.com, Sergio Chapa, 28.May.2019) — Booming energy exports and shifting patterns in international commerce have made the Port of Laredo the nation’s top center for trade, supplanting the longtime leader,...
(New York Times, Kirk Semple and Azam Ahmed, 28.May.2019) — The administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico has launched its first major anticorruption prosecution, delivering on a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 27.May.2019) — Brazil’s state oil and gas entity Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure phase or Teaser, related to divestment of its total equity interest in...
(LoopTT, 27.May.2019) — Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Monday slammed the Prime Minister’s 10-day energy trip, accusing him of meddling in the energy affairs of Trinidad and Tobago. In a...
(Reuters, 27.May.2019) — The board of Brazilian petrochemicals producer Braskem SA has approved an agreement with authorities to pay 410 million reais ($101 million) to settle its involvement in the...
(Reuters, Carolina Mandl, 27.May.2019) — Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA has set a June 7 deadline to receive non-binding proposals for its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distribution unit...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to another oil spill along the Caño Limón-Coveña pipeline and this time in La Gloria...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.May.2019) — Rating agency Fitch revised the outlook for Colombia’s state oil company to Negative from Stable, stating the adjustment made to the Colombia's Sovereign...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 27.May.2019) — Argentina’s Environmental Crimes prosecutor Maximiliano Breide Obeid anticipates more samples will be taken from Treater’s oil waste plant located in Añelo in Argentina....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 27.May.2019) — Petrobras, responded to recent news published in media, says it hasn’t yet been summoned of the injunction issued by Supreme Court Judge Edson...
(CNN, Stefano Pozzebon, 26.May.2019) — For many Venezuelans, oil is a birthright in the country blessed with the largest crude reserves in the world. Despite wild hyperinflation, Venezuela's government has...
(Oxford Business Group, 25.May.2019) — On April 19 the World Bank revised its forecast from earlier in the month, which had predicted that T&T would slip into a recession. In...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to the state entity YPF’s plans to ship natural gas to Chile through May 2020,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 24.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to YPFB being the withholding agent for transport carriers in Chaco, and YPFB and Shell...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.May.2019) — As part of Energy Analytics Institute’s ongoing coverage of the Latin America and Caribbean energy sectors from conventionals, unconventionals to renewables, Colombia’s Hydrocarbons...
(TPHL, 24.May.2019) — Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Limited announced the expiration date has been extended until 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 14, 2019, unless extended or earlier terminated...
(Staatsolie, 24.May.2019) — Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V. and Decker Petroleum Marketing Co. LTD, from Trinidad, signed the production sharing contract (PSC) for the Nickerie block on 24 May 2019. Decker...
(Seeking Alpha, Vasily Zyryanov, 24.May.2019) — Canacol Energy, Toronto-listed and Colombia-focused natural gas producer, has recently presented its Q1 results and impressed investors with robust revenue and a 42% funds...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 23.May.2019) — Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) announced that is business strategy is to be a global company, with people committed to...
(Canadian Solar, 23.May.2019) — Canadian Solar Inc. completed the sale of its 68 MWp Aguascalientes solar project in Mexico to BlackRock Infrastructure Fund II. Canadian Solar developed, arranged construction and...
(SQM, 23.May.2019) — Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. reported earnings today for the three months ended March 31, 2019 of US$80.5 million (US$0.31 per share), a decrease from...
(JAX LNG, 23.May.2019) — JAX LNG, a liquefied natural gas facility located at Dames Point in Jacksonville, Florida, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 16 to signify the official start-up of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 23.May.2019) — McDermott International, Inc. reiterated its earlier notified schedule for the Freeport LNG project in Freeport, Texas. As disclosed on 29 April, the company...
(Energy Chamber, 23.May.2019) — On Thursday 9th May, 2019, Mr. Derek Hudson, Vice President and Country Chair of Shell Trinidad and Tobago Limited, signed the Safe to Work (STOW) Charter,...
(Platts, 23.May.2019) — Venezuela has increased oil supplies to ally Cuba in May four-fold as US sanctions severely limit exports to other countries, PDVSA documents show. According to the documents,...
(Reuters, Julia Payne and Dmitry Zhdannikov, 23.May.2019) — The United States told some large foreign firms this week they should stop trading jet fuel with Venezuela or face sanctions, according...
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 23.May.2019) — The world’s newest offshore hotspot, Guyana, is in the early stages of a probe into how oil exploration rights were awarded for oil blocks that...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 23.May.2019) — YPF plans to conduct two lateral drilling operations near 4,000 meters and carry out some 80 staged fractures in each operation. The first...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 23.May.2019) — The Argentine port of of Bahía Blanca is at present a principal location for consideration of construction of a LNG plant; however, the...
(Shell, 23.May.2019) — Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiary Shell Offshore Inc (Shell) announces today that production has started at the Shell-operated Appomattox floating production system months ahead of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 23.May.2019) — Juan Carlos Bermeo Calderón has been appointed Ecuador’s new Vice Minister over the country’s Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources Ministry, the ministry announced...
(CNOOC, 23.May.2019) — CNOOC Limited announced the Appomattox Field in the US Gulf of Mexico has safely commenced production ahead of schedule. Appomattox Field is located approximately 128 kilometers southeast...
(Reuters, 22.May.2019) — Pumping on Colombia’s Bicentenario and Cano Limon oil pipelines has been halted following bomb attacks in recent days, sources from operators Bicentenario and state-run oil company Ecopetrol...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 22.May.2019) — Chile will inaugurate the 108-megawatt S4 Solar Chile photovoltaic park (former Huatacondo) in coming months, Chile’s Energy Minister Susana Jiménez Schuster announced 22...
(Petrobras, 21.May.2019) — Petrobras announced its Board of Directors, at a meeting held yesterday, approved the nomination by the controlling shareholder of Mr. Nivio Ziviani to the position of member...
(WoodMac, 22.May.2019) — Sempra Energy and Saudi Aramco today announced their respective subsidiaries, Sempra LNG and Aramco Services Company, have signed a heads of agreement (HOA), which anticipates the negotiation...
(Reuters, 22.May.2019) — Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol said on Wednesday its crude exports to the United States rose nearly 25% in the first quarter because of lower supply from...
(Ultrapar, 22.May.2019) — Ultrapar International S.A., a public limited liability company (société anonyme) organized and established under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg with registered office at 6,...
(Energy Chamber, 21.May.2019) — Two years ago, the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago hosted its first Clean Energy Conference, an off-shoot from its Trinidad and Tobago Energy Conference which...
(Petrobras, 21.May.2019) — Petrobras says the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) has approved the change of the custodian bank of its ADR programs for common and preferred shares, which...
(VOA, Martin Arostegui, 21.May.2019) — Spain's Repsol, the last western oil giant with major operations in Venezuela, is leaving the embattled country, as pressure mounts from U.S. sanctions and continuing...
(Bloomberg, Jonathan Gilbert 21.May.2019) — A pair of dams going up in Patagonia is a testament to Beijing’s growing influence. Set on a remote steppe in Patagonia, where the winds...
(Petrobras, 21.May.2019) — Petrobras says its Board of Directors approved the execution of the Amendment to the Transfer of Rights Agreement pursuant to the National Council of Energy Policy, Resolution...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 20.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to the Petroamazonas EP and contracts for $78.1 million with China’s CNPC And Sinopec, optimized...
(Echo Energy, 20.May.2019) — Echo Energy plc provided an update on the Tapi Aike seismic acquisition programme and to announce a restructuring of the company's onshore Argentinian portfolio, pursuant to...
(Reuters, 20.May.2019) — Argentina is about to export its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo from a new floating facility, marking a milestone for its energy sector boosted by rising...
(Eni, 20.May.2019) — The award of block MLO 124 is the outcome of the consortium’s successful bid in the International Bid Round “Ronda Costa Afuera n. 1” held on 16...
(Stratas, 20.May.2019) — Extending coverage to the annual analysis of crude oil fundamentals, Stratas Advisors' North American research team now offers the Mexico Crude Oil Outlook, a 10-year annual report...
(Buenavista, 20.May.2019) — Buenavista Renewables México, S. de R.L. de C.V. ("BVR"), a Buenavista Renewables company, and ESCO Comercializadora Energética S. de R.L. de C.V., a qualified supplier from Mexicali,...
(Bloomberg, Lucia Kassai, 20.May.2019) —Venezuela, which sits atop more oil than Saudi Arabia, has fallen behind three other Latin American countries as years of mismanagement and lack of investments take...
(Bloomberg, Sheela Tobben, 20.May.2019) — Petroleum exports from Russia to the U.S. are growing rapidly as the supplier takes advantage of lost deliveries from sanctions-hit Venezuela and supply cuts by...
(Argus, 20.May.2019) — Venezuela's political opposition contracted with an international adviser to prepare for restructuring the country's external debt that is expected to exceed $150bn. Lee Buchheit, a specialist in...
(Reuters, 19.May.2019) — The United States imposed sanctions on Tuesday against Venezuela’s state-run gold mining company Minerven and its president, Adrian Perdomo, accusing them of illicit operations and propping up...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 19.May.2019) — Petroamazonas EP’s production of crude oil in the first four months of 2019 peaked at 428,780 barrels per day of equivalents, up 5.42%...
(Enel, 17.May.2019) — Enel S.p.A. announces that its listed Chilean subsidiary Enel Américas S.A. (“Enel Américas”) informed that its subsidiary in Argentina, Empresa Distribuidora Sur S.A. (“Edesur”), signed with Argentina’s...
(AP, Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, 17.May.2019) — When her daughter was 4 years old, Jennifer Jean started a small catering business in Bourdon, a lower middle-class district of the Haitian capital....
(Petrobras, 17.May.2019) — Petrobras, following up onthe Press Release of March 8, 2019, hereby informs that today the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas denied Petrobras’s...