(T&T Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 22.Jul.2019) — Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley visited the TOFCO fabrication yard in La Brea on Friday with BPTT team, led by regional president Claire Fitzpatrick,...
(NPR, 20.Jul.2019) — It sounded like such a good idea at the time. The year was 2005. Global oil prices were climbing dramatically. Countries in the Caribbean were facing major...
(Petrobras, 19.Jul.2019) — Petrobras informs that in the scope of the bidding process for total disinvestment of Petrobras' interests in Pampo and Enchova Poles in Campos Basin, Trident Energy has...
(Petrobras, 19.Jul.2019) — Petrobras clarifies media reports related to the supply of fuel to two Iranian vessels. Petrobras did not provide fuel to the exporting company because the Iranian vessels...
(IDB, 19.Jul.2019) — IDB Invest, member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, subscribed a bond in its entirety for 657,000 million Colombian pesos with Grupo Bancolombia. It is the first time...
(McDermott, 19.Jul.2019) — McDermott International, Inc. has been awarded a sizeable* contract by Argentina-based YPF, S.A. to provide pre-front-end engineering design (Pre-FEED) services for a five million tonnes per annum...
(Reuters, 18.Jul.2019) — Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA partly restarted activity at its 645,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Amuay refinery where a blackout halted operations in early Jul., four sources with knowledge...
(Ecopetrol, 18.Jul.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. said the Ministry of Mines and Energy of Brazil has authorized the transfer of a 10% stake in the Saturno block, located in the Santos...
(Vista, 18.Jul.2019) — Vista Oil & Gas, S.A.B. de C.V. announced commencement of an underwritten public offering of the Company's Series A shares (the "Series A shares"), which may be...
(Kevin Ramnarine, 18.Jul.2019) — In February 2017, I captioned an article about the Guyana-Suriname basin, The New North Sea, comparing ExxonMobil’s discoveries in Guyana to discoveries in the Norwegian North...
(Petroleum Economist, 18.Jul.2019) — Latin America's economically troubled oil giant faces the difficult task of significantly raising Asian crude grades. Venezuela's upgraders have been forced to stop upgrading extra-heavy crude...
(Frontera, 16.Jul.2019) — Frontera Energy Corporation announces the award of the VIM-22 block in addition to LLA-99 block which was previously announced on June 27, 2019 under the successful Agencia...
(Pemex, 16.Jul.2019) — In the presence of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the chief executive officer of Petróleos Mexicanos, Octavio Romero Oropeza, presented Pemex’s Business Plan for...
(Talos, 16.Jul.2019) — Talos Energy Inc. intends to release second quarter 2019 results for the period ended June 30, 2019 on Wednesday, August 7, 2019 after the U.S. financial market...
(Petrobras, 16.Jul.2019) — Petrobras, focusing on providing greater transparency in its information, reports that as from this quarter, it will disclose the production and sales report prior to the company's...
(Petrobras, 16.Jul.2019) — Petrobras announced the early results of its previously announced debt tender offers (the “Waterfall Offers”). As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on July 15, 2019...
(Frontera, 16.Jul.2019) — Frontera Energy Corporation plans to announce its second quarter 2019 results will be released after market on Thursday, August 1, 2019 followed by a conference call for...
(Petrobras, 15.Jul.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release dated 06/28/2019, announces the beginning of the non-binding phase related to the first phase of the sale of assets in downstream...
(PetroPlaza, 15.Jul.2019) — The high production of Vaca Muerta's field has driven the oil company to enter the Argentinian natural gas market. The high production of natural gas from Vaca...
(Petrobras, 15.Jul.2019) — Petrobras informs that in the scope of the competitive sale process for the sale of its entire stake in Baúna field (concession area BM-S-40), located in shallow...
(Petrobras, 15.Jul.2019) — Petrobras reports that its Board of Directors approved the appointment of Mr. Walter Mendes de Oliveira Filho for the position of member of the company's Board of...
(Canacol, 15.Jul.2019) — Canacol Energy Ltd. announced results of the Ocarina 1 exploration well located on its 100% operated VIM 5 block, and the flow testing results of the Nelson...
(OCCRP, 15.Jul.2019) — A Colombian judge requested on Friday the extradition of an American oil executive who is a suspect in one of the biggest corruption scandals in Colombia. Local...
(Reuters, 15.Jul.2019) — Recently announced plans to foster competition in the Brazilian natural gas market may trigger a wave of privatizations among state-controlled distribution companies, luring international and domestic bidders,...
(EIA, 12.Jul.2019) — Argentina’s domestic natural gas production has been rising steadily in the past three years, largely because of increasing production from the Neuquén Basin’s Vaca Muerta shale and...
(Reuters, 12.Jul.2019) — A court in Ecuador has upheld a ruling that prevents the government from selling land in the Amazon rainforest to oil companies, a move activists called a...
(Windpower Monthly, David Wes, 12.Jul.2019) — Developers with renewable energy projects of over 5MW that can be online by 1 January 2022 are invited to bid. The ministry of mines...
(EPM, 11.Jul.2019) — Empresas Públicas de Medellín E.S.P. (EPM) announced expiration and results of its previously announced offer to purchase for cash any and all of its outstanding 8.375% Notes...
(Reuters, 11.Jul.2019) — Bolivia’s state energy firm has sealed a deal to supply gas to Russian fertilizer giant Acron’s plants in Brazil, the two sides said on Thursday, opening up...
(Ecopetrol, 11.Jul.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. reports that the Boranda-2 ST well, located in Rionegro (Santander), has discovered the presence of crude in the Eoceno basal sands. The well was drilled...
(ANH, 11.Jul.2019) — After more than five years without offers or rounds of new blocks for Exploration and Production of hydrocarbons in Colombia, the new Permanent Process of Area Allocation...
(Talos, 10.Jul.2019) — Talos Energy Inc. provided an update on the results of its semi-annual borrowing base redetermination and recent hedging activities. Effective July 3, 2019, the Company's borrowing base...
(Qatar Petroleum, 10.Jul.2019) — Qatar Petroleum has signed an agreement with Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC to develop a new world-scale petrochemical project in the Gulf Coast region of the...
(Reuters, 10.Jul.2019) — Argentina has opened the tender for a new $2 billion gas pipeline from the huge Vaca Muerta shale field, which according to the country's Energy Secretariat, should...
(WoodMac, 10.Jul.2019) — The Dominican Republic today launched its first licensing round, putting 14 blocks across its on- and offshore basins up for bid. The Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Energy...
(Siemens, 9.Jul.2019) — Siemens will provide MODEC with three 34-megawatt (MW) SGT-A35 gas turbine power generation packages that will power MODEC's floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel. Rendering of...
(Reuters, 9.Jul.2019) — Bolivia's state-owned oil company YPFB plans to bid on a stake in a natural gas pipeline linking the country to Brazil to secure better terms for its...
(Argus, 9.Jul.2019) — Venezuela's national oil company PdV is seeking to adapt its infrastructure to cope with a shortage of imported naphtha that is hindering heavy crude production and exports....
(Guardian, Curtis Williams, 9.Jul.2019) — Trinidad and Tobago has suffered a downgrade in its sovereign ratings from credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s. In its update on this country, S&P...
(Wintershall, 9.Jul.2019) — Change at the top of Wintershall Dea in Brazil: Valerie Bosse is the new Managing Director of the Wintershall Dea Business Unit Brazil and is responsible for...
(Bloomberg, Peter Millard and Amy Stillman, 9.Jul.2019) — Mexico’s moratorium on auctioning off its oil riches to foreign producers is giving a leg up to nearby rivals Brazil and Guyana....
(Petrobras, 8.Jul.2019) — Petrobras announced the expiration and expiration date results of the previously announced offers to purchase by its wholly-owned subsidiary Petrobras Global Finance B.V. (PGF), of any and...
(Petrobras, 8.Jul.2019) — Petrobras reports that it signed an Agreement with the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), which consolidates understandings between the parties on the promotion of competition in...
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 8.Jul.2019) — Venezuela’s refining complex CRP has been shut down after a blackout that occurred on Sunday, Argus Media reports, citing union officials from the complex as...
(YPF, 8.Jul.2019) — YPF announced the launch of YPF Ventures, a corporate venture capital fund that will expand YPF's influence into emerging energy businesses. YPF is one of Latin America's...
(Argus, 8.Jul.2019) — Venezuela´s state-owned PdV plans to restart crude processing at the 940,000 b/d CRP refining complex by 10 July after electricity supply was restored on the Paraguana peninsula,...
(Petrobras, 5.Jul.2019) — Petrobras informs that its Chief Governance and Compliance Executive Officer, Rafael Mendes Gomes, presented his resignation from the position, for personal reasons. Petrobras will initiate a selection...
(Eco, 5.Jul.2019) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. announced that drilling operations have commenced offshore Guyana with the spudding of the first exploration well on its Jethro-Lobe prospect on...
(GECOM, 5.Jul.2019) — Guyana, the only English speaking country in South America was first inhabited by the Amerindians until the era of the European exploration when the Spanish began using...
(Reuters, 5.Jul.2019) — Mexico's attorney general's office said on Friday that a judge issued arrest warrants for the former chief executive of state oil firm Pemex, Emilio Lozoya, three of...
Please Share: (Petrobras, 5.Jul.2019) — Petrobras, in relation to the news published in the media, regarding the sale of Liquigás Distribuidora SA, clarifies that this divestment project is in the...
(Petrobras, 5.Jul.2019) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), related to the sale of its entire working interest in Peroá and Cangoá production fields and in the concession BM-ES-21...
(Petrobras, 5.Jul.2019) — Petrobras informs that in connection to the press released of May 7th, 2019 that it is paying today Interest on Capital (IOC), as defined in art. 9,...
(McDermott, 5.Jul.2019) — McDermott International (McDermott) and Chiyoda International (Chiyoda) announced today they have reached an agreement with Cameron LNG for performance-based commercial considerations related to the construction and commissioning...
(JinkoSolar, 5.Jul.2019) — JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. announced that it has supplied I+D Energias with 7.8MW of solar modules which were installed at two PV power plants in Hungary. The...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 4.Jul.2019) — Trafigura Pte. Ltd. was awarded a deal by EP Petroecuador for the export of 340,000 barrels ± 3% of Vacuum Gas Oil (VGO)....
(T&T Newsday, Clint Chan Tack, 4.Jul.2019) — The National Gas Company (NGC) needs to remain a key part of this country's natural gas value chain, but it may have to...
(Reuters, Gram Slattery and Rodrigo Viga Gaier, 4.Jul.2019) — Police in Rio de Janeiro arrested more than 40 people on Thursday for their alleged roles in a murderous gang that...
(Reuters, 3.Jul.2019) — Guyana is preparing to raise the take of the government in future oil licences, the director of the South American country’s Department of Energy said on Wednesday....
(Bechtel, 3.Jul.2019) — Bechtel and customer Cheniere Energy announced the completion of the first commissioning cargo with liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Train 2 at the Corpus Christi Liquefaction (CCL)...
(Eni, 3.Jul.2019) — Eni (70%) and its partner Vitol (30%) have been awarded rights to Block WB03, located in the medium deep waters of the prolific Tano Basin, offshore Ghana....
(Frontera, 3.Jul.2019) — Frontera Energy announces a second quarter 2019 operational update. All values in this news release and the Company's financial disclosures are in United States dollars, unless otherwise...
(Constellation, 2.Jul.2019) — Constellation Oil Services Holding S.A., filed an amended plan (the "Plan") in its recuperação judicial ("RJ") proceeding in Brazil on July 1, 2019. The Plan was approved...
(EPM, 2.Jul.2019) — Empresas Públicas de Medellín E.S.P. (EPM) its offer to purchase for cash any and all of its outstanding 8.375% Notes due 2021 (CUSIP No.: 29246B AB4 (144A)...
(Reuters, 2.Jul.2019) — Argentine oil and natural gas output hit a record high in May thanks to increased production from the country’s sprawling Vaca Muerta shale formation, the government said...
(Bloomberg, Laura Millan Lombrana, 2.Jul.2019) — The total eclipse that plunged South America into darkness for a short while on Tuesday also knocked out about half of Chile’s solar power....
(Eni, 2.Jul.2019) — Eni has started the early production phase from the Miztón field in Area 1, located in the Campeche Bay offshore Mexico. This is the first step in...
(Reuters, 2.Jul.2019) — Venezuela will stick to its plan of blending domestic and foreign crude to maintain and even increase oil production and exports in the face of sanctions prohibiting...
(Bloomberg, Fabiola Zerpa, Peter Millard and Kevin Crowley, 2.Jul.2019) — Chevron Corp. is lobbying the U.S. for sanctions relief so it can continue doing business in oil-rich Venezuela where President...
(Kosmos, 1.Jul.2019) — Kosmos Energy announced the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim-1 well (GTA-1), drilled on the eastern anticline within the unit development area of Greater Tortue, has encountered approximately 30 meters...
(Reuters, 1.Jul.2019) — Brazilian financial startup Nubank has appointed former Petroleo Brasileiro SA's Chief Executive Ivan Monteiro as a member of its risk committee and finance consultant, it said on...
(Zacks, 1.Jul.2019) — In a bid to forge ahead with divestment goals, Petrobras has commenced the process of offloading four refineries namely Rnest, Rian, Repar and Refap. The move is...
(Moody’s, 1.Jul.2019) — Moody's Investors Service assigned a B2 rating to Pampa Energía S.A.'s proposed senior unsecured notes. The outlook is stable. Net proceeds from the proposed issuance will be...
(Chron.com, Sergio Chapa, 1.Jul.2019) — Keppel AmFELS has built offshore drilling rigs and platforms here for decades. But the last few years have not been particulary kind to the offshore...
(AP, Carlos Valdez, 1.Jul.2019) — Abraham Rodríguez's small shoe store grew into a factory that employed more than a dozen workers during an economic boom in Bolivia when prices for...