(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 31.Mar.2019) — As part of Energy Analytics Institute’s ongoing coverage of the Latin America and Caribbean energy sectors from conventionals, unconventionals to renewables, Houston-based Refinitiv...
(Ecopetrol, 29.Mar.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. announces that, at the General Shareholders' Meeting held on March 29, 2019, the Company's Shareholders approved the following: 1. The plan for distribution of profits,...
(JWN, 29.Mar.2019) — Chile has its first floating solar farm installed and on a brand-new type of site: a tailings pond at a copper mine owned by London, UK-based mining...
(Bloomberg, 29.Mar.2019) — As neighboring Venezuela collapses, Colombia is hoping to lure oil majors with an unprecedented bidding system: Producers can propose drilling anywhere, at any time, and the country...
(Reuters, 29.Mar.2019) — Brazilian state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA said on Friday it had kicked off a second attempt to sell its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distribution unit after...
(Reuters, 29.Mar.2019) — Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday he planned to discuss with his Venezuelan counterpart ways to increase oil exports from Venezuela. He did not give...
(Petrobras, 29.Mar.2019) — Petrobras reports that today it filed its 2018 Form 20-F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Form 20-F is a SEC requirement and must be...
(Petrobras, 29.Mar.2019) — Petrobras reports that it has started the opportunity disclosure stage (Teaser), related to the sale of Liquigás Distribuidora S.A. (Liquigás). Liquigás is a wholly owned subsidiary of...
(BPTT, 29.Mar.2019) — BPTT has partnered with the University of the West Indies from the inception of this conference and we are pleased to once again be a sponsor. 3rd...
(Eco, 29.Mar.2019) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. announced that the partners on the Orinduik Block offshore Guyana approved the drilling budget and the location of the second well...
(Exmar, 28.Mar.2019) — Exmar announced its Tango FLNG will start its gas liquefaction operations in the second quarter of 2019, at which time a significant portion of the restricted cash...
(TTNGL, 28.Mar.2019) — “Trinidad and Tobago NGL Limited (TTNGL) continues to provide excellent returns for its shareholders and is an excellent investment for the people of Trinidad and Tobago,” declared...
(Houston Chronicle, Mike Howard, 28.Mar.2019) — The rise of the United States as the world’s largest producer and growing exporter of natural gas puts energy at the center of its...
(Petrobras, 28.Mar.2019) — Petrobras signed a Revolving Credit Facility - RCF in the amount of US$3.25 billion, maturing in March 2024, which may be extended for up to two years....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 27.Mar.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs from Argentina on Neuquen hydrocarbon output reaching record levels in February, MicroSoft and YPF signing a...
(RT, 27.Mar.2019) — A political shakeup in oil-rich Guyana, which neighbors OPEC’s Venezuela, in South America. RT America’s Michele Greenstein joins Scottie Nell Hughes to explain how oil discoveries have...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 27.Mar.2019) — Demand from Bolivia’s power sector is currently 1,511 megawatts (MW) compared to supply of 2,236 MW, resulting in a surplus of 725 MW,...
(Reuters, 27.Mar.2019) — Brazilian state development bank BNDES will continue to reduce its stake in state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA as part of its divestment plan, the bank’s CEO...
(Reuters, 27.Mar.2019) — Brazilian energy firm Eneva SA announced a secondary offering of 49.97 million shares in a securities filing on Wednesday, confirming an earlier Reuters report. The firm, which...
(MEEI, 27.Mar.2019) — The Honourable Stuart Young Minister of National Security, Minister of Communications and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, and Senator the Honourable Franklin Khan, Minister...
(Touchstone, 27.Mar.2019) — Touchstone Exploration Inc. announces its financial and operating results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2018. Selected financial and operational information is outlined below...
(Touchstone, 25.Mar.2019) — Touchstone Exploration Inc. will hold a live online investor presentation and Q&A session for investors on Wednesday 27 March 2019. The webcast will be recorded and made...
(Reuters, 26.Mar.2019) — Shell has sold 40 percent of its participation in two offshore oil exploration contracts in Colombia to Noble Energy, which will also operate the blocs, the government...
(Oilprice.com, Julianne Geiger, 26.Mar.2019) — Venezuela is once again finding itself in the dark in another massive power outage, according to Aljazeera, weighing further on the South American country that...
(Kallanish Energy, 27.Mar.2019) — The introduction of a higher royalty for asset bidders by Trinidad and Tobago may prove counterproductive long-term, Kallanish Energy learns. Analytics company GlobalData said in a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 26.Mar.2019) — Chile’s Energy Minister Susana Jiménez, during a speech at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit (BNEF) this week in New York, said the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 26.Mar.2019) — Dapsa, or La Destilería Argentina de Petróleo, announced plans to invest $30 million to launch a network of 350 service stations in 12...
(Reuters, Marta Nogueira, 26.Mar.2019) — Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras has fined Bolivia’s state oil company YPFB after it failed to deliver liquefied natural gas (LNG) volumes secured under a...
(Reuters, 26.Mar.2019) — Brazil is likely to sign an energy sector cooperation agreement with Israel during President Jair Bolsonaro’s visit to the Middle Eastern country later this month, Brazilian Mines...
(Rabble.ca, Brent Patterson, 26.Mar.2019) — Colombia could be on the cusp of a dangerous fracking boom that would release carbon pollution into the atmosphere, endanger drinking water, and violate Indigenous...
(The New York Times, Ioan Grillo, 26.Mar.2019) — In the first months of this year, the word “huachicolero” — once a rarely used term — has been on the lips...
(Argus,26.Mar.2019) — Brazilian state-controlled Petrobras expects to continue to receive natural gas from Bolivia for up to four more years after its supply contract with its Bolivian counterpart YPFB expires...
(Petrobras, 26.Mar.2019) — Petrobras announced early results of its previously announced debt tender offers (the “Waterfall Offers”). As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on March 25, 2019 (the...
(Reuters, Marcelo Rochabrun, 26.Mar.2019) — Meeting in Brazil this week, auto executives from Toyota to GM talked up traditional fuel sources like ethanol, natural gas and diesel, underlining how South...
(Petrobras, 26.Mar.2019) — Petrobras informs that yesterday its Executive Board approved a change in the frequency of diesel prices adjustment. Diesel prices at the company's refineries, which correspond to around...
(Oil & Gas Journal, Paula Dittrick, 25.Mar.2019) — Argentina plans to build natural gas pipelines and hopes to attract more oil and gas investment for the Vaca Muerta shale play...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 25.Mar.2019) — Uruguayan company Ingener will build the electrical infrastructure for the 125 megawatt Neuquen wind park “Los Meandros” for the Chinese company Envision Energy....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 25.Mar.2019) — Mexico’s state oil company Pemex reported that monthly production of associated and non-associated natural gas, excluding nitrogen, rose 1.8% month-over-month to 3.8 billion...
(Reuters, 25.Mar.2019) — Residents of a remote Amazonian region seized a small oil installation operated by Canadian energy company PetroTal Corp to demand electricity and other government services, an industry...
(Touchstone, 25.Mar.2019) — Touchstone Exploration Inc., active in Trinidad and Tobago, announced details of a major shareholder here. ***
(Economic Times of India, 25.Mar.2019) — New Delhi: India may increase oil imports from Brazil and Mexico to offset the loss of Venezuelan oil in the wake of US sanctions...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 25.Mar.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on YPFB expecting to incorporate 4 MMcm/d of gas production in 2019, Bolivia seeking to boost...
(Oxford Business Group, 25.Mar.2019) — On February 15 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced the launch of Pemex’s Strengthening Programme, a six-year plan designed to improve the company’s financial...
(President Energy, 25.Mar.2019) — President Energy announced plans for its work programme for 2019/20 at its fields in Rio Negro Province, Argentina (President 90%, Edhipsa 10%). The estimated cost of...
(President Energy, 25.Mar.2019) — President Energy announced appointment of Whitman Howard as its Joint Broker with immediate effect. *** © Energy Analytics Institute (EAI)
(ANI, 25.Mar.2019) — President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday embarked on a state visit to Croatia, Bolivia and Chile to hold talks with the leaders of these countries and strengthen...
(Reuters, Marta Nogueira and Gram Slattery, 25.Mar.2019) — Brazil’s government will announce “within days” a deal with state-run oil company Petrobras to settle a multi-billion-dollar contract dispute and clear the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Mar.2019) — Peru’s Hydrocarbon Society (SPH by its Spanish acronym) denounced that residents of the town of Brittany (Requena - Loreto) over ran the facilities...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 23.Mar.2019) — Colombia’s state oil company announced that the Trasandino Pipeline, or OTA by its Spanish acronym, was attacked on March 22 along a portion...
(Petrobras, 22.Mar.2019) — Petrobras has implemented a hedge strategy to protect part of its oil production expected for the year of 2019. Put options have been acquired with exercise price...
(Miami Herald, Nora Gamez Torres, 22.Mar.2019) — Cuba would have to spend nearly $2 billion a year to meet its domestic oil needs if Venezuela’s National Assembly and interim president...
(Petropar, 22.Mar.2019) — Paraguay’s state oil company Petropar announced its participation in the #BasuraChallenge or #TrashChallenge in Arroyo Fortín (Villa Elisa). ***
(Wintershall, 21.Mar.2019) — Wintershall continued its growth course in Latin America in 2018, the company’s CEO Mario Mehren said during an nnual press conference in Kassel. During the meeting, the...
(IMF, 21.Mar.2019) — Ecuador has developed a new economic plan designed to put the country’s debt on a firm downward path, create jobs, protect the poor and most vulnerable, and...
(Reuters, Vera Eckert, 21.Mar.2019) — BASF’s oil and gas subsidiary Wintershall will boost profitability after its planned merger with rival DEA, drawing on cost cuts from the move, an expansion...
(Sputnik, 20.Mar.2019) — The presidents of Bolivia and Russia will meet in Moscow on 11 July to discuss bilateral cooperation in the gas sector and research of nuclear technologies, Bolivian...
(Reuters, Nidhi Verma and Marianna Parraga, 21.Mar.2019) — India’s Reliance Industries is selling fuels to Venezuela from India and Europe to sidestep sanctions that bar U.S.-based companies from dealing with...
(Petrobras, 21.Mar.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the Press Release of 02/01/2019, informs that it obtained a favorable decision, reversing the injunction that suspended the mothballing of the fertilizer plant...
(Houston Chronicle, Sergio Chapa, 21.Mar.2019) — Canceled energy auctions, halted pipeline projects, a ban on hydraulic fracturing, a showdown with fuel thieves, political pressure on regulators to resign and plans...
(Reuters, 21.Mar.2019) — Mexico’s deputy finance minister said on Thursday the government was considering using part of a $15.4 billion public income stabilization fund to pay some debt obligations for...
(Reuters, 21.Mar.2019) — BASF’s oil and gas subsidiary Wintershall on Thursday said it would build up its presence in the Brazilian offshore oil sector this year where it won exploration...
(Reuters, Jake Spring, 21.Mar.2019) — Brazil Mines and Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque said on Thursday that the government will present a program for overhauling the natural gas sector by June,...
(IEEFA, 21.Mar.2019) — The Vaca Muerta oil and gas project, which promises to double oil and gas production over the next six years in Argentina, is facing such strong headwinds...
(Petrobras, 20.Mar.2019) — Petrobras informs that the Administrative Board of Tax Appeals (CARF) pronounced, on this date, by a casting vote, an unfavorable decision regarding fiscal administrative proceeding that addresses...
(Petrobras, 20.Mar.2019) — Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors, at a meeting held today, elected Mrs. Anelise Quintão Lara for the position of Chief Refining and Natural Gas Executive...
(Seeking Alpha, Carl Surran, 20.Mar.2019) — Colombia’s government has nixed two environmental licensing requests made by ConocoPhillips and Canacol Energy for fracking projects in northern Cesar province, Reuters reports. The...
(EOG, 20.Mar.2019) — EOG Resources, Inc. will host a conference call and webcast to discuss first quarter 2019 results on Friday, May 3, 2019, at 9 a.m. Central time (10...
(Sungrow, 20.Mar.2019) — Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd, an inverter solutions supplier for renewables, introduced its PV product portfolio at Solar Power Mexico, strengthening its commitment to solar energy in...
(IHS Markit, Liquid Bulk Principal Analyst, Maritime & Trade, Fotios Katsoulas, 20.Mar.2019) — With most experts anticipating Venezuela’s output to further decline over the next couple of weeks, PDVSA, the...
(Jamaica Gleaner, 20.Mar.2019) — In a deal said to be worth $4 billion, the owners of Jamaica Energy Partners (JEP) have snapped up rival energy outfit Jamaica Private Power Company...
(World Oil, 20.Mar.2019) — Margaret Øvrum recalls that investment depends on viability, “With a monopoly, you do not get the right price.” Norwegian Equinor (formerly Statoil), the second largest oil...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 19.Mar.2019) — U.S. Energy Secretariat Rick Perry will soon travel to Argentina with a delegation of oil field service companies seeking business opportunities in the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 19.Mar.2019) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Gustavo Lopetegui said the country would commence exports of light petroleum by year-end 2019, the executive said in an official...
(Petrobras, 19.Mar.2019) — Petrobras announces that today it concluded the offering of securities in the international capital market (Global Notes) in the amount of US$ 3 billion, with US$ 750...
(Reuters, Gram Slattery, 19.Mar.2019) — Brazilian independent oil company PetroReconcavo has entered direct negotiations with state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA to purchase a cluster of 34 oilfields in the nation’s northeast,...