(CNOOC, 13.Jan.2020) — CNOOC Limited announced its business strategy and development plan for the year 2020. The company's targeted net production for 2020 is 520 million to 530 million barrels...
(WoodMac, 13.Jan.2020) — Wood Mackenzie has identified six themes that will impact Asia Pacific’s gas and LNG markets in 2020. Asian LNG spot prices to fall further In 2019, the...
(Reuters, 12.Jan.2020) — An Oklahoma oilfield company that played a central role in Venezuela's high profile attempt to convince the world it could halt production declines at its dilapidated oilfields...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 11.Jan.2020) — Illegal valves were again detected stealing crude oil from the Caño Limón-Coveñas oil pipeline and subsequently produced an oil spill in Caño Veinte...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 10.Jan.2020) — Bogotá Energy Group (GEB) was awarded 0.01% of the shares of Electro Dunas S.A.A. (EDSAA) by the Lima Stock Exchange in Peru as...
(Reuters, 10.Jan.2020) — The Brazilian government authorized Bolivian oil and gas company YPFB to use the Gasbol pipeline to sell gas to other companies in Brazil beyond state-run oil firm...
(Citgo, 24.Jan.2020) — The Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc. (SBF), a non-profit, private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, awarded seven grants totaling $100,000 to nonprofits that expand access to medicine, health...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 9.Jan.2020) — Ecuador’s Electric Corporation (CELEC EP) and the Sub-secretariat Zonal 6 of the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP) signed an agreement for...
(Newsday, 9.Jan.2020) — The price of crude oil, natural gas, ammonia and methanol are critical to the health of the TT economy. These are the main earners of our much-needed...
(Reuters, 8.Jan.2020) — Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party hopes legislators it recently declared to be in charge of congress will approve changes to ownership of some crucial state oil assets, five...
(S&P Global Platts, 8.Jan.2020) — Some Asian importers of Iraqi crude oil may scout for more heavy sour crude from Central and South America in the first quarter, as ongoing...
(Argus, 8.Jan.2020) — Argentina's shale fracturing hit a record in 2019 despite a deceleration sparked by political and economic uncertainty at the end of the year. A total of 6,425...
(Argus, 8.Jan.2020) — Argentina's shale fracturing hit a record in 2019 despite a deceleration sparked by political and economic uncertainty at the end of the year. A total of 6,425...
(MHPS, 7.Jan.2020) — Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas (MHPS), Patria Investments, and Shell announced the signing of a contract with Brazil’s State-owned development bank (BNDES) to finance the gas-powered Marlim...
(Apache, 7.Jan.2020) — Apache Corporation and Total S.A. announced a significant oil discovery at the Maka Central-1 well drilled offshore Suriname on Block 58. The well was drilled using the...
(Total, 7.Jan.2020) — Total and Apache have made a material oil discovery with the Maka Central-1 well on Block 58 offshore Suriname, on trend with the prolific discoveries in the...
(Argus, 7.Jan.2020) — Third-party evaluation showed that 60pc of Mexico's major Zama crude discovery lies within Talos Energy's shallow-water block 7, with the remainder on state-owned Pemex's acreage, the private...
(Caribbean Life News, 7.Jan.2020) — Guyana is on the cusp of great wealth development, celebrating its historic oil discovery of approximately half a billion barrels, but as this new industry...
(Argus, 7.Jan.2020) — The White House appears likely to extend a waiver for Chevron to operate in Venezuela after US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido overcame a government-backed rival to retain...
(Reuters, 7.Jan.2020) — Venezuela’s oil exports plummeted 32% last year to 1.001 million barrels per day, according to Refinitiv Eikon data and state-run PDVSA’s reports, as a lack of staff...
(Reuters, 7.Jan.2020) — Three people were injured in a fire on a platform run by Mexican state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) on Tuesday, the company said, briefly leading to...
(Chron.com, 7.Jan.2020) — Talos Energy touted promising new study results in Mexico's first big deepwater oil discovery, and the Houston producer is pushing to move forward so it can maintain...
(Mann+Hummel, 6.Jan.2020) — On 31 December 2019, the former CEO of Mann+Hummel Fluid Brasil, Luis Guilherme Pozzani da Rocha, officially signed the 100 percent purchase document of the company. The...
(Petrobras, 6.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on December 13, 2019, reports that it has received new correspondence from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development...
(S&P Global Platts, 6.Jan.2020) — Brazil sugar and ethanol group Cosan applied for environmental permits to build a second tranche of the Route 4 offshore natural gas export pipeline in...
(S&P Global Platts, 6.Jan.2020) — The US may respond to escalating political disarray in Venezuela by allowing a sanctions waiver for Chevron and four US oil services companies to expire...
(Canadian Solar, 6.Jan.2020) — Canadian Solar Inc. increased the size of its Board of Directors from five to six directors and appointed Lauren C. Templeton as an independent director, thereby...
(Fair Observer, 6.Jan.2020) — Guyana, home to just 750,000 people, is about to leap from one of the poorest to one of the richest countries in the world. The financial...
(Reuters, 6.Jan.2020) — Brazil’s government is working on a policy to reduce the local impact of spikes in international oil prices, officials said on Monday, reviving questions about the state...
(Stabroek News, 3.Jan.2020) — The commencement by ExxonMobil less than a fortnight ago of oil recovery from what is now firmly categorized as a “world class” oil find inside its...
(Reuters, 3.Jan.2020) — Venezuela’s Petropiar facility, a joint venture between state oil company PDVSA and Chevron Corp, is once again operating as a crude upgrader after several months working as...
(Reuters, 3.Jan.2020) — Mexico threw troubled state oil company Pemex a lifeline in 2019 to stop $80 billion in bonds held by investors worldwide being labeled junk by credit rating...
(Eco, 3.Jan.2020) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. notes the recent announcement by Tullow Oil (37.5%), in partnership with Repsol (Operator, 37.5%) and Total (25%), regarding the cretaceous age...
(Petrobras, 3.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, informs that, due to the latest events in Middle East, it will carry on with its international market monitoring process. The company points out that, according...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 3.Jan.2019) — Ecuador’s state oil company PetroAmazonas EP boosted its production of crude oil by 4% in 2019, according to the country’s Ministry of Energy...
(Reuters, 3.Jan.2020) — Venezuelan state company PDVSA is letting some joint venture partners take over the day-to-day operation of oilfields as its own capacity dwindles due to sanctions and a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 2.Jan.2019) — South America’s Ecuador is producing 537,689 barrels per day of crude oil, the country’s Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources (MENRNR) announced...
(Petrobras, 2.Jan.2020) — Petrobras announced that Board Member Clarissa de Araújo Lins presented her resignation as member of the Board of Directors of the company, as well as the Board...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 2.Jan.2020) — Ecuador officially exited the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries or OPEC, effectively 1 January 2020. The small South American country plans to divert...
(WindFloat, 2.Jan.2020) — WindFloat Atlantic wind farm is now operational. After the energisation of the 20-km cable connecting the offshore wind farm and the substation of Viana do Castello, the...
(Newsday, 2.Jan.2020) — Call it a hunch. The deepwater acreages off the east coasts of Trinidad and Tobago were uncharted territory for hydrocarbon exploration but BHP, the world’s largest mining...
(Reuters, 2.Jan.2020) — Shares of Tullow Oil dropped by nearly a fifth on Thursday as the Africa-focused oil producer's update on the commercial viability of its new well offshore Guyana...
(Bloomberg, 2.Jan.2020) — Tullow Oil Plc discovered light oil at its Carapa-1 well in Guyana, but the reservoir was smaller than the troubled company had expected prior to drilling. Shares...
(Tullow, 2.Jan.2020) — Tullow Oil plc announces that the Carapa-1 exploration well, drilled on the Kanuku licence offshore Guyana, has encountered approximately four metres of net oil pay based on...
(Stabroek News, 1.Jan.2020 — The Department of Energy (DE) has awarded a consultancy to Bayphase Ltd for the evaluation of plans for the development of ExxonMobil’s Payara oil field. Payara...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 1.Jan.2020) — South America’s Guyana, in preparation for elections to be held by the end of the first quarter of 2020, has opened calls for...