Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS) Ends In Kenya

(Tullow Oil, 13.Jul.2020) — After a successful two-year period and coinciding with the Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS) contract expiry period, Tullow Kenya, together with […]

New Players Help Maduro Evade Tanker Sanctions

(AP, 13.Jul.2020) — As U.S. sanctions scare away the world’s largest shippers from Venezuela‘s oil industry, new players are willing to brave the heightened risks and […]

New Players Emerge In Venezuela Amid Sanctions

(AP, 13.Jul.2020) — As U.S. sanctions scare away the world’s largest shippers from Venezuela’s oil industry, new players are willing to brave the heightened risks […]

Bolivia To Investigate YPFB Refining Transfers

(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Jul.2020) — Ecuador ‘s transparency unit of the hydrocarbon ministry received a complaint that dates back and relates to the management of […]

Argentina’s YPF Announces Exchange Offering

(YPF, 13.Jul.2020) — Argentina’s state oil company YPF Sociedad Anónima announced 13 July 2020 changes to a debt exchange offering. The offering consists of the […]

Fitch Downgrades Suriname’s LT-FC IDR To ‘RD’

(Fitch Ratings, 13.Jul.2020) — Fitch Ratings has downgraded Suriname’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency (FC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘RD’ from ‘C’. KEY RATING DRIVERS The downgrade […]

Suriname Elects New President Santokhi

(The New York Times, 13.Jul.2020) — Desi Bouterse has cast a long shadow over Suriname since its independence. Once a dictator, he returned as a […]

Vote Standoff Prolongs Guyana Uncertainty

(Argus, 13.Jul.2020) — Guyana’s political stalemate is prolonging uncertainty over the future management of the South American country’s fledgling oil sector, and raising the prospect […]

Petrobras On Asphalt Sale By Reduc

(Petrobras, 13.Jul.2020) — Petrobras reports that its refinery in Duque de Caxias (Reduc), located in Rio de Janeiro, reached the mark of 16,773 tons of […]