(Canadian Solar, 14.Feb.2019) — Canadian Solar Inc. announced that its first solar power project of 68 MWp in Mexico started commercial operations in January 2019. The solar plant, located in...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Ryan Hamilton-Davis, 14.Feb.2019) — A group of firemen at a firemen’s conference who don’t want to talk about water. That’s how Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi summed...
(Argus, 13.Feb.2019) — Shell is making its first foray into Brazilian power generation with a ground-breaking project that will use natural gas from the country´s extensive offshore pre-salt deposits. The...
(FT.com, John Paul Rathbone and Gideon Long, 13.Feb.2019) — Venezuela’s parallel, opposition government sought to take control of the country’s oil revenues from the regime of Nicolás Maduro by naming...
(Petrobras, 13.Feb.2019) — Petrobras informs that it received the Official Letter No. 78/2019 -SAE, which requests the following clarification: Official Letter no. 78/2019 -SAE Dear Gentlemen, In news published by...
(Vista Oil & Gas, 13.Feb.2019) — Vista Oil & Gas, S.A.B. de C.V., the first oil and gas exploration and production company listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange, completed the...
(S&P Global Platts, 13.Feb.2019) — Self-declared Venezuelan interim president Juan Guaido plans to appoint Luisa Palacios, an expert in emerging Latin American markets and international affairs, as president of state...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Feb.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Mexico reporting an increase in 3P natural gas reserves, CFE’s plans to modernize 60 thermoelectric...
(Petrobras, 12.Feb.2019) — Petrobras reports that its Integrated Report and the 2018 Annual Results will be released on Wednesday, February 27, after market closing. Accordingly, the company will be unable...
(IHS Markit Senior Editor Sergey Myakishev, 12.Feb.2019) — The controversy surrounding last year’s re-election of Nicolas Maduro as president of Venezuela came to a head in recent weeks, with continued...
(Caracas Capital Markets, 12.Feb.2019) — I have seen a lot of weird things in courts over the years, but this one is up there, writes Caracas Capital Markets, S.A. Managing...
(Reuters, 12.Feb.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he will respect contracts that companies have with state-run power utility CFE for pipelines that are not operational...
(Demerara Waves, 11.Feb.2019) — Guyana is moving full steam ahead to award more oil concessions, but this time it would be done through a competitive system instead of striking one-on-one...
(Echo Energy, 12.Feb.2019) — Further to the company’s announcement of 8 January 2019, Echo Energy plc confirms that mechanical stimulation and testing operations on the EMS-1001 well in the company’s...
(Reuters, 12.Feb.2019) — Eight Argentine biodiesel producers will be allowed to export to the European Union without paying duties as long as they sell at a set minimum price, the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 11.Feb.2019) — Peru’s Norperuano Pipeline (ONP by is Spanish acronym) has been halted by new sabotage related to the capture of strategic facilities (stations 1...
(Reuters, Julia Payne, 11.Feb.2019) — Swiss authorities are assisting Brazilian prosecutors in their investigation into an alleged corruption scheme involving global commodity trading firms Vitol, Glencore and Trafigura, a spokesman...
(Reuters, Andrei Khalip, 11.Feb.2019) — Portuguese oil company Galp said on Monday it expects higher crude output, refining margins and efficiency gains to deliver a steep rise in 2020 and...
(Argus, 11.Feb.2019) — India´s two leading refiners will continue to import Venezuelan crude but will no longer supply oil products to Venezuela´s state-owned PdV because of US sanctions, Indian downstream...
(Chron.com, Jordan Blum, 11.Feb.2019) — Struggling Venezuela already is producing oil at a multi-decade low, but the socialist nation's crude output could fall another 50 percent by 2020, further imperiling...
(Wall Street Journal, Anthony Harrup, 11.Feb.2019) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the Mexican government wants to revise natural-gas pipeline contracts with private companies under which the state-owned electric...
(IEnova, 11.Feb.2019) — Infraestructura Energética Nova (IEnova) clarifies the following regarding its natural gas pipelines in Mexico. IEnova is a Mexican company that has operated in the market for 22...
(Industrial Info, 11.Feb.2019) — Crude oil prices rose by a few dollars per barrel in the days after the U.S. imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry January 28. But those...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 11.Feb.2019) — PDVSA Gas, a subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela or PDVSA, announced the start of natural gas production at the...
(AP, Alexandra Olson, 9.Feb.2019) — The U.S. and dozens of other countries may have declared that Nicolas Maduro is no longer the legitimate president of Venezuela, but that has not...
(Reuters, Corina Pons, Marianna Parraga, 9.Feb.2019) — Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA is telling customers of its joint ventures to deposit oil sales proceeds in an account recently opened at...
(Citgo, 9.Feb.2019) Houston-based Citgo Petroleum Corporation is a refiner, transporter, and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other petroleum-based industrial products. Citgo is owned by Citgo Holding, Inc., an...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 8.Feb.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Moody’s saying changes to Argentina’s gas subsidy could affect investments, Tecpetrol Argentina’s plans to cut...
(S&P Global Platts, 8.Feb.2019) — US sanctions imposed on Venezuela’s state-owned PDVSA could further support an already tight high sulfur fuel oil market in Europe, sources said. The European fuel...
(AFP, 8.Feb.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday he would soon announce a rescue plan for troubled state oil company Pemex, suggesting it would be worth around...
(IEEFA, 8.Feb.2019) — The Argentine government’s plan to develop the massive Vaca Muerta oil and gas reserves in northern Patagonia has hit a major obstacle. The success of the plan...
(Axios, Steve LeVine, 8.Feb.2019) — On the coast of South America, just north of Brazil, lies the impoverished former British colony of Guyana, distantly remembered for a bizarre mass suicide...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Richardson Dhalai, 7.Feb.2019) — TT energy companies are being encouraged to sign up for a chance to be a part of Guyana’s oil and gas exploration...
(Frontera, 7.Feb.2019) — Frontera Energy Corporation announces an investor day and corporate update, including developments related to the Parex farm-in agreement, executive appointment, hedging, and the Corcel arbitration and the...
(Petrobras, 7.Feb.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the Press Releases of 07/07/2018 and 08/29/2018, hereby informs that, within the scope of its ongoing process of contingency assessment, it will make...
(Reuters, 6.Feb.2019) — The United States has asked Brazil to consider lifting tariffs imposed on its ethanol exports and is hopeful of a positive outcome, a senior official at the...
(Kallanish Energy, 6.Feb.2019) — Argentina’s government has decided to change the country’s subsidy program for unconventional gas development leaving projects in limbo, Kallanish Energy learns from local producers YPF and...
(Airborne, 6.Feb.2019) — Airborne Oil & Gas announces that Renato Bastos has joined Airborne Oil & Gas, as Vice President Brazil, strengthening its presence in Brazil. In this role, Renato...
(Petrobras, 6.Feb.2019) — Petrobras, in relation to the news published in the media about possible collective arbitration by an association of investors, clarifies that it has not been notified by...
(ExxonMobil, 6.Feb.2019) — The discoveries build on the previously announced estimated recoverable resource of more than 5 billion oil-equivalent barrels on the Stabroek block. Tilapia-1 is the fourth discovery in...
(Reuters, 5.Feb.2019) — The American government has slammed a major U.S. aid agency for lax oversight of renewable energy projects in Chile that stoked risks around the body’s roughly $900...
(Energy Chamber, 5.Feb.2019) — Recognizing the role of energy efficiency in simultaneously developing the economy and reducing Trinidad and Tobago’s greenhouse gas emissions, the Energy Chamber has developed an Energy...
(GeoPark, 5.Feb.2019) — GeoPark Limited will report its 4Q:18 and year-end 2018 financial results on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 after market close. In conjunction with 4Q:18 results press release, GeoPark’s...
(Reuters, 5.Feb.2019) — Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA’s principal amount of debt to Russian oil producer Rosneft stood at $2.3 billion at the end of the fourth quarter, down from...
(GeoPark, 5.Feb.2019) — GeoPark Limited announced its independent oil and gas reserves assessment, certified by DeGolyer and MacNaughton Corp. (D&M), under PRMS methodology, as of December 31, 2018. All figures...
(Reuters, 5.Feb.2019) — Colombia has modified how it will give out offshore oil and gas exploration contracts and relaunched bidding for more than 20 possible production areas, as the Andean...
(BPTT, Claire Fitzpatrick, 4.Feb.2019) — Sponsor’s remarks from BPTT’s Regional President Claire Fitzpatrick during the Trinidad and Tobago Energy Conference held in Port of Spain, Trinidad. SALUTATIONS -- Dr. The...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 4.Feb.2019) — Amerisur Resources Plc spud the Calao-1X exploration well on the CPO-5 block using rig E-2029 on February 1, 2019, the company announced in...
(Marla Dukharan, 4.Feb.2019) — The worst humanitarian crisis in Latin American history has for years been festering in our backyard, with spillovers both good and (mostly) bad for the Caribbean....
(Bloomberg, Jose Enrique Arrioja, Nick Wadhams, and Anna Edgerton, 4.Feb.2019) — Venezuela’s government-in-waiting intends to scrap requirements that state-owned oil giant PDVSA keep a controlling stake in joint ventures as...
(Petrobras, 4.Feb.2019) — Petrobras, in compliance with article 12 of CVM Instruction 358 of January 3, 2002 and Circular Letter CVM/SEP/No001/2017, informs that it was notified by the National Bank...
(Phoenix Global, 4.Feb.2019) — Further to Phoenix Global Resources plc’s announcement on 6 December 2018, the company announced additional funding arrangements. The existing convertible revolving credit facility with Mercuria Energy...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 4.Feb.2019) — EXMAR’s Floating LNG Liquefaction Unit (FLNG), Tango FLNG, has reportedly arrived to the port at Bahia Blanca in Argentina, according to local media...
(Trinidad PM Keith Rowley, 4.Feb.2019) — Once again, it is my distinct honour and pleasure to deliver the feature address at this the opening of 2019 Energy Conference and Trade...
(Buenos Aires Times, Jairo Straccia, 2.Feb.2019) — Despite all the smiling photos taken in the past showing President Mauricio Macri and Techint CEO Paolo Rocca together (even at the height...
(Wood Mackenzie, 2.Feb.2019) — The sanctions the US government has imposed against Venezuela aim to curb the Maduro government’s access to revenue from crude export. But impact could they have...
[caption id="attachment_6756" align="alignright" width="300"] Source: PDVSA[/caption] (Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 2.Feb.2019) — Nicolas Maduro, no longer recognized by the U.S., among numerous other countries worldwide as Venezuela’s president, announced...
(Hunt Oil, 2.Feb.2019) — Hunt Oil Company of Peru L.L.C., Sucursal del Perú (HOCP) is part of the Camisea Consortium and holds a 25.2% interest in the License Contracts related...
(AP, 1.Feb.2019) — Chevron Corp. says its operations in Venezuela will continue normally for the “foreseeable future” despite newly imposed U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.Feb.2019) — YPF and Techint plan to review actual and future investment plans in Neuquén, claiming a recently announced reduction in Argentina's natural gas subsidy...
(Petrobras, 1.Feb.2019) — Following the Material Facts disclosed on December 26 and 28, 2018 and January 8, 2019, Petrobras informs that the bookbuilding of the sixth (6th) issuance of simple,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Pietro D. Pitts, 1.Feb.2019) — Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras and consortium partners including subsidiaries of Royal Dutch Shell plc and Galp Energia commenced...
(Weatherford, 1.Feb.2019) — Weatherford International plc released operational highlights from the Western Hemisphere during the quarter, including highlights on Colombia and Mexico. -- A major operator in Colombia awarded Weatherford...
(Shell, 1.Feb.2019) — Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiary Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda., announces with consortium partners the start of production at the Lula North deep-water project in the...
(Petrobras, 1.Feb.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the notice to the market released on 10/30/2018, informs that it has initiated the mothballing process of the fertilizer plant located in Sergipe...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.Feb.2019) — Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras received a payment for R$ 684.2 million related to the diesel economic subvention program. The payment relates to...
(Frontera, 1.Feb.2019) — CGX Energy Inc. and Frontera Energy Corporation announced execution of a farm-in joint venture agreement covering CGX’s two shallow water offshore Petroleum Prospecting Licenses in Guyana, the...
(Petrobras, 1.Feb.2019) — Petrobras announced it started today, with its partners of the BM-S-11 Consortium, the production of oil and natural gas through P-67 platform, in the Lula Norte area,...
(Fox Business, Brittany De Lea, 31.Jan.2019) — Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó sits down with FOX Business’ Trish Regan to discuss the future of Venezuela and how long it will...
(Petrobras, 31.Jan.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the Press Releases of 4th, 7th and 14th of January of 2019, reports that its Board of Directors approved the appointments of Admiral...
(LatinFinance, 31.Jan.2019) — LatinFinance unveiled its 2018 Deals of the Year Awards in New York on Thursday, at an exclusive awards dinner recognizing stand-out transactions and institutions in the capital...
(Canadian Solar, 31.Jan.2019) — Canadian Solar Inc. has secured a 295 million Brazilian reais (US$80 million) financing from Banco do Nordeste S.A. (BNB) for its 114 MWp Salgueiro solar power...
(Bristow, 31.Jan.2019) — Bristow Group Inc. provided a market outlook and comments on Brexit as well as selected regional perspectives. What follows are excerpts from Bristow’s quarter report for the...
(Petrobras, 30.Jan.2019) — Petrobras discloses the volume of its proved petroleum reserves (oil, condensate and natural gas), estimated as of the end of 2018, according to ANP/SPE (National Agency of...
(Reuters, 30.Jan.2019) — More than 24 hours after the United States announced large-scale sanctions on Venezuela’s nationally owned oil company, merchant trading firms and refiners were still deciphering what the...