(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Apr.2022) — The recovery of Argentina’s state oil giant YPF some 10 years ago was an act of sovereignty that changed the […]
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Pemex Says Fire under Control at Salina Cruz Refinery
(Reuters, 16.Apr.2022) — Mexican state oil company Pemex said on Saturday that it had brought under control a fire at its Salina Cruz refinery in […]
Mexico’s Electricity Reform Draws Opposition from Investors, US
(The Washington Post, 16.Apr.2022) — Mexico’s congress will decide on Sunday whether to give the government near-total control over the country’s electricity sector in what […]
Colombia’s President Iván Duque Touts Oil Production Potential
(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Apr.2022) — Colombia’s President Iván Duque talked about Colombia’s oil production potential, coal production, and Colombia’s relationship with the US during a […]
Earthstone Closes Bighorn Acquisition as well as Debt and Equity Financings
(Earthstone Energy, 14.Apr.2022) — Earthstone Energy, Inc. (NYSE: ESTE) announced the closing of the acquisition of assets of privately held Bighorn Permian Resources, LLC in the […]
SSR Mining Announces Closing of Taiga Gold Acquisition
(SSR Mining, 14.Apr.2022) — SSR Mining Inc. (NASDAQ: SSRM) (TSX: SSRM) (ASX: SSR) completed the previously announced plan of arrangement to acquire all of the issued […]
NRGBriefs: Trinidad’s Gas Production in Jan. 2022 Down 4% Y-O-Y
(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Apr.2022) — Energy briefs including Trinidad and Tobago’s natural gas production reaching 2,877 MMcf/d (2.877 Bcf/d) in Jan. 2022, down 4% vs […]
Cuenca Gets its First Electric Vehicle Charging Station
(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Apr.2022) — Ecuador inaugurated its first electric vehicle fast charging station in Cuenca, Azuay on 12 April 2022 with an initial investment […]
Deep-South to Resume Trading on 19 April 2022
(Deep-South Resources, 14.Apr.2022) — Deep-South Resources Inc. (TSXV: DSM) announces further to a discussion with the TSX Venture Exchange concerning the documents related to the […]
Open Letter to Joe Biden Regarding Venezuela
(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Apr.2022) — Representatives of the Venezuelan private sector and civil society as well as US government representatives sent an open letter to […]
Petrobras Approves Election of José Mauro Ferreira Coelho as CEO
(Petrobras, 14.Apr.2022) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 12 April 2022, informs that its Board of Directors, in a meeting held today, […]
Ecuador Changes Name of MERNNR to Ministry of Energy and Mines
(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Apr.2022) — Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso ordered the modification of the name of Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources (MERNNR) to […]
Ecopetrol, Shell Pick up Six Blocks in Brazil Bid Round
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Apr.2022) — Ecopetrol, through its Brazilian affiliate Ecopetrol Óleo e Gás do Brasil, in partnership with Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda, picked up […]
NRGBriefs: Argentina Inflation Likely to Exceed 6% in March 2022
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Apr.2022) — Energy briefs including economists in Argentina expecting inflation in Mar. 2022 to exceed 6%; and Energy Analytics Institute’s short takeaway […]
Petrobras Approves Dividends Payment
(Petrobras, 13.Apr.2022) — Petrobras, following up on release disclosed on 23 February 2022, informs that, in a meeting held today, the Annual General Meeting (AGM) […]
China’s Oil Champion Prepares Western Retreat Over Sanctions Fear
(Reuters, 13.Apr.2022) — China’s top offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC Ltd. (0883.HK) is preparing to exit its operations in Britain, Canada and the United States, because […]
Exxon Starts Construction of Guyana Campus
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Apr.2022) — ExxonMobil continues to work closely with its local partners in Guyana to develop its new office campus in the small […]
KBR Announces Settlement with Ichthys Power Plant Subcontractor
(KBR, 12.Apr.2022) — KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced that JKC Australia LNG Pty Ltd joint venture, in which KBR has a 30% ownership interest, and Kellogg Brown […]
Excelerate Energy Announces Pricing of IPO
(Excelerate Energy, 12.Apr.2022) — Excelerate Energy, Inc. announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 16,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at […]
SEOGS 2022 Brochure Now Available
(Global Events Partners, 12.Apr.2022) — The main brochure for the 2nd edition of the Suriname Energy, Oil & Gas Summit and Exhibition is available now! […]
NRGBriefs: Trinidad’s Fuel Subsidy; Citgo Giusti Departure; “Almost Out of the Faja”
(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Apr.2022) — Energy briefs including Trinidad and Tobago’s Finance Minister Colm Imbert commented 12 Apr. 2022 on Twitter about the twin-island country’s […]
Noble Corp. and Maersk Drilling Update on the Merger Control Process
(Noble Corp. 12.Apr.2022) — Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) and The Drilling Company of 1972 A/S (CSE: DRLCO) (“Maersk Drilling”, and together with Noble, the “Parties”) […]
Biden’s Team is Divided Over New Talks About Oil with Maduro in Venezuela
(Miami Herald, 12.Apr.2022) — Divisions within the Biden administration over whether to continue talks with President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela have deepened since a senior […]
Goldmining Starts Exploratory Drilling at its La Mina Project in Colombia
(GoldMining, 12.Apr.2022) — GoldMining Inc. (TSX: GOLD) (NYSE: GLDG) commenced a program of exploration drilling on the La Garrucha target, located less than one kilometer to […]
HIF Global Secures $260mn in Equity Investments
(HIF Global, 6.Apr.2022) — HIF Global, involved in eFuels development, secured approximately $260mn in equity investments to fund the global expansion of its decarbonization business. The capital […]
Poland: TotalEnergies and KGHM Join Forces to Develop Offshore Wind Power
(TotalEnergies, 12.Apr.2022) — TotalEnergies and KGHM signed a partnership to participate on a 50/50 basis in the Polish government tender for the development of offshore wind […]
Russia Emerges as World’s Most Sanctioned Country
(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Apr.2022) — Russia is now the most sanctioned country in the world, after recently surpassing Iran, according to details released by Caracas-based […]
Aris Gold Completes Soto Norte JV Investment
(Aris Gold, 12.Apr.2022) — Aris Gold Corporation (TSX: ARIS) (OTCQX: ALLXF) announces that, further to the company’s news release of 21 March 2022, it has closed the acquisition […]
Using Homegrown Biofuels to Address Putin’s Price Hike at the Pump
(The White House, 12.Apr.2022) — The President is committed to doing everything he can to address the pain Americans are feeling at the pump as […]
Mexico’s President Reversing Energy Reforms, Hurting Oil Production
(Houston Public Media, 12.Apr.2022) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is using administrative measures to undermine the free-market reforms enacted in 2013. As a result, […]
Acquisition of Industrial-scale Green Hydrogen Production in Trinidad
(NewGen Energy, 12.Apr.2022) — Hydrogène de France (HDF Energy) – mnemonic code: HDF – has acquired a 70% majority stake in the NewGen project in […]
Russia-Ukraine War Could Slow Global Economic Growth to 2.5% This Year
(WoodMac, 12.Apr.2022) — Global economic growth could slow to 2.5% year-on-year in 2022 and 0.7% in 2023 due to the Russia-Ukraine war, says Wood Mackenzie, […]
Murphy Achieves First Oil at King’s Quay FPS in Deepwater US GOM
(Murphy Oil, 12.Apr.2022) — Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE: MUR) achieved first oil from the Khaleesi, Mormont and Samurai field development project in the deepwater Gulf […]
Crowley and Shell Aim to Advance Decarbonization in Maritime
(Crowley, 12.Apr.2022) — Continuing to demonstrate their commitment to decarbonization of the maritime sector, Crowley and Shell Trading (US) Company entered into a memorandum of […]
CGG Expands High-Performance Computing Capacity with New UK HPC Hub
(CGG, 12.Apr.2022) — To support continued differentiation in its core business and accelerate the development of its new activities, CGG is significantly expanding its high-performance […]
ExxonMobil Introduces New Exceed™ S Performance Polyethylene
(ExxonMobil, 11.Apr.2022) — ExxonMobil introduced today its new Exceed™ S performance polyethylene (PE) resins, which deliver industry-leading combinations of stiffness and toughness while being easy […]
Dow Takes Minority Stake in Consortium Constructing LNG Import Terminal in Germany
(Dow Inc., 11.Apr.2022) — Dow Inc. (NYSE: DOW) signed a definitive agreement to take a minority stake in the Hanseatic Energy Hub GmbH (HEH) and is […]
The World Bank: LAC Returns to Pre-Pandemic “Unsatisfactory Growth Rates”
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Apr.2022) — This week The World Bank published its 62-page semiannual report for Latin America and the Caribbean (April 2022) dubbed “Consolidating […]
Citgo Chairman Luis Giusti (Jr.) Ousted After Less Than a Year in Job
(Bloomberg, 11.Apr.2022) — Citgo Petroleum Corp., the U.S. oil refiner controlled by the Venezuelan opposition, ousted chairman Luis Giusti Lugo less than a year after […]
Colombia Launches Green Taxonomy at NYSE
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Apr.2022) — Colombian officials including President Iván Duque, Mines and Energy Minister Diego Mesa Puyo, and Finance and Public Credit Minister José […]
YPFB Initiates Commercialization of Gasoline Plus in Oruro Department
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Apr.2022) — Bolivia’s state oil entity YPFB initiated the commercialization of gasoline plus in Oruro at the “Morela” and “QV2” service stations. […]
Guyana is Far from its Dream of Becoming a Rich Economy
(Energy Analytics Institute, Special Contributor Millan Arcia Einstein, 11.Apr.2022) — Exxon and the Guyana government claim total hydrocarbon “resources of around 10,000 million barrels of […]
Petrobras on Cumulative Vote Process for AGM
(Petrobras, 11.Apr.2022) — Petrobras, in compliance with article 30, item XXXIV, of CVM Instruction 480/09, informs that it received from shareholders who jointly hold more […]
Petrobras Reveals New E&P Teaser in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin
(Petrobras, 11.Apr.2022) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 7 August 2020, informs that the process of selling the totality of its interest […]
Launch of Cameron LNG Expansion to Increase Liquefied Natural Gas Production
(TotalEnergies, 11.Apr.2022) — TotalEnergies has signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Sempra Infrastructure, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and Japan LNG Investment – a company […]
GeoPark Announces 1Q:22 Operational Update
(GeoPark, 11.Apr.2022) — GeoPark Limited announced its operational update for the three-month period ended March 31, 2022 (“1Q2022”). All figures are expressed in US Dollars. […]
Argentine Oil Union Wants Back Jobs Lost in Pandemic Amid Rise in Business
(Reuters, 11.Apr.2022) — Argentina’s largest oil union called on the industry to restore jobs lost during the COVID-19 pandemic following a significant increase in production, […]
Canacol Energy’s Eyes Pola 1 Exploration Well in 3Q:22
(Canacol, 11.Apr.2022) — Canacol Energy Ltd. (TSX: CNE; OTCQX: CNNEF; BVC: CNEC) reported on the conventional natural gas prospective resources (resources other than reserves) for […]
NRGBriefs: Mexicans Back Recall Vote; Neuquén Officials on Houston Roadshow
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Apr.2022) — Energy briefs including approximately 90% of Mexican citizens voting this past weekend to back a recall election that would allow […]
Mexico President López Obrador Wins Recall Referendum
(The Guardian, 10.Apr.2022) — Nine in 10 Mexicans voting in an unprecedented recall election engineered by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador have backed him to […]