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Dominican Republic to Join Caribbean Energy Rush

(Bloomberg, Ezra Fieser, 5.Mar.2018) – The Dominican Republic expects to draw interest from energy titans BP Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. when it opens the country to natural gas and […]

CGX Energy Appoints Engineer For Corentyne Well in Guyana

(CGX, 2.Mar.2018) – CGX Energy Inc. announced appointment of Drilling Engineer Michael (Mike) P. Stockinger as Project Operations Manager, who will be in charge of designing the company’s next offshore […]

ExxonMobil Announces Seventh Oil Discovery Offshore Guyana

(Exxon Mobil, 28.Feb.2018) – Exxon Mobil Corporation announced its seventh oil discovery offshore Guyana, following drilling at the Pacora-1 exploration well. ExxonMobil encountered approximately 65 feet (20 meters) of high-quality, […]

Guyana Basin Exploration to Ramp: Wood Mackenzie Says

(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 28.Feb.2018) – The Liza discovery was the largest oil discovery in 2015 and has significantly de-risked the Cretaceous Tertiary play, proving the existence of a […]

Barbados: Energy Boost

(Barbados Today, Luova Labs, 20.Feb.2018) – Government’s spokesman on energy Senator Darcy Boyce has said that independent producers of renewable energy would likely be able to supply more energy to […]

Guyana Is About to Open Up Pandora’s Barrel

(Mac Margolis, 16.Feb.2018) – Wedged between Brazil and Venezuela, Guyana could easily go unnoticed. It has fewer than 750,000 people and a per capita income of $4,300, half the regional […]

Power Auction Victory Promises A Change In Power

(MHPS, 14.Feb.2018) — Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) celebrated its first win in Brazil for the technical selection of its M501 JAC Gas Turbine for the Vale Azul II Project. […]

Mexico In Full Swing

(Petroleum Economist, Aldo Flores-Quiroga, 8.Feb.2018) — Mexico’s oil and gas industry will be completely open to private investment by end-2018. For the first time in almost eight decades, domestic and […]

Tecpetrol Opens Gas Treatment Plant in Vaca Muerta

(ARPEL, February 6, 2018) — Tecpetrol, an oil company of the Techint Group and member of ARPEL, opened a gas treatment plant located in the vicinity of Añelo, Neuquén, with […]

Vaca Muerta Megaproject – A Fracking Carbon Bomb In Patagonia

(Observatorio Petrolero Sur, 5.Feb.2018) — Vaca Muerta is a leading case for the next generation of fossil fuels. Big Oil and Gas companies are keen to turn it into a […]

Total Enters Prolific Guyana Basin With Three Licences

(Total, 5.Feb.2018) — Total has signed agreements to acquire interests into two exploration licenses offshore Guyana, the Canje Block and the Kanuku Block. These agreements come after entering into an […]

Petroteq Energy, Pemex Ink Deal

(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 1.Feb.2018) – In January Petroteq Energy Inc. reached an agreement with Mexico’s state-owned oil entity Pemex. Through its Petrobloq subsidiary, Petroteq is developing a supply […]

Shell Made Mistake Pulling Out of Guyana basin

(CaribbeanLife, Bert Wilkinson, 31.Jan.2018) — Now that Guyana’s oil and gas basin has been deemed as one of the hottest and most exciting prospects in the world, Shell Oil has […]

Tecpetrol And YPF Create “Oleoducto Loma Campana – Lago Pellegrini S.A.”

Mexico Tops BP Growth Plans

(Reuters, Jessica Resnick-Ault, 17.Jan.2018) – BP is expanding its retail presence with plans to open 3,000 branded retail stations globally in the next five years, half in Mexico, as that […]

CGX Announces Resignation of its Chief Executive Officer

(CGX, 10.Jan.2018) – CGX Energy accepted Mr. Dewi Jones’ resignation as Chief Executive Officer of the company, effective January 8, 2018. “The xompany would like to thank Mr. Jones for […]

ExxonMobil Announces Sixth Oil Discovery Offshore Guyana

(Exxon Mobil, 5.Jan.2018) – Exxon Mobil Corporation announced positive results from its Ranger-1 exploration well, marking ExxonMobil’s sixth oil discovery offshore Guyana since 2015. The Ranger-1 well discovery adds to […]

Trinidad – Upstream Activity Snapshot in 2018

(Kevin Ramnarine, Strategic Energy Adviser). Former Minister of Energy. Business School Lecturer. International Speaker, 3.Jan.2018) – This is a summary of upstream activity for Trinidad and Tobago in 2018. 1) […]

Fact Sheet: Repsol’s Kanuku Project In Guyana

Repsol Starts Gas Production at the Sagari Field in Peru

(Repsol, 27.Dec.2017) – Repsol has begun gas production from the Sagari field, located in block 57 in the Cusco region of Peru, reinforcing the company´s gas output drive in its […]

Bolivia Seeks Investors to Power Up Lagging Lithium Output

(Reuters, Alexandra Alper, 27.Dec.2017) — Bolivia hopes surging global lithium demand can lure foreign investors to the country where nearly a decade of state-led development has left output far short […]

Bolivia Seeks Investors To Power Up Lagging Lithium Output

Total Enters Product Retail Sector In Mexico

(Total, 10.Dec.2017) — Total has entered into an agreement with GASORED, a group of service station owners, to rebrand a network of around 250 service stations in and around Mexico […]

New Fortress Energy to Invest $1 Bln in Jamaica

(New Fortress Energy, 5.Dec.2017) – Having committed to investing some US$1 billion (J$126 billion) in Jamaica over the next several years, United States-based company, New Fortress Energy (NFE) is well […]

Bolivia To Export Granulated Urea To Brazil

Costa Rica Generated Renewable Energy for 300 Days

(Independent, Tom Embury-Dennis, 22.Nov.2017) – Costa Rica’s electricity has been produced entirely using renewable energy for 300 days since the start of January. With more than a month of 2017 […]

Baron Oil On Decision To Relinquish Peru Block Z-34

(Baron Oil plc, 10.Nov.2017) — Baron Oil PLC announces that at an Operating Committee Meeting in Lima on 9 November 2017 those parties entitled to vote made a unanimous decision […]

Uruguay: Some Background On Oil Exploration

(Schuepbach Energy Uruguay – SEU, 30.Oct.2017) — The Norte Basin is part of a huge sedimentary basin called Paraná Basin in Brazil and Paraguay, and called Chaco-Paraná Basin in Argentina. […]

YPF: Company And Chevron To Invest $500 Million In Loma Campana Field

Hess Divest Interests In Equatorial Guinea

(Hess, 23.Oct.2017) — Hess Corporation entered into an agreement to sell its interests in offshore Equatorial Guinea to Kosmos Energy and Trident Energy for a total consideration of $650mn, effective […]

Chile Power Auction Attracts 24 Bids: Official

Guyana’s Coast Gets Battered By Waves

(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Oct.2017) — Guyana, the small English-speaking South American country that is set to become the region’s next petro-state, sit below sea level and is thus subject to […]

Anadarko To Invest $200mn In Peruvian Oil Area

(Reuters, 9.Oct.2017) — U.S.-based Anadarko Petroleum will invest some $200 million to develop an offshore oil area near Peru’s northern coast, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said on Monday. Kuczynski […]

ExxonMobil Announces Fifth Discovery Offshore Guyana

(Exxon Mobil, 5.Oct.2017) – Exxon Mobil Corporation announced it made a fifth new oil discovery after drilling the Turbot-1 well offshore Guyana. Turbot is ExxonMobil’s latest discovery to date in […]

Colombia And A Shift To Unconventional Oil And Gas?

(McDaniel, 30.Sep.2017) — Colombia is a positive example of a country re-structuring but investment is still required to replenish reserves & production levels, according to McDaniel & Associate Consultants Ltd.’s […]

Bolivia to Inaugurate Billion Dollar State-Run Plant to Produce Fertilizers

The Caribbean Poised To Become Major Oil Region

(OilPrice.com, Haley Zaremba, 22.Aug.2017) – In the future, we may be hearing about the Caribbean a whole lot more when talking about oil and gas. Previously, the area was virtually […]

Tecpetrol Divests Of Interest In Río Atuel Joint Venture

Open Season Fees, Delays Puzzle Mexico’s Investors

(Platts, 11.Aug.2017) — Pemex has yet to announce the next phase of its refined products logistics open season, which could be impacting investment decisions on new midstream projects in Mexico, […]

ExxonMobil Announces Successful Payara-2 Well Offshore Guyana

(Exxon Mobil, 25.Jul.2017) – Exxon Mobil Corporation announced it has discovered additional oil in the Payara reservoir offshore Guyana, increasing the total Payara discovery to approximately 500 million oil-equivalent barrels. […]

Argentina’s YPF Says Costs Falling In Loma Campana Shale Field

ExxonMobil Acquires Interest in Acreage Offshore Suriname

(Exxon Mobil, 13.Jul.2017) – Exxon Mobil Corporation announced that its subsidiary ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Suriname B.V., along with co-venturers Hess and Statoil, signed a production sharing contract for Block […]

As Venezuela’s Economy Plummets, Mass Exodus Ensues

(9.Jul.2017, PBS NewHour) – Despite having the largest oil reserves in the world, Venezuela’s economy is in a freefall, necessities have become scarce and tens of thousands of residents are […]

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