(Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., 6.Jul.2015) – Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) reported that the floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) Cidade de Itaguai is now anchored in the Iracema Norte area […]
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Court’s Prelim Ruling on Parque das Baleias
(Petrobras, 6.Jul.2015) – On 2.Jul.2015, the Arbitration Court granted a provisional remedy in an action filed by Petrobras relating to a resolution of the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas […]
Petrobras Reports Sale of Bijupirá, Salema fields
(Petrobras, 2.Jul.2015) – Petrobras signed with PetroRio S.A. contracts for the sale of 20% of its stake in the concessions of Bijupirá and Salema fields, currently operated by Shell. The […]
Petrobras to Study Petrobras Distribuidora Offering
(Petrobras, 1.Jul.2015) – Petrobras’ Executive Board, at a meeting held on 30.Jun.2015, authorized studies to be prepared analyzing strategic alternatives for its wholly-owned subsidiary Petrobras Distribuidora S.A. (BR). Among the […]
S&P Maintains Ecopetrol Credit Rating
(Ecopetrol S.A., 1.Jul.2015) – Ecopetrol S.A. reported that the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s has maintained Ecopetrol’s long term corporate credit rating at BBB with a stable outlook. S&P’s […]
Pemex Cogeneration And Services BODs Installed
(Pemex, 30.Jun.2015) – The organic statute containing the organization and functions of the new productive state¬-owned subsidiary Pemex Cogeneration and Services was approved during the installation session of the Board […]
Petrobras to Spend $130.5 Bln Between 2015-2019
(Petrobras, 29.Jun.2015) – On 26.Jun.2015, the Board of Directors of Petrobras approved the 2015–2019 Business and Management Plan. The plan earmarks investments of $130.3 billion for 2015-2019. The investment portfolio […]
Swire Secures Contract with Weatherford Brazil
(Swire Oilfield Services, 29.Jun.2015) – Swire Oilfield Services secured an exclusive five year contract with Weatherford International plc in Brazil. “This is a great reward for the team’s efforts in […]
Petrobras Updates on NY Lawsuit
(Petrobras, 25.Jun.2015) – Petrobras announced that on 25.Jun.2015, a hearing was held before the federal court in New York regarding the motion to dismiss presented by Petrobras in the class […]
Moody’s Maintains Ecopetrol Rating at Baa2
(Ecopetrol S.A., 25.Jun.2015) – Ecopetrol S.A. reported that the credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service has maintained Ecopetrol’s long term international rating at Baa2 with a stable outlook. Moody’s mentioned […]
Ecopetrol Presents Details of Distribution Proposal
(Ecopetrol S.A., 24.Jun.2015) – Ecopetrol S.A. at the direction of the Finance Superintendence, hereby publishes the earnings distribution proposal that was approved by the Shareholders Assembly of 26.Mar.2015. Accordingly, regarding […]
Gran Tierra Announces CAPEX, Colombia Focus
(Gran Tierra Energy Inc., 24.Jun.2015) – Gran Tierra Energy Inc. announced an increased 2015 capital program. The increased capital is intended to provide accelerated development drilling at the company’s core […]
Moody’s Affirms Ecopetrol Rating
(Moody’s, 23.Jun.2015) – Moody’s affirmed Ecopetrol S.A.’s Baa2 ratings and assigned a Baa2 rating to the company’s up to $1.5 billion in proposed notes due 2026. The proposed securities are […]
Moody’s Changes PBF Rating Outlook
(Moody’s, 22.Jun.2015) – Moody’s Investors Service changed PBF Holding Company LLC’s rating outlook to positive from stable. Moody’s also affirmed PBF’s Ba3 Corporate Family Rating (CFR), Ba3-PD Probability of Default […]
Fitch Affirms Ecopetrol Ratings
(Ecopetrol S.A., 22.Jun.2015) – Fitch Ratings affirmed Ecopetrol S.A.’s foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings at ‘BBB’ and ‘BBB+’, respectively. Concurrently, Fitch has affirmed the company’s national scale short […]
Pemex Attends Contingency at Akal-H Platform
(Pemex, 22.Jun.2015) – Specialized Pemex staff is taking care of the oil and gas leakage incident that occurred in the satellite platform Akal-H in the Campeche Sound. Fortunately, there are […]
Harvest Announces $32.2 Mln Funding
(Harvest Natural Resources, Inc., 19.Jun.2015) – Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. announced that CT Energy Holding SRL, a Venezuelan-Italian consortium, has agreed to purchase from Harvest senior secured notes, convertible notes […]
Harvest Enters Relationship with CT Energy
(Harvest Natural Resources, Inc., 19.Jun.2015) – On 19.Jun.2015, Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. entered into a strategic relationship with CT Energy and CT Energia Holding, Ltd., an international energy trading firm, […]
Venezuela Eyes Gas Exports, LNG
(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Jun.2015) – Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) plans to boost investments in the Venezuelan natural gas sector over the next five years in order to almost double […]
ExxonMobil Sells Share of Chalmette Refinery in Louisiana
(Exxon Mobil Corporation, 18.Jun.2015) – ExxonMobil reached an agreement with PBF Energy Inc. for the sale and purchase of its 50% interest in Chalmette Refining, LLC in Chalmette, Louisiana. “This […]
Pemex, STPRM Review Collective Labor Deal
(Pemex, 16.Jun.2015) – Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the Petroleum Workers’ Union (STPRM, Sindicato de Trabajadores Petroleros de la República Mexicana, for its acronym in Spanish) started negotiations for the revision […]
Introduction to IBAMA
(The Brazil Business, Renata Garcia, 16.Jun.2015) — IBAMA is an institute that was created to ensure the preservation and maintenance of the environment. It acts in the protection of Brazilian […]
Environmental Protection Key Pemex Element
(Pemex, 14.Jun.2015) – Maintaining or improving competitiveness in the oil industry will increasingly require a better environmental performance. Therefore, environmental protection is currently one of the key elements in the […]
Petrobras Comments on FPSO Cidade de São Mateus
(Petrobras, 12.Jun.2015) – Petrobras completes analysis of factors that contributed to accident on 11.Feb.2015, on board FPSO Cidade de São Mateus, in Espírito Santo. The report is aimed at documenting […]
Petrobras Set Record Pre-Salt Production
(Petrobras, 12.Jun.2015) – Petrobras’ pre-salt production in May set two new monthly output records. Production handled by the company, including both Petrobras and partner production, reached a new high of […]
Pemex Finds New Oil Deposits in GOM
(Pemex, 10.Jun.2015) – Emilio Lozoya, CEO of Petróleos Mexicanos, announced the first hydrocarbon discoveries made took advantage of the new tools provided by the Energy Reform. This is the first […]
Mexican Petroleum Congress Opens
(Pemex, 10.Jun.2015) – The Ministry of Energy (SENER), Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, opened the 10th Mexican Petroleum Congress at the Guadalajara Expo, which brought together 270 national and international companies with […]
Pemex, Blackrock Sign MOU to Develop Infrastructure
(Pemex, 6.Jun.2015) – Petróleos Mexicanos and BlackRock signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), in order to accelerate the development and financing of energy infrastructure projects that are considered a strategic […]
Petrobras Aims to Gas Reduce Faring by 60%
(Petrobras, 5.Jun.2015) – Brazil is now among the countries that best use their natural gas output. By significantly reducing gas flaring on its platforms, in Feb.2015 Petrobras achieved a record […]
Moody’s Assigns Ba2 Rating to Petrobras Notes
(Moody’s, 3.Jun.2015) – Moody’s Investors Service assigned a Ba2 rating to Petrobras Global Finance B.V.’s proposed global notes, which will be unconditionally guaranteed by Petrobras. The Ba2 rating on the […]
Petrobras Prices Bonds in Int’l Market
(Petrobras, 2.Jun.2015) – Petrobras announced the pricing of its corporate bonds in U.S. dollars with a 100-year term, issued through its wholly owned subsidiary Petrobras Global Finance B.V. and unconditionally […]
T&T Energy Ministry Supports Expansion into Guyana
(Piero Stewart, Special for Energy Now, 1.Jun.2015) – Trinidad and Tobago will seek to capitalise on energy projects in the region as part of broader push outside of the country’s […]
Pemex Presents Safety, Health Strategy for 2015-2025
(Pemex, 28.May.2015) – Petroleos Mexicanos presented its Safety, Health and Environmental Protection Strategy 2015-2025 (SSPA, for its acronym in Spanish) which outlines actions to strengthen safety and reliability culture of […]
Colombia’s Ecopetrol Reinvents Itself
(Ecopetrol, 26.May.2015) – Ecopetrol S.A.’s Board of Directors approved a new corporate strategy aimed at guaranteeing the company’s long-term sustainability, in which value generation based on efficient barrels and shareholder […]
Pemex’s Successful Petroleum Coke Auction
(PEMEX, 22.May.2015) – Petróleos Mexicanos carried out, for the third time, an online auction of partial lots of petroleum coke from the “Gral. Lázaro Cárdenas”, refinery located in Minatitlán, Veracruz. […]
Petrobras Signs $5 Bln Deal with CDB
(Petrobras, 20.May.2015) – On 19.May.2015, Petrobras signed a cooperation agreement with the China Development Bank (CDB) for the years 2015-2016. The deal encompasses funding of $3.5 billion already disbursed, as […]
Moody’s Covenant on YPF Bond Offering
(Moody’s, 20.May.2015) – Moody’s Investors Service assigned an overall covenant quality score of 3.37 to YPF Sociedad Anónima’s $1,500 million 8.500% Senior Notes due 2025. ***
Petrobras Impairment of Trade Receivables
(Petrobras, 20.May.2015) – Petrobras has provisioned, in its 2014 Financial Statements, an allowance for impairment of trade receivables to cover uncollateralized receivables. In the 1Q:15 financial statements, as disclosed in […]
Harvest Sets CAPEX at $265 Million
(Harvest Natural Resources, Inc., 19.May.2015) – Harvest Natural Resources said that during the first quarter of 2015, Petrodelta drilled and completed four development wells and sold approximately 3.63 million barrels […]
Harvest Reports 1Q:15 Results
(Harvest Natural Resources, Inc., 19.May.2015) – Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. (HNR) reported a 1Q:15 net loss of approximately $5.6 million, or $0.13/share diluted, compared with a net loss of $8.0 […]
Petrobras Reports Output for April 2015
(Petrobras, 19.May.2015) – Petrobras’ foreign oil and natural gas production in April 2015 was 2.785 (Mmboe/d), in Brazil and abroad, up 0.8% on March 2015, which was 2.764 Mmboe/d. Among […]
Petrobras’ New Pre-Salt Record
(Petrobras, 13.May.2015) – Petrobras announces that on April 11, 2015, oil production in the fields it operates in the pre-salt province of the Santos and Campos basins reached the milestone […]
Ecopetrol Announces 1Q:15 Results
(Ecopetrol, 12.May.2015) – Ecopetrol S.A. reports the Group’s financial results for the 1Q:15, prepared and filed in Colombian pesos (COP$) and on the basis of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). […]
Gran Tierra Announces New Executive Appointments
(Gran Tierra Energy Inc., 11.May.2015) – Gran Tierra Energy Inc. announced several new executive appointments effective immediately: Ryan Ellson, Chief Financial Officer; Alan Johnson, Vice President, Asset Management; Lawrence West, […]
Petrobras Seeks Compensation Against Contractors
(Petrobras, 8.May.2015) – Petrobras has filed joint lawsuits with the Federal Public Prosecutors’ Office for improper conduct against the contractors and executives identified as responsible for irregularities within the scope […]
Petrobras Reports New Composition of Committee
(Petrobras, 8.May.2015) – Petrobras’ Board of Directors has unanimously approved the new composition of its Audit Committee, by appointing Directors Luiz Nelson Guedes, Luiz Augusto Fraga Navarro de Britto Filho […]
Gran Tierra Announces Full 1Q:15 Results
(Gran Tierra Energy Inc., 6.May.2015) – Gran Tierra Energy Inc. announced its financial and operating results for the quarter ended 31.Mar.2015. All dollar amounts are in U.S.A. dollars unless otherwise […]
Barbados And BHP Billiton Sign Exploration Licenses
(BHP, 30.Apr.2015) — The Government of Barbados and BHP Billiton today signed exploration licences for two offshore blocks, Carlisle Bay and Bimshire. These blocks are approximately 40 kilometres southeast of […]
Moody’s Assigns Rating to Raízen Energia
(Moody’s, 30.Apr.2015) – Moody’s América Latina assigned a Baa3 global scale and Aaa.br national scale ratings to Raízen Energia S.A.’s proposed BRL 500 million senior unsecured CPR-F (Cédulas de Produto […]
Petrobras Completes Third Sergipe Basin Well
(Petrobras, 29.Apr.2015) – Petrobras finished drilling well 3-BRSA-1296-SES (ANP nomenclature) in the Sergipe Basin’s ultra-deep waters, in concession BM-SEAL-10, block SEAL-M499. The test results confirmed the presence of light oil […]