(Reuters, 29.Jan.2020) — Mexico’s state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos wants operational control over a major offshore oil area discovered by a consortium of private companies before development gets underway, its...
(Petrobras, 29.Jan.2020) — Petrobras has requested its withdrawal from the Corporate Governance Program for State-Owned Companies of B3 (Program). Petrobras' adhesion to the Program took place on 08/08/2017. After that,...
(Karoon, 28.Jan.2020) — Karoon Energy Ltd announced the Stena Forth Drillship has commenced the drilling of the Marina‐1 exploration well located in Block Z‐38 Tumbes Basin, Peru. The wholly owned,...
(Reuters, 28.Jan.2020) — A group of Venezuelan lawmakers backed by the ruling Socialist Party are exploring ways to increase the participation of private companies in the OPEC nation's oilfields, one...
(NGI, 28.Jan.2020) — ExxonMobil, which rode the wave for worldwide exploration last year in part because of the prolific Guyana portfolio, announced another discovery offshore the South American country, where...
(Natural Gas Intelligence, 28.Jan.2020) — Mexican national oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is behind schedule at the 20 fields it deemed last year as “high priority” and crucial to reversing...
(Bloomberg, 27.Jan.2020) — Facing economic collapse and painful sanctions, the socialist government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has proposed giving majority shares and control of its oil industry to big...
(ExxonMobil, 27.Jan.2020) — ExxonMobil has increased its estimated recoverable resource base in Guyana to more than 8 billion oil-equivalent barrels and made a further oil discovery northeast of the producing...
(Hess, 27.Jan.2020) — Hess announced another oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Uaru well, the 16th discovery on the Stabroek Block. The company also announced an increase in the estimated...
(S&P Global Platts, 27.Jan.2020) — Equinor, Shell and Total vowed to press on with projects in Vaca Muerta, even as policy uncertainty and price controls make it harder to plan...
(Reuters, 27.Jan.2020) — Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA said its financial debt fell less than 0.1% in 2019 from the prior year to some $34.5 billion, though it remained in...
(S&P Global Platts, 27.Jan.2020) — PDVSA has shut down its last two operating refineries in Venezuela, closing its Amuay and Cardon facilities at the Paraguana Refining Center (CRP), the largest...
(Reuters, 27.Jan.2020) — Investment in Colombia’s oil industry is set to grow by 23% in 2020, the private oil producers association said on Monday, although production will be effectively flat,...
(Argus, 27.Jan.2020) — Investment in exploration and production in Colombia will grow by an estimated 23pc to $4.97bn in 2020, but crude production will remain flat at around 890,000 b/d...
(S&P Global Platts, 24.Jan.2020) — Brazil will discuss potential cooperation with OPEC on the sidelines of a Group of 20 event scheduled to be held in Saudi Arabia later this...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 24.Jan.2020) — PDVSA PetroPiar President Gabriel Carmona and executives from the mixed company’s management team help meetings to discuss ways to accelerate administrative and operational...
(IHSMarkit, 24.Jan2020) — In an environment of oil supply glut, a new player entered the scene. Guyana, a nation bordering Venezuela and Brazil - two countries with large oil reserves...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 23.Jan.2020) — An inter-institutional agreement between EP PetroEcuador and the municipalities of Manta, Jaramijó and Montecristi aims to provide a solution to problems related to...
(Reuters, 23.Jan.2020) — Guyana’s government next month plans to begin a search for an oil company or trading firm to market its share of the South American country’s crude, the...
(Oilprice.com, 23.Jan.2020) — Brazil produced more than 1 billion barrels last year, the first time it has breached the 1-billion-barrel mark, Reuters reports, citing the country’s oil regulator, ANP. The...
(Petrobras, 23.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 20 December 2019, informs the beginning of the non-binding phase related to the sale of all shares of BSBios...
(Petrobras, 22.Jan.2020) — Petrobras announced today that Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social – BNDES (the “Selling Shareholder”) has commenced an offering of up to 734,202,699 common shares, without...
(Petrobras, 21.Jan.2020) — Petrobras announced the Higher Chamber of the Administrative Tax Appeals Council (CARF) issued an unfavorable decision, by a casting vote, on an administrative tax proceeding which deals...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 20.Jan.2020) — During 2019 ENAP’s Magallanes division drilled 35 new wells, most of them in Tierra del Fuego. Based on this drilling program, the company...
(President Energy, 20.Jan.2020) — President Energy plc reports on subscription for new ordinary shares by Trafigura, conversion of debt into equity and immediate reduction of debt by $5.95 million and...
(Touchstone, 20.Jan.2020) — Touchstone Exploration Inc. provided an exploration update, highlighted by the first stage of production testing of the Cascadura-1ST1 well on the Ortoire exploration block, onshore in the...
(Argus, 20.Jan.2020) — The US government is hoping a high-profile international tour by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido will re-inject momentum into its protracted campaign to unseat President Nicolas Maduro....
(Jamaica Observer, 19.Jan.2020) — The Marshall Islands registered crude oil tanker, Yannis P , has arrived here as the country will soon lift the first one million barrels of crude...
(Newsday, 19.Jan.2020) — Shell TT has announced a final investment decision (FID) on the development of Block 5C (Barracuda) in the East Coast Marine Area (ECMA). Barracuda is a greenfield...
(Oilprice.com, 19.Jan.2020) — There’s only one path to rebuilding Venezuela, and it’s paved with oil. For the time being, that path leads nowhere. The key to controlling everything now lies...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 19.Jan.2020) — Officials with Mexico's state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) visited three wells: Xikin, Xanab and Tlacame 3. The latter was drilled using the...
(Oilprice.com, 18.Jan.2020) — The discovery of the Maka field in offshore Suriname will become one of the main upstream stories of 2020, bringing Suriname onto the international oil map, potentially...
(SunCoke, 16.Jan.2020) — SunCoke Energy, Inc. plans to release its fourth quarter 2019 financial results and 2020 guidance on Wednesday, January 29, 2020, before trading opens on the New York...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 17.Jan.2020) — Dialogue between authorities from Bolivia’s Hydrocarbon Ministry, state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) and local representatives from the autonomous Gran Chaco...
(Argus, 17.Jan.2020) — Washington will allow Chevron and four US oil field service providers to continue operating in Venezuela until 22 April by granting a fourth waiver late yesterday from...
(Petrobras, 17.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 12/11/2019, announces the beginning of the non-binding phase related to the sale of its remaining stake (10%) in...
(Alliance News, 17.Jan.2020) — Star Phoenix Group Ltd said Friday the Trinidad & Tobago state oil and gas firm has approved the sale of Range Resources Trinidad Ltd to LandOcean...
(Argus, 16.Jan.2020) — Venezuela kicked off the new year with at least 730,000 b/d of crude exports, led by several India-bound cargoes, according to local and international shipping data obtained...
(GeoPark, 16.Jan.2020) — GeoPark Limited closed the previously announced acquisition of Amerisur Resources Plc. GeoPark acquired the entire issued share capital of Amerisur for a total cash consideration of approximately...
(Reuters, 16.Jan.2020) — Colombia’s environment minister said on Thursday the Andean country will increase monitoring of its jungles and forests to fight deforestation and protect the species that call these...
(Stabroek News, 16.Jan.2020) — A Guyanese offshore laboratory technician will go down in history as the person to test the first sample of Guyanese crude oil as it came through...
(Bloomberg, 16.Jan.2020) — Some buyers of Venezuelan crude oil have halted purchases after the country started demanding payment of port fees in its failed cryptocurrency. Exports of at least 1...
(Petrobras, 16.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, with regards to news published in the media, referring to the sale of its stake in BR Distribuidora S.A. (BR), clarifies that the information that a...
(Reuters, 15.Jan.2020) — The Trump administration’s envoy on Venezuela said China appears to be scaling back economic support for President Nicolas Maduro, and Beijing acknowledged a diminishing role largely due...
(Tullow, 15.Jan.2020) — Tullow Oil plc issued this update and guidance in advance of the Group’s 2019 Full Year Results. “Tullow has ended 2019 with average production of 86,700 bopd...
(Petrobras, 15.Jan.2020) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), referring to the sale of its entire stake in two sets of deep-water post-salt offshore concessions, namely Golfinho Cluster and...
(Reuters, 15.Jan.2020) — The Trump administration’s envoy on Venezuela said China appears to be scaling back economic support for President Nicolas Maduro, and Beijing acknowledged a diminishing role largely due...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 15.Jan.2020) — Executives from foreign companies are having a hard time convincing their parent companies to continue dedicating investments to activities in Mexico, according to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Jan.2020) — Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro signed a decree for the mandatory and immediate fulfillment of the sale of 4.5 million barrels of crude oil...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 14.Jan.2020) — Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) guaranteed residents in La Paz and interior portions of the land-locked country that there...
(Petrobras, 14.Jan.2020) — Petrobras approved the mothballing of the fertilizer plant of its wholly owned subsidiary Araucária Nitrogenados S.A. (ANSA), located in the state of Paraná. ANSA has been posting...
(Petrobras, 14.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release dated 10/31/2018, reports today that it completed the sale - to Petrovida Holding B.V. (Petrovida) - of the 50% equity interest...
(S&P Global Platts, 13.Jan.2020) — Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez said he plans to encourage the development of conventional oil and natural gas reserves, not just the shale resources in the...
(Argus, 13.Jan.2020 — Citgo, the US refiner that Venezuela's political opposition nominally wrested from the Opec country's national oil company PdV in 2019, is abandoning a refinery project in Aruba,...
(Reuters, 13.Jan.2020) — Venezuela, its oil exports decimated by U.S. sanctions, is testing a new method of getting its crude to market: allocating cargoes to joint-venture partners including Chevron Corp,...
(CNOOC, 13.Jan.2020) — CNOOC Limited announced its business strategy and development plan for the year 2020. The company's targeted net production for 2020 is 520 million to 530 million barrels...
(WoodMac, 13.Jan.2020) — Wood Mackenzie has identified six themes that will impact Asia Pacific’s gas and LNG markets in 2020. Asian LNG spot prices to fall further In 2019, the...
(Reuters, 12.Jan.2020) — An Oklahoma oilfield company that played a central role in Venezuela's high profile attempt to convince the world it could halt production declines at its dilapidated oilfields...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 11.Jan.2020) — Illegal valves were again detected stealing crude oil from the Caño Limón-Coveñas oil pipeline and subsequently produced an oil spill in Caño Veinte...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 10.Jan.2020) — Bogotá Energy Group (GEB) was awarded 0.01% of the shares of Electro Dunas S.A.A. (EDSAA) by the Lima Stock Exchange in Peru as...
(Reuters, 10.Jan.2020) — The Brazilian government authorized Bolivian oil and gas company YPFB to use the Gasbol pipeline to sell gas to other companies in Brazil beyond state-run oil firm...
(Citgo, 24.Jan.2020) — The Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc. (SBF), a non-profit, private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, awarded seven grants totaling $100,000 to nonprofits that expand access to medicine, health...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 9.Jan.2020) — Ecuador’s Electric Corporation (CELEC EP) and the Sub-secretariat Zonal 6 of the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP) signed an agreement for...
(Newsday, 9.Jan.2020) — The price of crude oil, natural gas, ammonia and methanol are critical to the health of the TT economy. These are the main earners of our much-needed...
(Reuters, 8.Jan.2020) — Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party hopes legislators it recently declared to be in charge of congress will approve changes to ownership of some crucial state oil assets, five...
(S&P Global Platts, 8.Jan.2020) — Some Asian importers of Iraqi crude oil may scout for more heavy sour crude from Central and South America in the first quarter, as ongoing...
(Argus, 8.Jan.2020) — Argentina's shale fracturing hit a record in 2019 despite a deceleration sparked by political and economic uncertainty at the end of the year. A total of 6,425...
(Argus, 8.Jan.2020) — Argentina's shale fracturing hit a record in 2019 despite a deceleration sparked by political and economic uncertainty at the end of the year. A total of 6,425...
(MHPS, 7.Jan.2020) — Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas (MHPS), Patria Investments, and Shell announced the signing of a contract with Brazil’s State-owned development bank (BNDES) to finance the gas-powered Marlim...
(Apache, 7.Jan.2020) — Apache Corporation and Total S.A. announced a significant oil discovery at the Maka Central-1 well drilled offshore Suriname on Block 58. The well was drilled using the...
(Total, 7.Jan.2020) — Total and Apache have made a material oil discovery with the Maka Central-1 well on Block 58 offshore Suriname, on trend with the prolific discoveries in the...
(Argus, 7.Jan.2020) — Third-party evaluation showed that 60pc of Mexico's major Zama crude discovery lies within Talos Energy's shallow-water block 7, with the remainder on state-owned Pemex's acreage, the private...
(Caribbean Life News, 7.Jan.2020) — Guyana is on the cusp of great wealth development, celebrating its historic oil discovery of approximately half a billion barrels, but as this new industry...
(Argus, 7.Jan.2020) — The White House appears likely to extend a waiver for Chevron to operate in Venezuela after US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido overcame a government-backed rival to retain...
(Reuters, 7.Jan.2020) — Venezuela’s oil exports plummeted 32% last year to 1.001 million barrels per day, according to Refinitiv Eikon data and state-run PDVSA’s reports, as a lack of staff...