(BP, 21.Jun.2019) — BP released its Statistical Review of World Energy, edition 2019, which provides a timely and objective insight into those developments and how that change can begin to...
(WoodMac, 18.Jun.2019) — US independent Anadarko Petroleum today formally sanctioned its Mozambican liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, Mozambique LNG. Anadarko is developing Mozambique’s first onshore LNG facility, initially consisting of two...
(Oceaneering, 18.Jun.2019) — Oceaneering International, Inc announced that it has been awarded a contract by Anadarko Moçambique Área 1, Lda, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, to supply...
(Anadarko, 18.Jun.2019) — Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and the co-venturers in Mozambique's Offshore Area 1, today announced a Final Investment Decision (FID) on the Anadarko-led Area 1 Mozambique LNG project. This...
(Demerara Waves, 11.Jun.2019) — Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo has agreed that his country would help Guyana’s energy sector, Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon said. Briefing the...
(Eco Atlantic, 10.Jun.2019) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. announced mobilisation of the Stena Forth drillship which is now en route to Guyana from West Africa where it has...
(McDermott, 5.Jun.2019) — McDermott International, Inc. announced that CCS JV, a joint venture between McDermott, Saipem and Chiyoda, has reached full agreement for a contract with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for...
(Bloomberg, Lucia Kassai, 20.May.2019) —Venezuela, which sits atop more oil than Saudi Arabia, has fallen behind three other Latin American countries as years of mismanagement and lack of investments take...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 17.May.2019) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat awarded 18 areas corresponding to the first International Offshore Public Competition, the country’s Finance Ministry announced May 17 in an...
(Reuters, Humeyra Pamuk, 16.May.2019) — French energy giant Total SA's planned acquisition of U.S. firm Anadarko's African assets is "perfectly fitting" with the company's overall strategy and helps play to...
(JinkoSolar, 15.May.2019) — JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. announced priced the follow-on offering of 4,062,500 American depositary shares (the "ADSs"), each representing four ordinary shares of the Company, par value US$0.00002...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to OPEC’s Monthly Oil Market Report, EP PetroEcuador awards Trafigura deal to import 2,750,000 barrels...
(Eni, 14.May.2019) — Eni has made a new light oil discovery in Block 15/06, in Angola’s deep offshore. The well was drilled on the Ndungu exploration prospect. The new discovery...
(Eni, 14.May.2019) — Mozambique Rovuma Venture said today that the government of Mozambique had approved its development plan for the Rovuma LNG project, which will produce, liquefy and market natural...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 13.May.2019) — Ensign Energy Services acquired an 89.3% interest in Trinidad Drilling Ltd., which marks the largest such purchase in the company's history, and adds...
(Woodmac, 7.May.2019) — Implementation of IMO 2020 regulation is just eight months away and its implications will be felt beyond refining and shipping. Wood Mackenzie's Asia Pacific experts weigh in...
(WoodMac, 6.May.2019) — In another bold move in its takeover battle with Chevron for Anadarko Petroleum, on 5 May said Occidental Petroleum entered into a binding agreement to sell Anadarko’s...
(Breakthrough, 1.May.2019) — The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced today the launch of its fifth annual Breakthrough Junior Challenge, a global student science and mathematics competition designed to inspire creative thinking...
(The Moscow Times, 24.Apr.2019) — Reuters has corrected a story it published on April 18 saying Venezuela is funneling cash flow from oil sales through Russian state energy giant Rosneft...
(Bloomberg, Lucia Kassai, 24.Apr.2019) — Oil production in Venezuela has dipped so low that the owner of the world’s largest reserves is importing crude for the first time in five...
(McDermott, 22.Apr.2019) — McDermott International, Inc. and Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC), a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), today announced that KIPIC has awarded McDermott a technology contract...
(Reuters, 19.Apr.2019) — The cash-strapped government is becoming increasingly reliant on the Kremlin. (Corrects April 18 story to make clear Reuters could not determine payments were made under the proposed...
(Reuters, 18.Apr.2019) — All four Indian state-owned refiners that buy Iranian oil are confident of securing additional barrels from other producers, officials from the companies told Reuters. Indian refiners are...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 18.Apr.2019) — President Nicolas Maduro is funneling cashflow from Venezuelan oil sales through Russian state energy giant Rosneft as he seeks to evade U.S. sanctions designed to...
(Reuters, 16.Apr.2019) — U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp said on Tuesday its unit and an affiliate of Qatar Petroleum had won three exploration blocks offshore Argentina. The three blocks...
(WoodMac, 12.Apr.2019) — Commenting on Chevron’s US$50 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of Anadarko, Roy Martin, senior analyst, corporate analysis, said: “This is the biggest upstream deal since Shell and BG in...
(Shell, 7.Apr.2019) — Make the Future Live California featuring Shell Eco-marathon Americas drew more than 1,000 students to Sonoma Raceway to compete for the title of most fuel-efficient vehicle. Northern...
(Bloomberg Fabiola Zerpa, 4.Apr.2019) — Power failures that plunged Venezuela into darkness for much of March also briefly slashed the country’s crude production by half, according to people familiar with...
(IHS Markit, Liquid Bulk Principal Analyst, Maritime & Trade, Fotios Katsoulas, 20.Mar.2019) — With most experts anticipating Venezuela’s output to further decline over the next couple of weeks, PDVSA, the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Mar.2019) — OPEC announced publication of its Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR) as of 14 March 2019 with details on producers in Latin America and...
(Bloomberg, Javier Blas, 11.Mar.2019) — OPEC officials are scheduled to meet for dinner with senior executives from North America’s booming shale oil industry on the sidelines of CERAWeek by IHS...
(AP, Scott Smith and Sheyla Urdaneta, 6.Mar.2019) — Marin Mendez leaned a shoulder into his rusty Chevy Malibu, rolling it forward each time the line of cars inched closer to...
(Sigrid Kaag and Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, co-chairs of the NDC Partnership, 6.Mar.2019) — On March 8th, groups around the world will celebrate International Women’s Day, recognizing the achievements of women...
(Bloomberg, Peter Millard, 3.Mar.2019) — There’s enough as-yet-unassigned oil under the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro to keep the entire world running for almost six months. So why...
(S&P Global Platts, 27.Feb.2019) — Total expects to see its market-leading oil and gas production growth driven by rising deepwater volumes from Brazil and the Gulf of Mexico over the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Ian Silverman, 23.Feb.2019) — Argentina, Bolivia and Chile hold the largest lithium resources in the world and consequently in the Latin America and Caribbean...
(The Conversation, 21.Feb.2019) — When ExxonMobil begins oil production in Guyana next year, mining crude from its seven new deepwater wells, life may change dramatically in this small South American...
(Eco Oil & Gas, 20.Feb.2019) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd., along with its partners in the Orinduik Block, offshore Guyana, Total E&P Activités Pétrolières and Tullow Guyana B.V....
(Reuters, Stephen Jewkes, 15.Feb.2019) — Italian major Eni said it intends to expand in the Middle East after a spree of deals in the Gulf last year, pressing ahead with...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(CNN, Matt Egan, 29.Jan.2019) — The United States and Venezuela are going through a painful divorce that will have sweeping consequences for the global oil industry. US oil prices surged...
(CNN, Jack Guy, 29.Jan.2019) — Thousands took to the streets in Venezuela last week to demand the resignation of president Nicolas Maduro. Amid the protests, opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared...
(Jamaica Gleaner, 25.Jan.2019) — Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and Cuba have come down on one side. The United States, Canada, and countries in Western Europe are on the other. As...
(WoodMac, 25.Jan.2019) — CNOOC Ltd announced its strategic plan for 2019, setting a bullish tone for the rest of the Chinese national oil companies to follow. Wood Mackenzie’s senior analyst...
(Tullow, 16.Jan.2019) — Tullow Oil plc issues this statement to summarise recent operational activities and to provide trading guidance in respect of the financial year to 31 December 2018. This...
(Kosmos, 21.Dec.2018) — Kosmos Energy and its partners announced today that a Final Investment Decision (FID) for Phase 1 of the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project has been agreed. The decision...
(Reuters, 20.Dec.2018) — Brazil’s state-controlled oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA has suspended oil and refined products trading with Vitol, the company said in a statement to Reuters. Petrobras, as the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 20.Dec.2018) — ExxonMobil was named 2018 Large Cap Company of the Year and Explorer of the Year by the World Oil and Gas Council in...
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 20.Dec.2018) — U.S. oil production will continue to grow at a rapid pace until 2025, while Venezuela’s crude output is set for further declines, Fatih Birol, the...
(S&P Global Platts, 19.Dec.2018) — OPEC enters a pivotal third year of production cuts in a volatile oil market with its least experienced minister at the helm. Venezuela’s Manuel Quevedo,...
(BP, 17.Dec.2018) — Angola’s Sonangol and BP today signed an agreement to progress to final investment decision the development of the Platina field in deepwater Block 18, offshore Angola. They...
(Chron.com, Jordan Blum, 17.Dec.2018) — The small South American nation Guyana led the way in 2018 for new oil and gas discoveries followed by Russia and the United States as...
(Orb Media Inc., 14.Dec.2018) — New Orb Media Inc. reporting and data analysis shows consumers are extremely worried about plastic's impact on the world. There is widespread public confusion regarding...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman and Piero Stewart, 13.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from South America’s Guyana, which expects first oil to start flowing in...
(Hart Energy, Velda Addison, 11.Dec.2018) — When it comes to navigating the intricacies of the unknown, Tullow Oil is considered an expert, particularly in Africa where it has discovered over...
(Caribbean News Now, Ray Chickrie, 11.Dec.2018) — Before the end of the first quarter of 2019, Guyana plans to open a diplomatic mission in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and...
(Atlantic, 5.Dec.2018) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. (EOG), the oil and gas exploration company with licences in highly prospective regions in Guyana and Namibia, is pleased to announce...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart and Pietro D. Pitts, 20.Nov.2018) — Argentina’s Vaca Muerta unconventional shale gas formation in Neuquén is at the center of an energy revolution taking place...
(Loop News, 14.Nov.2018) — Minister of Energy and Energy Industries and President of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, Franklin Khan, said the natural gas industry is forecast to grow within...
(Oilprice.com, Viktor Katona, 12.Nov.2018) — I know what you think – such a headline is quite reckless given that Guyana has not produced any oil so far and it is...
(Ft.com, Andres Schipani, Neil Hume, 31.Oct.2018) — Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras agreed to sell its 50 per cent stake in an African enterprise to a consortium led by trader...
(Bloomberg, Javier Blas, Grant Smith & Francine Lacqua, 9.Oct.2018) — Oil prices have rallied to a four-year-high due to US sanctions on Iran and the Venezuelan crisis, even as Saudi...
(The National, Robin Mills, 8.Oct.2018) — One of the few major new conventional oil provinces discovered this century could see the country emerge as the top per capita producer. Who...
(Bloomberg, Christopher Sell, 20.Sep.2018) — A global recession, both $140 and $30 oil, the U.S. shale revolution, a market-share war, and output cuts. OPEC’s 60-year history has rarely confronted a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Aug.2018) – Venezuela’s crude oil production declines seem unstoppable. [caption id="attachment_2947" align="alignnone" width="679"] OPEC's August 2018 MOMR.[/caption] Venezuela’s crude oil production fell to 1.278 million...
(Reuters, 17.Jun.2018) – Reuters) - China’s imports of Venezuelan crude oil could sink to their lowest in nearly eight years in July as the OPEC producer struggles with shrinking output...
(Rystad, 19.Apr.2018) — Rystad Energy analysis shows that Guyana’s fiscal regime is favorable to oil companies when compared to mature oil and gas development countries but is in line when...
(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...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Jun.2017) — Shell announced that the force majeure on Bonny Light exports was lifted effective 12:00 hours (Nigerian time). The lifting of the force majeure happened sometime...
(Harvest Natural Resources, 1.Jan.2014) — Venezuela is the largest province of proved oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere, with 297.6 billion barrels of proved oil reserves at year-end 2011 (the...