(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...
(Reuters, Lesley Wroughton, Luc Cohen, Marianna Parraga, 10.Mar.2019) — The United States is pressing India to stop buying oil from Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government, Washington’s top envoy for Venezuela...
(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...
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 6.Mar.2019) — Nicolas Maduro’s staunchest international ally—Russia—reaffirmed last week its full support to the Socialist leader’s regime and his efforts to prevent what Moscow sees as interference...
(S&P Global Platts, 5.Mar.2019) — Surpassing Russia, Brazilian crude oil shipments for China’s independent refineries topped the list in February at 2.17 million mt, S&P Global Platts monthly survey showed...
(Reuters, 4.Mar.2019) — Venezuela’s oil minister will visit Russia soon to formally complete the move of state oil company PDVSA’s office to Moscow from Lisbon, the Interfax news agency cited...
(Renewables Now, 28.Feb.2019) — Japan’s Shizen Energy Inc announced on Wedneday it has started construction on January 29 of a 1.1-MW direct current (DC) solar power plant in Brazil. The...
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 27.Feb.2019) — Russian companies in Venezuela are not experiencing any problems resulting from the escalation in the political situation in the country and have not incurred any...
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 26.Feb.2019) — More than eight million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil is sitting in tankers as U.S. sanctions are preventing the country from selling the commodity worth...
(BBC, Jack Goodman, 25.Feb.2019) — The United States has imposed tough sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry to put pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to step down. Oil dominates Venezuela’s economy,...
(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...
(Petroleum Economist, Charles Waine, 22.Feb.2019) — Despite severe US sanctions, President Maduro is standing firm. But how long can the political impasse last while oil production continues to decline? Venezuela...
(S&P Global Platts, 22.Feb.2019) — US sanctions could more than halve Venezuela's crude production by the end of the year, hitting heavy oil joint ventures in the Orinoco Belt and...
(Reuters, Tatiana Voronova, 17.Feb.2019) — Russian lender Gazprombank has decided to freeze the accounts of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and halted transactions with the firm to reduce the risk...
(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...
(Economic Times, Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury 14.Feb.2019) — India hopes to benefit from Argentine agriculture sector, a strong pillar of local economy, besides tapping natural gas deposits. With an eye on...
(Argus, 11.Feb.2019) — India´s two leading refiners will continue to import Venezuelan crude but will no longer supply oil products to Venezuela´s state-owned PdV because of US sanctions, Indian downstream...
(Reuters, Corina Pons, Marianna Parraga, 9.Feb.2019) — Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA is telling customers of its joint ventures to deposit oil sales proceeds in an account recently opened at...
(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...
(Axios, Steve LeVine, 8.Feb.2019) — On the coast of South America, just north of Brazil, lies the impoverished former British colony of Guyana, distantly remembered for a bizarre mass suicide...
(ExxonMobil, 6.Feb.2019) — The discoveries build on the previously announced estimated recoverable resource of more than 5 billion oil-equivalent barrels on the Stabroek block. Tilapia-1 is the fourth discovery in...
(Reuters, 5.Feb.2019) — Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA’s principal amount of debt to Russian oil producer Rosneft stood at $2.3 billion at the end of the fourth quarter, down from...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 4.Feb.2019) — Amerisur Resources Plc spud the Calao-1X exploration well on the CPO-5 block using rig E-2029 on February 1, 2019, the company announced in...
(Bloomberg, Jose Enrique Arrioja, Nick Wadhams, and Anna Edgerton, 4.Feb.2019) — Venezuela’s government-in-waiting intends to scrap requirements that state-owned oil giant PDVSA keep a controlling stake in joint ventures as...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 4.Feb.2019) — EXMAR’s Floating LNG Liquefaction Unit (FLNG), Tango FLNG, has reportedly arrived to the port at Bahia Blanca in Argentina, according to local media...
(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...
(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...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 29.Jan.2019) — U.S. sanctions announced in January week against Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA will not only affect Venezuela’s oil sector, but also hold...
(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...
(Bloomberg, Dhwani Pandya, Serene Cheong, and Debjit Chakraborty, 29.Jan.2019) — After the U.S. slapped sanctions on Venezuela’s state-owned PDVSA, which essentially add up to an oil ban, the market has...
(Dialogo Chino, Mat Youkee 28.Jan.2019) — The Rupununi savannah of southern Guyana is one of the most biodiverse regions of South America, home to jaguars, Harpy eagles and the world’s...
(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...
(Wood Mackenzie, 21.Jan.2019) — Upstream dealmakers start 2019 facing an uphill battle. Volatile oil prices and bearish equity markets impede deal flow by creating uncertainty, widening the bid-ask spread, altering...
(Rystad, 17.Jan.2019) — While Hamlet’s famous ‘to be or not to be’ questioned the existential, E&P’s will look to answer more concrete questions this year when evaluating projects for sanctioning....
(Oilprice.com, Matthew Smith , 14.Jan.2019 ) — The Russian bear is on the prowl once again as President Putin seeks to expand Moscow’s influence and bolster the one-time superpower’s global...
(T&T Energy Chamber CEO Thackwray ‘Dax’ Driver, 6.Jan.2019) — Trinidad & Tobago’s energy sector is predicted to make a modest recovery in 2019, on the back of increased natural gas...
(The Hindu, 5.Jan.2019) — ONGC Videsh Ltd., the overseas arm of State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC), on Saturday said it has made a second oil discovery in Colombia...
(Reuters, 5.Jan.2019) — India’s ONGC Videsh, the overseas investment arm of the country’s biggest explorer, Oil and Natural Gas Corp, has found more oil in a block in Colombia, a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman and Piero Stewart, 4.Jan.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Bolivia seeking natural gas deal with Peru, YPFB and Camacari inking deal...
(Power Technology, 2.Jan.2019) — German-based financial services company Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) IPEX-Bank has agreed to provide financing for four power grid projects in Chile. Under the agreement, KfW IPEX-Bank...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, Piero Stewart, and Jared Yamin, 31.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on complaints from oil executives in Argentina over constant changes at...
(EXMAR, 27.Dec.2018) — EXMAR announced its Floating LNG Liquefaction Unit (FLNG), to be renamed Tango FLNG, has left China to the destination of its liquefaction operations: Bahia Blanca, Argentina. Tango...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.Dec.2018) — Rowan Companies plc, a global provider of contract drilling services with a fleet of 25 mobile offshore drilling units, composed of 21 self-elevating...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.Dec.2018) — Rowan Companies plc, with a fleet that operates worldwide, including the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the UK and Norwegian sectors of the North...
(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,...
(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...
(Bloomberg, Mohammed Sergie and Anthony Dipaola, 16.Dec.2018) — Qatar Petroleum is buying stakes in three offshore oil blocks in Mexico from Eni SpA, as the Arab country signs another global...
(Eni, 16.Dec.2018) — His Excellency Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Minister of State for Energy Affairs and President & CEO of Qatar Petroleum, and Claudio Descalzi, Chief Executive Officer of Eni, signed...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 15.Dec.2018) — The mixed company Petrolera Sinovensa is currently producing 130,000 barrels per day of crude oil in Venezuela. “I am pleased that we have...
(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...
(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...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, Ian Silverman and Aaron Simonsky, 11.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs about Chile’s electric buses, Echo Energy’s well stimulation in Argentina,...
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, 6.Dec.2018) — In the tropical heat of southeastern Mexico, bulldozers prep the site of a massive new crude refinery on the outskirts of Paraiso, an impoverished oil...
(OilPrice.com,Tsvetana Paraskova, 6.Dec.2018) — Back from a visit to Moscow, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tweeted a video on Thursday, in which he said that Venezuela and Russia have signed US$5-billion...
(The Chemical Engineer, Amanda Doyle, 6.Dec.2018) — Argentina’s state-owned energy company YPF has entered into a US$2.3bn joint venture with Malaysia’s Petronas to develop the Vaca Muerta oil and gas...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 6.Dec.2018) — Venezuela this month plans to import over 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of refined products to ease domestic fuel shortages caused by hobbled refineries and...
(AP, 5.Dec.2018) — Argentina’s president is celebrating the successful hosting of the Group of 20 summit, but he said Monday that he is ready for tough times ahead as his...
(Reuters, 5.Dec.2018) — India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has received a payment of $32 million from Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) as part of a settlement of outstanding dividend...
(ABCNews, Anastasia Bagaeva, 5.Dec.2018) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro visited Moscow Wednesday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin said assistance for Maduro’s regime was on the agenda....
(Reuters, Nidhi Verma, 4.Dec.2018) — India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp has received a payment of $32 million from Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) as part of a settlement of outstanding...
(Houston Chronicle, Sergio Chapa, Staff writer 30.Nov.2018) — New rules allowing a greater number of liquefied natural gas tankers to pass through the Panama Canal per day are expected to...
(Rosneft, 29.Nov.2018) — The first Russian-Chinese energy business forum is successfully finished in Beijing. The format of the event was established in July 2018, upon instruction of Russian President Vladimir...
(Bloomberg News, 26.Nov.2018) — Developing countries have added more clean power capacity than fossil fuel generation for the first time ever, charging ahead of wealthier nations in the global green...
(Reuters, Alexandra Ulmer and Marianna Parraga, 24.Nov.2018) — The head of Russian oil company Rosneft, Igor Sechin, flew to Caracas this week to meet Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and complain...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 22.Nov.2018) — Venezuela’s state-run oil firm PDVSA has begun talks with shipping firms to set up a second ship-to-ship (STS) operation off the country’s eastern coast in...
(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...
(S&P Global Platts, 15.Nov.2018) — Pan American Energy, the second-biggest oil producer and third for gas in Argentina, is working with BP on potentially exporting LNG out of Chile, a...
(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...