(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...
(Reuters, 6.Nov.2018) — Five groups are considering whether to partner with Brazil’s state-controlled Eletronuclear to resume construction of nuclear power plant Angra III, already partially built by the government, newspaper...
(Ft.com, Gideon Long, John Paul Rathbone, 28.Oct.2018) — Gideon Long in Caracas and John Paul Rathbone in Washington October 28, 2018 Print this page 95 In the lobby of the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 27.Oct.2018) — China’s CNOOC Limited announced that success in Guyana has laid the foundation for future development. “Successful drilling of Longtail Structure and Hammerhead Structure...
(Energy Global, David Bizley, 19.Oct.2018) — The majority of foreign companies are not making any profit or losing money in their partnerships with PDVSA to develop and produce hydrocarbons due...
(Hydrocarbon Engineering, Alex Hithersay, 18.Oct.2018) — Petrobras has announced that it has signed an integrated project business model agreement (IPBMA) with China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Co....
(Bloomberg, Pablo Rosendo Gonzalez, 11.Oct.2018) — YPF SA, Argentina’s state-run oil company, is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake in its power unit to an Asian fund, said...
(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...
(OilPrice.com, Irina Slav, 3.Oct.2018) — A delay in port repairs following a tanker collision is putting additional pressure on already pressured Venezuelan crude oil exports, Reuters quoted anonymous sources close...
(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, 18.Sep.2018) — In terms of bilateral cooperation, Venezuela and China are seeking a ‘win-win’ scenarios. “Relations with China are very clear and have been framed...
(Afp, 12.Sep.2018) — Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro departed Wednesday for China in search of agreements to bolster the oil-exporting country's collapsing economy. Maduro said the trip was "very necessary, very...
(Reuters, Florence Tan and Alexandra Alper, 27.Jul.2018) – Brazil’s state-controlled energy company Petrobras plans to push more crude oil to top importer China by marketing a new medium-sweet grade that...
(Sputnik News, 5.Jul.2018) – China is lending its helping hand to Venezuela to stabilize the country's oil sector, analysts told Sputnik, adding that Beijing's economic activities in Latin America are...
(OilPrice.com, Irina Slav) – China’s Development Bank has approved a US$5-billion loan for Venezuela’s oil industry, Bloomberg reports, quoting the troubled South American country’s Finance Minister Simon Zerpa. “We’ve received...
(Reuters, 3.Jul.2018) – Venezuela will receive $250 million from the China Development Bank to boost the OPEC nation’s oil production, the South American country’s Finance Ministry said in a statement...
(Inter Press Service, Daniel Gutman, 22.Jun.2018) – As in other Latin American countries, in recent years China has been a strong investor in Argentina. The environmental impact and economic benefits...
(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...
(Reuters, Hadeel Al Sayegh, 3.Jun.2018) — Qatar Petroleum signed an agreement on Sunday with Exxon Mobil to acquire a 30 percent stake in two of Exxon’s affiliates in Argentina, giving...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 1.Jun.2018) -- China plans investments of $10 billion across various sectors in Peru over the next three years. The Asian giant is planning to focus...
(Shell, 1.Jun.2018) — Peru LNG is the first natural gas liquefaction plant in South America and began operations in 2010 with a 4.45 mtpa capacity. It receives dry gas through...