(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...
(Kallanish Energy, 28.Mar.2018) – Chinese and Russian state oil companies PetroChina and Rosneft will not pay the costs of repairing and modernizing Venezuela’s Cardón and Amuay refineries for PDVSA, according...
(PanAmPost, Karina Martin, 13.Sep.2017) — On Thursday, September 14, the Ammonia and Urea Plant of the state-owned Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) will be inaugurated in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in one...
(Reuters, 23.Mar.2017) — State-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) plans to invest $2 billion in an oil and natural gas block in southern Peru in coming years, Rafael Zoeger, the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 17.Feb.2017) – Venezuela signed 22 agreements with China, including eight (8) related to heavy and extra heavy oil ventures in the OPEC-member country, with an...
(PDVSA, 13.Feb.2017) – The 15th China-Venezuela High Level Joint Commission took place at the José Félix Ribas Hall of Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas, with the aim of discussing the...
(PDVSA, 13.Feb.2017) – PDVSA ratified its cooperation with the People's Republic of China with the signing of eight agreements at the 15th China-Venezuela High Level Joint Commission, which was held...
(T&T Energy Chamber, 24.Jan.2017) — Globally respected consulting firm, Rystad Energy were recently commissioned by the Energy Chamber to conduct a study into the competitiveness of the Trinidad & Tobago...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 14.Jun.2016) – Venezuela continues to discuss matters with China regarding a grace period for the South American country to pay back loans to the Asian...
(Petrobras, 9.May.2016) – Petrobras signed a term sheet with China Exim Bank (Export-Import Bank of China) containing the main terms and conditions for a $1 billion loan. The final loan...
(IFC, 21.Apr.2016) – International Finance Corp. (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and the ChinaMexico Fund (CMF), a $1.2 billion private equity fund managed by the IFC Asset...
(S&P Global Platts, 15.Feb.2016) — It was supposed to be the biggest investment ever in Ecuador: $12 billion for a 300,000 b/d refinery and a kick-start to industrialization with a...
(Efe, 28.Aug.2015) — Bolivian President Evo Morales said South Korean conglomerate Samsung must finish construction of an ammonium and urea plant by the July 2016 deadline specified in its contract....
(OGJ, 24.Jan.2014) — China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) and the Ecuadorean government have reached an agreement regarding cooperation in a plan to construct a long-delayed refinery on Ecuador’s Pacific Coast....