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Bolivia Warns Of Force Majeure On Gas Exports
(Argus, 12.Nov.2019) — Bolivia’s deepening political crisis is starting to take a toll on its vital hydrocarbons industry. YPFB, Bolivia’s state-owned oil and natural gas […]
Exmar’s First LNG Shipment In Argentina
(EXMAR, 12.Nov.2019) — Exmar announced the first commercial LNG cargo has left Argentina for export. It was produced on board Exmar’s Tango FLNG and is […]
Chubut Preparing For Cerro Negro Oil Auction
(S&P Global Platts, 12.Nov.2019) — Chubut is preparing to hold an auction of assets in Cerro Negro, a maturing conventional block in the southern Argentinian […]
Pampa Energía 3Q:19 Results
(Pampa Energia, 11.Nov.2019) — Pampa Energía S.A. announced the results for the nine-month period and quarter ended on September 30, 2019. The Company adopted the […]
Petrobras Delists From Argentine Stock Exchange
(Petrobras, 11.Nov.2019) — Petrobras, following communications disclosed on 08/09/2019, 10/04/2019 and 11/04/2019, reports that it proceeded to the withdrawal of the public offering regime in […]
Pampa Energia Sets 3Q:19 Conference Call Date
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 11.Nov.2019) — Pampa Energía S.A. announced it will host a conference call to discuss the company’s Q3 19 results on […]
YPF Loads 1st Commercial LNG Cargo
(Reuters, Jessica Jaganathan and Ekaterina Kravtsova, 8.Nov.2019) — Argentine oil company YPF SA has loaded its first commercial liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo for export […]
Centaurus Changes OTC Symbol
(Centaurus, 7.Nov.2019) — Centaurus Energy Inc., formerly Madalena Energy Inc., announced that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) approved a change in the company’s […]
Don’t Count On Oil To Reignite Latin America
(Project Syndicate, Mauricio Cárdenas, 5.Nov.2019) — Some regard Latin America as the world’s new oil frontier, and think that the region could potentially add three […]
Petrobras Extends Period On Argentine Exchange
(Petrobras, 4.Nov.2019) — Petrobras informs, in addition to the press releases issued on August 9 and October 4, 2019, that it has decided to extend […]
Maduro Pledges Funds For Shipyard In Argentina
(Reuters, Luc Cohen, 3.Nov.2019) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday pledged funds for a state-owned Argentine shipyard to finish building two long- overdue tankers […]
Ali Moshiri Seeks $500mn For Post-Sanctions Venezuela
(Reuters, Jennifer Hiller, 21.Oct.2019) — The former chief of Chevron Corp’s Latin American operations is moving to raise $500 million from big financial firms to […]
Echo Announces Proposed Acquisition In Argentina
(Echo, 21.Oct.2019) — Echo Energy entered into a binding conditional sale and purchase agreement (the “SPA” or “Acquisition Agreement”) for the proposed acquisition by the […]
Bolivia Crippled As Leftist Leader Faces Vote
(Bloomberg, Peter Millard, 14.Oct.2019) — For two years, Bolivia pushed to boost natural gas production, a longtime key to its prosperity, by drilling for new […]
Petrobras Delists Shares From Argentine Exchange
(Petrobras, 4.Oct.2019) — Petrobras informs, in addition to the press release issued on August 9, 2019, that the Comisión Nacional de Valores (CNV), the Argentine […]
Tango FLNG In Second Week Of Ops In Argentina
(EXMAR, 30.Sep.2019) — The Tango FLNG has been receiving feed gas from YPF since 9 September 2019 and has been producing LNG to its full […]
Argentina’s Vaca Muerta Comparable to Permian Basin
(Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Sep.2019) — “The massive Vaca Muerta formation is geologically comparable to the best US oil basins, particularly the Permian Basin in West […]
Argentina Reinforces Security Of Vaca Muerta
(Reuters, 16.Sep.2019) — The Argentine government will step up security in the Vaca Muerta oil fields by placing the shale formation under the jurisdiction of […]
Argentina Pursues $5bn LNG Project Amid Political Havoc
(Bloomberg, Jonathan Gilbert, 4.Sep.2019) — Argentina’s state-run oil company, YPF SA, is pushing ahead with plans to build a $5 billion natural gas export terminal […]
Brazil Senate Approves TOR Settlement With Petrobras
(Reuters, 3.Sep.2019) — Brazil’s Senate on Tuesday night approved an amended transfer of rights agreement settling a dispute over pre-salt oil fields between the government […]
LatAmNRG briefs: Liza Destiny, Dos Bocas, PDVSA
HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 29.Aug.2019, Words: 327) — LatAmNRG briefs related to the Liza Destiny FPSO reaching Guyana, PDVSA investigating recent […]
Bolivia’s Gas Exports Down 30.4% YTD Thru May
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 24.Aug.2019) — A report by Bolivia’s National Institute of Statistics (INE by its Spanish acronym) published in July 2019 shows […]
Equinor Signs Deal With YPF
(Zacks Equity Research, 22.Aug.2019) — Equinor ASA recently announced the signing of a deal with the Argentine energy company, YPF Sociedad Anónima YPF, to jointly […]
Equinor Inks Deal With YPF, Expands In Argentina
(Zacks, 22.Aug.2019 ) — Equinor ASA recently announced the signing of a deal with the Argentine energy company, YPF Sociedad Anónima YPF, to jointly conduct […]
Argentina, Chile Ink Emergency Energy Deal
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 22.Aug.2019) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Gustavo Lopetegui held meetings with his Chilean counterpart Juan Carlos Jobet to sign an Emergency […]
Argentina NatGas Exports Reach 5.9 MMcm/d In 1H:19
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 22.Aug.2019) — Argentina shipped an average 5.9 million cubic meters per day (MMcm/d) of natural gas to Chile, Brazil and […]
Equinor And YPF Ink Offshore Exploration Deal
(Equinor, 21.Aug.2019) — Equinor’s executive vice president for Exploration, Tim Dodson, and YPF’s CEO Daniel Gonzalez have signed an agreement to jointly explore the CAN […]
Argentina Inks NatGas Export Deal With Chile
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 21.Aug.2019) — Argentina and Chile signed an agreement for the export of natural gas from the former to the latter. […]
Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Meets With Governors, Companies
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 20.Aug.2019) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Gustavo Lopetegui held a meeting in provinces with governors and oil company executives to discuss […]
Argentina Seeks To Stabilize Peso As Oil Companies Fret About Price Freeze
(S&P Global Platts, 20.Aug.2019) — Argentina’s newly installed economy minister, Hernan Lacunza, said Tuesday he will focus on stabilizing the currency as the key to […]
Argentina Enforces Fuel Price Caps
(Argus, 16.Aug.2019) — The price cap takes effect immediately, according to a decree published in the Official Bulletin, the newspaper of record. The downstream sector […]
Argentina Freezes Local Oil, Fuel Prices For 90 Days
(Baker McKenzie, 16.Aug.2019) — In a context of a series of government measures aimed at appeasing the adverse economic effects arising as a result of […]
Argentina Caps Oil Prices By Decree
(Argus, 16.Aug.2019) — Argentina implemented a three-month freeze on fuel and crude prices through an emergency decree, eschewing an earlier plan to apply a decades-old […]
Sungrow Supplies Argentina’s Solar Plant
(Sungrow, 16.Aug.2019) — Sungrow, the global leading inverter solution supplier for renewables, announced that a 100.1 MWp solar plant utilizing the Company’s 1500Vdc central inverter […]
Argentina’s Opposition Primary Win May Put Energy Investment On Hold
(S&P Global Platts, 12.Aug.2019) — Argentina’s leading opposition coalition, a left-wing populist alliance that ruled the country from 2003-15, swept the national primaries Sunday, putting […]
Petrobras Delists Shares From Argentine Exchange
(Petrobras, 9.Aug.2019) — Petrobras announces that its General Shareholders’ Meeting approved today the delisting of its common and preferred shares from Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos […]
Canadian Solar Energizes Solar Plant In Argentina
(Canadian Solar, 5.Aug.2019) — Canadian Solar Inc. announced its 100.1 MWp Cafayate solar power project in Argentina started commercial operation on July 19, 2019. It […]
Argentina Gas Output At Highest Point In 11 years
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 29.Jul.2019) — Production of crude oil and natural gas in Argentina continues to rise, aided by growth in unconventional volumes […]
YPF Advances LNG Exports With Excelerate’s Assistance
(Excelerate, 25.Jul.2019) — YPF announced that a preliminary agreement was reached with Excelerate Energy L.P. (Excelerate) for the charter of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) […]
Wintershall Dea And ConocoPhillips Team Up In The Prolific Neuquén Basin
(Wintershall, 25.Jul.2019) — ConocoPhillips is a new partner in the Aguada Federal and Bandurria Norte blocks with Wintershall Dea. The two companies will advance the […]
McDermott Awarded Pre-FEED Contract For Vaca Muerta LNG In Argentina
(McDermott, 19.Jul.2019) — McDermott International, Inc. has been awarded a sizeable* contract by Argentina-based YPF, S.A. to provide pre-front-end engineering design (Pre-FEED) services for a […]
Argentina: YPF Will Sell CNG At Its Gas Stations
(PetroPlaza, 15.Jul.2019) — The high production of Vaca Muerta’s field has driven the oil company to enter the Argentinian natural gas market. The high production […]
Vaca Muerta Output Growth Leads To LNG Exports
(EIA, 12.Jul.2019) — Argentina’s domestic natural gas production has been rising steadily in the past three years, largely because of increasing production from the Neuquén […]
Argentina Opens Tender For $2bn Vaca Muerta Pipeline
(Reuters, 10.Jul.2019) — Argentina has opened the tender for a new $2 billion gas pipeline from the huge Vaca Muerta shale field, which according to […]
Bolivia To Buy Petrobras’ Stake In Gas Pipeline
(Reuters, 9.Jul.2019) — Bolivia’s state-owned oil company YPFB plans to bid on a stake in a natural gas pipeline linking the country to Brazil to […]
YPF Launches YPF Ventures, Invests In Bird
(YPF, 8.Jul.2019) — YPF announced the launch of YPF Ventures, a corporate venture capital fund that will expand YPF’s influence into emerging energy businesses. YPF […]
Shale Helps Argentina Hit Oil, Natgas Output Record
(Reuters, 2.Jul.2019) — Argentine oil and natural gas output hit a record high in May thanks to increased production from the country’s sprawling Vaca Muerta […]
Total Eclipse Wipes Out Half Of Chile’s Solar Power
(Bloomberg, Laura Millan Lombrana, 2.Jul.2019) — The total eclipse that plunged South America into darkness for a short while on Tuesday also knocked out about […]
Moody’s Assigns B2 Rating To Pampa Energia’s Notes
(Moody’s, 1.Jul.2019) — Moody’s Investors Service assigned a B2 rating to Pampa Energía S.A.’s proposed senior unsecured notes. The outlook is stable. Net proceeds from […]