Ecuador Oil Sector to See Busy Year

(S&P Global Platts, 3.Jan.2022) — Ecuador’s oil and gas industry is on track for a busy year of privatization and E&P contract overhauls in 2022 […]

NRGBriefs: Ecuador Eyes Restarting OCP

(Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Dec.2021) — Energy briefs including Ecuador expecting to restart ops at OCP on 31 Dec. 2021; and Y&V Ingeniería y Construcción saying […]

NRGBriefs: Orea Prepping for Maripa Gold Project

(Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Dec.2021) — Energy briefs including Fitch Ratings affirming Frontera‘s IDR at ‘B’; Orea Mining Corp. commencing preparation for a diamond drilling program […]

Solaris Announces Proposed Spin-Out Of Non-Core Assets

(Solaris, 6.Dec.2021) — Solaris Resources Inc. (TSX: SLS) (OTCQB: SLSSF) announces its intention to transfer its non-core assets held in Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Mexico into a newly incorporated wholly-owned subsidiary of […]

GeoPark Accelerates Colombia Drilling Activity

(GeoPark, 19.Oct.2021) — GeoPark Limited (NYSE: GPRK) announced its operational update for the three-month period ended 30 September 2021 (3Q:21). Highlights Consolidated oil and gas […]

NRGBriefs: EP PetroEcuador Awards Export Deals

(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including the IMF advising Argentina to lower its deficit and estimating Venezuela’s inflation at 2,700% this yr, Colombia’s […]

NRGBriefs: ANH Eyes 17th Bid Round

(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including Brazil’s ANP holding its 17th bid round; Ecuador’s oil production holding steady; Panama’s Generadora Gatún natural gas […]

LatAm Briefs: Raizen IPO, Bolivian Gas

(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Aug.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Argentina’s YPF Sociedad Anónima repurchasing Class XII Notes, YPFB and […]

Ecuador Races To Move Oil Pipelines

(Reuters, 1.Jul.2021) — Two dozen workers using six excavators cleared a strip of heavy forest in the foothills of Ecuador’s Reventador volcano on an overcast […]

Trafigura Wins Bid To Export Fuel Oil No. 6

(Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Apr.2021) — EP Petroecuador awarded Singapore’s Trafigura PTE. LTD. an export deal for 1,900,000 barrels of Fuel Oil No. 6. The volume […]

US Sends Congrats To Guillermo Lasso

(US State Department, 13.Apr.2021) — On behalf of the people of the United States, I congratulate Guillermo Lasso on his election as the next President […]

Tipco Wins Bid To Export Napo Crude

(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Apr.2021) — EP PetroEcuador awarded the Thai company Tipco Asphalt Public Company Limited a deal for the export of 720,000 barrels of […]

Trafigura Wins Bid For Oriente Crude

(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Apr.2021) — EP PetroEcuador awarded an export deal for 1,080,000 barrels of Oriente crude to Singapore company Trafigura PTE. LTD. The volume […]

LatAm Briefs: Pemex Costs, Ecuador Output

(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Mar.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Banco do Brasil CEO resigning under pressures from Brazil’s President […]

Solaris Appoints Thomson To Board

(Solaris Resources, 16.Mar.2021) — Solaris Resources Inc. announced appointment of Mr. Kevin Thomson to its Board of Directors effective immediately. Mr. Thomson brings over 35 […]

Quito Electric Inaugurates Pifo Substation

(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Mar.2021) — The Quito Electric Company (EEQ) inaugurated substation (S/E) No. 46 Inga Bajo, located in the Itulcachi sector, in the rural […]

Ecuador Eyes Conolophus Photovoltaic Project

(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Mar.2021) — Ecuador plans to install 14.8 megawatts (MW) of photovoltaic generation with 40.9 MWh batteries on Santa Cruz Island with estimated […]