(Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Dec.2020) — Bolivia’s Hydrocarbons and Energy Ministry with assistance from state oil and gas company Yacimientos Petrolifos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) completed the installation and connection of 454...
(DPI, 20.Dec.2020) — The government of Guyana says it welcomes the announcement by US oil and gas company ExxonMobil that it has reached maximum production of 120,000 barrels of oil...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Dec.2020) — Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera Echenique named Juan Carlos Jobet as the bi-minister of the South American country’s energy ministry. Jobet reconfirmed the details in a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Dec.2020) — Drilling of the Yarará X-1 (YRA-X1) exploratory well, which commenced on 14 September 2020, reached a final depth of 2,850m and encountered the presence of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Dec.2020) — The ANP Board approved on 17 December 2020 a resolution to maintain temporary safety measures and protocols to deal with the emergency that has arisen...
(NGC, 18.Dec.2020) — The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) signed a natural gas supply agreement with Primera Oil and Gas Limited, a subsidiary of Canadian energy...
(AP, 18.Dec.2020) — The United Nations’ highest court ruled Friday that it will intervene to settle a decades-old border dispute between South American neighbors Guyana and Venezuela. The decision by...
(Petrobras, 18.Dec.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 27 April 2020, informs that its wholly-owned subsidiary Petrobras Biocombustível S.A. (PBio), as part of the competitive process,...
(Bloomberg, 18.Dec.2020) — President-elect Joe Biden’s advisers are preparing to negotiate with Nicolas Maduro’s regime in Venezuela in an effort to end the Western Hemisphere’s worst economic and humanitarian crisis,...
(Touchstone, 18.Dec.2020) — Touchstone Exploration Inc. executed a long-term natural gas sales agreement with the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) for all future natural gas production...
(Petrobras, 17.Dec.2020) — Petrobras informs that, on this date, the payment of R$190mn was made to the Pension Fund of the Employees of the Bank of Brazil - Previ, due...
(Sierra Club, 17.Dec.2020) — San Martín is full of oil men. This small, no-nonsense Colombian town in the department of Cesar, is hot, chaotic, and long accustomed to the presence...
(Argus, 16.Dec.2020) — Colombia's state-controlled Ecopetrol had been diversifying crude exports with a commitment to quality before the market tailspin of 2020. Now the company is preparing to boost crude...
(YPF, 16.Dec.2020) — In compliance with the provisions set forth in article 73 of Law 26,831, YPF S.A. hereby informs the Audit Committee report is available to the shareholders at...
(bpTT, 16.Dec.2020) — In February 2020, we launched our new purpose: to reimagine energy for people and our planet and also announced a bold new ambition: to become a net...
(Reuters, 15.Dec.2020) — Mexican state oil giant Pemex could sink deeper into junk territory if Mexico's sovereign credit rating is downgraded, ratings agency Moody's said on Wednesday. Moody's stripped heavily...
(Bloomberg, 15.Dec.2020) — Tropical rains have washed away most outward traces of the oil spill that ravaged Rio Seco this fall. But the fishing village in the shadow of Venezuela’s...
(Reuters, 14.Dec.2020) — Donald Trump was clear with Latin America during his four-year administration: don’t do business with China. The message failed to hit home. As President-elect Joe Biden readies...
(Prensa Latina, 14.Dec2020) — The new electricity tariff to be implemented in Cuba next January 1 as part of the monetary regulation process, will protect vulnerable families, a government practice...
(Reuters, 14.Dec.2020) — A tanker chartered by the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) is loading Venezuelan crude for export, documents from state-run PDVSA show, providing evidence of the two countries'...
(Ecopetrol, 14.Dec.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A.’s Board of Directors approved the 2021 organic investment plan for the Ecopetrol Group (GE) for an estimated amount between $3.5bn and $4bn. HIGHLIGHTS - The...
(Exxon, 14.Dec.2020) — ExxonMobil plans further reductions in greenhouse gas emissions over the next five years to support the goals of the Paris Agreement and anticipates meeting year-end 2020 reductions....
(Reuters, 14.Dec.2020) — Caribbean refinery Limetree Bay Ventures sold the first oil product to a buyer in the Gulf Coast on Monday, according to a shipbroking source and Refintiv Eikon...
(Argus, 14.Dec.2020) — Washington's failure in the past two years to force regime change in Caracas by means of severe sanctions gives the incoming US administration of president-elect Joe Biden...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Dec.2020) — Bolivia’s Hydrocarbons and Energy Minister Franklin Molina Ortiz held a virtual meeting with Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Darío Martínez to discuss issues related to a common...
(S&P Global Platts, 11.Dec.2020) — Brazil's National Energy Policy Council, or CNPE, dealt a sharp blow to the country's offshore exploration and production program by removing 32 high potential but...
(Reuters, 11.Dec.2020) — Mexico is wrapping up purchases for the 2021 edition of an oil hedging program that insures its revenues from oil sales, sources familiar with the legendarily opaque...
(Reuters, 11.Dec.2020) — Venezuela's Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami said on Friday that authorities had disrupted a plan to attack Venezuela's 146,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) El Palito refinery, and had arrested two...
(Petrobras, 11.Dec.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 01/03/20, informs that it signed today with Energizzi Energias do Brasil Ltda a contract for the sale of its...
(Petronas, 11.Dec.2020) — Petronas through its subsidiary, Petronas Suriname E&P B.V. (PSEPBV) made its first discovery of hydrocarbon in Suriname with the successful drilling of the Sloanea-1 exploration well located...
(Exxon, 11.Dec.2020) — ExxonMobil and Petronas have discovered hydrocarbons at the Sloanea-1 exploration well on Block 52 offshore Suriname, adding to ExxonMobil’s extensive finds in the Guyana-Suriname basin. The well...
(Petrobras, 10.Dec.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 16 November 2020, informs the beginning of the non-binding phase regarding the sale of 50% of its stakes in...
(Petrobras, 10.Dec.2020) — Petrobras informs it will pay, on Tuesday, 15 December 2020, dividends referred to the 2019 fiscal year, based on shareholding position as of 22 July, in connection...
(McDermott, 10.Dec.2020) — McDermott International, Ltd announced it has been selected by BHP Petróleo Operaciones de México, S. De R.L. De C.V. to perform the preliminary Front-End Engineering Design (pre-FEED)...
(Argus, 10.Dec.2020) — PdV has restarted a crude distillation unit at its 190,000 b/d Puerto La Cruz refinery for the first time since 2017, but as with the Venezuelan state-owned...
(Citgo, 10.Dec.2020) — NGOs and other private philanthropic groups are increasingly critical in helping address the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, according to three diverse panels of leading experts recently...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Dec.2020) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Dario Martinez and the country’s Transport Minister Mario Meoni signed a collaboration deal to stimulate investments in electricity generation projects using renewable...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Dec.2020) — Crude oil production from OPEC member Venezuela is expected to average 600,000 barrels per day in 2021, according to new estimates revealed by Ecoanalitica. The...
(Petrobras, 9.Dec.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 03/09/2020, has concluded the sale of 100% of its stakes in four onshore fields, located in the Tucano Basin,...
(US State Department, 8.Dec.2020) — The United States continues to support Interim President Juan Guaidó, the National Assembly, and the Venezuelan people in their struggle to restore democracy in their...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Dec.2020) — Ecuador’s state entity EP PetroEcuador awarded Trafigura Pte. Ltd. a deal to import 2,800,000 barrels of premium diesel. Trafigura won the deal with a differential...
(Global Credit Research, 8.Dec.2020) — Moody's Investors Service reviews all of its ratings periodically in accordance with regulations -- either annually or, in the case of governments and certain EU-based...
(Argus, 8.Dec.2020) — Trinidad and Tobago's faltering LNG production will decline further in 2021 when 20pc of Atlantic's liquefaction capacity undergoes an indefinite turnaround because of a natural gas shortage....
(US Senate, 7.Dec.2020) — US Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on yesterday’s fraudulent congressional elections in Venezuela: “The Maduro regime’s...
(Argus, 7.Dec.2020) — Venezuela's opposition-controlled National Assembly named another oil industry veteran to chair a shadow board of Venezuela's national oil company PdV. The key appointment comes on the eve...
(Argus, 7.Dec.2020) — Venezuela's National Assembly elections yesterday thrust the Opec country's last democratic institution under the thumb of President Nicolas Maduro, who has defied US oil sanctions for close...
(Al Jazeera, 6.Dec.2020) — Venezuelans voted on Sunday in legislative elections set to tighten President Nicolas Maduro’s grip on power and weaken his US-backed rival, Juan Guaido, who is leading...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Dec.2020) — EP PetroEcuador will exclude Vitol Inc. from its list of suppliers due to the recent corruption case under investigation in the United States with respect...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Dec.2020) — Venezuela’s National Assembly leader and Interim President Juan Guaido could be coming to the end of his short two-year reign this 6 December 2020 as...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Dec.2020) — Representatives of insurance companies Latina and Hispana resolved to join forces and present a single offer to safeguard the integrity and safety of the people,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Dec.2020) — Rumors are that Iranian businesspersons and their companies are in the process of taking over operations at Venezuela’s six refineries while also looking to do...
(US Senate, 4.Dec.2020) — US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) issued the following statement denouncing the Maduro regime’s sham...
(Reuters, 3.Dec.2020) — Venezuela’s oil exports almost doubled in November from the previous month as new customers linked to a Russian trading firm stepped in to boost purchases from state-run...
(Reuters, 3.Dec.2020) — Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party would consider reforming the country's oil law if it retakes control of the legislature after the Dec. 6 election, Nicolas Maduro Guerra, son...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Dec.2020) — Brazilian-based Braskem Idesa has shut down its Ethylene XXI polyethylene (PE) complex in the city of Coatzacoalcos, after a Mexican state energy agency shut off...
(Argus, 3.Dec.2020) — Argentina received bids from 16 companies in a path-breaking auction to supply more than 70mn m3/d of natural gas at subsidized wellhead prices for power generation in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 2.Dec.2020) — Ecuador’s state entity EP PetroEcuador awarded Novum Energy Trading Corp. a deal to import 1,260,000 barrels of cutter stock. Novum won the deal with a...
(Sempra, 2.Dec.2020) — Sempra Energy announced a series of integrated transactions intended to simplify its energy infrastructure investments under one platform – creating scale, unlocking portfolio synergies and better positioning...
(Petrobras, 2.Dec.2020) — Rio de Janeiro-based Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 1 October 2020, has received binding proposals for four refineries: Landulpho Alves (RLAM), in Bahia,...
(Petroleum Economist, 2.Dec.2020) — Crumbling oil prices and volatile energy demand have tipped Latin America into a sharp recession, exacerbated by one of the world’s worst Covid-19 mortality rates. But...
(Reuters, 2.Dec.2020) — India wants to diversify its oil imports, including the resumption of supplies from Iran and Venezuela, after U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan...
(Bloomberg, 1.Dec.2020) — Mexico will cash in its oil price insurance policy this year for the fourth time only in the last two decades, receiving a payout of about $2.5...
(Ecopetrol, 1.Dec.2020) — Ecopetrol reports that rating agency, Fitch Ratings, has affirmed the company’s credit rating at BBB- with a negative outlook and its standalone credit profile (without incorporating government...
(Guyana Standard, 1.Dec.2020) — President Dr. Irfaan Ali has reaffirmed his Government’s commitment to ensure that local businesses are optimally involved in the oil and gas sector. The Head of...
(ANH, 1.Dec.2020) — Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency - ANH signed 4 new contracts as a conclusion of the third cycle of the Continuous Area Nomination Process, PPAA. Parex Resources and...
(DPI, 1.Dec.2020) — Government’s gas to energy project is set to see development of new sectors and boost local traditional industries. Minister of Natural Resource, Hon. Vickram Bharrat shared this...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Dec.2020) — Venezuela is said to be producing around 450,000 barrels per day and exporting more with the assistance of Chinese and Russians companies lifting the South...
(BPC, 1.Dec.2020) — Bahamas Petroleum Company plc provided an update on its strategy, deliverables and 2021 work program for its portfolio of assets in Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname. The...
(Petrobras, 1.Dec.2020) — Petrobras informs that it received, on this date, a favorable partial decision in one of the arbitrations proceeding before the Market Arbitration Chamber (CAM) of B3, initiated...
(Petrobras, 1.Dec.2020) — Petrobras will be part of B3 Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) again. The company will integrate the main Brazilian index under the aspect of corporate sustainability in 2021,...
(Argus, 1.Dec.2020) — Venezuelan state-owned PdV's crude production and exports have recovered in recent weeks as China resumed direct loadings and a tanker deficit the company blames on US sanctions...
(Petrobras, 30.Nov.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 27 November 2020, regarding the divestment of Petrobras Gás S.A. (Gaspetro), clarifies that the company Compass Gás Energia S.A....
(BPC, 30.Nov.2020) — Bahamas Petroleum Company plc (BPC) advised the Goudron Enhanced Production Sharing Contract (ESPC) has been signed. As a consequence, the company will proceed to issue 35,759,140 new...
(Rockhopper, 30.Nov.2020) — Rockhopper Exploration plc provided the following update in relation to the previously announced farm-in to the Sea Lion project by Navitas Petroleum LP. Following the announcement of...
(Petrobras, 30.Nov.2020) — Rio de Janeiro-based Petrobras provided operational and financial details from its once yearly Petrobras Day. Petrobras Day 30 November 2020 ... petrobras_day_final_ingles_2020Download __________
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