(bpTT, 8.Sep.2021) — Dev Sanyal, executive vice president Gas and Low Carbon Energy, bp - has emphasized bp’s commitment to the continued development of its Trinidad and Tobago business. Sanyal...
(WoodMac, 8.Sep.2021) — The severe drought in Brazil will contribute to an extremely tight power balance in the country, new research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk...
(Argus, 8.Sep.2021) — Venezuela's abundant hydrocarbons are beckoning a new generation of investors, stepping in where more established companies are pulling out. Sucre Energy, a Netherlands-based and Spanish-registered private equity...
(Argus, 8.Sep.2021) — Trinidad and Tobago's beleaguered LNG producer Atlantic is working with the government on a restructuring to ensure its commercial viability, major shareholders Shell and BP told Argus....
(InvestChile, 7.Sep.2021) — Chile urgently needs to increase its plastic recycling capacity and this opens up significant business opportunities for foreign companies. This topic will be aired in the online...
(Reuters, 7.Sep.2021) — Guyana awarded a unit of Saudi Aramco a tender to purchase a portion of the country's oil production, and the two parties will likely enter into a...
(Argus, 6.Sep.2021) — Brazilian natural gas pipeline distributors and other gas buyers say state-run company Petrobras is making it more difficult to sign short-term supply contracts, discouraging the opening of...
(Trinidad Guardian, 3.Sep.2021) — In what could turn out to be a major scandal for the government and state-owned National Gas Company, (NGC) Guardian Media has obtained confidential correspondence between...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 2.Sep.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: ExxonMobil progressing its Payara project in Guyana for start-up in 2024 and Japan’s Inpex divesting...
(Petrobras, 2.Sep.2021) — The Brazilian Congress approved yesterday the Legislative Decree that suspends the effects of CGPAR Resolution No. 23, a rule that was in effect since 26 January 2018...
(Argus, 2.Sep.2021) — Colombia is working to restore natural gas supply after an outage at state-controlled Ecopetrol's Cusiana field, the country's second supply hiccup in a week. Ecopetrol said the...
(Argus, 1.Sep.2021) — Brazil's natural gas imports in January-July reached a total of 8.7bn m³ (310 Bcf), already reaching above the full-year total for 2020 of 7.8bn m³, according to...
(Petrobras, 1.Sep.2021) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 21 December 2018, informs that it has finalized the transfer of rights of its 10% interest in the Lapa...
(Bloomberg, 1.Sep.2021) — China’s top oil producer is laying the groundwork to revive output in Venezuela as President Nicolas Maduro finalizes legislation to attract more international investment. Once a major...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Sep.2021) — Moody's Investors Service affirmed the credit rating of Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol S.A. at Baa3 but changed its outlook from Stable to Negative. The...
(Reuters, 1.Sep.2021) — Brazil’s Mines and Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque is warning that the country’s energy crisis is worse than previously thought, as a record drought hampers hydropower generation. In...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Sep.2021) — Venezuela, home to the world’s largest oil reserves, still has an opportunity to capitalize on producing oil amid the energy transition, Ali Moshiri, head of...
(Reuters, 1.Sep.2021) — Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourao said on Wednesday a severe drought could lead to energy rationing in Brazil, contradicting other officials who have said that such a...
(Eco Atlantic, 31.Aug.2021) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. (AIM: ECO, TSX‐V: EOG) announced its results for the three months ended 30 June 2021, alongside a corporate and operational...
(Eco Atlantic, 31.Aug.2021) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. (AIM: ECO, TSX‐V: EOG) announced that the Sapote-1 well on the Canje Block, offshore Guyana has been spudded. Eco was...
(AAPG, 31.Aug.2021) — AAPG’s Latin America and Caribbean Region invites you to the 2021 "Caribbean Technical Symposium and E&P Summit: Recent Activity and Exploration Opportunities" to be held virtually on...
(Reuters, 31.Aug.2021) — Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said in an event in the state of Minas Gerais that he has discussed the reason for high fuel prices with the CEO...
(Borr Drilling, 31.Aug.2021) — Borr Drilling Limited announces preliminary unaudited results for the three and six months ended 30 June 2021. Highlights second quarter of 2021 Total operating revenues of...
(Ecopetrol, 30.Aug.2021) — Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC), informs that during the session held on Friday 27 August 2021, its Board of Directors approved the framework for the Third...
(C2 Communications, 27.Aug.2021) — C2 Communications, a national award-winning public relations and marketing firm, has partnered with Excel Guyana, Inc. to raise awareness of the diverse business growth opportunities, infrastructure improvements...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Aug.2021) — Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras said the leasing process for the LNG Regasification Terminal of Bahia (TR-BA) and associated facilities continues to move forward with...
(Gold Port, 26.Aug.2021) — Gold Port Corporation (CSE: GPO) (OTCQB: GPOTF) is providing a corporate update. The Discovery 1 Core Rig ordered from Multi-Power Products Inc., of Kelowna, British Columbia,...
(Argus, 26.Aug.2021) — Brazilian producers need to increase the amount of natural gas they offer in order to stimulate investment in gas infrastructure and boost demand, said Marcelo Mendonça, strategy...
(Excelerate, 26.Aug.2021) — Excelerate Energy L.P. successfully concluded with Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) the negotiation stage of the tender process for the lease of Bahia Regasification Terminal. Once the financial...
(Reuters, 26.Aug.2021) — Peru's Congress on Thursday pushed back to Friday a key vote to confirm or reject a new leftist Cabinet nominated by President Pedro Castillo, extending the uncertainty...
(Reuters, 26.Aug.2021) — Ecuador's state-run power company CELEC said on Thursday it will spend $80 million to repair idle thermal power plants to prepare them to provide backup electricity supply,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Aug.2021) — Brazil’s state owned Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) made a payment today which relates to the first installment of the remuneration anticipation to shareholders related to...
(Petrobras, 25.Aug.2021) — Petrobras signed today with the company Ream Participações S.A., a corporate company owned by the partners of Atem's Distribuidora de Petróleo S.A. (Atem), a contract to sell...
(Petrobras, 25.Aug.2021) — Petrobras says interested parties in the sale process of the Abreu e Lima Refinery (RNEST) formally declined to submit a binding proposal for the purchase of the...
(Mantoro 25.Aug.2021) — Mantoro Silver Corp. (TSXV: MSLV) (FSE: 9TZ) entered into a property option agreement with Minera Golden Hill S.R.L. (MGH) and Luis Fernando Kinn Cortez (the "Optionor") to...
(Wall Street Journal, 25.Aug.2021) — Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Wednesday that it has signed a natural-gas sales contract with Companhia Pernambucana de Gas, its first supply deal with a...
(Vice, 25.Aug.2021) — A recent seizure highlights how “corrupt Colombian government officials have helped to launder Venezuelan coltan into licit supply chains in Colombia,” said one expert. Authorities in southern...
(Reuters, 25.Aug.2021) — Venezuela's socialist government sees the swap it made last week of shares in a Dominican oil refinery for defaulted bonds as a possible model for future deals,...
(AP, 24.Aug.2021) — Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Tuesday the possible remains of two missing subcontractors had been found on one of its oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico...
(Bloomberg, 24.Aug.2021) — Oil stored in ships has been stacking up off key Asian ports as a crackdown in China on private crude oil processors has blunted purchases and disrupted...
(Reuters, 24.Aug.2021) — With U.S. sanctions spooking key oil buyers and depriving its government of cash, Venezuela last year inked a deal with a little-known local company to swap crude...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Aug.2021) — Staatsolie in cooperation with ExxonMobil will be hosting a webinar on 'Local Content in the O&G industry'. As a supplier who can potentially provide support...
(Bloomberg, 24.Aug.2021) — Unlike the other oil majors, nationalized fossil fuel businesses are arms of the state, and therefore can’t bend as far. Petroleos Mexicanos left investors with more questions...
(Fitch, 24.Aug.2021) — Pemex's reported fires at its Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) production fields may slow the company's production growth rates, as this field is the company's largest production complex, according to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Aug.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Argentina awaiting arrival of two LNG tankers, Guyana’s oil output, and Trinidad and Tobago’s strategic...
(The Guardian, 23.Aug.2021) — An exploration well drilled by bpTT and EOG Resources has discovered one trillion cubic feet of gross natural gas resources, off the East Coast, off Trinidad...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Aug.2021) — In compliance with requirements of article 3, item 9, Chapter I, Title XII of the Rules of the Argentine Securities and Exchange Commission, state owned...
(Frontera, 23.Aug.2021) — Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) announced the spudding of the Kawa-1 exploration well, offshore Guyana. CGX Energy Inc. (TSXV: OYL), Frontera majority-owned subsidiary, and its joint venture...
(Argus, 23.Aug.2021) — US refiner Citgo has been effectively cut off from its Venezuelan state-owned parent PdV since 2019, but it is still constrained by heavy debt while multiple creditors...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Aug.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Argentina pondering its allocation of energy subsidies, Ecopetrol closing on an earlier announced $3.7bn ISA...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Aug.2021) — Colombia’s state oil giant Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE; EC) announced on 20 August 2021 that closing conditions set forth in the inter-administrative contract, dated...
(DPI, 19.Aug.2021) — Recognising the vast potential of Guyana and Suriname’s oil and gas sectors, their Excellencies Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali and Chandrikapersad Santokhi have indicated that the two countries...
(Governmenf of Panama, 20.Aug.2021) — The Governments of Argentina, Barbados, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Panama will co-organize the “High-Level Dialogue on Climate Action in the Americas”,...
(Global Infrastructure Partners, 20.Aug.2021) — Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure jointly announces with Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a leading global independent infrastructure investor that it has sold...
(Reuters, 19.Aug.2021) — The world's newest oil-producing nations grabbed the spotlight at this week's Offshore Technology Conference with ambitious plans to tap oil and gas discoveries in a race against...
(The Guardian, 19.Aug.2021) — ExxonMobil’s huge new Guyana project faces charges of a disregard for safety from experts who claim the company has failed to adequately prepare for possible disaster,...
(Sorcia, 19.Aug.2021) — Sorcia Chile SPA (Sorcia), a subsidiary of the US company, Sorcia Minerals LLC, reached a new agreement with RJR Salar, to expand the territory to explore lithium...
(Reuters, 19.Aug.2021) — Brazil is negotiating with Argentina on the construction of a billion-dollar pipeline from the Vaca Muerta shale gas reserves, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday. Speaking...
(Bloomberg, 19.Aug.2021) — A public equity offering is again emerging as a possible exit strategy for the controlling shareholders in one of the world’s top petrochemical makers, Braskem SA, people...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 19.Aug.2021) — Two former ministers of energy are contending that climate-change policy is what would have driven the merger between the BHP Group and Woodside Petroleum...
(S&P Global, 19.Aug.2021) — The presidents of Guyana and Suriname said Aug. 19 their countries will craft a joint strategy to develop their natural gas reserves to fuel their economic...
(Reuters, 19.Aug.2021) — Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA has given up its 49% stake in a Dominican refinery as part of a swap for some of its defaulted bonds, the...
(Ecopetrol, 18.Aug.2021) — Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE; EC) announced that the risk rating agency Standard & Poor's maintained the international long-term rating of Ecopetrol at BB+ and the individual...
(Reuters, 18.Aug.2021) — Guyana and Suriname expect continued exploratory drilling over the next two years by oil majors in their joint offshore basin after a string of recent discoveries, government...
(DPI, 18.Aug.2021) — Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo MP, has issued a clarion call for developed countries to pull their weight in the fight against climate change. The Vice President...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Aug.2021) — Guyana’s Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo took part in the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) held in Houston between 16-19 August 2021. What follows are brief details...
(Reuters, 17.Aug.2021) — Guyana aims to increase its oil royalties and revamp other contract terms as part of a new profit-sharing agreement (PSA) for future crude and gas projects now...
(Baker Institute, 17.Aug.2021) — Shale oil’s short-cycle production protects foreign investors from the risk of expropriation — government taking private property for public use — providing an opportunity for the...
(Orvana, 16.Aug.2021) — Orvana Minerals Corp. (TSX: ORV) announces that a rock fall has occurred at a legacy open pit wall at El Valle. The fallen material impacted the east...
(Ecopetrol, 16.Aug.2021) — Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL;NYSE: EC) informs that by means of Resolution 1928 of 13 August 2021, the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (MHCP) authorized the company...
(Cox Energy, 16.Aug.2021) — Cox Energy América, S.A.B. DE C.V. (BIVA: COXA *, BMV: COXA *), the region's only listed pure play photovoltaic renewable solar energy company, announces as part...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Aug.2021) — Executives with ExxonMobil provided technical details of the company’s initial, current and planned activities in Guyana. What follows are excerpts from their presentations during the...
(DPI, 16.Aug.2021) — This is Guyana’s second time participating at this international conference in Houston, Texas. The Government of Guyana through GO-Invest, is collaborating with several private sector organisations and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Aug.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: YPF reducing its total debt, Petrobras’ tax collections to the government, Exxon’s Liza Unity FPSO...
(Sempra, 12.Aug.2021) — Sempra (NYSE: SRE) (BMV: SRE) announced that it has launched a tender offer to purchase for cash the 3.6% of the outstanding shares of IEnova (Infraestructura Energética...