(Oilprice.com, 7.May.2020) — Oil majors may be slashing spending and deferring development plans across the globe, but they remain committed to developing the newest offshore oil finds in the heart...
(Argus, 7.May.2020) — The hedge contracted by Mexico's state-owned Pemex has a floor of $44/bl, leaving the company exposed to losses below that following the global rout in crude prices,...
(GeoPark, 6.May.2020) — GEoPark Limited will report its consolidated financial results for the three-month period ended March 31, 2020 on Wednesday, May 13, 2020. In conjunction with the first quarter results...
(Argus, 6.May.2020) — PetroPeru's 12,000 b/d Iquitos refinery in the northern jungle is currently closed. Its 553,200 bl of storage is full. The 15,500 b/d Conchan refinery in Lima was...
(Qatar Petroleum, 5.May.2020) — Qatar Petroleum entered into three farm-in agreements to acquire about 30% of Total’s participating interest in blocks 15, 33 and 34 located in the Campeche basin,...
(Cairn Energy, 5.May.2020) — Operations have been completed on the Eni operated Ehecatl-1 exploration well on Block 7, located in the Sureste Basin Offshore Mexico, in which Cairn has a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 5.May.2020) — EP PetroEcuador reprogrammed its imports of high-octane naphtha ron 93, naphtha ron 80, premium diesel, cutter stock and diesel oil. “Derivatives imports have...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 5.May.2020) — Four Colombian pipelines have been attached at least 25 times to date in 2020, according to data revealed by the country’s state oil...
(Nutrien Litd., 5.May.2020) — Nutrien Ltd. has made the difficult decision to temporarily shut down one of the four ammonia (NH3) plants at its Trinidad facility. The temporary shutdown is...
(Petrobras, 5.May.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on March 10, related to the New Deficit Equation Plan (New Plan) of the Renegotiated and Non-Renegotiated Petrobras System...
(Argus, 5.May.2020) — State-owned PetroEcuador has delayed all fuel imports that were supposed to arrive in May and June because of a sharp decline in demand. The delayed imports include...
(S&P, 4.May.2020) — S&P Global Ratings said today that Vale S.A.'s (BBB-/Negative/--) strong balance sheet and ability to adjust capital expenditures (capex) and dividends provide adequate cushion at the current...
(Reuters, 4.May.2020) — Guyana has no plans to cut crude output despite a plunge in oil prices, the government’s top energy official said on Monday, adding that shutting down production...
(Pemex, 4.May.2020) — In compliance with the Disposiciones de Carácter General aplicables a las Emisoras de Valores y a Otros Participantes del Mercado de Valores, today Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) presented...
(Argus, 4.May.2020) — The Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba is offering to lease oil storage after terminating an ill-fated refining project with PdV Holding (PDVH), the opposition-controlled US subsidiary of...
(Argus, 4.May.2020) — The government of burgeoning Latin American oil producer Guyana received $4.9mn in its first oil and gas royalty payment from gross production to date, deposited on 28...
(Argus, 4.May.2020) — Venezuela's state-owned PdV rolled out the appointment of up to 26 new presidents of joint ventures that are mostly inactive. The appointments, some of whom may have...
(Repsol, 4.May.2020) — Repsol has made two significant offshore oil discoveries in Mexico’s deep water with its Polok-1 and Chinwol-1 exploration wells in Block 29 in the Salina Basin. Both...
(Petrobras, 4.May.2020) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), referring to the sale of its entire stake in the Manati field, a maritime production concession in shallow waters located...
(Petrobras, 4.May.2020) — Petrobras exported 1 million barrels of oil per day in April. This represents a new oil export record and contributes to strengthening the company's cash flow. The...
(Reuters, 4.May.2020) — Thai energy company PTT Exploration and Production Pcl said on Monday its joint venture had made two deep-water oil discoveries in the Salina Basin, offshore Mexico. The...
(DOE, 4.May.2020) — Good morning ladies and gentlemen I am coming to you at a very interesting time in our country’s history given the furore over our national and regional...
(Reuters, 4.May.2020) — Venezuela’s oilfields produced 687,000 barrels of crude last Saturday, up from 653,000 barrels on Friday but below the 718,000 barrels per day (bpd) the country said it...
(Bloomberg, 2.May.2020) — Mexico’s Centro Nacional de Control de Energia (Cenace), which oversees the electrical system, indefinitely suspended critical tests for new clean-energy projects as the nation grapples with the...
(Milbank, 1.May.2020) — Milbank LLP represented the underwriters, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Scotia Capital, in connection with the $2bn SEC-registered offering of notes due 2030 by Ecopetrol, Colombia’s state-owned...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 1.May.2020) — Intervention activities continue at 40 defined sites in Ecuador, of which at least 220 focal points have been established to concentrate on environmental...
(Milbank, 1.May.2020) — Milbank LLP represented the underwriters, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Scotia Capital, in connection with the $2 billion SEC-registered offering of notes due 2030 by Ecopetrol, Colombia’s...
(Bloomberg, 1.May.2020) — Petrobras, the Brazilian producer tapping some of the largest offshore oil finds this century, is confronting a Covid-19 outbreak in exploration platforms as the pandemic gains speed...
(PDV Holding, 1.May.2020) — PDV Holding, Inc., and the Government of Aruba/Refineria di Aruba (RDA) today executed an amicable termination agreement in relation to the contract for the San Nicolás...
(Upstream, 1.May.2020) — Argentine oil company YPF has appointed industry veteran Sergio Affronti as chief executive, replacing Daniel Gonzalez, amid headwinds from the coronavirus pandemic and the collapse in oil...
(Enel Chile, 30.Apr.2020) — Enel Chile, announced its 2019 Annual Report on Form 20-F has been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30th, 2020. Enel...
(Ecopetrol, 30.Apr.2020) — It is the first link in Ecopetrol’s value chain. Its main objective is to explore, discover and appraise commercially viable hydrocarbon accumulations, seeking to ensure the reserve...
(Reuters,30.Apr.2020) — Mexican state oil company Pemex on Thursday said it had posted a $23.6 billion (562.13 billion peso) loss in the first quarter due to falling crude prices as...
(Reuters, 29.Apr.2020) — The U.S. State Department, the Treasury Department and the U.S. Embassy in Mexico are investigating at least two Mexican firms involved in an oil-for-food pact signed in...
(TGS, 29.Apr.2020) — Transportadora de Gas del Sur S.A. today it filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 (the "2019 Annual Report")...
(Bloomberg, 29.Apr.2020) — Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant, is plowing through a global oil glut expecting that exports to China will soon rebound, and with extensive storage capacity helping it...
(Oilprice.com, 29.Apr.2020) — Venezuela seems to be changing tactics when it comes to managing its oil resources. PDVSA is considering a major industry reform that would increase private company activities...
(World Politics Review, 28.Apr.2020) — Despite growing signs of a dramatic and global economic downturn stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, the small South American country of Guyana appears poised for...
(Reuters, 28.Apr.2020) — The latest fire to erupt at one of Venezuelan state-owned PdV's oil installations has temporarily knocked out up to 130,000 b/d of heavy crude production from three...
(Forbes, 28.Apr.2020) — In a total about-face on the “socialism” and “communism” and the Yankee-Go-Home attitude of the ruling Socialists United of Venezuela (PSUV), the country’s beleaguered and bankrupt oil...
(Petrobras. 27.Apr.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 23 January 2020, informs that its wholly-owned subsidiary Petrobras Biocombustível S.A. (PBio), on its behalf and representing its...
(Reuters, 27.Apr.2020) — Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras has reversed most of its previously announced production cuts due to higher-than-expected demand for some fuels, it said on Monday, a surprising...
(Argus, 27.Apr.2020) — The two Maduro loyalists who have been effectively running Venezuela's national oil industry for two months were officially appointed today as acting heads of the oil ministry...
(Gerdau, 27.Apr.2020) — Gerdau S.A. hereby announces that the Form 20-F related to the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
(Reuters, 27.Apr.2020) — Mexico’s state oil firm Pemex on Monday detailed measures aimed at mitigating the effects of a steep drop in oil prices, saying it would prioritize lower-cost production...
(Reuters, 26.Apr.2020) — Mexico has begun removing staff from Gulf of Mexico oil platforms to limit the spread of the coronavirus, leaving essential personnel on board, state oil firm Petroleos...
(Oilprice.com, 25.Apr.2020) — Mexico has somewhat inadvertently found itself at the heart of the oil industry’s most burning issues of 2020 – just when it seemed that Russia, Saudi Arabia,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Apr.2020) — Ecuador appointed engineer Jose Luis Peña Arteaga as the country’s new vice minister of electricity and alternative energies. The official assumed the responsibilities after compliance...
(YPF, 24.Apr.2020) — YPF SA announced that it has filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, with the US Securities and Exchange...
(CPFL, 24.Apr.2020) — CPFL Energia announces that its 2019 20-F Form annual report has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 24, 2020 and is available...
(Moody’s 24.Apr.2020) — Moody's Investors Service assigned a Baa3 rating to Ecopetrol S.A.'s proposed new global notes. The Baa3 rating on the proposed notes is based on the rating of...
(Reuters, 23.Apr.2020) — Argentina plans to issue a decree setting a higher local oil barrel price to protect the domestic industry from being further decimated by a collapse in global...
(Reuters, 23.Apr.2020) — Mexican state oil company Pemex has declared force majeure over fuel imports from its trading arm PMI Comercio Internacional, two sources with knowledge of the decision said...
(Bloomberg, 23.Apr.2020) — Mexico, the largest recipient of U.S. gasoline exports, is seeking to cancel imports of the fuel from at least one U.S. company amid the rippling effects of...
(Reuters, 23.Apr.2020) — Venezuela has received refining materials via plane shipment from Iran to help it start the catalytic cracking unit at the 310,000 barrels-per-day Cardon refinery, which is necessary...
(Oilprice.com, 23.Apr.2020) — On Tuesday, the Trump administration told the last remaining American oil companies in Venezuela that they had until December to wind down operations in the country. The...
(S&P Global Platts, 22.Apr.2020) — Mexico announced a Peso 622.56 billion ($25.5 billion) package on Wednesday that will help the nation face the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, with...
(Talos, 22.Apr.2020) — Talos Energy Inc. intends to release first quarter 2020 results for the period ended March 31, 2020 on Wednesday 6 May 2020 after the U.S. financial market...
(Stabroek News, 22.Apr.2020) — Thirty-four companies have submitted expressions of interests (EOIs) to market Guyana’s entitlement from the Exxon-operated Liza Destiny FPSO in the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana. The companies...
(Reuters, 22.Apr.2020) — Chevron Corp has been banned from drilling or transporting oil in Venezuela and its assets there are “mothballed” as the Trump administration cracks down on money going...
(Ecopetrol, 22.Apr.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. informs the ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting, held on 7 March 2020, approved the earnings distribution proposal presented for their consideration, which establishes the distribution of...
(Bloomberg, 21.Apr.2020) — Chevron Corp. will be forced to effectively wind down its operations in Venezuela, dealing the Maduro regime’s crumbling oil industry another blow as U.S. President Donald Trump...
(Reuters, 21.Apr.2020) — More than 30 companies, including commodities traders like Gunvor and Vitol as well as units of oil majors like Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell, submitted expressions...
(AP, 21.Apr.2020) — The Trump administration on Tuesday ordered Chevron Corp. to “wind down” operations in Venezuela by Dec. 1, barring the California-based oil giant in the meantime from drilling...
(MiX, 21.Apr.2020) — MiX Telematics confirmed that one of Brazil's largest ethanol and sugar producers have appointed MiX Telematics to assist in modifying driver behavior and reducing vehicle collisions. The...
(Jamaica Gleaner, 21.Apr.2020) — The Trinidad and Tobago Government Tuesday urged nationals not to panic as the oil-and-gas-rich country prepared to count the possible loss of billions of dollars in...
(Ecopetrol, 20.Apr.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. announced filing of its annual report under Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the...
(Trinidad Express, 20.Apr.2020) — History was created on the global oil market today when the price of the US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, plunged into negative territory for the first...
(Argus, 19.Apr.2020) — Raizen has suspended operations at its 110,000 b/d Buenos Aires refinery in response to the plunge in oil demand caused by coronavirus restrictions. Raizen, a joint venture...
(Petrobras, 17.Apr.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 3 February 2020, announces that it has started the binding phase referring to the sale of its entire...
(Petrobras, 17.Apr.2020) — Petrobras announces the rating agency S&P Global Ratings affirmed the ”BB-” global scale rating for Petrobras, with a stable outlook. The stand-alone credit profile remained at "bb",...
(Jamaica Gleaner, 17.Apr.2020) — Picture soaring sky-scrapers with glistening glass windows adorning cathedrals of steel that dominate the illuminated skyline. This image encapsulates the dreams of many developing countries which...
(Reuters, 17.Apr.2020) — Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras plans to restart operations in the coming days at two ships used in offshore oil production that suffered coronavirus outbreaks, an executive...
(Fitch Ratings, 17.Apr.2020) — Fitch Ratings has downgraded the international Foreign- and Local-Currency Long-Term ratings for Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Infraestructura Energetica Nova, S. A. B....
(Moody’s, 17.Apr.2020 — Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) downgraded Petroleos Mexicanos' (PEMEX) senior unsecured ratings on the company's existing notes, as well as the ratings based on PEMEX's guarantee, to Ba2...