(Reuters, 24.Dec.2018) — Exxon Mobil and a seismic research company it hired to search for oil off the coast of Guyana declined on Monday to say when they might resume...
(Jamaica Observer, Garfield Myers, 24.Dec.2018) — A leading executive in the renewable energy sector is urging electricity provider Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to stay focused on improving efficiency and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 23.Dec.2018) — Shell Brasil signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) related to the commercialization of Bolivian natural gas in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 22.Dec.2018) — Clandestine pipeline connections between January and October of 2018 rose 45% to 12,581 compared to 8,664 in the same period last year, and...
(PetroPerú, 22.Dec.2018) — Given the statement of various indigenous organizations about the recent attack on Km. 193 of the North Peruvian Pipeline (ONP), PetroPerú states the following: PetroPerú carries out...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman and Piero Stewart, 21.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on YPFB’s estimated value after nationalization; a potential nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium plant...
(Echo Energy, 21.Dec.2018) — Echo Energy announces, further to its announcement of 2 November 2018, that Gavin Graham, a non-executive director of the company, was formerly, in the five years...
(Petrobras, 21.Dec.2018) — Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors approved the dismissal, on 12/31/2018, of Mr. Ivan de Souza Monteiro of the position of the company’s CEO. In view...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 21.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Argentina’s renewable energy sector, Maurel & Prom’s acquisition of Shell’s interest in the Urdaneta West...
(Renewables Now, 21.Dec.2018) — Argentine thermal and renewable energy group Genneia SA has switched on 100 MW of renewable power plants, the Ministry of Energy and Mines announced on Thursday....
(Reuters, 20.Dec.2018) — Brazil’s state-controlled oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA has suspended oil and refined products trading with Vitol, the company said in a statement to Reuters. Petrobras, as the...
(Jamaica Gleaner, Steven Jackson, 21.Dec.2018) — Natural gas supplier New Fortress Energy has erected its new floating regasification vessel called the Golar Freeze offshore Old Harbour, under a long-term deal...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 21.Dec.2018) — Executives with Bolivia's Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) and Brazil’s Ambar Energía signed a Memorandum of Understanding to execute projects for the supply...
(Petrobras, 21.Dec.2018) — Petrobras reports that yesterday it signed with the French company Total new documents related to the strategic partnership between the two companies announced on 03/01/2017. In the...
(Ecopetrol, 21.Dec.2018) — Ecopetrol S.A. closed a deal with companies of the Shell and Chevron groups, which will allow it to expand its stake in Brazil’s Pre-Salt Region. The agreement...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 20.Dec.2018) — PDVSA Intevep and Hartung Hermanos Sucesores, C.A. signed a Letter Of Intent (LOI) with the aim to implement technology that will assist in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 20.Dec.2018) — Pan American Energy’s (PAE) first renewable energy market development, the Garayalde Wind Farm located in the province of Chubut about 200 km from...
(Maurel & Prom, 20.Dec.2018) — Etablissements Maurel & Prom announced in the press release published on 12 October 2018 the signature of a Share Sale and Purchase Agreement (the “SSPA”)...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 20.Dec.2018) — ExxonMobil was named 2018 Large Cap Company of the Year and Explorer of the Year by the World Oil and Gas Council in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 20.Dec.2018) — Irving, Texas-based ExxonMobil announced a recap of some of its most important activities during the year in the Latin America and Caribbean region,...
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 20.Dec.2018) — U.S. oil production will continue to grow at a rapid pace until 2025, while Venezuela’s crude output is set for further declines, Fatih Birol, the...
(DemeraraWaves, Denis Chabrol, 20.Dec.2018) ) — Guyana has spent GYD$780 million (US$3.7 million) from the US$18 million signing bonus from ExxonMobil on legal fees for the settlement of the border...
(Petrobras, 20.Dec.2018) — Petrobras announced early results of its previously announced debt tender offers. As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on December 19, 2018 (the “Early Tender Deadline”)...
(Petrobras, 20.Dec.2018) — Petrobras, in relation to the news published in the media on the injunction rendered on December 19, 2018 by Minister Marco Aurélio Mello, in a declaratory action...
(Petrobras, 20.Dec.2018) — Petrobras announced that in December it pre-paid bank debts and contracted new financing, according to the tables below. The operations are in line with the company's liability...
(AP, 19.Dec.2018) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador detailed plans Saturday to “rescue” the national oil industry by boosting crude production at the state-owned oil company by 45 per...
(Atlas, 19.Dec.2018) — Atlas Renewable Energy has won one of the Bonds & Loans Latin America Awards 2019, in the category of Structured Bond Deal of the Year. Following more...
(Enel Generación Chile, 19.Dec.2018) — ENEL GENERACIÓN CHILE S.A. announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved the voluntary delisting of its American Depositary Shares (ADSs) from The New...
(Speedcast, 19.Dec.2018) — Speedcast International Limited announced its Brazilian entity SC Caprock has extended its relationship with one of its leading global Energy customers, with a new multi-year contract extension...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 19.Dec.2018) — Ecuador’s state oil company Petroecuador and Amerisur Exploración Colombia Limitada signed a contract for the transport of Colombia crude through the SOTE, from...
(S&P Global Platts, 19.Dec.2018) — OPEC enters a pivotal third year of production cuts in a volatile oil market with its least experienced minister at the helm. Venezuela’s Manuel Quevedo,...
(Colombia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy, 18.Dec.2018) — María Fernanda Suárez Londoño is a Business Administrator from the College of Superior Studies in Management (CESA) and has a Master's Degree...
(Pampa, 18.Dec.2018) — Pampa Energía S.A. joined the special stocks quote panel called ‘Corporate Governance Plus’ (the +GC Panel) launched by Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos S.A. (ByMA). Pampa is one...
(Petrobras, 18.Dec.2018) — Petrobras announced its Board of Directors approved in a meeting held today, to submit for the analysis of the Secretariat for the Coordination and Governance of State-Owned...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 18.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from BPTT and its sanction for two new gas developments in Trinidad, President Energy’s success...
(Petrobras, 18.Dec.2018) — Petrobras reports that its Board of Directors approved in a meeting held today, the advance distribution of earnings to shareholders as Interest on Capital (IOC), as defined...
(Petrobras, 18.Dec.2018) — Petrobras, in compliance with the provisions of Instruction no. 358 of January 3, 2002, issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (CVM), hereby informs that...
(Rowan, 18.Dec.2018) — Rowan Companies plc announced that the Ralph Coffman, a 240-C Class harsh environment jack-up rig, has been awarded a one-well contract from CGX Resources in Guyana for...
(Reuters, 18.Dec.2018) — Colombia has canceled two auctions of rights to explore for oil in dozens of areas of the Andean nation and plans to relaunch bidding early next year,...
(JA Solar, 18.Dec.2018) — JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., a world-leading manufacturer of high-performance photovoltaic products, announced that it will supply all bifacial mono PERC double glass modules for SolarGrid’s...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 18.Dec.2018) — President Energy announced drilling success at the company’s third new well, PF0 1005, located in Puesto Flores, Rio Negro Province, Argentina. The well...
(Frontera Energy, 18.Dec.2018) — CGX Energy Inc. and Frontera Energy Corporation amended a letter agreement previously disclosed in a news release of CGX and Frontera on December 4, 2018 to...
(Frontera Energy, 18.Dec.2018) — Frontera Energy Corporation entered into an unsecured loan agreement with Puerto Bahia, pursuant to which the company has agreed to loan the aggregate amount of $10.75...
(Frontera Energy, 18.Dec.2018) — Frontera Energy Corporation announced the option for a Dividend Reinvestment Plan. As initially announced on December 6, 2018, Frontera has now adopted a Dividend Reinvestment Plan...
(BPTT, 17.Dec.2018) — BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) announced the sanction for two new gas developments offshore Trinidad, Cassia Compression and Matapal. The Cassia Compression project will enable BPTT to...
(AFP, 17.Dec.2018) — A major group of indigenous people living in Argentine Patagonia are taking some of the world's biggest oil and gas multinationals to court for “environmental contamination,” Greenpeace...
(Chron.com, Jordan Blum, 17.Dec.2018) — The small South American nation Guyana led the way in 2018 for new oil and gas discoveries followed by Russia and the United States as...
(Energy Voice, Mark Lammey, 17.Dec.2018) — The first project will help BP produce low pressure gas reserves from existing fields in the Greater Cassia Area. The project will involve the...
(NGI, Christopher Lenton, 17.Dec.2018) — Though hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has transformed the energy sector in the United States, only Argentina in Latin America has followed its lead in commercially developing...
(Reuters, Marta Nogueira, 17.Dec.2018) — Brazil’s National Council for Energy Policy (CNPE) in a meeting on Monday approved the sixth-round auction for the country’s pre-salt offshore oil area to be...
(Bloomberg, Mohammed Sergie and Anthony Dipaola, 16.Dec.2018) — Qatar Petroleum is buying stakes in three offshore oil blocks in Mexico from Eni SpA, as the Arab country signs another global...
(Eni, 16.Dec.2018) — His Excellency Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Minister of State for Energy Affairs and President & CEO of Qatar Petroleum, and Claudio Descalzi, Chief Executive Officer of Eni, signed...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, Ian Silverman and Aaron Simonsky, 16.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from Chile on its $515 million Energy Access Fund, Mexico’s...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 15.Dec.2018) — The mixed company Petrolera Sinovensa is currently producing 130,000 barrels per day of crude oil in Venezuela. “I am pleased that we have...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 15.Dec.2018) — With the intervention of the Mexican government the most important company in the country will be rescued so that it becomes, once again,...
[caption id="attachment_5666" align="alignnone" width="2850"] Petróleos Mexicanos General Director Ing. Octavio Romero Oropeza. Source: Pemex[/caption] (Pemex, 15.Dec.2018) — The general director of Petróleos Mexicanos, Eng. Octavio Romero Oropeza, affirmed that with...
(Reuters, Brad Brooks, 14.Dec.2018) — Brazilian federal prosecutors on Friday filed corruption charges against two former executives of the oil trader Trafigura for allegedly paying at least $1.5 million in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 14.Dec.2018) — Petrobras said the average subsidized price of diesel to be utilized by the company at its refineries and terminals will be R$ 1.8115...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs from Venezuela related to Nicolás Maduro and the Petro, and PDVSA Ethanol. [caption id="attachment_5542" align="alignright" width="300"]...
(Orb Media Inc., 14.Dec.2018) — New Orb Media Inc. reporting and data analysis shows consumers are extremely worried about plastic's impact on the world. There is widespread public confusion regarding...
(Canadian Solar Inc., 14.Dec.2018) — Canadian Solar Inc. achieved financial close on a $69 million non-recourse project financing for the 67.8 MWp Aguascalientes solar power project in Mexico. Arranged by...
(Kahn Swick & Foti, 14.Dec.2018) — Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC (KSF) and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until...
(Petrobras, 13.Dec.2018) — Petrobras received from its controlling shareholder a letter with the appointment of the economist Roberto da Cunha Castello Branco to serve as President of the company and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 13.Dec.2018) — “After 100 years of history, thanks to unconventional resources, the oil and gas paradigm has changed completely for our country,” reported Argentina’s Energy...
(Reuters, Brad Brooks, Julia Payne, 13.Dec.2018) — Brazil’s epic “Car Wash” corruption investigation has taken down presidents and elite businessmen, and led to the largest corporate leniency deal ever signed....
(Reuters, Anthony Boadle, 13.Dec.2018) — A consortium led by Electricité de France SA is ready to fill the reservoir of a hydroelectric dam built in Brazil’s soy belt, but could...
(ARPEL, 13.Dec.2018) — The Workshop on “Best practices in the operation and maintenance of hydrocracker and diesel hydrotreating units” was held December 12-14 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. The meeting...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman and Piero Stewart, 13.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from South America’s Guyana, which expects first oil to start flowing in...
(OilPrice.com, Irina Slav, 12.Dec.2018) — Canadian miner Crystallex has accused Venezuela of breaching a US$1.4-billion settlement agreement as PDVSA continued to try and overturn a court order that allowed Crystallex...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Julien Neaves, 12.Dec.2018) — More than US$11 million (or over TT$74 million) has been paid to two global consultancy companies for work done on behalf of...
(Reuters, 12.Dec.2018) — U.S. oil and gas producer Hess Corp. said Dec. 12 it expects output of barrels of oil equivalent to grow more than 10% per year compounded through...
(Hess Corporation, 12.Dec.2018) — Hess Corporation provided a detailed update on progress in executing its strategy for long term value creation at its Investor Day today in Houston. The company’s...
(Houston Chronicle, Sergio Chapa, 12.Dec.2018) — The Mexican government has cancelled bidding on two auctions that would have allowed hydraulic fracturing in the border state of Tamaulipas and brought more...
(Canadian Solar Inc., 12.Dec.2018) — Canadian Solar Inc. secured $50 million in non-recourse project financing for its 100.1 MWp solar power project in Cafayate, Salta Province, Argentina. The $50 million...