(Frontera, 24.Mar.2022) — Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) has discovered 27.2 degree API light crude oil at the Tui-1 exploration well on the Perico block (Frontera 50% W.I. and operator) in Ecuador. Orlando Cabrales, Chief Executive Officer of Frontera, commented: “We are excited to announce a second consecutive light crude oil […]
Electrolux Reduces Sea Transport Emissions by 15% in 2022
(Electrolux, 23.Mar.2022) — Electrolux will now use more sustainable fuels for 25% of its total sea freight. By partnering with shipping companies Maersk and CMA CGM Group to use biofuel based on waste oils and LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas), Electrolux will reduce its sea transport greenhouse gas emissions by 15 […]
World Must Double-Down on Plans to Achieve Net Zero by 2050
(WoodMac, 23.Mar.2022) — Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK), reveals in its latest Accelerated Energy Transition (AET) 1.5-Degree scenario report, that the world needs to double-down on plans to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global temperatures to within 1.5 degrees Celsius (˚C) by 2050. Over the last year, […]
Argentine Gas Transporter Adding Capacity from Vaca Muerta Shale Play
(S&P Global, 23.Mar.2022) — Transportadora de Gas del Sur, or TGS, the biggest gas transporter in Argentina, said late March 22 it plans to invest $60 million to build a 17 million cu m/d pipeline out of Vaca Muerta, the latest transport project in the shale play that is boosting […]
NRGBriefs: Zacatecas Silver Provides Update on Panuco Project
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Zacatecas Silver Corp. (ZAC:TSX Venture; ZCTSF: OTC Markets; 7TV: Frankfurt) providing an update on its diamond drilling program at the Panuco deposit located within the Zacatecas Property in Mexico; and 2Gold Corp. (TSX: BTO) (NYSE AMERICAN: BTG) (NSX: B2G) updating and significantly […]
IDB Approves Strategy for Trinidad and Tobago on Digital Transformation
(IDB, 23.Mar.2022) — Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Mauricio Claver-Carone and Trinidad and Tobago Minister of Planning & Development Pennelope Beckles met today to discuss upcoming plans for the IDB’s work in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the IDB’s work on digitalization and climate change in the Caribbean. The IDB’s Board […]
SK E&S Buys EverCharge, a US EV Charging Solutions Provider
(SK E&S, 23.Mar.2022) — SK E&S is entering the US electric vehicle charging market. On 23 March 2022, SK E&S announced the acquisition of EverCharge, an EV charging solution provider in the US. This is the first time a Korean company has acquired the management rights of an EV charging company based in the US. […]
Petro Names Afro-Colombian Environmentalist as Running Mate
(Bloomberg, 23.Mar.2022) — Gustavo Petro, who’s leading Colombia’s presidential race with a campaign focused on wealth redistribution and a green economy, doubled down on his approach by picking as his running mate a 39-year-old Afro-Colombian woman who’s an environmental activist. Francia Marquez pledged to move the Vice President’s office from […]
If Biden Wants to Lower Gas Prices, he Should Talk to Guyana | Opinion
(Miami Herald, 23.Mar.2022) — President Biden recently sent a team of senior U.S. officials to Caracas for talks with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro about a possible oil deal to help bring down gas prices in America. But Biden should instead be sending his envoys to a Venezuelan neighbor that could […]
POSCO Holdings Inc. Invests $839mn in Lithium Business in Argentina
(POSCO Holdings, 23.Mar.2022) — POSCO Holdings started construction of a plant to commercialize brine lithium in Argentina. The POSCO Group is Argentina’s first to produce lithium hydroxide for batteries through the entire process, from acquisition of mining rights to exploration to construction and operation of a production plant. On the 23rd, […]
Colombia’s Fossil Fuel Industry Is Freaking Out About Gustavo Petro
(The New Republic, 22.Mar.2022) — This spring, Colombia could elect its first progressive president. In primary elections earlier this month—held for left-wing, centrist, and ruling right blocs—former Bogotá mayor and 2018 presidential candidate Gustavo Petro won an astounding nearly 4.5 million votes to emerge as nominee for the left-wing coalition known as the Historic Pact. Election […]
Government Expects Higher Than Budgeted Revenues, Forex From Oil, Gas
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 22.Mar.2022) — Finance Minister Colm Imbert said Trinidad and Tobago can expect to enjoy quite higher earnings from the sale of crude oil and natural gas, even as he boasted of foreign reserves now at US$6.7 billion or eight months of import cover, well in excess […]
NRGBriefs: Argentina Inflation Could Touch 5.5% in Mar. 2022 [PDF Download]
(Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Suriname and Guyana with 13bn bbls of discovered resources and continuing exploration and where opportunities are tremendous, but still with challenges given the lack of experience and knowledge in offshore high-tech petroleum activities; Capella Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: CMIL) (OTCQB: CMILF) (FRA: N7D2) announcing […]
NRGBriefs: Venezuela’s VP Delcy Rodríguez on impact of US sanctions
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Mar.2022, Words: 191) — Energy briefs including Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez commenting on the impact of US sanctions on Venezuela during her 2022 presentation of the “Memoria y Cuenta” to the National Assembly; and a recent election poll from Genial/Quaest published on […]
Chevron, Waiting It Out in Venezuela, Tells US Now Is the Time to Pump Oil
(WSJ, 22.Mar.2022) — For months, Biden administration officials snubbed top executives and lobbyists for Chevron Corp. who had pressed officials in Washington to ease sanctions so the company could boost production in Venezuela, where the U.S. has banned such activities since 2019. Then Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine. Now the Biden administration […]
Zacatecas Closes Oversubscribed $19.15mn Financing
(Zacatecas Silver, 22.Mar.20222) — Zacatecas Silver Corp. (ZAC:TSX Venture; ZCTSF: OTC Markets; 7TV: Frankfurt) closed a $19.15mn offering of subscription receipts (the “financing”). The financing was previously announced on 28 February 2022 as a $15mn private placement and then, due to strong demand, was upsized to $18mn on 4 March […]
Argentina Lithium Starts Geophysics Program at Rincon West Project
(Argentina Lithium & Energy Corp., 21.Mar.2022) — Argentina Lithium & Energy Corp. (TSXV: LIT) (FSE: OAY3) (OTC: PNXLF) commenced advanced geophysical imaging surveys at its Rincon West Lithium Project, located at the Salar de Rincon in Salta Province, Argentina. The deep-seeing Transient Electromagnetic Sounding survey will image the sub-surface of the basin, […]
Invenergy and GE Renewable Energy Start Ops at 998 MW Wind Project
(Invenergy, 21.Mar.2022) — Invenergy announced commercial operations for the 998-megawatt Traverse Wind Energy Center, the largest wind farm constructed in a single phase in North America. Located in north central Oklahoma, Traverse joins the operational 199-megawatt Sundance Wind Energy Center and the 287-megawatt Maverick Wind Energy Center, as the last of […]
UH Launches New Energy Transition Institute with $10mn Donation from Shell
(KTRK, 21.Mar.2022) — The University of Houston is establishing a new institute focused on clean energy, and it’s all thanks to a donation from Shell.UH announced on Monday that it has created the Energy Transition Institute after receiving a $10 million gift from oil giant Shell. The institute is focused […]
Ecopetrol, Promigas Start up Pilot-Scale Electrolysers in Cartagena
(Renewables Now, 21.Mar.2022) — The Colombian government on Friday inaugurated a pair of electrolysers in the city of Cartagena installed by two domestic companies as part of their pilot projects to produce green hydrogen. Colombian oil producer Ecopetrol SA (NYSE:EC) and natural gas utility Promigas SA (BVC:PROMIG) each launched solar-powered […]
Eco Atlantic Updates Resource Report on Assets in Guyana, Namibia and S. Africa
(Eco (Atlantic), 21.Mar.2022) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. (AIM:ECO, TSX ‐ V:EOG) announced publication of an updated NI 51-101 compliant Competent Person’s Report (“CPR”) on its assets Offshore Guyana, Offshore Namibia and Offshore South Africa. The CPR was compiled by WSP USA Inc., of Boulder Colorado, USA, an […]
NRGBriefs: Argentina’s Oil Production Reaches 571,000 b/d in Feb. 2022
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Argentina’s oil production rising in Feb. 2022 to 571,000 b/d, its highest mark since Dec. 2011; and Neuquén Province’s Governor Omar Gutiérrez participating in the official inauguration of the Argentina Oil & Gas (AOG2022) event in Buenos Aires. LATIN AMERICA AND THE […]
Let’s Wait And See Impact on Govt Revenue: Energy Minister Young Says
(Trinidad Express, 20.Mar.2022) — Energy Minister Stuart Young said yesterday that higher global ammonia prices should result in more revenue for the Government in the current fiscal year. Young was reacting to recent news that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has contributed to higher prices for all kinds of fertilisers, including […]
NRGBriefs: Xi Jinping Says World Must Reject Cold War Mentality
(Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including China’s Xi Jinping saying there should be a rejection to “the Cold War mentality”; and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), in conjunction with the Colombian Association of Petroleum Geologists and Geophysicists (ACGGP), hosting ICE in Cartagena, Colombia in mid-April 2022. […]
UWI Economist Urges CARICOM to Look Within for Oil Supplies
(The Gleaner, 20.Mar.2022) — A day after Russia invaded Ukraine, sending oil prices skyrocketing to heights not seen since 2014, McCarthy Marie, a former University of the West Indies economist, wondered aloud whether the United States would consider invading Venezuela, which has some of the largest oil reserves in the […]
Science in the Southern Hemisphere: SOFIA Deploys to Chile
(Universities Space Research Association, 18.Mar.2022) — The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) landed at the Santiago International Airport on 18 March 2022. Like other deployments to the Southern Hemisphere, SOFIA is a partnership between NASA and German Aerospace Agency (DLR) and temporarily changing its base of operations from Palmdale, California, to Santiago, Chile, to observe celestial objects […]
EXMAR and GASUNIE Move to Secure Energy Supply
(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Mar.2022) — EXMAR reached an agreement for a 5-year charter for the employment of its 600 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscf/d) regasification floating storage and re-gasification unit (FSRU) S188 with GASUNIE LNG Holdings BV. GASUNIE will utilize FSRU S188 as floating LNG import terminal at […]
NRGBriefs: Colombia Commences Two Green Hydrogen Pilots [PDF Download]
(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Colombia commencing operations at the first of two green hydrogen pilots in Cartagena; Ecopetrol announcing plans to be producing 1 million tons of hydrogen by 2040; former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva saying that in the eight yrs of his […]
Shell Brasil Applies for Environmental License for Offshore Wind Power Projects
(Shell Brasil, 18.Mar.2022) — Shell Brasil earlier this week applied for environmental licenses from the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) for offshore wind power generation in six areas covered by the states of Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, and Rio […]
US sanctions on Venezuela and what they don’t tell you: Luis Vicente León
CARACAS, VENEZUELA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Mar.2022, Words: 341) — Datanalisis president Luis Vicente León commented on social media about the rumors around an easing of US sanctions on Venezuela as well as why Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro is benefitting the most from Washington’s current restrictions. Excerpts from […]
Washington-Caracas talks driven by 3 factors: Datanalisis’ Luis Vicente León says [video]
CARACAS, VENEZUELA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Mar.2022, Words: 242) — Talks earlier this month between a delegation from Washington and Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro related to 3 issues, according to Datanalisis’ Luis Vicente León, who spoke in a video for HispanoPost via Twitter. Excerpts from his post (see video […]
Defaulted Venezuela Bonds Are Luring Buyers Betting on US Deal
(Bloomberg, 18.Mar.2022) — A bond that trades at 10 cents on the dollar is about as distressed as distressed gets. And yet in Venezuela, which has been mired in default for years, when prices ticked higher around that level this week, it marked a sudden sign of growing optimism. As […]
Ecopetrol Rectifies False Details Published on Third-party Website
(Ecopetrol, 18.Mar.2022) — Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL;NYSE: EC) informs that on 17 March 2022, it became aware of certain false information published on a now-deactivated website (https://secureleads.org/), which purported to give Colombians an opportunity to access the company’s profits by investing COP 960,000 in cryptocurrency for trading in an instrument called “Bitcoin Ecopetrol” and […]
Noble Corp. and Maersk Drilling Name Management Team for Combined Co.
(Noble Corp., 18.Mar.2022) — Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) and The Drilling Company of 1972 A/S (CSE: DRLCO) (Maersk Drilling) announced the executive management team to be effective after the closing of the business combination announced on 10 November 2021. The combined company will have a proven management team led by […]
NRGBriefs: Juan Guaidó Reiterates Call For “Free and Fair” Elections in Venezuela
(Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó saying the solution to the Venezuelan tragedy is “free and fair” elections; Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE American: UEC) reporting in accordance with NYSE American requirements its Form 10-Q; and Trilogy Metals Inc. (TSX: TMQ) (NYSE: TMQ) announcing the 4th […]
Braskem Reports Record Results in 2021
(Braskem, 17.Mar.2022) — Braskem S.A. (B3: BRKM3, BRKM5 and BRKM6;NYSE: BAK; LATIBEX: XBRK) announced its results for 4Q21 and 2021. 4Q21 and 2021 HIGHLIGHTS Braskem – Consolidated In 4Q21, Braskem’s recurring Operating Result was $1.1 bn, 23% lower than in 3Q21, mainly due to: (i) lower international spreads for main chemicals, PE […]
Golden Arrow Purchases the San Pietro Iron-oxide Copper Gold Project, Chile
(Golden Arrow Resources, 17.Mar.2022) — Golden Arrow Resources Corporation (TSXV: GRG) (FSE: G6A) (OTCQB: GARWF),through its wholly owned subsidiary New Golden Explorations Chile SPA, purchased a 100% interest in the San Pietro Iron-oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) Project (formerly known as Radiss) in Chile from Sumitomo Metal Mining Chile Ltda (SMM Chile) for cash consideration of US$3.35mn. […]
Nucor Announces Guidance for 1Q:22 Earnings
(Nucor Corp., 17.Mar.2022) — Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) announced guidance for its first quarter ending 2 April 2022. Nucor expects to achieve a new record for first quarter earnings in the range of $7.20 to $7.30 per diluted share. Fourth quarter of 2021 earnings were $7.97 per diluted share and first quarter of 2021 earnings were $3.10 per diluted share. […]
Core Laboratories and Talos Energy Announce Strategic Alliance
(Core Laboratories, 17.Mar.2022) — Core Laboratories N.V. (NYSE: “CLB US” and Euronext Amsterdam: “CLB NA”) and Talos Energy Inc. (NYSE: “TALO”) have announced a strategic alliance to provide technical evaluation and assurance for carbon capture and sequestration (“CCS”) opportunities. The alliance combines Core Lab’s market-leading reservoir description and optimization technologies with Talos’s […]
Lithium South Completes Environmental Baseline Study in Argentina
(Lithium South, 17.Mar.2022) — Lithium South Development Corporation (TSX-V: LIS) (OTCQB: LISMF) (Frankfurt: OGPQ) announced finalization of the Environmental Baseline Study for the Hombre Muerto North Lithium Project (HMN Li Project), Salta, Argentina. E&C Consultores of Salta have been completing the final in field survey, collecting data on the Flora, Fauna, […]
Talos Energy Executes Texas GLO Carbon Capture Site Lease
(Talos Energy, 16.Mar.2022) — Talos Energy Inc. (NYSE: TALO) announced that Bayou Bend CCS LLC, Talos’s venture with Carbonvert, Inc., executed definitive lease documentation with the Texas General Land Office (“GLO”), formalizing the previously announced carbon capture and sequestration (“CCS”) site located offshore Jefferson County, Texas, near the Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas industrial corridor. Talos […]
Steel Dynamics Provides 1Q:22 Earnings Guidance
(Steel Dynamics, Inc., 16.Mar.2022) — Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ/GS: STLD) provided first quarter 2022 earnings guidance in the range of $5.55 to $5.59 per diluted share. Excluding the impact from costs associated with the startup of the company’s Sinton Texas Flat Roll Steel Mill growth investment of an estimated $83 million, or $0.30 per diluted share, the […]
Sorcia Minerals hosts University of Santiago at Direct Lithium Extraction Plant
(Sorcia Minerals, 16.Mar.2022) — Sorcia Minerals LLC hosted Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) in the US for a tour of the newly completed International Batteries Metals (IBAT) direct lithium extraction (DLE) plant. USACH sent Dr. Alonso Arellano, Professor, from the Faculty of Engineering to verify the progress and assembly of the Direct Lithium Extraction plant. Dr. Arellano […]
NFE Announces LNG SPA with Venture Global LNG
(New Fortress Energy, 16.Mar.2022) — New Fortress Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NFE) announced the execution of two 20-year Sale and Purchase Agreements (SPA) with Venture Global LNG. Under the deals, Venture Global will supply 2 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of LNG on a free on board (FOB) basis from its LNG […]
Venture Global Reveals New Sales Deals for Plaquemines and CP2 LNG
(Venture Global LNG, 16.Mar.2022) — Venture Global LNG executed two new long-term 20-year Sales and Purchase Agreements (SPAs) with New Fortress Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NFE), including 1 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) from Plaquemines LNG and 1 MTPA from CP2 LNG. This is the first SPA for the CP2 LNG facility, […]
Shell Among Companies Chasing Ecuadorian Oil After Russia Sanctions
(Bloomberg, 16.Mar.2022) — U.S. refiners Valero Energy Corp and Marathon Petroleum Corp., along with Shell Plc’s trading unit Shell Western Supply and Trading, are rushing to secure Ecuadorian barrels after America banned imports of Russian crude. Ecuador’s state oil company EP Petroecuador held back-to-back meetings this week in Louisiana with several refiners and […]
Airborne Methane Detection Gains Approval for Use in New Mexico
(Bridger Photonics, 16.Mar.2022) — Bridger Photonics‘ aerial Gas Mapping LiDAR™ has been approved for use as an advanced leak detection and repair monitoring technology by New Mexico’s Energy, Minerals and Natural Resourced Department (“EMNRD”) for its ALARM credit program. With EMNRD’s approval, oil and gas operators in New Mexico can now use the advanced methane detection […]
Venezuelans Feel Pain at the Pump as More Gas Stations Charge in Dollars
(Reuters, 16.Mar.2022) — Venezuelan drivers are feeling the squeeze of nagging gasoline shortages as state oil company PDVSA gradually boosts the number of its gas stations that charge them in dollars, five sources in the South American country said. Three of the sources, who all have access to oil sector […]
Maersk Drilling Secures Five-month UK Contract for Maersk Resolve
(Maersk Drilling, 16.Mar.2022) — Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract which could employ the harsh environment jack-up rig Maersk Resolve with a customer in the UK sector of the North Sea for the majority of 2022. The contract is expected to commence in April 2022, with an estimated duration […]
Bob Kent Joins Citgo Board of Directors
(Citgo, 16.Mar.2022) — The Citgo Petroleum Corporation Board of Directors announced that Bob Kent has been appointed to the Board of Directors. “Bob Kent brings more than 40 years of refining experience to our executive team, including 13 years with Citgo,” said Citgo Director and President and Chief Executive Officer Carlos Jordá. “His […]