(Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Aug.2020) — EP PetroEcuador awarded the importation of 2,950,000 barrels of High-Octane Naphtha (NAO) RON 93 to Trafigura Pte, which won the […]
Argentina’s Shale Province Predicts Slow Recovery
(Argus, 25.Aug.2020) — Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale patch will take 12-18 months to resume pre-Covid-19 activity because of lagging demand, according to Alejandro Monteiro, energy […]
Saipem To Build 450 MW Offshore Wind Farm In Italy
(Reuters, 25.Aug.2020) — Italy’s Saipem has signed an agreement to build a 450 megawatt (MW) offshore wind farm in the Adriatic Sea in northern Italy, […]
Russia Is Winning The Battle For Venezuela’s Oil
(Oilprice.com, 24.Aug.2020) — In just over a year Venezuela, and the push to oust socialist leader President Nicolas Maduro, has gone from being one of […]
Guyana Re-launches Search For Co. To Market Oil
(Reuters, 24.Aug.2020) — Guyana has re-launched a search for a company to market the government’s share of the crude produced at the offshore Liza project, […]
How Venezuela’s Oil Industry Collapsed: FT.com
(FT.com, 23.Aug.2020) — The country’s oil industry was once the envy of the region, but after decades of mismanagement and corruption the sector is facing […]
Guyana And Suriname To Benefit From Joining Forces
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Aug.2020) — Neighboring Guyana and Suriname in South America have been well off investor’s radars until recently. The countries are now regular […]
Petrobras’ Teaser For Rio Grande do Norte E&P Assets
(Petrobras, 24.Aug.2020) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), referring to the sale of all of its stakes in a set of twenty-six onshore […]
A Not-To-Do List For Guyana’s New Govt
(IPS, 24.Aug.2020) — Just over five years ago, a major oil discovery occurred on the northeastern coast of South America. There have been a series […]
Venezuela Restarts Gasoline Output At Cardon Unit
(Reuters, 23.Aug.2020) — Venezuela’s state-run oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, has restarted gasoline output at the 310,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Cardon refinery, according to five people familiar […]
Maduro Thanks Iran For Help Overcoming Sanctions
(Reuters, 23.Aug.2020) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday thanked ally Iran for helping the South American country overcome U.S. sanctions on its oil industry […]
Exxon Limits Guyana Output Due To Gas Injection Issues
(Reuters, 21.Aug.2020) — Exxon Mobil Corp is limiting output at its flagship offshore project in Guyana to 100,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) due to more issues with […]
Petrobras’ Espírito Santo E&P Assets Teaser
(Petrobras, 21.Aug.2020) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), referring to the sale of all of its stakes in a set of five onshore […]
Petrobras Inks Deal With SPE Rio Ventura
(Petrobras, 21.Aug.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 26 August 2019, signed today with SPE Rio Ventura S.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of […]
Transpetro’s CEO Elia de Marsillac Resigns Post
(Petrobras, 21.Aug.2020) — Petrobras announced the Board of Directors of its subsidiary Petrobras Transporte S.A. (Transpetro) received a letter of resignation from Cristiane Elia de […]
YPFB To Suspend Gas Service To Caranavi
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Aug.2020) — Bolivia’s Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) announced plans to suspend residential gas supplies to communities in Caranavi starting 21 August […]
Turkey Nets Largest-ever Find At Tuna-1
(WoodMac, 21.Aug.2020) — A gas discovery of the scale of the Tuna-1 find in the Black Sea, if developed, would be transformational for Turkey, given […]
TechnipFMC Wins Subsea EPCI For Mero 2 Project
(TechnipFMC, 20.Aug.2020) — TechnipFMC has been awarded a large(1) contract for Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) through a competitive contracting process, by Petrobras, the […]
Guyana Planning For More Demands On ExxonMobil
(Forbes, 20.Aug.2020) — With the newly-elected People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government now firmly in place following five months of vote-counting controversy, Guyanese President Irfaan Ali […]
Drilling Rig Virtual Tour: AAPG Trinidad
(Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Jun.2020) — AAPG Young Professionals Trinidad and Tobago chapter offered a free webcast that consisted of a virtual rig tour, which was […]
SQM Reports 2Q 2020 Earnings
(SQM, 19.Aug.2020) — Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile, S.A. reported earnings today for the six months ended June 30, 2020 of US$95.8 million (US$0.36 […]
SQM To Hold Conference Call
(SQM, 19.Aug.2020) — SQM will hold a conference call to discuss these results on Thursday, 20 August 2020, at 12:00pm ET (12:00pm Chile time). Webcast […]
Trump Seeks To Slap More Sanctions On Venezuela
(Oilprice.com, 19.Aug.2020) — The U.S. federal government is considering more sanctions to add to a list aimed at severing the lifeline between the Venezuelan government […]
Exxon Gets Concession For Los Toldos II Oeste Oil Block
(Zacks Equity Research, 19.Aug.2020) — Exxon Mobil Corporation was recently granted concession by the Neuquen provincial government for exploratory activities in another block, Los Toldos […]
Venezuela Coast Could Take 50 Years To Recover
(Reuters, 19.Aug.2020) — A strip of Venezuela’s western coastline boasting pristine beaches and fragile ecosystems like mangroves and coral reefs could take more than half […]
Petrobras Comments On Petros Plan
(Petrobras, 19.Aug.2020) — Petrobras, following up to the announcement made on 10 March 2020, said the cash contribution of R$ 2.05 billion to be paid […]
EnergyQuest’s 1st Australian LNG Shipment To Chile
(EnergyQuest, 19.Aug.2020) — Australia has just shipped its first LNG cargo to Chile. The cargo is from the Shell-operated QCLNG project at Gladstone in Queensland. […]
CNOOC: Good Achievements With Cost Reduction
(CNOOC, 19.Aug.2020) — CNOOC Limited announced its 2020 interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2020. Facing the unprecedented challenges in the first […]
US Eyes October To End Exemptions On Venezuela
(Reuters, 19.Aug.2020) — The United States is considering an October deadline for ending exemptions to Venezuelan sanctions that allow some companies and refiners to still […]
Traders Are Already Betting On Argentina’s Next Default
(Bloomberg, 18.Aug.2020) — In the next few weeks, if all goes as scripted, Argentine officials will put the finishing touches on a bond restructuring deal […]
Oil Industry Frets Recruiting Next Generation Of Workers
(WSJ, 18.Aug.2020) — A growing distaste for the oil business among potential young employees, combined with the economic crisis of the pandemic, could make it […]
Guyana Wants To Buy Power For National Grid
(DemeraraWaves, 18.Aug.2020) — In light of the recent blackouts , the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL), through the Ministry of Public Works will be […]
Curacao Fuel Sale Touches Venezuela Sanctions Nerve
(Argus, 18.Aug.2020) — A fuel oil cargo stuck off of the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao is about to be released to an unnamed buyer […]
UK’s Global Witness Urges Guyana Renegotiate Oil Deal
(Caribnews, 18.Aug.2020) — The United Kingdom-based, anti-corruption organization Global Witness yesterday called on the new Government here to immediately investigate and renegotiate the US-owned oil […]
EP PetroEcuador Exports Industrial Residue To France
(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Aug.2020) — EP PetroEcuador exported tons of industrial waste from the Esmeraldas Refinery for final disposal at treatment plants in France and […]
Trump Govt Weighs Tighter Sanctions On Venezuelan Oil
(Bloomberg, 18.Aug.2020) — The Trump administration is considering additional sanctions on Venezuela aimed at halting the remaining fuel transactions permitted with the South American nation, […]
JinkoSolar To Supply Swan Bifacial Modules
(JinkoSolar, 18.Aug.2020) — JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. signed a contract with Shanghai Electric to supply approximately 1 GW of solar modules for Phase V of […]
Cairn On Pre-emption Of Sale Of Senegal interests
(Carin, 17.Aug.2020) — Cairn Energy announced that further to its announcement on 27 July 2020 of the proposed sale of Cairn’s interests in the Sangomar […]
Houston Refiner Citgo Reports 2Q:20 Results
(Citgo, 17.Aug.2020) — Citgo Petroleum Corporation reported a net loss of $5 million for the second quarter of 2020, which includes the benefit from the […]
MENRNR Authorizes Cos. For Conolophus Project
(Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Aug.2020) — The technical commission delegated by Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources (MENRNR) to carry out the public selection […]
Petrobras On Unregistered Global Notes Exchange Offer
(Petrobras, 17.Aug.2020) — Petrobras announces the commencement of an offer (the “Exchange Offer”) by its wholly-owned subsidiary Petrobras Global Finance B.V. (“PGF”) to exchange up […]
Suzano Reports Cash Generation Of R$3.4bn
(Suzano, 17.Aug.2020) — Suzano, a global reference in the manufacture of bioproducts developed from the cultivation of eucalyptus, announces today its results for the second […]
Total Launches Mero Field 3 FPSO Development
(Total, 17.Aug.2020) — Total and its partners have taken the investment decision for the third phase of the Mero project (Libra block), located deep offshore, […]
Oil Cos. Wonder If It’s Worth Looking For Oil Anymore
(Bloomberg, 16.Aug.2020) — A few dots near the bottom corner of the world map in the southern Atlantic, the Falkland Islands were once at the […]
Former Alberta Premier To Head Payara Review
(CBC News, 16.Aug.2020) — Former Alberta Premier Alison Redford will head a team of consultants in a review of oil giant Exxon Mobil’s proposed Payara […]
EP PetroEcuador Obtains Permits From MAAE
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Aug.2020) — EP PetroEcuador, through the Suez-Ecuambiente consortium, obtained cross-border permits from Panama and France, as well as authorization from the Ministry […]
Intl Team To Undertake Payara Contract Review
(Guyana Ministry of Natural Resources, 15.Aug.2020) — The Ministry of Natural Resources recently announced the review of the Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited’s (EEPGL) […]
Equatorial Guinea’s Govt, And Prime Minister Resign
(Reuters, 15.Aug.2020) — The government and prime minister of Equatorial Guinea tendered their resignation on Friday to President Teodoro Obiang, who said they had not […]
Exxon Blames COVID-19 For Not Meet Flaring Deadline
(Kaieteur News, 14.Aug.2020) — Even though it told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that it would bring an end to flaring today, it appears that […]
Joint Support Declaration For Change In Venezuela
(US State Department, 14.Aug.2020) — The text of the following declaration was released by several members of the Lima Group, the International Contact Group, the […]