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Valor Econômico’s REFAP Figures Wrong: Petrobras

(Petrobras, 21.Jan.2021) — Petrobras, regarding the news published in the media, about Ultrapar Participações S.A.’s proposal to acquire Refinaria Alberto Pasqualini (REFAP), in Rio Grande […]

Nickel Rock Resources Targets Lithium Clay

(Nickel Rock Resources, 21.Jan.2021) — Nickel Rock Resources Inc. reported that prior to implementing a reconnaissance drilling campaign on its 100% owned Clayton Valley Project […]

Bankers ‘Bombard’ Guyana With Financing Plans

(Reuters, 21.Jan.2020) — As the former British colony begins its first significant oil production this year, it is wary of avoiding the mistakes made in […]

Petrobras Comments On REFAP Sale

Italy Seeking Documents For Eni, Shell Nigeria Case

(Reuters, 20.Jan.2021) — Italian prosecutors asked a Milan Court on Wednesday for documents sourced from U.S. bank JPMorgan to be filed as part of a […]

Suriname Latest Big Oil Find As Industry Cuts Costs

(The New York Times, 20.Jan.2021) — The small South American country has become a hot prospect for oil companies looking to produce fossil fuels while […]

Exxon’s 4Q:20 Results Call

(Exxon, 20.Jan.2021) — Please join Darren Woods, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Stephen Littleton, Vice President and Secretary, for a discussion of fourth quarter […]

Vincent Pereira To Retire From BHP Trinidad

(BHP, 20.Jan.2021) — BHP announced today that, after 16 years of leadership as BHP’s Country Manager for Trinidad and Tobago, Vincent Pereira will retire, effective […]

Huntkey Releases 20W Mini PD Charger In China

(Huntkey, 20.Jan.2021) — Huntkey, a leading provider of power solutions, has officially released its 20W Mini PD Charger – the K20 in China. It is […]

Ecopetrol Says Pipeline Theft Rose 46% Last Year

(Reuters, 20.Jan.2021) — Theft of crude oil from pipelines operated by Colombia’s state-controlled oil company Ecopetrol rose by 46% last year, driven by surging robberies […]

US May Restore Venezuela Diesel Swaps, Ease Waiver

(Argus, 20.Jan.2021) — The new US administration is considering whether to reinstate Venezuelan crude-for-diesel swaps and ease a key sanctions waiver, but policy reversals alone […]

OFAC Targets Individuals And Entities Helping Maduro

(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Jan.2021) — US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control, or OFAC, slapped sanctions on three individuals, 16 companies and seven vessels […]

Kosmos Boast GOM Exploration Success

(Kosmos, 19.Jan.2021) — Kosmos Energy announced an oil discovery in the US Gulf of Mexico at the Winterfell infrastructure-led exploration (“ILX”) well (Kosmos working interest […]

Driller Stuns Creditors As Argentina’s Dollars Dwindle

(Bloomberg, 19.Jan.2021) — In the 99 years since it was founded to pump the oil fields of Patagonia, Argentine energy driller YPF SA has been whipsawed by […]

FMC Updates 4Q:20 Outlook, Highlights Brazil, Argentina

(FMC, 19.Jan.2021) — FMC Corporation it is reducing its fourth quarter 2020 outlook. The company is proceeding through its quarterly close, and based on preliminary […]

Tetra On Mineral, Low Carbon Energy Initiatives

(Tetra Technologies, 19.Jan.2021) — Tetra Technologies, Inc. announced that Tim Moeller, Senior Vice-President Chemicals and Supply Chain, has been assigned to lead the company’s initiatives […]

CSI Compressco Announces Quarterly Distribution

(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Jan.2021) — CSI Compressco LP’s board of directors of its general partner has declared a cash distribution attributable to the quarter ended […]

CSI Compressco On 4Q:20 Conference Call, Webcast

(CSI Compressco LP, 19.Jan.2021) — CSI Compressco LP expects to release its fourth quarter and full year 2020 results before the opening of the market […]

Ecopetrol On Sale Of Stake In Offshore Int’l Group

(Ecopetrol, 19.Jan.2021) — Ecopetrol S.A. signed a Share Purchase Agreement with De Jong Capital LLC, through one of its subsidiaries as buyer, pursuant to which […]

OFAC Sanctions Individuals, Entities And Vessels

(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Jan.2021) — The US Department of State updated its list of designated nationals; entities and vessels assisting Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro cling […]

Trinidad To Relaunch Tender For Refinery

(Argus, 19.Jan.2021) — Trinidad and Tobago will seek new bids for its idle 165,000 b/d Pointe-a-Pierre refinery following the November 2020 collapse of a sale […]

US Relations With Ecuador: Fact Sheet

(US State Department, 19.Jan.2021) — The United States sent a consul to Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1825, and the U.S. Embassy in Quito opened in 1848. […]

Petrobras Comments On Refinery Divestments

(Petrobras, 19.Jan.2021) — Petrobras, regarding the news published in the media on the divestments progress of the refineries, clarifies: (i) the company has received a […]

Trump Hits Venezuela With Sanctions

(AP, 19.Jan.2021) — The Trump administration issued a parting shot at Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday, announcing a sweeping round of stiff financial sanctions […]

Mainstream Renewable Inks €1bn Equity Investment Deal

(Mainstream Renewable, 19.Jan.2021) — Global wind and solar company, Mainstream Renewable Power, has signed an agreement with the renewable energy investment company Aker Horizons (a […]

Treasury Targets Venezuelan Sanctions Evasion Network

(US Treasury, 19.Jan.2021) — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated three individuals, fourteen entities, and six vessels […]

Venezuela Orders Arrest Of New Citgo Board Member

(Reuters, 18.Jan.2021) — Venezuelan authorities issued an arrest warrant for a new member of the board of directors of U.S.-based refining firm Citgo Petroleum Corp […]

Entities Look To Press Biden On Venezuela Fuel Swaps

(Reuters, 18.Jan.2021) — Representatives of fuel suppliers to Venezuela, importers of Venezuelan oil and advocacy groups said this month they plan to press the incoming […]

Petrobras On Amendments To Deals With CADE

(Petrobras, 18.Jan.2021) — Petrobras in relation to the news published in the media clarifies that the company did not sign the amendment to the Commitment […]

Petrobras Comments On New Pension Plan (PP-3)

(Petrobras, 18.Jan.2021) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 1 October 2020, informs that the Petros Deliberative Council and the company’s Board of Directors […]

e-Zinc Raises $2.3mn From BDC Capital

(e-Zinc, 18.Jan.2021) — e-Zinc, a Toronto-based energy storage innovator, raised $2.3mn in a closed round led by BDC Capital’s Cleantech Practice. e-Zinc has developed a […]

Keystone XL Commits To Renewable Energy

(TC Energy, 17.Jan.2021) — TC Energy Corporation today announced a new sustainable energy initiative for the Keystone XL Project. The company will achieve net zero […]

Shell Nigeria Gas Inks 20-Year Gas Distribution Deal

(Shell, 17.Jan.2021) — Leading domestic gas distribution company, Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG), has signed a 20-year agreement for the domestic distribution of gas to industrial […]

Venezuela’s Maduro accuses US president Donald Trump of backing attacks on CRP

CARACAS, VENEZUELA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Jan.2021, Words: 169) — Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro reiterated earlier claims that US President Donald Trump ordered the […]

Exxon’s Hassa-1 Doesn’t Finds Hydrocarbons

(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Jan.2021) — Texas-based ExxonMobil announced results of the Hassa-1 exploration well offshore Guyana in the Stabroek Block didn’t find hydrocarbons in the […]

Petrobras Starts North Capixaba Binding Phase

(Petrobras, 15.Jan.2021) — Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 29 September 2020, informs the beginning of the binding phase regarding the sale […]

SPDC Closes Sale Of Interest In Oil Mining Lease 17

(Shell, 15.Jan.2021) — The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), has completed the sale of its 30% interest in Oil Mining Lease (OML) […]

Venezuela Eyes Private Cos Operating Oil Fields

(Reuters, 14.Jan.2021) — Venezuelan officials have met in recent months with small domestic oilfield contractors to propose letting them operate fields owned by state-owned PDVSA […]

Panama Canal LNG Vessel Bottleneck Could Go Months

(Reuters, 14.Jan.2021) — Congestion delaying LNG shipments via the Panama Canal is expected to last through the peak demand winter months, traders close to the […]

Judge Approves Citgo Parent Share Sale

(Argus, 14.Jan.2021) — Venezuela inched closer to losing control of its US refining subsidiary Citgo today after a federal judge began crafting a sale process […]

Venezuela Creates Special Crisis Commission

(Xinhua, 14.Jan.2021) — Venezuela’s National Assembly on Thursday established a Special Commission for Dialogue, Peace and National Reconciliation, made up of ruling coalition and opposition […]

Höegh LNG Partners On 4Q:20 Cash Distributions

(Höegh LNG, 14.Jan.2021) — Höegh LNG Partners LP announced today its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash distribution with respect to the quarter […]

Total Announces Fourth Find In Suriname’s Block 58

(Total, 14.Jan.2021) — Total and Apache Corporation have made a new significant oil and gas discovery at the Keskesi East-1 well, in Block 58 off […]

Keskesi East-1 Finds Oil In Block 58 Offshore Suriname

(Apache, 14.Jan.2021) — Apache Corporation and Total S.A. today announced an oil discovery at the Keskesi East-1 exploration well in Block 58 offshore Suriname. Keskesi […]

SPDC Declares Force Majeure In Nigeria

(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Jan.2021) — The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), operator of the SPDC joint venture and the Forcados Oil Terminal […]

Petrobras CEO Denies Claims Of ‘Predatory’ Pricing Policy

(Reuters, 13.Jan.2021) — Roberto Castello Branco, chief executive of Brazil’s state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, has dismissed accusations from private fuel importers that the […]

Five Illegal Refineries Destroyed in Norte de Santander

(General Command of the Colombian Military Forces, 13.Jan.2021) — Through a joint, coordinated and interagency operation conducted by the Colombian Air Force, the National Army, the National Police and […]

Slidgo Announces X8 Quick-Folding Electric Scooter

(Adorama, 13.Jan.2021) — Slidgo announced the new X8 Electric Scooter designed to make transportation fun, easy and accessible, at an affordable price. Available exclusively at Adorama, […]

Petrobras’ 4Q:20 Results Call Details

(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Jan.2021) — Petrobras will report and release its production and sales details for the fourth quarter 2020 on 2 February 2021 followed […]

Cheinere Marks Arrival Of First Cargo With CPC Taiwan

(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Jan.2021) — Cheniere Energy announced arrival of its first cargo under a long-term contract with CPC Taiwan, the first of hundreds over […]