(Argus, 17.Jan.2020) — Washington will allow Chevron and four US oil field service providers to continue operating in Venezuela until 22 April by granting a […]
Petrobras Starts Non-binding Phase For TAG Sale
(Petrobras, 17.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 12/11/2019, announces the beginning of the non-binding phase related to the sale of […]
Regulator Green Lights Star Phoenix Asset Sale
(Alliance News, 17.Jan.2020) — Star Phoenix Group Ltd said Friday the Trinidad & Tobago state oil and gas firm has approved the sale of Range […]
Venezuela Oil Exports Accelerate
(Argus, 16.Jan.2020) — Venezuela kicked off the new year with at least 730,000 b/d of crude exports, led by several India-bound cargoes, according to local […]
GeoPark Closes Amerisur Acquisition
(GeoPark, 16.Jan.2020) — GeoPark Limited closed the previously announced acquisition of Amerisur Resources Plc. GeoPark acquired the entire issued share capital of Amerisur for a […]
Colombia Boosts Monitoring To Curb Deforestation
(Reuters, 16.Jan.2020) — Colombia’s environment minister said on Thursday the Andean country will increase monitoring of its jungles and forests to fight deforestation and protect […]
Soesdyke Youth First To Test Guyana’s Oil
(Stabroek News, 16.Jan.2020) — A Guyanese offshore laboratory technician will go down in history as the person to test the first sample of Guyanese crude […]
Payment Demands In Crypto Pauses Some Oil Purchases
(Bloomberg, 16.Jan.2020) — Some buyers of Venezuelan crude oil have halted purchases after the country started demanding payment of port fees in its failed cryptocurrency. […]
Petrobras Downplays Sale Of BR Distribuidora
(Petrobras, 16.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, with regards to news published in the media, referring to the sale of its stake in BR Distribuidora S.A. (BR), clarifies […]
China Scaling Back Economic Support For Maduro: Envoy
(Reuters, 15.Jan.2020) — The Trump administration’s envoy on Venezuela said China appears to be scaling back economic support for President Nicolas Maduro, and Beijing acknowledged […]
Tullow Announces Update And Guidance
(Tullow, 15.Jan.2020) — Tullow Oil plc issued this update and guidance in advance of the Group’s 2019 Full Year Results. “Tullow has ended 2019 with […]
Petrobras Starts Espírito Santo Basin Teaser
(Petrobras, 15.Jan.2020) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), referring to the sale of its entire stake in two sets of deep-water post-salt offshore […]
Abrams Sees China Scaling Back Support For Maduro
(Reuters, 15.Jan.2020) — The Trump administration’s envoy on Venezuela said China appears to be scaling back economic support for President Nicolas Maduro, and Beijing acknowledged […]
Global Companies Want More Certainty In Mexico
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 15.Jan.2020) — Executives from foreign companies are having a hard time convincing their parent companies to continue dedicating investments to […]
Maduro Authorizes Sale Of 4.5 MMbbls In Petros
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Jan.2020) — Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro signed a decree for the mandatory and immediate fulfillment of the sale of 4.5 […]
YPFB Guarantees Fuel Supplies Across Bolivia
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 14.Jan.2020) — Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) guaranteed residents in La Paz and interior portions of […]
Petrobras OKs Mothballing Of Fertilizer Plant
(Petrobras, 14.Jan.2020) — Petrobras approved the mothballing of the fertilizer plant of its wholly owned subsidiary Araucária Nitrogenados S.A. (ANSA), located in the state of […]
Petrobras Finalizes PO&GBV Divestment
(Petrobras, 14.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release dated 10/31/2018, reports today that it completed the sale – to Petrovida Holding B.V. (Petrovida) – […]
Argentina President Sees Potential In Conventionals
(S&P Global Platts, 13.Jan.2020) — Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez said he plans to encourage the development of conventional oil and natural gas reserves, not just […]
Citgo Drops Aruba Refinery Project, Island Balks
(Argus, 13.Jan.2020 — Citgo, the US refiner that Venezuela’s political opposition nominally wrested from the Opec country’s national oil company PdV in 2019, is abandoning […]
PDVSA’s Partners As Oil Traders Amid Sanctions
(Reuters, 13.Jan.2020) — Venezuela, its oil exports decimated by U.S. sanctions, is testing a new method of getting its crude to market: allocating cargoes to […]
CNOOC Reveals 2020 Business Strategy, Plan
(CNOOC, 13.Jan.2020) — CNOOC Limited announced its business strategy and development plan for the year 2020. The company’s targeted net production for 2020 is 520 […]
Asia Pacific Gas, LNG: 6 Themes To Watch In 2020
(WoodMac, 13.Jan.2020) — Wood Mackenzie has identified six themes that will impact Asia Pacific’s gas and LNG markets in 2020. Asian LNG spot prices to […]
After $1bn Venezuela Deal, US Oilfield Firm Shuts Doors
(Reuters, 12.Jan.2020) — An Oklahoma oilfield company that played a central role in Venezuela’s high profile attempt to convince the world it could halt production […]
Ecopetrol Reports Spill In Cerro Madera
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 11.Jan.2020) — Illegal valves were again detected stealing crude oil from the Caño Limón-Coveñas oil pipeline and subsequently produced an […]
GEB Acquires 0.01% Of EDSAA Shares
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 10.Jan.2020) — Bogotá Energy Group (GEB) was awarded 0.01% of the shares of Electro Dunas S.A.A. (EDSAA) by the Lima […]
YPFB To Use Gasbol Pipeline Independently
(Reuters, 10.Jan.2020) — The Brazilian government authorized Bolivian oil and gas company YPFB to use the Gasbol pipeline to sell gas to other companies in […]
Citgo Announces Small Grants Program Winners
(Citgo, 24.Jan.2020) — The Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc. (SBF), a non-profit, private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, awarded seven grants totaling $100,000 to nonprofits that […]
CELEC To Invest In Highway Near Hydroelectric Plants
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 9.Jan.2020) — Ecuador’s Electric Corporation (CELEC EP) and the Sub-secretariat Zonal 6 of the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works […]
TT Faces Soft Energy Prices Despite Iran/US Tensions
(Newsday, 9.Jan.2020) — The price of crude oil, natural gas, ammonia and methanol are critical to the health of the TT economy. These are the […]
Maduro Seeks Oil Contract Changes: Lawmakers
(Reuters, 8.Jan.2020) — Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party hopes legislators it recently declared to be in charge of congress will approve changes to ownership of some […]
Asia Eyes LatAm For Heavy Crude Amid Supply Risk
(S&P Global Platts, 8.Jan.2020) — Some Asian importers of Iraqi crude oil may scout for more heavy sour crude from Central and South America in […]
Politics Driving Shale Fluctuations In Argentina
(Argus, 8.Jan.2020) — Argentina’s shale fracturing hit a record in 2019 despite a deceleration sparked by political and economic uncertainty at the end of the […]
Politics Drives Shale Fluctuations In Argentina
(Argus, 8.Jan.2020) — Argentina’s shale fracturing hit a record in 2019 despite a deceleration sparked by political and economic uncertainty at the end of the […]
Mitsubishi, Patria, And Shell Report On Azul Power Plant
(MHPS, 7.Jan.2020) — Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas (MHPS), Patria Investments, and Shell announced the signing of a contract with Brazil’s State-owned development bank (BNDES) […]
Apache And Total Report Significant Oil Discovery Offshore Suriname
(Apache, 7.Jan.2020) — Apache Corporation and Total S.A. announced a significant oil discovery at the Maka Central-1 well drilled offshore Suriname on Block 58. The […]
Total And Apache Make Discovery In Block 58
(Total, 7.Jan.2020) — Total and Apache have made a material oil discovery with the Maka Central-1 well on Block 58 offshore Suriname, on trend with […]
Talos Says Zama Reservoir Shared With Pemex
(Argus, 7.Jan.2020) — Third-party evaluation showed that 60pc of Mexico’s major Zama crude discovery lies within Talos Energy’s shallow-water block 7, with the remainder on […]
Guyanese Diasporans Invited To Fill Industry Jobs
(Caribbean Life News, 7.Jan.2020) — Guyana is on the cusp of great wealth development, celebrating its historic oil discovery of approximately half a billion barrels, […]
Guaido Survival Likely To Buy Chevron More Time
(Argus, 7.Jan.2020) — The White House appears likely to extend a waiver for Chevron to operate in Venezuela after US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido overcame […]
Venezuelan Oil Exports Fell By A Third In 2019
(Reuters, 7.Jan.2020) — Venezuela’s oil exports plummeted 32% last year to 1.001 million barrels per day, according to Refinitiv Eikon data and state-run PDVSA’s reports, […]
Three Injured In Fire On Akal-C6 Platform
(Reuters, 7.Jan.2020) — Three people were injured in a fire on a platform run by Mexican state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) on Tuesday, the […]
Talos Energy Touts Zama Study Results
(Chron.com, 7.Jan.2020) — Talos Energy touted promising new study results in Mexico’s first big deepwater oil discovery, and the Houston producer is pushing to move […]
Mann+Hummel Sells Mann+Hummel Fluid Brasil
(Mann+Hummel, 6.Jan.2020) — On 31 December 2019, the former CEO of Mann+Hummel Fluid Brasil, Luis Guilherme Pozzani da Rocha, officially signed the 100 percent purchase […]
Petrobras Comments On Public BNDES Share Offering
(Petrobras, 6.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on December 13, 2019, reports that it has received new correspondence from the National Bank […]
COSAN Seeks Permits For Alternative Route 4
(S&P Global Platts, 6.Jan.2020) — Brazil sugar and ethanol group Cosan applied for environmental permits to build a second tranche of the Route 4 offshore […]
US Considering More Venezuela Sanctions
(S&P Global Platts, 6.Jan.2020) — The US may respond to escalating political disarray in Venezuela by allowing a sanctions waiver for Chevron and four US […]
Canadian Solar Increases Size Of Board Of Directors
(Canadian Solar, 6.Jan.2020) — Canadian Solar Inc. increased the size of its Board of Directors from five to six directors and appointed Lauren C. Templeton […]
Will The West Lose Guyana To The Chinese?
(Fair Observer, 6.Jan.2020) — Guyana, home to just 750,000 people, is about to leap from one of the poorest to one of the richest countries […]
Brazil Looks To Smooth Impact Of Oil Price Spikes
(Reuters, 6.Jan.2020) — Brazil’s government is working on a policy to reduce the local impact of spikes in international oil prices, officials said on Monday, […]