(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, […]
Exxon’s Guyana Oil recovery Ramps Up Rating
(Stabroek News, 3.Jan.2020) — The commencement by ExxonMobil less than a fortnight ago of oil recovery from what is now firmly categorized as a “world […]
PDVSA, Chevron Turn Oil Blender Back Into upgrader
(Reuters, 3.Jan.2020) — Venezuela’s Petropiar facility, a joint venture between state oil company PDVSA and Chevron Corp, is once again operating as a crude upgrader […]
Mexico And Pemex Face Downgrade Risk In 2020
(Reuters, 3.Jan.2020) — Mexico threw troubled state oil company Pemex a lifeline in 2019 to stop $80 billion in bonds held by investors worldwide being […]
Eco Updates On Carapa-1 Well Offshore Guyana
(Eco, 3.Jan.2020) — Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. notes the recent announcement by Tullow Oil (37.5%), in partnership with Repsol (Operator, 37.5%) and Total […]
Petrobras Informs On Fuel Prices
(Petrobras, 3.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, informs that, due to the latest events in Middle East, it will carry on with its international market monitoring process. The […]
PetroAmazonas Boosted Output 4% In 2019
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 3.Jan.2019) — Ecuador’s state oil company PetroAmazonas EP boosted its production of crude oil by 4% in 2019, according to […]
PDVSA Cedes Oilfield Operations To Foreign Firms
(Reuters, 3.Jan.2020) — Venezuelan state company PDVSA is letting some joint venture partners take over the day-to-day operation of oilfields as its own capacity dwindles […]
Ecuador Producing 537,689 Barrels Per Day
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 2.Jan.2019) — South America’s Ecuador is producing 537,689 barrels per day of crude oil, the country’s Ministry of Energy and […]
Petrobras Says Lins Resigns As Board Member
(Petrobras, 2.Jan.2020) — Petrobras announced that Board Member Clarissa de Araújo Lins presented her resignation as member of the Board of Directors of the company, […]
Ecuador Officially Exits OPEC
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 2.Jan.2020) — Ecuador officially exited the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries or OPEC, effectively 1 January 2020. The small South […]
WindFloat Atlantic Project Supplies Energy To Portugal
(WindFloat, 2.Jan.2020) — WindFloat Atlantic wind farm is now operational. After the energisation of the 20-km cable connecting the offshore wind farm and the substation […]
BHP Says Standing By TT
(Newsday, 2.Jan.2020) — Call it a hunch. The deepwater acreages off the east coasts of Trinidad and Tobago were uncharted territory for hydrocarbon exploration but […]
Tullow Shares Drop On Carapa Well Doubts
(Reuters, 2.Jan.2020) — Shares of Tullow Oil dropped by nearly a fifth on Thursday as the Africa-focused oil producer’s update on the commercial viability of […]
Tullow Slumps On Guyana Oil Find News
(Bloomberg, 2.Jan.2020) — Tullow Oil Plc discovered light oil at its Carapa-1 well in Guyana, but the reservoir was smaller than the troubled company had […]
Tullow Announces Carapa-1 Well Result
(Tullow, 2.Jan.2020) — Tullow Oil plc announces that the Carapa-1 exploration well, drilled on the Kanuku licence offshore Guyana, has encountered approximately four metres of […]
Bayphase Ltd. To Evaluate Payara Oil Field Plans
(Stabroek News, 1.Jan.2020 — The Department of Energy (DE) has awarded a consultancy to Bayphase Ltd for the evaluation of plans for the development of […]
Guyana Preps For March 2020 Elections
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 1.Jan.2020) — South America’s Guyana, in preparation for elections to be held by the end of the first quarter of […]
Venezuela Is Quietly Ramping Up Oil Production
(Oilprice.com, 31.Dec.2019) — If anyone is to ever write a guidebook on political survival, the skills of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro would certainly top the […]
NGC Chairman End-of-Year 2019 Message
(NGC, 31.Dec.2019) — National Gas Company Chairman Conrad Enill provided the company’s year-end 2019 message, which highlighted milestones achieved during the year. Dear Colleagues and […]
PDVSA Touts Gasoline Delivery
(Reuters, 31.Dec.2019) — With an emoji of a flexing bicep, Venezuelan state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., or PDVSA, on Tuesday celebrated what was […]
Petrobras On Sale Tartaruga Verde And Module III
(Petrobras, 30.Dec.2019) — Petrobras following up on the press release disclosed on 27 December 2019, reaffirms that the total value of the sale of 50% […]
Petrobras Inks Gas Deal With YPFB
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 30.Dec.2019) — Brazil’s state oil giant Petrobras inked a transition agreement under the natural gas supply agreement (GSA) with its […]
Petrobras Names JP Morgan New ADR Depositary Bank
(Petrobras, 30.Dec.2019) — Petrobras announced that JP Morgan Chase will be the new representative of the American Depositary Receipt (ADR) program for its shares traded […]
Pemex Closes Year Of Missed Targets
(Argus, 30.Dec.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s pledges to put state-owned Pemex back at the center of policy have worried investors who had […]
IMO 2020 May Slow Ecuador Loan Repayment
(Argus, 30.Dec.2019) — Possibly narrower differentials for sour crudes — under pressure from looming emissions regulations — could slow Ecuador’s repayment of its oil-backed debt […]
MTBE, Ethanol Face Off In Mexico
(Argus, 30.Dec.2019) — Mexico’s oxygenates sector — long dominated by methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) — could face market pressures to move toward ethanol as […]
Petrobras Finalizes Auctions Payments To ANP
(Petrobras, 27.Dec.2019) — Petrobras today made the final payments in the amount of R$ 34.191 billion (thirty four billion one hundred and ninety one million […]
Petrobras Informs About Pbio’s Interest In Bioóleo
(Petrobras, 27.Dec.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 20 December 2019, announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Petrobras Biocombustível S.A. (PBio), signed a […]
EP PetroEcuador Ends Bajo Alto Plant Maintenance
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 26.Dec.2019) — A scheduled stoppage at the Bajo Alto Natural Gas Liquefaction Plant located in the El Guabo in the […]
EP PetroEcuador Ends Stoppage At Shushufindi
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Dec.2019) — EP PetroEcuador initiated start-up activities on 25 December 2019 at the Crude Unit 2 (R2) of the Shushufindi […]
Apache Stock Jumps On Suriname JV
(Zacks, 24.Dec.2019) — Shares of Apache Corporation rallied more than 17% in yesterday’s trading, hitting an all-time high among the S&P 500 components, after the […]
US Cuts Venezuelan Flows Plans For China, Rosneft
(S&P Global Platts, 24.Dec.2019) — US sanctions on PDVSA shut down roughly 500,000 b/d of crude flows from Venezuela to Gulf Coast refineries within a […]
Remembrance: Energy Journalist David Renwick
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.Dec.2019) — In remembrance of long-time energy journalist David Renwick who passed away in Trinidad, we share this video of […]
Total Enters Suriname With 50% Stake In Block 58
(Total, 23.Dec.2019) — Total has signed an agreement with Apache Corporation to acquire a 50% working interest and operatorship in the highly prospective Block 58 […]
Brazil’s Output Soars In November: ANP
(S&P Global Platts, 23.Dec.2019) — Brazilian crude and natural gas production soared to a fresh record high in November as oil output topped 3 million […]
Cameron LNG Facility Begins Production At Train 2
(Sempra LNG, 23.Dec.2019) — Sempra LNG, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, announced that Cameron LNG has begun producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the second […]