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Buenavista Renewables, ESCO, And Zodiac Aerospace Ink Long-Term PPA

(Buenavista, 20.May.2019) — Buenavista Renewables México, S. de R.L. de C.V. (“BVR”), a Buenavista Renewables company, and ESCO Comercializadora Energética S. de R.L. de C.V., […]

OPEC Founder Venezuela Pumps Less Oil Than Three Of Its Neighbors

(Bloomberg, Lucia Kassai, 20.May.2019) —Venezuela, which sits atop more oil than Saudi Arabia, has fallen behind three other Latin American countries as years of mismanagement […]

Russian Oil Sales To U.S. ‘On Steroids’ Amid Venezuela Sanctions

(Bloomberg, Sheela Tobben, 20.May.2019) — Petroleum exports from Russia to the U.S. are growing rapidly as the supplier takes advantage of lost deliveries from sanctions-hit […]

Venezuela’s Opposition Hires Debt Adviser

(Argus, 20.May.2019) — Venezuela’s political opposition contracted with an international adviser to prepare for restructuring the country’s external debt that is expected to exceed $150bn. […]

US Sanctions Mining Company Backing Maduro

(Reuters, 19.May.2019) — The United States imposed sanctions on Tuesday against Venezuela’s state-run gold mining company Minerven and its president, Adrian Perdomo, accusing them of […]

Petroamazonas’ Production Peaked At 428,780 Boe/d In The First 4 Months Of 2019

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 19.May.2019) — Petroamazonas EP’s production of crude oil in the first four months of 2019 peaked at 428,780 barrels per […]

Enel: Positive Impact From Resolution Of Pending Issues In Argentina

(Enel, 17.May.2019) — Enel S.p.A. announces that its listed Chilean subsidiary Enel Américas S.A. (“Enel Américas”) informed that its subsidiary in Argentina, Empresa Distribuidora Sur […]

Without Venezuela’s Oil, Haiti Struggles To Keep Lights On

(AP, Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, 17.May.2019) — When her daughter was 4 years old, Jennifer Jean started a small catering business in Bourdon, a lower middle-class […]

Petrobras’ Says Motion To Vacate Arbitration Award Issued In Vantage Case

(Petrobras, 17.May.2019) — Petrobras, following up onthe Press Release of March 8, 2019, hereby informs that today the United States District Court for the Southern […]

Tullow Oil, Partners Exempted From Range Of Taxes In Guyana

(Stabroek News, 17.May.2019) — The National Assembly on Wednesday assented to tax concessions for the United Kingdom-headquartered Tullow Oil as well as its partners. “I […]

Ecopetrol Earnings And Revenues Increase Y/Y In Q1

(Zacks, Nilanjan Banerjee, 17.May.2019) — Ecopetrol SA (EC) reported first-quarter 2019 net income of 2,745 billion Colombian pesos, higher than 2,615 billion Colombian pesos in […]

Petrobras Removes Three Banks From BR Distribuidora Privatization

(Reuters, Gram Slattery and Carolina Mandl, 17.May.2019) — Brazilian state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA has removed three banks from the privatization process of fuel […]

Wintershall DEA Boosts Interest In Block 5 Offshore Mexico

(Wintershall DEA, 17.May.2019) — Wintershall Dea and its partners in Block 5, Murphy Sur (operator), a wholly owned subsidiary of Murphy Oil Corporation, and PC […]

Argentina Awards 18 Exploration Areas Offshore For $724 Million

(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 17.May.2019) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat awarded 18 areas corresponding to the first International Offshore Public Competition, the country’s Finance Ministry […]

Wigton Windfarm Shares To Be Listed Soon On Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE)

(Jamaica Observer, Balford Henry, 17.May.2019) — The Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) says that the Wigton Windfarm IPO shares will be listed and begin trading […]

US Targets Shippers For Bringing Venezuela Oil To Cuba

(AFP, 17.May.2019) — The United States last Friday imposed sanctions on two shipping companies for delivering Venezuelan oil to ally Cuba in what it called […]

Gas Station Lines Reappear In Venezuela As Refinery Halts, Fuel Imports Plunge

(Reuters, Mircely Guanipa and Marianna Parraga, 16.May.2019) — Gas station lines reappeared across oil-rich but crisis-stricken Venezuela this week as gasoline imports plunged and the […]

Sell Oil, Buy Electric

(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Ryan Hamilton-Davis, 16.May.2019) — The Regulated Industries Commission (RIC), the regulatory body for water, waste water and electricity, has come up […]

MAN Energy To Supply Compressor Trains For FPSO In Mexico

(MAN Energy, 16.May.2019) — MODEC has commissioned MAN Energy Solutions to supply a total of six compressor trains for a new FPSO vessel in the […]

Who Gets Venezuela’s Oil?

(CNN, Allan Dodds Frank, 16.May.2019) — Venezuela’s future is in limbo, as its embattled president continues to fend off a national movement for regime change. […]

Venezuela’s Ad-Hoc PDVSA Board Begins Payment On Citgo-Backed 2020 Bond

(Reuters, Corina Pons and Mayela Armas, 16.May.2019) — Venezuela’s ad-hoc board of directors for state oil company PDVSA, appointed by opposition leader Juan Guaido, said […]

Total CEO Says Planned Buy Of Anadarko’s Africa Assets ‘Perfectly Fitting’

(Reuters, Humeyra Pamuk, 16.May.2019) — French energy giant Total SA’s planned acquisition of U.S. firm Anadarko’s African assets is “perfectly fitting” with the company’s overall […]

Work Continues On The 10 MW Patagónicos Wind Farm In The Magallanes Region

(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 15.May.2019) — Construction of the new Patagónicos Wind Farm in the Magallanes Region, a joint venture between Enap and Pecket […]

Rising U.S. Oil Output Helps Fill Gap Left By Iran, Venezuela: IEA

(Reuters, Noah Browning, 15.May.2019) — The world will require very little extra oil from OPEC this year as booming U.S. output will offset falling exports […]

LatAm’s Gasoline Problems: Mexico And Brazil Diverge In Fuel Balance Strategy

(WoodMac, 15.May.2019) — The two dominant players in Latin American oil and gas – Petrobras and Pemex – should face negative net gasoline balance for […]

JinkoSolar Prices Follow-on Offering Of 4,062,500 ADSs And Private Placement

(JinkoSolar, 15.May.2019) — JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. announced priced the follow-on offering of 4,062,500 American depositary shares (the “ADSs”), each representing four ordinary shares of […]

LatAmNRG Briefs: OPEC MOMR, EP PetroEcuador Import Awards

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to OPEC’s Monthly Oil Market Report, EP PetroEcuador awards Trafigura […]

Eni Reports New Light Oil Find In Block 15/06 Offshore Angola

(Eni, 14.May.2019) — Eni has made a new light oil discovery in Block 15/06, in Angola’s deep offshore. The well was drilled on the Ndungu […]

Argentina’s Economic Crisis Threatens To Stall Vaca Muerta

(Petroleum Economist, Charles Waine, 14.May.2019) — Argentina’s hope of fast-tracking production from its vast Vaca Muerta shale play, the world’s second largest by output, could […]

Petrobras Awards McDermott EPCI Contract For Sepia Field Offshore

(McDermott, 14.May.2019) — McDermott International, Inc. announced the award of a significant* contract by Petrobras for engineering, procurement, construction and installation of subsea risers and […]

Rovuma LNG Development Plan Approved By Mozambique Government

(Eni, 14.May.2019) — Mozambique Rovuma Venture said today that the government of Mozambique had approved its development plan for the Rovuma LNG project, which will […]

Contrasting Cases Of Energy Dependence: Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago

(NACLA, Zophia Edwards and Timothy M. Gill, 14.May.2019) — Trinidad and Tobago used to be as dependent on oil as Venezuela. So why hasn’t its […]

Sempra Energy Starts Production At Train 1 Of Cameron LNG Facility

(Sempra, 14.May.2019) — Sempra Energy announced that Cameron LNG has begun producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the first liquefaction train of the Cameron LNG […]

Mexico’s Rising Oil Nationalism Faces Debt-Rating Crisis

(Reuters, Stefanie Eschenbacher and David Alire Garcia, 14.May.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December vowing to revive state-owned energy company […]

Venezuelan Oil Output Sinks To 500,000 B/D

(Argus, 14.May.2019) — Venezuela’s crude production has dropped to around 500,000 b/d as sluggish export loadings and replete storage force state-owned PdV to shut in […]

Pompeo, Putin Could Decide Venezuela’s Fate

(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 14.May.2019) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting on Tuesday to discuss various issues, including […]

Ensign Energy Expands Into Mexico, Bahrain And Kuwait With Trinidad Acquisition

(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 13.May.2019) — Ensign Energy Services acquired an 89.3% interest in Trinidad Drilling Ltd., which marks the largest such purchase in […]

Madalena Starts Vaca Muerta Drilling On The Coiron Amargo Sur Este Block

(Madalena, 13.May.2019 ) — Madalena Energy Inc. has been informed by the operator of the Coiron Amargo Sur Este (CASE) block that a drilling rig […]

Arctech Launches 120-Module 2P Solar Tracker In Industry First Move

(Arctech, 13.May.2019) — Arctech Solar, a leading solar tracking and racking system provider, has launched its latest research achievement SkySmart-2, the industry’s first independent single-axis […]

Equinor Boosts Stake In Caesar Tonga Field In Deepwater US GOM

(Equinor, 13.May.2019) — Equinor has exercised its preferential rights to acquire an additional 22.45% interest in the Caesar Tonga oil field from Shell Offshore Inc […]

Readout Of Secretary Perry’s Visit To Bogota, Colombia

(Energy.gov, 13.May.2019) — Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry was in Bogotá, Colombia for the Concordia Americas Summit, a gathering of government and private […]

Petrobras Announces Teaser For Sale Of Breitener Energética S.A.

(Petrobras, 13.May.2019) — Petrobras reports that it has started the opportunity disclosure stage (Teaser) relating to the sale of its 93.7% interest in Breitener Energética […]

Colombia Oil Reserves Up 9.9% In 2018; Gas Reserves Decline

(Reuters, 13.May.2019) — Colombia’s crude oil reserves were up 9.9% to 1.96 billion barrels at the end of last year, as efforts to increase exploration, […]

Tecpetrol Argentina Work Halted Until Security Issues Resolved

(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 13.May.2019) — The block where Tecpetrol conducts activities in Argentina can’t initiate operations until necessary security measures are completed and […]

Delek’s US GOM Caesar Tonga Oil Acquisition Cancelled

(Globes, 12.May.2019) — One of the existing partners has exercised its first right of refusal on the rights in the Caesar Tonga oil field. The […]

Mexican Union Leader Shot Dead In Troubled Oil Refining City

(Reuters, 12.May.2019) — Unidentified gunmen shot dead a trade union leader in Mexico’s central city of Salamanca, authorities said on Sunday, the latest outbreak of […]

Could Emerging Oil State Guyana Become The Richest Nation In The World?

(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 12.May.2019) — A tiny South American country until recently known mostly as the location of one of the worst mass suicides in […]

Argentina Eyes Possible Start Of Vaca Muerta-Bahía Blanca Train Project In 2020

(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 12.May.2019) — Two train projects planned to connect Vaca Muerta with Bahía Blanca will most likely not start moving forward […]

YPF Transcript Of 1Q:19 Earnings Conference Call

(Thomson StreetEvents, 11.May.2019) — Edited Transcript of YPF SA earnings conference call or presentation Friday 10 May 2019. TEXT version of Transcript ============================== Corporate Participants […]

Petrobras Updates On Divestment Of Liquigás: Start Of Non-Binding Phase

(Petrobras, 10.May.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release dated 04/09/2019, announces the beginning of the non-binding phase related to the sale of Liquigás Distribuidora […]