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Enel Green Power Switches On 86-MW Solar Plant In Colombia

(Renewables Now, 8.Apr.2019) — Italian energy major Enel SpA inaugurated on Friday an 86.2-MW solar photovoltaic (PV) farm in Colombia’s Cesar department. The company’s local […]

Students Put Energy Efficient Cars To The Test At Shell Eco-marathon Americas

(Shell, 7.Apr.2019) — Make the Future Live California featuring Shell Eco-marathon Americas drew more than 1,000 students to Sonoma Raceway to compete for the title […]

Neuquén Holds 73% Of Argentina’s Recoverable Shale Gas

(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 7.Apr.2019) — Argentina contains the second largest recoverable non-conventional natural gas resources in the world with 802.2 trillion cubic […]

Siderúrgica Del Mutún Eyes Exporting 150,000 Tons Of Iron To Mainly Argentina

(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 29.Apr.2019) — Siderúrgica del Mutún (ESM by its Spanish acronym) exported 20,000 tons of Bolivian iron to Argentina in the […]

Pemex Said Not To Issue Debt Over the Medium-Term

(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 30.Apr.2019) — Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will not return to financial markets to issue debt over the medium term because spreads […]

LatAmNRG Colombia Briefs: El Paso Solar Park, Seeking Electricaribe Investors

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 5.Apr.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to Colombia an inauguration of the 86.2 megawatt El Paso […]

New U.S. Sanctions Seek To Block Venezuelan Oil Shipments To Cuba

(NYT, Annie Karni and Nicholas Casey, 5.Apr.2019) — The Trump administration announced on Friday its latest round of economic sanctions against the government of President […]

YPFB President Says Incahuasi-5 Well To Add 3.5 MMcm/d Of NatGas Output

(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 5.Apr.2019) — Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) President Oscar Barriga says the Incahuasi-5 well, located 250 kilometers southwest of Santa […]

Petrobras Announces TAG Sale Offer

(Petrobras, 5.Apr.2019) — Petrobras informs that, in the scope of the competitive sale process of 90% of Transportadora Associada de Gás SA (“TAG”), ENGIE group, […]

ENN Signs Heads Of Agreement Of Sales With Woodside Energy

(ENN Group, 5.Apr.2019) — ENN has signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Woodside Energy for the procurement of 1.0 million tonnes of LNG per […]

Ecopetrol Files Form 20-F For Fiscal Year 2018

(Ecopetrol, 5.Apr.2019) — Ecopetrol filed its annual report under Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange […]

Indigo Natural Resources LLC Provides Operational Update

(Indigo, 4.Apr.2019) — Indigo Natural Resources LLC, a privately-owned natural gas and natural gas liquids company with assets in the Haynesville Shale, the Bossier Shale […]

Venezuela flaring nearly 2 Bcf/d of gas as oil production falls

CARACAS, VENEZUELA (Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Apr.2019, Words: 280) — Venezuela, home to the world’s largest oil reserves and one of Latin America’s […]

New Reference Price For Jet A-1 Fuel In Uruguay

(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 4.Apr.2019) — Uruguay will establish a new reference price for its Jet A-1 fuel as part of an initiative to […]

Argentina Energy 2019: Oil & Gas, Lithium and Energy Transition

(Institute of the Americas, 4.Apr.2019) — On March 27-28, the Institute of the Americas convened its annual Energy Roundtable in Buenos Aires with the participation […]

Phoenix Awarded Concession At Puesto Rojas Block In Argentina

(Phoenix, 4.Apr.2019) — Phoenix Global Resources plc has been granted an unconventional concession for its Puesto Rojas block in Mendoza province. The company has been […]

Venezuela Blackouts Cut Oil Output by Half During March

(Bloomberg Fabiola Zerpa, 4.Apr.2019) — Power failures that plunged Venezuela into darkness for much of March also briefly slashed the country’s crude production by half, […]

Turkish Ship Company Is Transporting Venezuelan Crude

(Argus, 4.Apr.2019) — Turkey-based Gungen is one of a handful of shipowners that continues to transport Venezuelan crude oil after the US levied sanctions on […]

Q&A: Mexico Oil Regulator Says Slow Wins The Race

(Argus, 4.Apr.2019) — Mexico’s oil regulator CNH administers more than 100 contracts for oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) that will attract $161bn […]

LatAmNRG Bolivia Briefs: Gas Sector Dependence, Moody’s ‘Ba3’ Rating

(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 3.Apr.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to Bolivia and the country still being highly dependent on […]

Repsol, Exxon and Ecopetrol Enter Into Colombian Exploration Contracts

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 3.Apr.2019) — Colombia’s National Hydrocarbon Agency (ANH) announced that Ecopetrol, Repsol Exploración Colombia S.A., and ExxonMobil Exploration Colombia Ltd signed […]

LatAmNRG Paraguay Briefs: PDVSA-Petropar Case, Troche Plant Appointment

(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 3.Apr.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to a tribunal’s decision to temporarily suspend a process between […]

Hocol Reports Gas Find At Arrecife-1ST Well In Colombia

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 3.Apr.2019) — Hocol, a company of Ecopetrol Group, announced a new natural gas discovery at its Arrecife-1ST well located in […]

IGU Releases 2019 World LNG Report As Global Trade Continues To Grow

(IGU, 2.Apr.2019) — The International Gas Union (IGU) released its 2019 World LNG Report – an annual, in-depth analysis of the current state of the […]

Sempra Energy’s IEnova Unit To Report First-Quarter 2019 Earnings Apr. 29

Sempra Gets Licenses To Export US LNG Out Of Mexico

(Argus, 2.Apr.2019) — The US Department of Energy (DOE) has authorized the Energia Costa Azul (ECA) LNG export project in northwest Mexico to re-export US […]

South Of The Vaca Muerta And Shaken: Elections in Río Negro Province

Argentina, China Still Discussing Nuclear Power Project – Undersecretary

‘Defending Our Existence’: Colombian Tribe Stands In Way Of Oil Exploration

Tecpetrol Says Resolution 46 Covers Entire Fortin de Piedra Gas Project

(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.Apr.2019) — Tecpetrol, the oil and gas affiliate of Techint, considers that a resolution emitted by Argentina’s Finance Ministry rejects […]

ECA LNG Receives US Non-FTA Approval For Liquefaction Exports

(Sempra, 1.Apr.2019) — Sempra Energy has announced that its subsidiary Energía Costa Azul (ECA) LNG received two authorizations from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) […]

Citgo Reports Higher Exports, Crude Throughputs

(Argus, 1.Apr.2019) — Citgo increased fuel exports and domestic crude processing last year, the company said in rare public guidance on the Venezuelan-controlled independent refiner’s […]

LatAmNRG Colombia M&A Briefs: Chevron Eyes Yumbo, Buenaventura Terminals

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 1.Apr.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to US-based Chevron’s dealings to acquire the Yumbo and Buenaventura […]

India Seeks Lithium From South American Nations To Meet Solar Energy Target

Sand From Soybean Waterway Resurrected For Argentine Shale Push

Tecpetrol Goes On Frac Sand Buying Spree In Argentina

LatAmNRG Q&A Series With Refinitiv’s Carl Larry

(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 31.Mar.2019) — As part of Energy Analytics Institute’s ongoing coverage of the Latin America and Caribbean energy sectors from conventionals, […]

Decisions Of The Ecopetrol General Shareholders’ Meeting

(Ecopetrol, 29.Mar.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. announces that, at the General Shareholders’ Meeting held on March 29, 2019, the Company’s Shareholders approved the following: 1. The […]