(Duke, 22.Apr.2019) — Duke Energy Renewables, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, announced it has acquired the 150-megawatt (MW) North Rosamond solar project in Kern County, California from Clearway Energy Group. The North Rosamond solar project is Duke Energy Renewables’ sixth solar generation facility in Kern County. “North Rosamond is a […]
7 Oil & Gas Problems That Mexico Must Solve
(Forbes, Jude Clemente, 21.Apr.2019) — 1. Since peaking in 2004, Mexico’s oil production has been sliced in half to below 2 million b/d Although nearly 45% back then, oil revenues still account for 20-25% of the federal budget. Amid plummeting production, the country has actually been very lucky that domestic […]
Venezuela Seeks To Collect Some Oil Payments Via Rosneft
(Reuters, 19.Apr.2019) — The cash-strapped government is becoming increasingly reliant on the Kremlin. Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA has asked at least two of its clients to make payments for Venezuelan oil via Russian state energy giant Rosneft, as it comes under pressure from U.S. sanctions, according to a PDVSA […]
Petrobras Reports Resignation Of Member Of Board Member Antunes
(Petrobras, 18.Apr.2019) — Petrobras reports that Board member Jerônimo Antunes submitted his resignation from the Board of Directors of the company, as well as from the Board’s Committees in which he participated, due to personal reasons. The company awaits the controlling shareholder to appoint the new member, who will be […]
Czech Group Solek Start Work On 16.6 MWp Of PV Plants In Chile
(Renewables Now, 19.Apr.2019) — Czech solar developer Solek Group announced on Thursday its has started construction of three solar parks in Chile with a combined capacity of 16.64 MWp direct current (DC). More specifically, the European company is building the 2.99-MWp Villa Seca and the 10.66-MWp Santa Fe farms in […]
Lee: Dragon Gas Deal Dead
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Yvonne Webb, 19.Apr.2019) — Deputy political leader of the United National Congress, Pointe-a-Pierre MP David Lee, has said the Dragon gas deal between TT and Venezuela is dead and not just at a “standstill,” as claimed by Energy Minister Franklin Khan. Lee said it is now […]
EP PetroEcuador Says 11 Fields Generated $6.2 Billion In 2018
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 18.Apr.2019) — EP PetroEcuador announced that production of 400,974 barrels per day (b/d) in 2018 from 11 fields generated revenues of $6,199 million, the company said in an official statement on its website. In terms of production, the top three fields were Shushufindi (69,369 b/d), […]
EP PetroEcuador says Sacha field producing 70,000 b/d
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 18.Apr.2019, Words: 216) — Crude oil production from Ecuador’s Sacha Field, operated by PetroAmazonas and located in the province of Orellana in block 60, reached 70,021 barrels per day on 17 Apr. 2019, EP PetroEcuador announced in an official statement on […]
Indian Refiners Turn To OPEC, Mexico, U.S. To Make Up Iran Oil Gap
(Reuters, 18.Apr.2019) — All four Indian state-owned refiners that buy Iranian oil are confident of securing additional barrels from other producers, officials from the companies told Reuters. Indian refiners are increasing their planned purchases from OPEC nations, Mexico and the United States to make up for any loss of Iranian […]
Exclusive: Venezuela Skirts U.S. Sanctions By Funneling Oil Sales Via Russia
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 18.Apr.2019) — President Nicolas Maduro is funneling cashflow from Venezuelan oil sales through Russian state energy giant Rosneft as he seeks to evade U.S. sanctions designed to oust him from power, according to sources and documents reviewed by Reuters. The sales are the latest sign of the […]
ExxonMobil Announces 13th Discovery Offshore Guyana
(ExxonMobil, 18.Apr.2019) — ExxonMobil said it made a new oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Yellowtail-1 well, marking the 13th discovery on the Stabroek Block. The discovery adds to the previously announced estimated recoverable resource of approximately 5.5 billion oil-equivalent barrels on the Stabroek Block. Yellowtail-1 is the fifth discovery […]
Petrobras Confirms Extension Of Accumulation In Moita Bonita Area
(Petrobras, 18.Apr.2019) — Petrobras announces that it has completed the drilling of the well 3-SES-192 (Petrobras nomenclature) / 3-BRSA-1367-SES (ANP nomenclature)l in the area known as Moita Bonita, located in the BM-SEAL-4 concession, 80 km from the city of Aracaju, at a water depth of 2,629 meters. The results of […]
Toyota To Build Corolla In Brazil That Will Run On Electricity, Ethanol And Gas
(Reuters, 17.Apr.2019) — Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it will begin building in Brazil a new version of the Corolla sedan that will run on electricity, ethanol and gas, the first vehicle of its kind to be built in Latin America. Toyota said in a statement that it […]
Brazil Sets October Oil Auction Signing Bonus Of $26.9 Bln – Minister
(Reuters, 17.Apr.2019 — Brazil’s government will require a signing bonus of 106 billion reais ($26.9 billion) in an Oct. 28 auction of excess oil from the so-called transfer-of-rights area in the pre-salt fields, Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Wednesday. Companies bidding would also have to compensate state-run oil company […]
Repsol Cuts Swap For Venezuelan Oil Under U.S. Pressure
(Reuters, Collin Eaton and Marianna Parraga, 17.Apr.2019) — Spain’s Repsol suspended its swaps of refining products for crude with Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA, people familiar with the matter said, as U.S. officials weighed penalties for foreign firms doing business with Venezuela. The Spanish oil company has been swapping fuel […]
Shell Awards Contract To Halliburton For Offshore Project In Brazil
(Chron.com, Sergio Chapa, 17.Apr.2019) — Royal Dutch Shell has awarded a three-year contract to Houston oilfield service company Halliburton to explore and develop two projects off the coast of Brazil. The projects are located in Brazil’s Campos and Santos Basins. The Campos Basin is 90 miles off the coast of […]
Petrobras Increases Diesel Price
(Petrobras, 17.Apr.2019) — Petrobras has decided to increase the diesel price by R$ 0.10/liter, which implies a minimum variation of 4.518% and a maximum of 5.147% in its 35 points of sale in Brazil. This increase will be effective as of tomorrow, 04/18/19. The price established by Petrobras represents, on […]
Petrobras Informs About Studies Of Caixa Econômica Federal To Sell Its Shares
(Petrobras, 17.Apr.2019) — Petrobras says it has received correspondence from Caixa Econômica Federal informing that it is studying the possibility of selling shares that they hold issued by Petrobras, having formed a syndicate of financial and legal advisors to evaluate viable alternatives, with the possibility of holding a secondary public […]
Trinidad PM Rowley: Pray For Oil
(Trinidad and Tobago News Day, Sean Douglas, 17.Apr.2019) — The Prime Minister has publicly implored prayerful citizens to pray for new deposits of oil to be found in exploratory drilling 80 miles off Trinidad’s east coast. “Our future will be very bright if we are successful,” Dr Rowley told a […]
BHP Petroleum Plans More Appraisal Drilling Off Mexico
(OGJ, Paula Dittrick, 17.Apr.2019) — BHP Petroleum plans additional appraisal drilling on Trion block offshore Mexico during this year’s second half, the company said in an operational update. Previously, BHP sold its US shale operations to focus on conventional oil and gas in the US Gulf of Mexico and Australia. […]
Wintershall Expands Portfolio In Argentina
(WorldOil, 17.Apr.2019) — Wintershall won the bidding process for two blocks in the promising Malvinas Basin off the coast of Tierra del Fuego as part of the “Costa Afuera” licensing round. In addition to the CMA-1 exploitation concession, with this award, the company will participate in further offshore exploration projects […]
BHP Encounters Hydrocarbons In Latest T&T Deepwater Well
(T&T Energy Chamber, 17.Apr.2019) — BHP has announced that it has found hydrocarbons in its latest deepwater well in Trinidad & Tobago’s deepwater block 23(a). The Bélé-1 well is the first of a three well programme to test prospects around the Bongos discovery, made in 2018. The well is being […]
Majors Step Up To Bid On Argentina Offshore Acreage
(WorldOil, 17.Apr.2019) — Argentina’s first national offshore licensing round was held yesterday, April 16, 2019, in Buenos Aires. Of the 38 blocks offered in an open bid round, 18 were licensed. The round attracted bids from 13 companies, with the winning bids totaling $718.28 million. All Majors participated in the […]
Altus Power Acquires 19 MW Operating Solar Portfolio
(Altus, 17.Apr.2019) — Altus Power America, Inc. completed the acquisition of a multistate operating portfolio of ground-mounted solar assets. The 19 megawatt (MW) DC portfolio of solar energy systems sell clean, renewable energy to offtakers ranging from regional and national utilities to various municipalities in Massachusetts, North Carolina and New […]
Premier Highlights Successful Well Test Of The Zama Discovery
(Premier, 16.Apr.2019) — Premier notes the press release by Talos Energy, the operator of Block 7 offshore Mexico, announcing the successful drill stem test (DST) of the Zama-2 side track well (Zama-2ST1). This follows the successful Zama-2 appraisal well which completed in January. DST operations were successfully conducted on Zama-2ST1 […]
ExxonMobil Argentina Takes Three Blocks In Offshore Bid Round
(Exxon, 16.Apr.2019) — ExxonMobil has increased holdings in Argentina after its subsidiary ExxonMobil Argentina Offshore Investments B.V. and an affiliate of Qatar Petroleum won three exploration blocks during Argentina’s first offshore bid round. The award adds approximately 2.6 million net acres to its existing holdings in Argentina, which includes the […]
Exxon Mobil Wins Three Exploration Blocks Offshore Argentina
(Reuters, 16.Apr.2019) — U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp said on Tuesday its unit and an affiliate of Qatar Petroleum had won three exploration blocks offshore Argentina. The three blocks will add about 2.6 million net acres to Exxon’s existing holdings in Argentina, the company said. The blocks are located […]
Argentina Awards YPF Exploration Permit For Offshore E-1 Area
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 16.Apr.2019) — Argentina awarded state oil and gas producer YPF with an exploration permit for the E-1 area spanning 15,000 square kilometers offshore Argentina. YPF will have a 100% stake in the area, which was previously administered under an exploration and exploitation association agreement […]
Qatar Petroleum Wins Exploration Rights In 5 Offshore Blocks In Argentina
(Qatar Petroleum, 16.Apr.2019) — Qatar Petroleum has won exploration rights in five offshore blocks in the North Argentina, and Malvinas West basins in Argentina. The winning bids were announced today by Argentina’s Secretariat of Government of Energy (“SGE”) at the end of a public tender process that started in November […]
WoodMac: Santos Makes Significant Gas Discovery At Corvus-2 Appraisal Well
(WoodMac, 16.Apr.2019) — Following Santos’ announcement on the confirmation of a significant gas resource at Corvus-2 appraisal well, Wood Mackenzie senior analyst Daniel Toleman commented on the results: Based on limited information, our initial estimate is a 2.5 tcf gas and 25 mmbbl condensate resource. This will be the largest […]
Santos Says Corvus-2 Appraisal Well Discovers Significant Resource
(Santos, 16.Apr.2019) — Santos announced the successful appraisal of the Corvus field, with Corvus-2 confirming a significant gas resource in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore Western Australia. The well, located in petroleum permit WA-45-R, in which Santos has a 100 per cent interest, is approximately 90 kilometres northwest of Dampier in […]
LatAmNRG Argentina Briefs: TGS $330 Mln Investments, New IEASA President
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 15.Apr.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to TGS’ plans to invest $330 million in 2019 and Argentina’s Energy Secretariat appointment of Claudia Mundo to head up IEASA. TGS Plans Argentina Investments Of $330 Million In 2019 (Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, […]
Cameron LNG Reaches Final Commissioning Stage Of First Liquefaction Train
(Sempra, 15.Apr.2019) — Sempra Energy announced that Cameron LNG has begun pipeline feed gas flow to the first liquefaction train of the liquefaction-export project as it prepares to begin production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at the facility in Hackberry, La. This is the final commissioning step for Train 1 […]
This New Oil Hotspot Is Replacing Venezuelan Crude
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 15.Apr.2019) — The U.S. sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry have tightened the global heavy to medium crude oil market, sending oil buyers scrambling for alternatives to the heavy Venezuelan oil. Refiners in the United States and Europe have started to replace Venezuela’s oil with some of […]
Talos Energy Provides Update On Zama-2 STI Well Offshore Mexico
(Talos, 15.Apr.2019) — Talos Energy Inc. provided an additional update on the Zama appraisal program in Block 7, located in the offshore portion of Mexico’s prolific Sureste Basin. Talos is the operator of Block 7 in a consortium with its partners Sierra Oil & Gas, a company of DEA Deutsche […]
Wigton Has Saved Jamaica $54 Million In Oil Imports
(JIS News, Serena Grant, 15.Apr.2019) — Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Fayval Williams, says that Wigton Windfarm Limited has saved the Government expenditure of over US$54 million in oil imports. The production of clean energy from the facility has enabled the country to avoid the purchase of 800,000 […]
Fuel-Starved Haiti In Crisis As Venezuela Deal Dies
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 15.Apr.2019) — The poorest nation in the Western hemisphere has seen its fuel supply increasingly challenged since a program designed by Venezuela to supply fuel and gain influence in the Caribbean collapsed last year amid the raging Venezuelan crisis. Haiti had received almost 70 percent of […]
Bolivia’s Tarija Gas Region To Generate $2.7 Billion Through 2025
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 14.Apr.2019) — Bolivia’s Tarija department is forecast to generate natural gas revenues of $2.7 billion through the end of 2025, Bolivia’s Information Agency (ABI) reported April 14. During 2006 and 2018, Tarija department generated estimated oil and gas revenues of $5 billion, ABI reported, citing […]
JPS Invests $25m In Storage Facility To Address Power Fluctuations
(Jamaica Gleaner, Steven Jackson, 14.Apr.2019) — Power utility Jamaica Public Service Company, JPS, will commission a US$25 million storage facility in phases this year as a safeguard against power outages. The 24.5 megawatt plant, the first of its kind for Jamaica, will be installed at the company’s Hunt’s Bay power […]
Chevron To Gain Anadarko’s Offshore Guyana Oil Assets After Takeover
(Stabroek News, 14.Apr.2019) — Guyana could see oil exploration activity in the ultra-deepwater region picking up pace in the near future with United States oil giant Chevron set to buy Anadarko Petroleum Corp, which holds an exploration licence for the Roraima Block offshore Guyana. As part of its crude and […]
Brazil To Auction Oil Camps Despite Environmental Warnings
(AP, Peter Prengaman and Mauricio Savarse, 13.Apr.2019) — The administration of President Jair Bolsonaro plans to auction seven offshore oil fields in the northeast despite contrary advice from analysts of Brazil’s main environmental body, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press. Environmentalists say it’s the latest example of how […]
LatAmNRG Colombia Briefs: OTA Pipeline Attack, Orca-1 Well
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 12.Apr.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to a new attack on the OTA pipeline, the Orca-1 well expected online in 2026, and Ecopetrol’s plans to expand its renewables portfolio to 181 megawatts. Ecopetrol Reports New Attack On OTA Pipeline (Energy Analytics […]
CNH Reports 6.9% Drop In Mexico’s Combined 1P Reserves
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Apr.2019) — Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH by its Spanish acronym) announced the country’s combined proved (1P) natural gas and crude oil reserves fell 6.9% to 7.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent (Bn boe) in 2019 compared to 8.5 Bn boe in 2018, the agency […]
Bolivia’s Gas Reserves To Double By 2025: Minister
(Argus, 12.Apr.2019) — Bolivian hydrocarbons minister Luis Alberto Sanchez predicts a jump in natural gas reserves as the country’s “year of exploration” gains momentum. “Results from the first quarter were very promising,” Sanchez told Argus in an interview. “Reserves will increase from a current 10.7 trillion cf when we certify […]
Petrobras Updates On Diesel Price Readjustment
(Petrobras, 12.Apr.2019) — Petrobras informs that, in line with its strategy for diesel price readjustments, announced on 03/26/19, it revisited its hedge position and evaluated, throughout the day, with the closing of the market, that there is space to extend some days the diesel readjustment. The company reaffirms the maintenance […]
Permian Water Disposal Volumes To Double By 2022: Wood Mac
(Wood Mac, 12.Apr.2019) — Water disposal volumes in the Permian Basin are expected to double within the next two to three years, new analysis from Wood Mackenzie shows. As drilling activity in the basin continues to expand, hydraulic fracturing has resulted in the growing challenge of how to source water, […]
Petrobras Price Move Damages Bolsonaro’s Pro-Business Stance
(Bloomberg, Simone Preissler Iglesias and Sabrina Valle, 12.Apr.2019) — A conversation lasting less than 20 minutes was enough to put the neo-liberal credentials of Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro’s government in question. Bolsonaro and his Chief of Staff Onyx Lorenzoni suspended oil giant Petrobras’ diesel price increase late Thursday after that […]
Ecopetrol Announces Dates For Colombian Ex-dividend Period
(Ecopetrol, 12.Apr.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. announced that according to the regulation of the Colombia Securities Exchange, the Colombian ex-dividend period for Ecopetrol’s shares begins on April 17, 2019. The ex-dividend period corresponds to the first business day for the dividend payment (April 25, 2019) and the four (4) trading days […]
Chevron Buys Anadarko In $50bn Cash-And-Stock Deal
(WoodMac, 12.Apr.2019) — Commenting on Chevron’s US$50 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of Anadarko, Roy Martin, senior analyst, corporate analysis, said: “This is the biggest upstream deal since Shell and BG in 2015. “Chevron now joins the ranks of the UltraMajors – and the big three becomes the big four.” Once the […]
LatAmNRG Frontera briefs: Ralph Coffman, NorPeruano, Intracampos bid
HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Apr.2019, Words: 314) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to Frontera Energy Corporation and its operations in Colombia, Peru, Guyana and Ecuador. Ralph Coffman Expected To Spud Offshore Guyana In 3Q:19 (Frontera, 11.Apr.2019) — Frontera says a definitive rig […]