(Gran Tierra Energy Inc., 20.Jan.2015) – Gran Tierra Energy Inc. said crude oil and natural gas production from continuing operations averaged approximately 25,200 barrels of […]
Gran Tierra Updates on Chaza Block Activities
(Gran Tierra Energy Inc., 20.Jan.2015 – Gran Tierra Energy Inc. provides an operations update on its activities in the Chaza Block in the Putumayo Basin […]
Gran Tierra to Drill Putumayo-1 Block Well
(Gran Tierra Energy Inc., 20.Jan.2015 – Gran Tierra Energy Inc. provided an operations update on its activities in Colombia. Work continues at the Vonu-1 exploration […]
Harvest Files Arbitration Request Against Venezuela
(Harvest Natural Resources, 16.Jan.2015) – Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. announced that its affiliates, HNR Finance B.V. (Harvest BV) and Harvest Vinccler S.C.A. (HVSCA), submitted a […]
McDermott to Install Pemex’s Ayatsil Platform
(McDermott International, Inc., 6.Jan.2015) – McDermott International, Inc. has been awarded a contract to install the offshore jacket, deck and piles for the Ayatsil-A drilling […]
Apco Obtains Concession Extension in Argentina
(Apco Oil and Gas International Inc., 6.Jan.2015) – Apco Oil and Gas International Inc. announced that the Argentine province of Rio Negro has agreed to […]
Harvest Terminates Venezuelan Deal
(Harvest Natural Resources, 2.Jan.2015) – Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. announced that the Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) between Petroandina Resources Corporation N.V. (Petroandina), Pluspetrol Resources Corporation […]
Sierra Oil & Gas Announces Commitment of $525 million
(Sierra, 18.Sep.2014) — Sierra Oil & Gas S. de R.L. de C.V., Mexico’s first independent exploration and production company, today announces that it has secured […]
Venezuela Sees US shale Boom As Bonus
(Reuters, Dmitry Zhdannikov, 16.Jun.2014) — Venezuela wants to increase oil supplies to the United States to regain some of the market share it lost over […]
Chevron, YPF Continue Vaca Muerta Development
(Chevron 10.Apr.2014) — Chevron Corporation confirmed that subsidiaries of the company have signed agreements with the Argentine oil company YPF S.A. to continue development of […]
Ecuador, China Advance Refinery Plans
(OGJ, 24.Jan.2014) — China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) and the Ecuadorean government have reached an agreement regarding cooperation in a plan to construct a long-delayed […]
Non-Conventional Extraction Process Explained [Video]
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 16.Jan.2014) – Argentina’s Vaca Muerta formation in the Neuquén Basin is best known for its shale oil and gas. The […]
Fact Sheet: Harvest Natural Resources And PetroDelta
(Harvest Natural Resources, 1.Jan.2014) — Venezuela is the largest province of proved oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere, with 297.6 billion barrels of proved oil […]
Perenco to Buy Petrobras Assets in Colombia
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 29.Oct.2013) – Petrobras plans to sell its interest in onshore blocks and two pipelines to France’s Perenco for $380 million […]
PDVSA Incorporates New Tankers into Fleet
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 25.Oct.2013) – PDVSA President Rafael Ramirez speaks to reporters in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela about introduction of news tankers into […]
Ramirez Moving Forward with Energy Policy
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 10.Oct.2013) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro seems to be allowing Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez to take charge of moving forward […]
1St Venezuela-India Round-table in Caracas
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 7.Oct.2013) – The 1st Business Round-table meetings between Venezuelan and Indian companies took place in Caracas from October 7-9, 2013. […]
Rafael Ramirez Speech in Caracas
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 7.Oct.2013) – PDVSA President Rafael Ramirez spoke with journalist in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. What follows are excerpts from the […]
Rafael Ramirez Speech in Puerto La Cruz
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 4.Oct.2013) – Venezuela’s Oil Minister President Rafael Ramirez spoke with journalist in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. What follows are excerpts […]
LatAmNRG: Heard On The Street 3Q:13
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2013) – Information in this section, provided by Energy Analytics Institute editors and reporters, is hearsay and thus should be treated as […]
Venezuela Reactivates Fuel Exports to Colombia
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 24.Sep.2013) – The Venezuelan government plans to reactivate a plan to supply Colombia with combustibles, according to Energy and Mining […]
Q&A with Arthur Little’s Rodolfo Guzman
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 24.Sep.2013) – Arthur D. Little Partner Rodolfo Guzman spoke with Energy Analytics Institute in a brief interview from Houston, […]
Q&A with Tudor Pickering’s David Pursell
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 18.Sep.2013) – Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. LLC Managing Director David Pursell spoke with Energy Analytics Institute in a […]
Honduras Awaits Initial PetroCaribe Shipments
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 13.Sep.2013) – Honduras does not expect to receive its first shipment of oil from Venezuela under PetroCaribe until Dec.2013, reported […]
Pacific Rubiales Sets Capex at $1 Bln
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 13.Sep.2013) – Pacific Rubiales plans capital expenditure outlays of $1 billion on infrastructure projects such as ports, pipelines and a […]
Argentina Says Oil Output Insufficient
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 13.Sep.2013) – The Argentine government announced production of oil is insufficient to supply the country’s refineries. “We are lacking light […]
Uruguay Supporting Execution of 27 Projects
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 13.Sep.2013) – The Uruguayan government is supporting execution of 27 electric projects in rural zones that will span 800 km. […]
Empresa Energia Bogota to Spend $900 Mln
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Sep.2013) – Empresa Energia de Bogota (EEB) plans CAPEX outlays of $900 million in 2013 and the $3.4 billion during […]
Modernization of Barrancabermeja Refinery Continues
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Sep.2013) – Modernization activities advance at the 230,000 barrel per day Barrancabermeja Refinery, reported the daily newspaper Portafolio.co. ***
Nicaragua Oil Derivative Purchases Down
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Sep.2013) – Nicaragua’s purchases of oil and oil derivatives during the first four months of 2013 were $367.9 million compared […]
Pacific Rubiales Star to Double Recovery Rates
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Sep.2013) – The Star project will allow Pacific Rubiales to double recovery rates at the Quifa field, El Espectador reported, […]
Bulo Bulo to Generate 3,000 Jobs
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Sep.2013) – The urea plant in Bulo Bulo, Cochabamba will generate 3,000 jobs, reported the daily newspaper La Razon, citing […]
Guatemala Announces Initial Gas Discovery
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Sep.2013) – Guatemala announced its initial gas discovery at the Ocultun well in the Peten region. The well was drilled […]
GTLI to Return Areas to YPFB
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 11.Sep.2013) – Gas To Liquid International (GTLI) is in the process of returning four exploration areas to Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales […]
Combustible Prices to Increase in Uruguay
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 11.Sep.2013) – Uruguay’s ANCAP will increase the price of combustibles by an average 9.7%, reported the daily newspaper La Red […]
Petronas Exits Carabobo Project in Venezuela
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 11.Sep.2013) – Malaysia’s Petronas will exit the Petrocarabobo project in Venezuela’s Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt or Faja, according to Venezuela’s […]
PetroPar Debt Will Not Be Forgiven
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 10.Sep.2013) – PDVSA President Rafael Ramirez, who also serves as Venezuela’s Oil Minister, said that the debt owed to PDVSA […]
Q&A with PDVSA Refining Director Jesus Luongo
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 9.Sep.2013) – PDVSA Refining Director Jesus Luongo spoke briefly with Energy Analytics Institute on the sideline of a press conference […]
11th Meeting of PetroCaribe Ministers
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 8.Sep.2013) – Venezuela’s Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez participated in the 11th meeting of the Council of Petrocaribe Ministers in Port-au-Prince, […]
PDVSA Flatboat Overturns, Sinks in Zulia
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 8.Sep.2013) – PDVSA announced a flatboat with 20 workers overturned and sank in Lagunillas in Zulia state. All the workers […]
Venezuela’s Merentes Comments on OPEC
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 8.Sep.2013) – Venezuela’s Finance Minister Nelsen Merentes comments on Venezuelan state television or VTV. “OPEC production restrictions limit growth of […]
Ramirez Talks PDVSA on ‘Jose Vicente Hoy’
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 8.Sep.2013) – Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez comments on the oil worker’s strike in 2002-2003 against PDVSA. “Venezuelan opposition has […]
Camisea Gas Compression Plant Online by YE:15
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 29.Aug.2013) – The Camisea gas compression plant will be ready in December 2015. The plant will require an investment of […]
Eni CEO comments on Perla
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 28.Aug.2013) – Eni Chief Executive Officer Paolo Scaroni comments during a special event at PDVSA’s headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela about […]
Venezuela, Trinidad Meet Over Border Gas
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 26.Aug.2013) – Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez met with his counterpart from Trinidad and Tobago, Kevin Ramnarine in Caracas to […]
PDVSA initiates production at Dragon gas field
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Aug.2013) – Development of the offshore fields Dragon, Patao, Mejillones and Rio Caribe located in the Northern Paria Peninsula will […]
PDVSA President Comments on Citgo
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 25.Aug.2013) – During a trip with reporters in Guiria, PDVSA President Rafael Ramirez commented about the company’s CITGO Corporation refineries […]
Oil Analyst Speak at IESA Energy Forum
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 20.Aug.2013) – Energy sector analyst from Medley to Harvard Kennedy spoke at an energy forum at IESA in Caracas. Quote […]
Rosneft and PDVSA Evaluate Gas Projects
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 15.Aug.2013) – Rosneft and PDVSA are reviewing plans to extract gas in Sucre state and in the Gulf of Venezuela, […]
Venezuela Inaugurates Nororiental Gas Pipeline
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 15.Aug.2013) – Venezuela inaugurated the first part of the Northeastern Gas Pipeline in Jefe Jose Francisco Bermudez. The pipeline extends […]