(Energy Analytics Institute, 2.Oct.2024) â Moody‘s raised the outlook on Petrobras‘ ratings from stable to positive, Petrobras announced 2 Oct. 2024 in an official statement. The rating agency also reaffirmed Petrobras’ credit rating at âBa1â, reflecting the Brazilian company’s solid credit metrics, positive track record of operational and financial improvement […]
Gold Fields Taps ExoSphere To Advance Exploration at Salares Norte in Chile
(Fleet Space, 2.Oct.2024) â Fleet Space Technologies, an Australian space exploration company, announced plans to deploy its end-to-end mineral exploration solution, ExoSphere, to enhance Gold Fields’ data-driven exploration and development of their Salares Norte project in Northern Chile. ExoSphere will be used to generate 3D subsurface imaging of the Brecha […]
Idea of Colombia Importing Gas from Venezuela ‘Big Distraction,’ Ex-minister Says
(Reuters, 2.Oct.2024) â Debate in Colombia over the possibility of importing gas from Venezuela “has been a big distraction” amid concerns about Colombia’s future energy self sufficiency, former minister of mines and energy Tomas Gonzalez said on Wednesday. Colombia’s government and majority state-owned energy company Ecopetrol have repeatedly floated importing […]
Saipem Presents Solution for Large-scale Green Hydrogen Production
(Saipem, 2.Oct.2024) â Saipem and Nel ASA, during the 2024 World Hydrogen Week in Copenhagen, unveiled IVHYâą 100, a groundbreaking turn-key 100 MW electrolyser concept, which leverages Nelâs atmospheric alkaline electrolyser technology. The innovative renewable hydrogen generation solution has been designed and industrialized to be scalable, modular and to facilitate […]
Sheinbaum Keeps Morning Briefings, Though her Style is Unlike AMLOâs
(AP, 2.Oct.2024) â Mexicoâs new President Claudia Sheinbaum started her day Wednesday much like her political mentor, ex-President AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador, began most of his: with an early morning news briefing from the National Palace. LĂłpez Obradorâs news briefings, known as the âmañaneras,â were marathon affairs, featuring folksy dialogue, […]
Petrobras Reports on South African Operations
(Petrobras, 1.Oct.2024) â Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors has approved the company’s operations in South Africa, enabling the acquisition of a stake in the Deep Western Orange Basin (DWOB) block, through a competitive process conducted by TotalEnergies. The DWOB block is located in deep waters in the Orange […]
DMW Marine Expands Workforce to Meet Growing Global Demand
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Oct.2024) â DMW Marine Group, which specializes in marine cranes, announced the hiring of nine new service technicians. This move supports the company’s ongoing expansion and enhances its ability to meet the increasing demand for its products and services worldwide, especially in regions like Bahrain, Egypt, Tahiti, […]
Talos Adopts Limited Duration Stockholder Rights Plan
(Talos, 1.Oct.2024) â Talos Energy Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a limited duration stockholder rights plan (the “Rights Plan”). The Rights Plan is effective immediately and will expire on 1 Oct. 2025, unless approved by Talos stockholders at the company’s next Annual Meeting. The Board may […]
Canadian Solar to Deliver Storage Solutions to the Huatacondo Project in Chile
(Canadian Solar Inc., 1.Oct.2024) â Canadian Solar Inc. announced that e-STORAGE, which is part of the company’s majority-owned subsidiary CSI Solar Co., Ltd., has secured a turnkey EPC contract to supply a 98 MW/312 MWh DC Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) to the Huatacondo project in Chile. The project, developed by Sojitz Corporation […]
New Pacific Metals Delivers Strong Economics for CarangasÂ
(New Pacific, 1.Oct.2024) â New Pacific Metals Corp. reported the results of its Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) for the Carangas project in Oruro Department, Bolivia. The PEA is based on the Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for the project, which was reported on 5 Sep. 2023, and prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43â101- Standards […]
Citgo Share Auction Creditors Oppose Terms of Amber Energy Bid
(Reuters, 1.Oct.2024) â Creditors seeking proceeds from an auction of shares in a parent of Citgo Petroleum to repay them for Venezuela’s expropriations and debt defaults on Tuesday widely criticized terms of a conditional offer selected in the U.S. court’s second bidding round. An Elliott Investment Management affiliate on Friday was named […]
FACTSHEET: enCore’s Rosita ISR Uranium Central Processing Plants & Wellfields
(enCore Energy, 1.Oct.2024) â The Rosita In-Situ Recovery (âISRâ) Uranium Central Processing Plant (âCPPâ) and Wellfield commenced production as of Nov. 2023, according to details on enCore Energy‘s website as of 1 Oct. 2024. The Rosita CPP is located on a 270-acre surface tract, 100% owned by enCore, located central […]
Fission vs. Fusion â Whatâs the Difference?
(Duke Energy, 1.Oct.2024) â Look up during the day to see one of the most powerful examples of a nuclear reactor: the sun. Inside the sun, fusion reactions take place at very high temperatures and enormous gravitational pressures. The foundation of nuclear energy is harnessing the power of atoms by […]
TotalEnergies takes $10.5bn FID for GranMorgu development on Suriname’s block 58
PARAMARIBO, SURINAME (TotalEnergies, 1.Oct.2024, Words: 800) â Patrick PouyannĂ©, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies, met in Paramaribo with His Excellency Chandrikapersad Santokhi, President of the Republic of Suriname, and Annand Jagesar, CEO of Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V., Suriname’s national oil company, to announce the final investment decision (FID) for the […]
APA Takes $10.5bn FID for First Oil Development Offshore Suriname
(APA, 1.Oct.2024) â APA Corporationâs subsidiary has reached a positive final investment decision (FID) for the first oil development in Block 58, located offshore Suriname. The project has been named GranMorgu, which is derived from a local language and means both ânew dawnâ and âgoliath grouper.â Highlights: GranMorgu will include […]
Ecopetrol Appoints Hurtado as Upstream VP
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Oct.2024) â Colombian state-owned Ecopetrol S.A. announced Juan Carlos Hurtado Parra as Vice President of the Upstream segment. The appointment has been made as part of the implementation of the new organizational structure announced on 6 Jun. 2024, Ecopetrol announced 1 Oct. 2024 in an official statement. […]
McDermott Awarded FEED Contract in Mozambique
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2024) â McDermott, through a consortium with Saipem and China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation, has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the Rovuma LNG Phase 1 in Mozambique. Rovuma LNG Phase 1 is a joint venture between ExxonMobil Development Africa B.V., Eni […]
MEEI Grants PSC for Block Modified U (C) to BG
(MEEI, 30.Sep.2024) â The Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI) said a negotiated Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for Block Modified U (c ) has been signed between the Trinidad and Tobago government and the successful bidder, BG International Limited (BGI), a subsidiary of Shell. The signing took place on […]
Woodside Completes OCI Clean Ammonia Acquisition
(Woodside, 30.Sep.2024) â Woodside has completed the acquisition of 100% of OCI Clean Ammonia Holding B.V., which holds its lower carbon ammonia project in Texas (Project), from OCI N.V. (together with its affiliates, OCI).1 The completion follows Woodsideâs announcement on 5 Aug. 2024 that it had entered into an agreement […]
Matson Starts Construction of LNG-Powered Containerships
(Matson, 30.Sep.2024) â Matson, Inc. announced the start of construction on the first of three new “Aloha Class” containerships designed for its Hawaii and China-Long Beach Express (CLX) services. After a small ceremony at Philly Shipyard in Pennsylvania, the cutting of steel plates began, initiating the work to build the […]
New Fortress Sends Off First Full Cargo from Altamira
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2024) â New Fortress Energy Inc. announced that its Fast LNG (FLNG) asset located offshore Altamira, Mexico has achieved First Full Cargo & Sail Away. The first full LNG cargo fully loaded onto the Energos Princess and setting sail for Europe, New Fortress said 30 Sep. 2024 […]
New Fortress Energy to Delay Dividend Payment
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2024) â New Fortress Energy Inc. will delay the payment of the companyâs previously declared $0.10 per share Class A common stock dividend, with a record date of 13 Sep. 2024, until it reaches an agreement with its noteholders to address the companyâs near-term maturities and liquidity […]
SLB and ADNOC Drilling Partner for Unconventional Development
(SLB, 30.Sep.2024) â SLB announced an agreement to create Turnwell Industries LLC OPC, a joint venture (JV) with ADNOC Drilling Company, SLB and Patterson-UTI. The JV will allow the three companies to leverage leading innovations in AI, smart drilling design, completions engineering and production solutions. The JV will focus on […]
EAIâs NRGBriefs: Sep. 2024
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2024) â Energy briefs as well as others related to finance and projects during Sep. 2024 including Petrobras inking separate MOUs with its Argentine and Surinamese counterparts YPF and Staatsolie; TechnipFMC being awarded two subsea contracts by Petrobras; CNOOC Limited saying the Shenhai-1 Phase II Natural Gas Development […]
Hess gets HSR clearance for Chevron merger
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK (Hess Corp., 30.Sep.2024, Words: 381) â Hess Corporation announced that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust review of the Chevron-Hess merger has been completed, satisfying one of the closing conditions for the transaction. âWe are very pleased that our merger with Chevron has cleared this significant regulatory hurdle,â said CEO John Hess. […]
US LNG Sector to Navigate Uncertainties with Harris or Trump
(S&P Global, 30.Sep.2024) â The 2024 presidential election carries risks and unknowns for US LNG project development, whether Vice President Kamala Harris is elected or former President Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office. The Biden administration’s decision earlier in 2024 to pause key LNG export permits remains a major […]
Exxon Director Joins Elliott Seeking to Acquire Citgo Petroleum
(Reuters, 28.Sep.2024) â Exxon Mobil board director Gregory Goff recently joined a newly formed Elliott Investment Management-backed company seeking to acquire control of Venezuela-owned oil refiner Citgo Petroleum. Citgo and Exxon are rivals in the motor fuels and lubrications business. Exxon is the third-largest U.S. oil refiner by capacity and […]
Saudi Arabia Signals Oil Policy Shift
(The Washington Institute, 27.Sep.2024) â The kingdom anticipates and accepts lower oil prices, according to a news report, but the impact on other producers could be comparatively damaging. On September 26, an exclusive in the Financial Times indicated that Saudi Arabia is ready to abandon its unofficial oil price target of $100 […]
CNOOC Brings Shenhai-1 Phase II Development Online
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Sep.2024) â CNOOC Limited said the Shenhai-1 Phase II Natural Gas Development Project has commenced production. The project is located in the Qiongdongnan Basin, northern South China Sea, with an average water depth of approximately 900 m, CNOOC said 27 Sep. 2024 in an official statement. The main […]
ConocoPhillips Gets Judge to Approve Seizing of Payments to PDVSA
(Reuters, 27.Sep.2024) â ConocoPhillips on Friday got a Trinidad court to approve the seizing of payments from the Caribbean country to Venezuela’s state oil company for a proposed offshore gas project between the two neighbors. ConocoPhillips has for years been seeking to recover money from Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) for […]
Pemex Posts Drop in Oil Output as AMLO Exits
(Reuters, 27.Sep.2024) â Crude output by Pemex fell in August as Mexico’s national oil company failed to reduce fuel imports in line with company targets, while overall falling well short of the lofty energy trade goals of the country’s outgoing president. While locally produced petroleum product volumes rose during the […]
Amber Energy Selected to Acquire Citgo
(Amber Energy, 27.Sep.2024) â Amber Energy Inc. has been selected as the acquirer of PDV Holding, Inc., the parent of Citgo Petroleum Corporation, by Robert Pincus, the Special Master appointed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware to oversee the sale of PDV Holding, Inc. Amber Energy is […]
MEEI Minister Young Tours PXGEO 2 Seismic Vessel
(MEEI, 27.Sep.2024) â Stuart R. Young, Minister of Energy and Energy Industries, and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister toured the PXGEO 2 seismic vessel and met with its specialist crew on 26 Sep. 2024. This comes after cabinet approved negotiations towards a production sharing contract (PSC) between […]
LatAm NRG Matters: Highlights, Heard
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Sep.2024) â LatAm NRG highlights, headlines and “heard on the street,” for the week ended 27 Sep. 2024. âArgentina: Petronas is rumored to be pondering stepping back from Argentina LNG, the South American countryâs initial LNG export project, leaving YPF alone to search for partners. âBrazil: Petrobras […]
TotalEnergies Acquires Producing Eagle Ford Assets from Lewis Energy
(TotalEnergies, 27.Sep.2024) â TotalEnergies signed an agreement with Lewis Energy Group to acquire a 45% interest in dry gas producing assets owned and operated by Lewis in the Eagle Ford basin in Texas. The acquisition of these low cost and long plateau assets further strengthens TotalEnergiesâ integration across the gas […]
Northern Lights Ready to Receive CO2
(Equinor, 26.Sep.2024) â On 26 Sep. 2024 the Norwegian Minister of Energy conducts the official opening of the Northern Lights CO2 transport and storage facility in Ăygarden, near Bergen. The Northern Lights facility is a joint venture between Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies. âThe completion of the Northern Lights facility marks an […]
Woodside Energy executives meet with MEEI officials in Trinidad
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Sep.2024) â Executives with Woodside Energy provided an update to officials with the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI) regarding the Australian company’s Calypso project offshore. The ‘pre-feed’ engineering work is progressing, the MEEI said 26 Sep. 2024 […]
Chevron Agrees Hess CEO Will Not Join Board in Deal with US Regulator, Bloomberg Reports
(Reuters, 26.Sep.2024) â U.S. energy major Chevron has agreed Hess CEO John Hess will not join its board in an agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to proceed with the $53 billion takeover deal, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday citing people familiar with the matter. The proposed all-stock acquisition, […]
Northern Lights Completion Worldâs First Commercial CO2 Transport and Storage Service
(Northern Lights, 26.Sep.2024) â Northern Lights JV unveiled the completed CO2 receiving facilities in Ăygarden, Norway. The onshore and offshore infrastructure has been delivered on time for customers and within budget and is now ready to receive CO2 from Norwegian and European industry. Northern Lights is the first to offer […]
Northern Lights Facilities Finished, Ready to Store CO2
(TotalEnergies, 26.Sep.2024) â TotalEnergies and its partners, Equinor and Shell, announce the completion of the CO2 receiving and storage facilities of Northern Lights Joint-Venture in Norway. The facilities consist in a terminal that will receive CO2 cargos, a 100 km subsea pipeline for CO2 transportation to the offshore storage location, […]
TotalEnergies Reveals Mozambique LNG Response
(TotalEnergies, 26.Sep.2024) â The digital media Politico published an article regarding alleged murders that would have been carried out by Mozambican soldiers close to Afungi, the Mozambique LNG site, in northern Mozambique from Jun. to Nov. 2021. Before it was contacted by the author of this article, TotalEnergies had never […]
Petrobras and Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V. Ink MOU
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Sep.2024) â Brazilian energy giant Petrobras signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with its Surinamese counterpart Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V. aimed at assessing cooperation opportunities in the areas of hydrocarbon exploration and production, carbon capture, new energy sources, contingency response planning, among others. The […]
Frontera to Amend Substantial Issuer Bid
(Frontera, 25.Sep.2024) â Frontera Energy Corporation will amend its previously announced substantial issuer bid (the “Offer”) to remove the preferential acceptance of “odd lot” tenders, which are tenders from holders (“Shareholders”) of common shares of the company (the “Shares”) who beneficially own fewer than 100 Shares. There will be no […]
Eni Releases 2024 Methane Report
(Eni, 26.Sep.2024) â Eni SpAâs actions to reduce methane emissions across its operations are revealed in the companyâs Methane Report 2024. ____________________
Ecopetrol changes names of projects offshore Colombia
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Sep.2024) â Colombiaâs state-owned Ecopetrol S.A., in compliance with the ruling issued by the Fourth Labor Court of the Santa Marta Circuit, announced it will no longer use the names “Uchuva” and “Tayrona” to refer to its offshore exploration projects in the Colombian Caribbean, […]
Masdar to Buy Saeta from Brookfield for $1.4bn
(Masdar, 24.Sep.2024) â Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC (Masdar), the UAE’s clean energy powerhouse, announced the proposed acquisition of Saeta Yield from Brookfield Renewable, together with its institutional partners (Brookfield), for an implied enterprise value of c. US$1.4bn (âŹ1.2bn). Closing of the transaction is subject to customary approvals and is expected […]
FTC set to greenlight Chevron’s $53bn buy of Hess
HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Reuters, 24.Sep.2024, Words: 429) â The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is expected to greenlight U.S. oil producer Chevron‘s purchase of Hess as soon as this week, two people familiar with the matter said, leaving Exxon Mobil‘s challenge to the $53 billion deal as its final hurdle. The […]
TotalEnergies to Supply 200,000 t/y of LNG to HD Hyundai until 2033
(TotalEnergies, 24.Sep.2024) â Â In line with its strategy to grow its long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) sales, TotalEnergies announces the signing of a Heads of Agreement (HoA) with HD Hyundai Chemical for the delivery of 200,000 tons of LNG per year for 7 years starting from 2027. Thanks to this […]
China Provides Some Respite as Oil Prices Rise
(Rystad, 24.Sep.2024) â Oil prices are on the rise again, but OPECâs production cut unwinding still seems far off. Here is Rystad Energyâs oil macro update from Global Market Analysis Director, Claudio Galimberti: “The Chinese governmentâs announcement of its largest stimulus package since the pandemic, combined with the sudden rise […]
YPF CEO MarĂn Downplays Petronas Drama
BELIZE CITY, BELIZEÂ (Aaron Simonsky, Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Sep.2024) â YPF President and CEO Horacio MarĂn downplayed the impact of Petronas deciding not to move forward as a partner in a massive LNG facility (onshore and offshore) planned on Argentinaâs Atlantic Coast. “There is no need to dramatize” the news if […]