BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (By GEMSA, 10.Apr.2026, Words: 619) — GeneraciĂłn Mediterránea S.A. (GEMSA) and Central TĂ©rmica Roca S.A. (CTR) announced commencement of an offer to holders thereof to exchange any and all of the companies’ outstanding 9.625% senior notes due 2027 for the companies’ newly issued fixed rate step-up senior notes […]
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Venezuela bondholder group eyes authorisation to start debt restructuring talks
LONDON/NEW YORK (By Reuters, 9Jan.2026, Words: 449) — A key group of Venezuelan bondholders said on Friday they were ready to start debt restructuring talks with the country once authorisation for such discussions was granted. Venezuela’s default-hit government bonds have surged this week after the seizure of President Nicolas Maduro by […]
Cheniere Prices $1.5bn Senior Notes due 2034
(Cheniere, 5.Mar.2024) — Cheniere Energy, Inc. (NYSE: LNG) priced its previously announced offering of Senior Notes due 2034. The Cheniere 2034 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 5.650% per annum. The Cheniere 2034 Notes will be issued at 99.789% of par and will mature on 15 Apr. 2034. The […]
Ecopetrol on Prepayment of Notes Maturing in Sep. 2023 [PDF Download]
(Ecopetrol, 7.Jul.2023) — Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC), as part of its comprehensive debt management, will redeem (make whole) the remaining amount of its international notes maturing in September 2023, which were issued in 2013. The outstanding principal amount of the notes is $821.5mn with a coupon rate of 5.875% (CUSIP: 279158 AC3 / ISIN: […]
Ecopetrol Issues $1.5bn in Bonds [PDF Download]
(Ecopetrol, 29.Jun.2023) — Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) announced that, as part of its refinancing strategy and financing of the 2023 investment plan, it successfully placed External Public Debt Bonds in the international capital market, based on the authorization issued by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit through Resolution 1592 of 28 June […]
Exchange Offers for Venezuelan Government and PDVSA Bonds
(Canaima Fund Lux, 28.Dec.2022) — Canaima Fund Lux (“Issuer“), a securitization fund governed by the Luxembourg Law of 22 March 2004 on securitization undertakings, registered under number O27, and more precisely for and on behalf of the compartment named Canaima I (“Compartment“), with identification number ISIN XS2540585481 represented and managed by Canaima Capital Lux S.Ă r.l.arl, a […]
bp on Redemption of $2.85bn of Outstanding Notes
(bp, 25.Jul.2022) — BP p.l.c. (NYSE: BP) (LON: BP) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary BP Capital Markets America Inc. (“BPCMA”) is exercising the option to redeem the total outstanding aggregate principal amounts of the following notes on 24 August 2022 (the “Redemption Date”): BPCMA will redeem the BPCMA 2.750% Notes […]
Hunt Oil on Solicitation for its 6.375% Senior Notes
(Hunt Oil, 2.May.2022) — Hunt Oil Company of Peru L.L.C., Sucursal del PerĂş (HOCP) received the consents necessary to effect the Amendments to the indenture governing its 6.375% Trust Enhanced Senior Notes due 2028 (CUSIP Nos.: Rule 144A: 445640 AB1, Regulation S: P5300P AB9), (ISINs: Rule 144A: US445640AB18, Regulation S: […]
Colombia Front-Runner Petro’s No-More-Oil Pledge Sinks Ecopetrol Bonds
(Bloomberg, 28.Jan.2022) — Gustavo Petro, the front-runner to win Colombia’s presidential election in May, has repeatedly vowed he will halt oil drilling the day he takes office. To some observers, this is campaign bluster that would prove difficult to carry out in a country where oil is the No. 1 […]
Driller Stuns Creditors As Argentina’s Dollars Dwindle
(Bloomberg, 19.Jan.2021) — In the 99 years since it was founded to pump the oil fields of Patagonia, Argentine energy driller YPF SA has been whipsawed by countless booms and busts. If global oil markets weren’t collapsing, it seemed, then Argentina was mired in a debt crisis that was wreaking havoc on […]
YPF’s Exchange Offer For $1bn 8.5% Senior Notes
(YPF, 2.Jul.2020) — YPF Sociedad AnĂłnima commenced an exchange offer for any and all of its outstanding US$1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 8.500% Senior Notes due 2021 (the “Old Notes“) (144A CUSIP / ISIN Nos. 984245 AM2 / US984245AM20 and Reg S CUSIP / ISIN P989MJ BG5 / USP989MJBG51) for […]
Petrobras Announces Global Bond Offering
(Petrobras, 27.May.2020) — Petrobras announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary Petrobras Global Finance B.V. (PGF) plans to offer one or more series of bonds in the U.S. market in a new emission , subject to market conditions. The bonds will be issued with full and unconditional guarantee from Petrobras. PGF intends […]
Maduro Rivals Seek Break With Citgo
(Argus, 17.Oct.2019) — Venezuela’s main political opposition is pressing for a deal with foreign bondholders to suspend a looming $914mn obligation that is tethered to coveted US refining assets. The high-stakes standoff over the PdV 2020 bond is closely watched by a myriad of other creditors, including Russia and China […]
Venezuela’s Prize Oil Asset May Soon Be Up For Grabs
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 16.Oct.2019) — Venezuela’s opposition is getting ready to file within days a lawsuit in the United States seeking to prevent bond holders of Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA from going after shares in its U.S. subsidiary Citgo over an expected PDVSA bond default this month, Reuters reports, […]
Venezuela’s Opposition Snubs PDVSA Bondholders
(Argus, 15.Oct.2019) — Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly signaled to bondholders today that it will not honor a $914mn principal and interest obligation because it says the debt issuance is unconstitutional. The controversial PdV 2020 bond issued by Venezuela’s national oil company PdV is collateralized by the firm’s US refining unit […]
MSU Energy Raises $250 Million, Secures Financing For 300 MW Expansion
(MSU Energy, 3.Dec.2018) — MSU Energy, a growing power generator with operations located in Argentina, announced significant developments to secure the ongoing expansion and conversion to combined cycle of its three power plants, which will increase total installed capacity to 750 MW. On November 30, 2018, MSU Energy closed a […]
Ecopetrol Announces Redemption Of International Bond Issued In 2009
(Ecopetrol, 27.Nov.2018) — Ecopetrol S.A. provided a Notice of Redemption to the Noteholders of its 7.625% Notes due 2019 issued on July 23, 2009 in the aggregate principal amount of $1,500 million and with an original maturity date of July 23, 2019. The Redemption Date will be December 27, 2018. […]
PDVSA Bewilders Bond Analysts By Making $949mn Payment
(Bloomberg, Davide Scigliuzzo, 31.Oct.2018) — Venezuela just forked over almost $1 billion to stay current on a bond backed by shares of its U.S. refiner Citgo. The question is why. Yes, the payment ensures that Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA gets to hold onto Citgo Holding Inc. for now, but […]
Investors Begin Receiving Payment PDVSA 2020 Bond: Sources
(Reuters) — Investors have started to receive payment of interest and principal on Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA’s 2020 bond, two bondholders said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Corina Pons, writing by Brian Ellsworth Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) ### #LatAmNRG
Pemex Sells $2 Bln Bonds To Fund Investment And Refinance Debt
(Offshore Technology, 17.Oct.2018) — Mexican state-owned petroleum company Pemex has reportedly sold $2bn of its bonds. The sale of the ten-year Pemex bonds is said to have generated about 6.5% in a move, which is aimed at funding the company’s investment, as well as refinance debt. A Pemex spokesperson said […]
Mexico’s Struggling Pemex Awaits New President’s Risky Fix
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, 14.Aug.2018) – By most financial measures, Mexico’s state oil company is seriously unwell. The country’s new leader is promising to revive it. But the treatment could end up killing the patient. After borrowing more than $100 billion, Petroleos Mexicanos is one of the world’s most indebted oil […]
Petrobras Issues $6.75 Billion in Global Notes
(Petrobras, 17.May.2016) – Petrobras issued $6.75 billion of 5 and 10 year Global Notes through its wholly-owned subsidiary Petrobras Global Finance B.V. (PGF). The transaction was priced on May 17, 2016 and the terms of the notes issued are as follows: The order book was 2.75x and 3.0x oversubscribed in […]
PDVSA Pays Interest to 2022 Bondholders
(PDVSA, 29.Apr.2016) — PDVSA announced that payment of interest was made on April 28, 2016 to all holders of PDVSA Bonds maturing 2022 with an interest rate of 6 percent, according to the preset conditions on paper issued October 2014. ***