(Argus, Lucien Chauvin, 18.Nov.2019) — Trinidad and Tobago’s industries regulator is warning that a natural gas shortage is slowly chipping away at the country’s industrial base. James Lee, executive director of the regulated industries commission, told Argus on the sidelines of a gas conference that the planned closure of a […]
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BPTT reports Ginger natural gas discovery offshore Trinidad
CARACAS, VENEZUELA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Nov.2019) — BP Trinidad & Tobago (BPTT) made a natural gas discovery with the Ginger exploration well, offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The well is expected to be completed by the end of Nov. 2019. The results of the Ginger well will continue to […]
Chubut Preparing For Cerro Negro Oil Auction
(S&P Global Platts, 12.Nov.2019) — Chubut is preparing to hold an auction of assets in Cerro Negro, a maturing conventional block in the southern Argentinian province, part of a wider effort to boost its oil production, the province’s minister of hydrocarbons, Martin Cerda, said. “We are working to hold the […]
Field Narrows As Brazil Oil Auction Nears
(Reuters, Gram Slattery and Marta Nogueira, 5.Nov.2019) — As Brazil approaches the biggest oil auction in its history — and one of the world’s most expensive ever — the field of deep-pocketed bidders has narrowed to less than a dozen oil majors. In Wednesday’s auction, known as the transfer-of-rights (TOR) […]
BP Eyes Brazil Gas Buildout
(Reuters, Gram Slattery, 29.Oct.2019) — BP Plc wants to be part of an effort to build up natural gas infrastructure in Brazil, an executive said on Tuesday, and believes a power plant it is building in Rio de Janeiro could eventually be supplied by gas from offshore oilfields here. Speaking […]
Mexico Taps Banks As It Nears End Of Hedge
(Reuters, Devika Krishna Kumar and Stefanie Eschenbacher, 23.Oct.2019) — Mexico’s finance ministry has completed a majority of its annual oil hedging program, working with at least four top investment banks and oil major Royal Dutch Shell, sources said, after challenges slowed the world’s largest oil financial deal this year. JPMorgan […]
Orca-1 Well Makes Major Gas Find Offshore Mauritania
(Kosmos, 18.Oct.2019) — Kosmos Energy announced that the Orca-1 exploration well has made a major gas discovery offshore Mauritania in the BirAllah area. The results continue the 100 percent success rate from nine wells targeting the inboard gas trend in Mauritania/Senegal. The Orca-1 well, which targeted a previously untested Albian […]
Petrobras Grabs One Block In 16th ANP Bidding Round
(Petrobras, 10.Oct.2019) — Petrobras acquired one offshore block in the 16th ANP Bidding Round under the Concession Regime, held by the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP). Petrobras is advancing its partnership strategy and will be the operator.  The total amount of the signature bonus to be […]
Citgo Bolsters Legal Defenses With Former BP Lawyer
(Reuters, 8.Oct.2019) — Citgo Petroleum Corp this week named a former BP lawyer to take on the company’s top legal job as it faces creditors seeking to seize shares in the U.S.-based refiner over parent PDVSA’s debts. Jack Lynch, who spent 18 years working for BP in Houston, London and […]
Brazil Approves 14 Firms For November Oil Tender
(Reuters, 30.Sep.2019) — Fourteen companies have been officially approved by Brazilian authorities to participate in an oil bidding round in November, in which total signing bonuses are expected to be the biggest so far, exceeding $25 billion, national oil regulator ANP said on Monday. As widely expected, the companies participating include […]
Yakaar-2 Well Confirms Resource Offshore Senegal
(Kosmos, 23.Sep.2019) — Kosmos Energy announced that the Yakaar-2 appraisal well has encountered approximately 30 meters of net gas pay in similar high-quality Cenomanian reservoir to the Yakaar-1 exploration well, continuing the 100 percent success rate of wells targeting the inboard Mauritania/Senegal gas trend. Yakaar-2 was drilled approximately nine kilometers […]
BP Sells Alaska Business To Hilcorp In $5.6bn Deal
(WoodMac, 27.Aug.2019) — Speaking after BP announced the sale of its Alaska business to Hilcorp in a US$5.6 billion deal, Wood Mackenzie analyst Rowena Gunn said: “The Majors are making progress with their divestment campaigns. This will mean long-held assets and territories will be let go. BP made such a […]
EIG Reports Advances At Port of Açu
(EIG, 21,Aug.2019) — EIG Global Energy Partners, controlling shareholder of Prumo LogĂstica S.A., a private Brazilian company leading the energy infrastructure hub at Port of Açu, announced major developments at Prumo. Among them, Gas Natural Açu (“GNA”), a joint venture among Prumo, BP and Siemens focused on the development and […]
PDVSA Partners Fear Latest U.S. Sanctions: Sources
(Reuters, Luc Cohen, 14.Aug.2019) — Foreign joint venture partners with Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA are concerned the latest set of U.S. sanctions on the South American country could disrupt their operations, three industry sources said. The Trump administration last week froze all Venezuelan government assets in the United States […]
BP And Bunge To Create Bioenergy Company
(Bunge, 22.Jul.2019) — Bunge Limited announced an agreement with BP plc to form a 50:50 joint venture that will create a leading bioenergy company (the “joint venture”) in Brazil, one of the world’s largest fast-growing markets for biofuels. Bunge will receive cash proceeds of $775 million in the transaction, comprising […]
PM Keith Rowley Visits TOFCO With BPTT
(T&T Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 22.Jul.2019) — Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley visited the TOFCO fabrication yard in La Brea on Friday with BPTT team, led by regional president Claire Fitzpatrick, to view fabrication of the jacket and bridge landing for the company’s Cassia C project. Cassia C is BPTT’s next […]
Ahmeyim-1 Well Expands Resource Potential Offshore
(Kosmos, 1.Jul.2019) — Kosmos Energy announced the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim-1 well (GTA-1), drilled on the eastern anticline within the unit development area of Greater Tortue, has encountered approximately 30 meters of net gas pay in high-quality Albian reservoir. The Greater Tortue Ahmeyim LNG project is on track to deliver first […]
Mexico’s CNH Approves BP’s Offshore Drilling Plan
(Reuters, Rebekah Ward, 25.Jun.2019) — Mexico’s oil regulator on Tuesday approved a $97 million plan for drilling in an offshore area operated by British supermajor BP in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The four-year exploration plan approved by the national hydrocarbons commission (CNH) covers a 700,000 square kilometer shallow water […]
Opinion: Two Decades Of 21st Century Socialism In Venezuela
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 22.Jun.2019) — New data from BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy (2019) provides two 10-year periods of study, which reveal the two-decade collapse of Venezuela’s once all mighty oil sector under Chavez-Maduro. Simply, P1 reserves rose 76%, oil production fell 53%, and Venezuela’s R/P […]
BPs’s Statistical Review Of World Energy, Edition 2019
(BP, 21.Jun.2019) — BP released its Statistical Review of World Energy, edition 2019, which provides a timely and objective insight into those developments and how that change can begin to be achieved. A link to the document can be found here. ***
Mexico’s Fuel Market To Be More competitive in 2020
(Platts, 10.Jun.2019) — Mexico’s already liberalizing fuel market will become far more competitive in 2020 as several private midstream projects start operations, multiple oil company executives say. Infrastructure shortages has allowed state Pemex to control more than 90% of Mexico’s gasoline imports in March, according to government data, despite the […]
BP Says Advancing Its Business In Trinidad And Tobago
(bptt, 31.May.2019) — BP’s Upstream chief executive Bernard Looney yesterday emphasized the company’s long-term commitment to Trinidad and Tobago during a meeting with the Honourable Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and other T&T Government representatives at BP’s head office in London. Looney said: “BP values our long-term partnership with Trinidad […]
Repsol Winds Down Operations In Venezuela
(VOA, Martin Arostegui, 21.May.2019) — Spain’s Repsol, the last western oil giant with major operations in Venezuela, is leaving the embattled country, as pressure mounts from U.S. sanctions and continuing unrest. Repsol’s investments in Venezuela, valued at nearly $1.7 billion (1,480 billion euros) in 2017, have fallen 70% over the […]
Argentina Awards 18 Exploration Areas Offshore For $724 Million
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 17.May.2019) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat awarded 18 areas corresponding to the first International Offshore Public Competition, the country’s Finance Ministry announced May 17 in an official statement. The crude oil and natural gas exploration areas offered cover three basins of the Argentine continental shelf. Companies […]
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 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 BĂ©lĂ©-1 well is the first of a three well programme to test prospects around the Bongos discovery, made in 2018. The well is being […]
KBR Awarded Pre-FEED Contract For BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim Project
(KBR, 9.Apr.2019) — KBR, Inc. announced that BP has awarded KBR’s UK operating subsidiary the Pre-FEED Services contract for Phases 2 and 3 of BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project, for the further development of Tortue field beyond Phase 1, located at the maritime border of Senegal and Mauritania. These next […]
Sonangol And BP To Advance BP’s Activities In Angola
(BP, 17.Dec.2018) — Angola’s Sonangol and BP today signed an agreement to progress to final investment decision the development of the Platina field in deepwater Block 18, offshore Angola. They also agreed to extend the production licence for the BP-operated Greater Plutonio project on Block 18 to 2032, subject to […]
LatAmNRG Chart Analysis: Venezuela’s R/P Rises As Oil Output Plunges
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 24.Nov. 2018) — Venezuela is suffering a complete meltdown across all sectors. The Venezuelan oil sector, which generates upwards to 95% of the country’s foreign currency revenues, is in a precarious state to say the least as oil output continues its downward trend. Interesting […]
BP, Pan American Eye Exporting Argentina Shale Gas As LNG Via Chile
(S&P Global Platts, 15.Nov.2018) — Pan American Energy, the second-biggest oil producer and third for gas in Argentina, is working with BP on potentially exporting LNG out of Chile, a project that could prove faster to get Vaca Muerta shale gas to market than building a liquefaction facility in Argentina. […]
BP Extends Contract With Joe Douglas In Trinidad By One Well
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 2.Nov.2018) — BP has extended its contract with the Joe Douglas in Trinidad by one well with an expected duration of 76 days. The extension includes one additional two-well option at then market rates, Rowan Companies plc announced in an official statement. *** #LatAmNRG
Air BP Nationalization In Bolivia “Technically” Not Finalized
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 14.Oct.2018) — Bolivia’s Hydrocarbon Minister Luis Alberto Sánchez, acknowledged that nationalization of Air BP, a subsidiary of British Petroleum, in charge of marketing jet fuel and airplane gasoline, wasn’t completed due to lawsuit filed by Aerosur. “We haven’t finalized the transfer of shares in Air […]
BP: Angelin Reaches Milestone
(BP, 12.Oct.2018) — The Angelin facility marked a major milestone on October 12, 2018 with the completion of the McDermott EPCIC scope called the Total Facility Handover. Other activities completed were the hydrotesting, cleaning, and drying of the pipeline, as well as tying in the final spool to the existing […]
Petrobras to Boost Oil Output in 2019, Cut Debt $10 Billion – CFO
(Reuters, Devika Krishna Kumar, Simon Webb, 17.Sep.2018) — Brazil’s state-run oil giant PetrĂłleo Brasileiro SA aims to raise output as much as 10 percent to around 2.3 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2019 and cut net debt by $10 billion (7.62 billion pounds), Chief Financial Officer Rafael Grisolia told […]
IEnova, BP Sign Contract For Liquid Fuels Terminal In Baja California, Mexico
(Sempra Energy, 11.Sep.2018) — Sempra Energy announced its Mexican subsidiary, Infraestructura EnergĂ©tica Nova, S.A.B. de C.V. (IEnova) signed a long-term contract with British Petroleum (BP) for the remaining 50 percent of the initial capacity of the proposed Baja Refinados liquid fuels marine terminal in Baja California, Mexico. Under the agreement, […]
Concerns Raised Over Contract Release Program in Mexico
(S&P Global, 6.Sep.2018) — Mexico gas market observers have expressed concern that a lack of liquidity and supply guarantees will complicate the final phase of Pemex’s natural gas contract release program, which is designed to allow the entry of new gas marketers. Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) last week approved […]
Trinidad Inks Gas Deal With Venezuela To Continue LNG Exports
(Bloomberg, Ryan Collins and Kelly Gilblom, 25.Aug.2018) — Trinidad and Tobago will continue to ship super-chilled natural gas all over the world, with a little help from Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro and Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley signed a deal Saturday where Trinidad will purchase gas from Venezuela’s […]
Major Petroleum Cos. Pay T&T $114.7 Bln during 2010-2016
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 20.Aug.2018) – Payments by major oil and gas companies to the government of the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago totaled $114.7 billion during 2010-2016. That’s according to figures posted by Strategic Energy Advisor Kevin Ramnarine, who is also the Former Energy Minster of Trinidad […]