(Chevron, 31.Jul.2020) — Argentina’s highest court unanimously rejected the plaintiffs’ final bid to enforce a fraudulent $9.5 billion Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron Corporation. This is the latest in a string of legal victories in Chevron’s global defense against the Ecuadorian judgment—found by U.S. courts to be the product of fraud, […]
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Ecuador Eyes Mining Investments Of $1.3bn
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Jul.2020) — Ecuador envisions mining exploration investments of $1.3bn through January 2022, according to comments from the country’s Mines Vice Minister Fernando L. Benalcázar. Benalcázar’s comments came during his participation in the “Digital Latin American Mining Summit” on 9 July, Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural […]
Guaido Team Favoring COP In Citgo Fight
(Argus, 19.Jun.2020) — Another senior Venezuelan opposition figure has resigned following the government’s leak of a strategy to favor ConocoPhillips in an escalating battle for Venezuelan state-owned PdV’s US refining unit Citgo. Jose Ignacio Hernandez, who held the title of special attorney general in opposition leader Juan Guaido’s US-backed exiled […]
PetroTal Provides Update On Financing Arrangements
(PetroTal, 7.May.2020) — PetroTal Corp. announces that the Northern Oil Pipeline (“ONP”) operated by Petroperu S.A. has been shut down by a public health directive from the Peruvian government, thereby resulting in PetroTal having to shut in the Bretana oil field as a result of storage capacity limitations. Additionally, PetroTal […]
Venezuela Makes Multimillion-dollar Payment To Retain Citgo
(Houston Business Journal, Olivia Pulsinelli, 28.Nov.2018) — Houston-based refiner Citgo Holding Inc. will remain owned by Venezuela’s state-run oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela SA, if PDVSA follows through with the terms of a settlement. According to multiple reports, the settlement will resolve an arbitration claim from Crystallex International Corp., a […]
$1.4 Billion Deal Allows Venezuela To Keep Citgo’s Three U.S. refineries
(Houston Chronicle, Sergio Chapa, 26.Nov.2018) — A payment on a $1.4 billion arbitration award to a Canadian gold mining company is allowing Venezuela to keep ownership of Citgo Petroleum’s three U.S. refineries — at least through January. The Venezuelan government recently paid Toronto-based Crystallex International Corp. $425 million as part […]
Ensign Moves Up Trinidad Bid Deadline
(Financial Post, 19.Nov.2018) — Ensign’s date change makes it more likely that it will emerge as the successful bidder for Trinidad, CIBC analyst says. Rising temperatures in the battle between two Calgary drilling companies for ownership of a third were matched by rising share prices for all three on Monday. […]
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 […]
Weatherford Reports Higher Activity Levels In Argentina and Mexico
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 29.Oct.2018) — Weatherford International plc reported Western Hemisphere 3Q:18 revenues of $762 million were down $7 million, or 1%, sequentially, and down $5 million, or 1%, year-over-year, the company reported in an official statement. Compared to the second quarter of 2018, revenues in Canada improved […]
Venezuela, Mexico Divert Crude To U.S. As Canadian Barrels Get Stuck
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, Collin Eaton, 26.Oct.2018) — Cash-strapped state-run oil companies in Mexico and Venezuela have begun diverting crude historically processed for domestic use and sending it to U.S. refiners now facing transportation constraints to secure similar grades from Canada, data shows. The situation reflects an unusual set of events, […]
Bondholders Raise Hopes Venezuela Will Pay Up On Due Debt
(Ft.com, Gideon Long, 25.Oct.2018) — In a month in which emerging market government bonds have been hammered by the prospect of US rate increases, geopolitical risk and fears of a US-China trade spat, one bond — in crisis-racked Venezuela of all places — has rallied to record highs. The 2020 […]
PDVSA Prepares To Make $949 Mln Payment On Citgo-Backed Bond
(Bloomberg, 24.Oct.2018) — Petroleos de Venezuela SA’s plan to make a $949 million bond payment would mark a rare exception for Nicolas Maduro’s regime as it tries to hold on to the crown jewel of its U.S. assets. Venezuela’s state-run oil company is preparing to make the coupon and partial […]
Engie And Caisse Said To Plan $9B Pipeline Bid
(Bloomberg, Cristiane Lucchesi, Francois Beaupuy, Scott Deveau, 15.Oct.2018) — French utility Engie SA and a Canadian pension fund plan to offer as much as $9 billion (34 billion reals) for Petrobras’s natural gas pipeline network, potentially a $1 billion boost from their initial bid, according to people with knowledge of […]
Guyana, Canadian Province Signing Oil And Gas Pact
(Stabroek News, 13.Oct.2018) — The Guyana government and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador will be signing a technical cooperation agreement on oil and gas in the coming week, when Georgetown will also be hosting a visit by a 50-odd member trade mission from the territory seeking partnerships with […]
Transparency in Bolivian Hydrocarbon Information Needed, Jubilee Foundation Says
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 3.Oct.2018) — Transparency in information is necessary in order for Bolivia and producing departments of the small Andean country to understand the full details related to natural gas and crude oil reserves by department and field, announced the Jubilee Foundation. Such important and timely information […]
Methane Fears Cloud Argentina’s Shale Oil And Gas Future
(Financial Times, Benedict Mander, 23.Sep.2018) — Green energy groups say huge shale oil and gas reserve is leaking greenhouse gases. Jorge Daniel Taillant used a $100,000 infrared camera this year to investigate whether oil and gas installations in Vaca Muerta were leaking toxic gases. The grainy black-and-white thermal images that […]
PetroTal Seeks Exploration Partner for the Osheki Prospect in Peru
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 13.Sep.2018) — PetroTal Corp. is seeking joint venture partners to drill the first exploration well by the fourth quarter 2019 or early 2020. “We are currently engaging potential joint venture partners to drill the exploration prospect and expect the full data room to be open […]
UNICEF Works on Developing Resilience in Caribbean Islands Affected by Hurricanes
(UNICEF Canada, 12.Sep.2018) — A year after two category 5 hurricanes caused destruction across parts of the Caribbean, most children in the affected countries are now back in school and have access to the services they need, thanks to the efforts of UNICEF and partners. In September 2017, hurricanes Irma […]
Frontera Receives Global Compact Awards from UN
(Frontera Energy Corporation, 7.Sep.2018) — Frontera Energy Corporation has been named a Canadian Sustainable Development Goals award winner for the second consecutive year by the Global Compact Network Canada, the Canadian network of the United Nations Global Compact. Frontera was awarded the SDG Leadership Award in the large organizations category, […]
Peru Approaching Lithium Discovery Announcement with Caution
(Efe, 6.Sep.2018) — Peru’s government is exercising caution after mining company Macusani Yellowcake announced in July that it had discovered the world’s largest lithium deposit, the energy and mines minister said Thursday. The company, a unit of Canada’s Plateau Energy Metals, estimated that the deposit in Peru’s Altiplano region holds […]
The Latest Episode in the Crystallex-Venezuela Saga
(Mining.com, Valentina Ruiz Leotaud, 29.Aug.2018) — State-owned Petróleos de Venezuela SA or PDVSA announced on Twitter that it filed an appeal requesting that a Delaware court vacate a decision made public on August 23 granting Canadian miner Crystallex the right to seize its U.S. assets. In its statement, the oil […]
Trinidad Imports 40% of Oil from Russia
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 27.Aug.2018) —Trinidad and Tobago is relying on Russia as its main source of imported crude oil. Between January and June 2018, the small twin-island country imported over 15 million barrels of crude oil from the [Petrotrin] refinery. Of that, 40% of the crude oil imports […]
Rosneft May Challenge Crystallex Claim To Citgo Shares
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 23.Aug.2018) — Rosneft has asked a U.S. federal court to establish “a robust appraisal and sale process” of Citgo shares following Canadian miner Crystallex’ win at court against the parent company of Citgo, PDVSA, Argus Media reports citing documents submitted by Rosneft to court. “Such a course […]
Venezuela Agrees to Pay $2 Bln Over Seizure of Oil Projects
(The New York Times, Clifford Krauss, 20.Aug.2018) – More than a decade ago, Venezuela seized several oil projects from the American oil company ConocoPhillips without compensation. Now, under pressure after ConocoPhillips carried out its own seizures, the Venezuelans are going to make amends. ConocoPhillips announced on Monday that the state […]
Frontera Confirms Discovery at Acorazado-1 Well in Colombia
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 19.Aug.2018) – Canada’s Frontera Energy Corporation confirmed the presence of hydrocarbons in the Mirador reservoir in the Acorazado-1 exploration well in Colombia. The well is located on the 100% owned and operated Llanos 25 block onshore Colombia. As a result, the well is being cased […]
Frontera to Plug, Abandon Delfin Sur-1 Exploration Well
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 18.Aug.2018) – Frontera Energy Corporation declared the Delfin Sur-1 exploration well offshore Peru non-commmercial. On August 12, 2018, the company completed drilling the well, located on the Z-1 block offshore. The well was drilled to a total measured depth of 7,228 feet in the Heath […]
Venezuelan Oil Assets to be Seized by Creditors
(Express, Simon Osborne, 16.Aug.2018) – Venezuela’s oil assets are being targeted by angry creditors after a US court granted a Canadian mining company permission to send in the bailiffs. Firms owed billions by the beleaguered South American country and its state-owned oil firm PDVSA are now lining up to make […]
Guyana to Become 5th Largest Oil Producer in LAC Region
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 15.Aug.2018) – If all goes off as planned, by 2025, Guyana will be the 5th largest oil producer in the Latin American and Caribbean region. That’s according to an analysis of data posted by Trading Economics, and extrapolation of estimates of Guyana’s future oil production, […]
Crystallex Cuts Others In Line for Citgo Assets
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 11.Aug.2018) – Crystallex seems to have cut in line while there are many others already in line for CITGO assets and value. What follows are comments published by Venezuelan oil analyst Francisco Monaldi in a series of tweets related to the legal battle over CITGO: […]
Crystallex Wins Right To Tap Citgo For Compensation
(OilPrice.com, Irina Slav, 10.Aug.2018) – Canadian gold miner Crystallex was ruled the winner in a long-running case against Venezuela, which it has sued for the forced nationalization of its assets by the Hugo Chavez government. A U.S. federal judge this week awarded the miner the right to approach Venezuela’s U.S. […]
Crystallex Court Win Against Venezuela Aided by Finding
(Reuters, Brian Ellsworth, 10.Aug.2018) – Crystallex’s victory in a legal battle with Venezuela that paves the way for it to collect a $1.4 billion award hinged on a finding that state oil company PDVSA is not separate from the Venezuelan government, court documents showed on Friday. The U.S. District Court […]
U.S. Judge Authorizes Seizure of Venezuela’s Citgo
(The Wall Street Journal, Andrew Scurria and Julie Wernau, 9.Aug.2018) – A U.S. federal judge authorized the seizure of Citgo Petroleum Corp. to satisfy a Venezuelan government debt, a ruling that could set off a scramble among Venezuela’s many unpaid creditors to wrest control of its only obviously seizable U.S. […]
Crystallex Can Go After Venezuela’s US Refineries
(Associated Press, 9.Aug.2018) – A Canadian gold mining company on Thursday won the right to go after Venezuela’s prized U.S.-based oil refineries and collect $1.4 billion it lost in a decade-old take-over by the late socialist President Hugo Chavez. Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark of the U.S. Federal District Court […]
Guyana Oil Find Quadruples FDI Flows
(Jamaica Gleaner, CMC, 8.Aug.2018) – Regional commission ECLAC is reporting that foreign direct investments, FDI, in Guyana increased to US$212 million last year in part as a result of the oil and gas sector preparing for First Oil. The flows nearly quadrupled relative to 2016 when foreign investments in the […]
Advantage Lithium Arranges $12 Mln Private Placement
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 18.Jul.2018) – Vancouver, British Columbia-based Advantage Lithium Corp. arranged a private placement of 15,585,000 common shares of Advantage Lithium at a price of $0.77 per Common Share for gross proceeds of $12,000,450. “We are pleased to be adding prominent institutional investors to our shareholder registry […]
Plateau Energy Peru Unit Finds Lithium Resources
(Reuters, 16.Jul.2018) – Canadian miner Plateau Energy Metals Inc’s Peru unit Macusani Yellowcake S.A.C. said on Monday it has found 2.5 million tonnes of high-grade lithium resources and 124 million pounds of uranium resources in its Falchani hard rock deposit in the region Puno. Ulises Solis, general manager of the […]
Costa Rica to Use Plastics for Roads
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 10.Jul.2018) – A small Central American country will be considered a pioneer in the region with use of a type of “eco-friendly asphalt” that gives a new life to plastics. This week the Costa Rican government announced the country would begin to pave streets with […]
Frontera to Spud Delfin Sur-1 Offshore Peru
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 30.Jun.2018) – Canada’s Frontera Energy Corporation announced commencement of mobilization of the Petrex-10 drilling offshore Peru. Drilling of the Delfin Sur-1 exploration well is expected to begin in July 2018, the company announced in an official statement. ***
Frontera Closes $350 Mln Notes Offering
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 25.Jun.2018) – The Canadian company plans to use majority of proceeds to repurchase notes due in 2021. Frontera Energy Corporation completed the offering of $350 million in senior unsecured notes due 2023 at a coupon rate of 9.70% pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S […]
Frontera Aims to Lower Costs in Colombia
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 22.Jun.2018) – Frontera Energy Corporation aims to lower certain costs in Colombia. The Canadian company continues with efforts to reduce its transportation costs, including those associated to the Bicentenario pipeline, which has been continuously affected by attacks directed at the Caño Limon pipeline, the company […]
G20 Energy Heads Gather in Argentina
(Xinhua, 14.Jun.2018) – Energy ministers from G20 countries met here on Thursday to discuss transitioning to renewable energy and other alternative green energy. The gathering in Argentina’s southwestern city of Bariloche is part of the fourth ministerial meeting of the G20 group of developed and emerging economies, which Argentina currently […]
Frontera Plows Forward in Colombia
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Jun.2018) – Canada’s Frontera Energy Corporation continues its active drilling program in Colombia. The company had six (6) drilling rigs operating continuously in the first two months of the second quarter of 2018, of which three (3) were active in the Quifa heavy oil area, […]
Frontera Announces Details Of Share Split
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Jun.2018) – The offer will consist of a two-for-one share split of the company’s issued and outstanding common shares. The record date of the Share Split will be June 21, 2018 at the close of business, announced Frontera Energy Corporation in an official statement. The […]
Force Majeure Affects NorPeruano Pipeline
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 3.Jun.2018) – Canada’s Frontera Energy Corporation announced it was notified by Petroperu S.A. of a force majeure event affecting a portion of the NorPeruano pipeline following the identification of oil traces in the Pastaza River, an area outside Block 192. Force majeure will begin on […]
Brookfield Buys Remaining Interest in Gas Natural Fenosa
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 29.May.2018) ‐- Spain’s Gas Natural Fenosa is finally exiting Colombia. The company sold 15.46 million shares, representing the remaining 41.89% interest in gas distributor Gas Natural ESP, to Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management, which had officially launched a takeover bid, announced the daily La Republica, citing […]
Canacol Announces Timing of 2018 Shareholders Meeting
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 26.May.2018) – Canacol Energy Ltd., the exploration and production company with operations focused in Colombia, announced its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will be held on July 3, 2018, in Calgary, Canada. Canacol’s common stock trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the OTCQX in the […]
Lawsuits Push Venezuela to Brink of Default
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 17.Feb.2017) – A Paris Court of Appeal’s rejection of an annulment from Venezuela will force the cash-strapped South American country to pay $730 million to Canada’s Gold Reserve Inc. This lawsuit and others pending in international courts, should they be rendered with final decision against […]
Paris Court Favors with Gold Reserve
(Gold Reserve Inc., 7.Feb.2017) – Gold Reserve Inc. announced that on February 7, 2017, the Paris Court of Appeal rejected all of Venezuela’s arguments and issued a judgment dismissing the annulment applications filed by Venezuela pending before the French courts in relation to the arbitral award dated September 22, 2014 […]
Gran Tierra Common Stock Offering
(Gran Tierra Energy Inc., 29.Nov.2016) – Gran Tierra Energy Inc. closed the previously announced underwritten public offering of shares of its common stock. The company sold 43,335,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of US$3 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds to the company of approximately […]
President Obama Insists Venezuela Respect Democratic Process
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 25.Jun.2016) – U.S. President Barack Obama insists the Venezuelan government respect the democratic process regarding calls for a recall referendum against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, reported the daily El Universal. “Political prisoners should be freed,” said Obama during a speech in Ottawa, Canada. ***