Texaco Retrofitting Stations With Electric Chargers
(Jamaica Observer, Karena Bennett, 24.Feb.2019) — After 100 years of operating Texaco gas stations in Jamaica, GB Energy says it is on track to become the dominant player in the...
Jamaica To Take Over Venezuela’s 49% Stake In Petrojam
(Jamaica Observer, 9.Jan.2019) — The Government of Jamaica has announced that it will take legislative action for ownership of the 49 per cent share in the local oil refinery, PetroJam,...
Don’t Blame Renewables, JPS Told
(Jamaica Observer, Garfield Myers, 24.Dec.2018) — A leading executive in the renewable energy sector is urging electricity provider Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to stay focused on improving efficiency and...
Jamaica Leads Caribbean In Renewable Energy
(Jamaica Gleaner, 11.Dec.2018) — Jamaica is now developing its renewable-energy potential at a leading pace among its Caribbean neighbours with support from private investment, says David Delaire, managing director, Germany-based...
JLP Calls For Paulwell’s Resignation Over Petrojam Saga
(Loop News, 11.Dec.2018) — The deepening Petrojam scandal has now seen the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) calling for the resignation or firing of Opposition Spokesman on Energy, Phillip Paulwell....
Cuba Seeks Foreign Partners For Oil Exploration
(Xinhua, 9.Dec.2018) — Cuba’s government will open a number of potentially oil-rich blocks to international bidding, in a bid to boost oil output,according to state-owned oil firm Cuba Oil Union...
Wigton Windfarm To List On Jamaica Stock Exchange
(JIS, 3.Dec.2018) — The Wigton Windfarm (WWF) initial public offering (IPO) on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) is expected for March 2019. General Manager of Public-Private Partnerships and Privatisation Services...
DeNovo Delivers Initial Gas From Iguana Field Offshore Trinidad
(DeNovo Energy, 21.Nov.2018) — DeNovo Energy Limited, a subsidiary of the Proman Group, announced the first commercial supply of gas from the Iguana Field in Block 1(a), which will deliver...
Responding To Disruptive Trends In Energy
(Jamaica Observer, 19.Nov.2018) — Energy storage, distributed energy, renewables and electric vehicles powered by a smart grid are among the main disruptive trends in the global energy sector. Advances in...
France’s Total Sets Up Production Hub In Jamaica
(Jamaica Observer, Karena Bennett, 18.Nov.2018) — Months after announcing plans to expand operations in Jamaica, Total Jamaica has set up a production hub on the island from which it is...
Trinidad Government Defends Guarantee To Petrotrin
(CMC, 16.Nov.2018) — The Trinidad and Tobago government Wednesday said it provided guarantees of more than US$400 million to the cash-strapped oil company, Petrotrin, to meet its financial and other...
Venezuela Pushing For Dragon Gas In 18 Months
(Trinidad Express, 15.Nov.2018) — Venezuela’s minister of energy, Manuel Quevedo, said yesterday that his country’s state-owned oil giant PDVSA expects to start sending natural gas to Trinidad from the Dragon...
German Energy Firm To Launch IPO In Jamaica
(Jamaica Gleaner, Neville Graham, 14.Nov.2018) — A foreign investor in Jamaica's largest solar farm under construction in Westmoreland will be floating shares on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, via an initial...
JPS Promises Improved Power Supply After $116 Million Grid Investment
(Jamaica Gleaner,11.Nov.2018) — The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is promising a more reliable power supply with an improved and more reliable grid in which it has invested $116 million...
Venezuela Gov’t Says Sabotage To Blame For Electric Outages In Margarita
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 10.Nov.2018) — An explosion that occurred along a segment of the Northeast Gas Pipeline José Francisco Bermúdez, and which caused interruptions in electricity service in...
Trinidad Government Announces New Company For Refinery Assets
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 18.Oct.2018) The government has announced a new state company, Guaracara Refining Company, into which the assets of the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery will be placed. The...
Trinidad Government Defends Decision To Close Petrotrin
(CMC, 3.Oct.2018) — The Trinidad and Tobago government Monday reiterated its position that it was necessary to close down the refinery of the state-owned oil company, Petrotrin, insisting that the...
Barbados Hunting New Suppliers Following Closure of Petrotrin Refinery
(Jamaica Gleaner, 14.Sep.2018) — Barbados says it is holding discussions with a number of suppliers to replace the energy arrangements it had with oil refinery Petrotrin. The refinery, based in...
UNICEF Works on Developing Resilience in Caribbean Islands Affected by Hurricanes
[caption id="attachment_3669" align="alignnone" width="1536"] 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...
Tanker Backlog Builds Again in Venezuela
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 6.Sep.2018) — Crude exports by Venezuela’s PDVSA have slowed after a tanker collision at its main port last month disrupted operations, adding to a backlog of vessels...
An Iconic Legacy Petrotrin – Not Too Big To Fail
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Melanie Waithe, 5.Sep.2018) — Petrotrin has been in operation for over 97 years, and now our legacy refinery as we know it, will close. Its transition...
Petrotrin Financials, Details About Pointe-a-Pierre Refinery
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 29.Aug.2018) — It’s official: Petrotrin or the Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited will cease to operate its lone refinery located at Pointe-a-Pierre. What...
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...
Venezuela Gas Price Deal Competitive—Khan
(Trinidad Guardian, 27.Aug.2018) — Government is giving no details on the pricing structure this country will pay for gas from the Dragon Field under the agreement signed with Venezuela on...
Dragon Gas Deal May Be ‘Political Gimmicks’
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Richardson Dhalai, 26.Aug.2018) — The Dragon gas deal may be “public relations and political gimmicks” which may not benefit TT. That’s the view of Pointe-a-Pierre MP...
Five Things About T&T, Venezuela’s Dragon Gas Deal
(Loop News, 26.Aug.2018) — On August 25, 2018, an historic agreement was made between Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for access the Venezuela's Dragon Field....
PDVSA, Citgo Evaluating Aruba Gas Plan
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Aug.2018) — Venezuela is evaluating a plan to implement a natural gas project with Aruba. Officials from Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA, and its refining...
Aruba’s San Nicolás Refinery to Take Faja Oil
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Aug.2018) — Valero’s old Aruba refinery will be revitalized as an upgrader. PDVSA announced the San Nicolás Refinery located in Aruba will be converted into...
MEEI Updates on Status of Trinidad Energy Infrastructure
(MEEI, 24.Aug.2018) — The Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI) has been monitoring the impacts of the 6.9 magnitude earthquake which occurred on Tuesday 21st August, 2018 at 5:31...
Dragon Gas Deal Finalised Tomorrow
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 21.Aug.2018) – After nearly two years of negotiations between this country and Venezuela the deal that will allow TT to process gas from the...
Panama, US To Sign Pact To Expand Access To LNG
(Reuters, David Lawder, 17.Aug.2018) – Panama on Friday will sign an agreement with the U.S. Treasury and Energy departments aimed at paving the way for more private investment to expand...
Shell Oil Traders Trade One Caribbean Paradise For Another
(Reuters, Julia Payne, 17.Aug.2018) – Royal Dutch Shell's oil traders in the Caribbean island of Barbados are getting ready for a tough gig – they’re being moved to the Bahamas...
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....
Webinar Panelist Discuss All Things Guyana
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 15.Aug.2018) – The three promised to return to discuss all things Guyana again in six months as the small South American country eyes first oil...
Venezuela Petrol Prices Need to Rise to Stop Smuggling
(Reuters, Deisy Buitrago and Brian Ellsworth, 14.Aug.2018) – Venezuela’s heavily subsidised domestic gasoline prices should rise to international levels to avoid billions of dollars in annual losses due to fuel...
Whither Guyana?
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 14.Aug.2018) – On a per capita basis, Guyana is already probably the most resource-rich country on the planet, but is still the poorest English-speaking...
SeaOne Caribbean Fuel Project Recognized as Strategic
(SeaOne Caribbean, 13.Aug.2018) – SeaOne Caribbean, LLC, which is developing the Caribbean and Central American Fuels Supply Project for natural gas and natural gas liquid (NGLs) delivery, announced that CG/LA...
Jamaica Enters New Programme with Energy Agency
(Jamaica Gleaner, McPherse Thompson, 9.Aug.2018) – Jamaica signed a new agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, which will see the application of atomic energy in agriculture and industry...
Caribbean Plugs into Electric-Car Revolution
(Trinidad Express, Sophie Hares, 7.Aug.2018) – With her foot down to show off the acceleration of the zippy electric car, Joanna Edghill spins around the car park before plugging the...
Shell calls in a BIG RIG
(Trinidad Express, Aleem Khan, 7.Aug.2018) – More hints that major discovery on the horizon. Offshore Trinidad was one of two sites in the world where oil and gas service provider...
BPTT Announces Angelin Arrival in Trinidad
(BPTT, 2.Aug.2018) – BP Trinidad and Tobago announced its Angelin platform has arrived in T&T. Angelin, which will be BPTT’s 15th offshore platform, was fabricated in Altamira, Mexico. The topside...
Wheatley Falls: Latest Casualty of Energy Scandal
(Jamaica Gleaner, Edmond Campbell, 31.Jul.2018) – The ongoing scandal that began at the state-owned oil refinery Petrojam has claimed its latest casualty with the resignation yesterday of Andrew Wheatley as...
10MW LNG Power Plant for The Nest
(Jamaica Gleaner, Steven Jackson, 27.Jul.2018) – A tripartite deal is in the works for the development of a power plant at CB Group's expansive property and future home called The...
Petrotrin Board, Union Disagree to Agree
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 26.Jul.2018) – The board of Petrotrin has outlined a plan to reorganise and restructure the state oil company in a bid to make it...
Atlantic Empowers Employees for Process Safety
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 26.Jul.2018) – Atlantic CEO Dr Philip Mshelbila and BP’s vice president Group Process Safety Central Rob DiValerio have highlighted the central role of employees...
Colombia Could Create New Oil Bid System
[caption id="attachment_2617" align="alignnone" width="990"] Orlando Velandia, head of Colombia's National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), speaks to Reuters in Bogota, Colombia July 23, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Julio Martinez[/caption] (Reuters, Luis Jaime Acosta, 24.Jul.2018)...
PetroTrin Achieves $85.6 Mln Profit
(Trinidad Guardian, 19.Jul.2018) – Petrotrin chairman Wilfred Espinet said cost reduction initiatives undertaken by the interim executive team installed at the energy company resulted in a second quarter profit after...
Barbados to Establish New Renewable Energy Regime
(Barbados Today, Marlon Madden, 17.Jul.2018) – Within another month producers of electricity from renewable energy sources should have an idea of the new rate they will be paid for selling...
Venezuela Claims It Plans To Raise Oil Production
(OilPrice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 17.Jul.2018) – Venezuela’s Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo has discussed plans with state-held oil company PDVSA to raise the country’s crude oil production in the second half of...
Why Is Venezuela Still Sending Subsidized Oil To Cuba?
(OilPrice.com, Haley Zaremba, 17.Jul.2018) – In the past, oil has accounted for 96 percent of Venezuela's exports and over 40 percent of government revenues. Now, as the nation’s economy continues...
NGC loses SIS challenge in Privy Council
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 16.Jul.2018) – State-owned National Gas Company has lost an appeal in its multi-million claim against Super Industrial Services (SIS) and another company as the Privy Council...
Guyana’s Doors Open for Caricom Investors
(CMC, 13.Jul.2018) – President David Granger has extended an invitation to Caricom member states to invest in the oil sector and other sectors of Guyana. Speaking on the sidelines of...
EIA Publishes Updated Venezuela Country Report
(EIA, 21.Jun.2018) – Venezuela holds the largest oil reserves in the world, in large part because of the heavy oil reserves in the Orinoco Oil Basin. In addition to oil...
Jamaica Encouraged by 3D Oil, Gas Surveys
(Amsterdam News, Bert Wilkinson, 24.May.2018) – Jamaica is fancying its chances of becoming the latest Caribbean Community nation after Guyana to find commercial quantities of oil and gas in the...
ECLAC Ssays Venezuela’s Economic Activity to Fall 8.5% in 2018
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.May.2018) – The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, also known as ECLAC or CEPAL by its Spanish acronym, projects economic...
Venezuela Never Closed Its Doors on T&T Nationals: Lawmaker Says
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 30.Apr.2018) – Venezuelan lawmaker José Brito wrote in a Twitter post that the OPEC country never closed its doors to the hundreds of Trinidadian nationals...
Barbados: Energy Boost
(Barbados Today, Luova Labs, 20.Feb.2018) – Government’s spokesman on energy Senator Darcy Boyce has said that independent producers of renewable energy would likely be able to supply more energy to...
The Caribbean Poised To Become Major Oil Region
(OilPrice.com, Haley Zaremba, 22.Aug.2017) – In the future, we may be hearing about the Caribbean a whole lot more when talking about oil and gas. Previously, the area was virtually...
Mariscal Sucre Has 600 MMcf/d Production Potential
(Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Feb.2017) – Venezuela’s Mariscal Sucre natural gas project offshore has a production potential of 600 million cubic feet per day. The company plans to use...
PetroCaribe Evaluates Creation of JV Company to Distribute Gas
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.May.2016) — PetroCaribe member countries evaluated the creation of a joint-venture company that would distribute Venezuelan gas to them, reported Venezuela's news agency AVN, citing...
Venezuela, Trinidad Sign Energy-Related Deals
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 23.May.2016) – Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Keith Rowley were both present during an energy-related signing ceremony in Port...
MEO Australia Signs Deal for Cuba Block 9
(MEO Australia Ltd., 3.Sep.2015) – MEO Australia Limited executed the Cuba Block 9 Production Sharing Contract (PSC) with the national oil company Cuba Petroleo Union (CUPET) in a ceremony in...
Ecopetrol Announces Caribbean Deepwater Find
(Ecopetrol S.A., 28.Jul.2015) – Ecopetrol informs that at a depth of 3720 meters, the Kronos-1 well verified the presence of hydrocarbons in ultra-deepwater of Colombian south Caribbean area. This discovery...
Venezuela Opening Ops to Nicaragua, Caribbean
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 9.Mar.2015) – “We are advancing with Nicaragua and opening up possibilities to the rest of the Caribbean,” said Venezuela's Oil Minister Asdrubal Chavez on state...
Maduro Says Caribbean Must be Together
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 6.Mar.2015) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro says the Caribbean region has to always be together. “Petrocaribe is our road of respect, solidarity, brotherhood, the union...
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 El Universal, citing Honduras' Vice...
Q&A with Oil Outlook President Carl Larry
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 9.Aug.2013) – Oil Outlook President Carl Larry spoke with Energy Analytics Institute in a brief interview from Houston, Texas. What follows are excerpts from...
Q&A with Tissot Associate’s Roger Tissot
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 19.Jul.2013) – Tissot Associates Consultant Roger Tissot spoke with Energy Analytics Institute in a brief interview from Canada. What follows are excerpts from the...