(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Aug.2020) — An oil spill said to have occurred at El Palito refinery, owned and operated by Venezuela’s state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), has reportedly […]
Tag: Caribbean
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
(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 […]
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
(Reuters, Luis Jaime Acosta, 24.Jul.2018) – Colombia is preparing changes to its bidding process for oil areas in an effort to increase investment and find new reserves, the head of […]
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 […]