(Loop, 8.Mar.2023) — Energy Minister Stuart Young says he has had successful discussions at CERAWeek in Houston where a number of important engagements with key stakeholders in the energy industry at...
(Chevron, 28.Feb.2023) — At its annual investor meeting, Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) reported on its progress to leverage its strengths to safely deliver lower carbon energy to a growing world....
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Feb.2023) — "Despite bumper profits, the peer group is guiding towards $118bn in total investment in 2023, up just 4% on last year. This reflects the priorities...
(Reuters, 30.Jan.2023) — Venezuela's state oil firm PDVSA is toughening terms for buyers after a month-long halt to most exports of crude and fuel, demanding prepayment ahead of loadings in...
(Welligence Energy Analytics, 25.Jan.2023) — The U.S. Department of the Treasury has granted a license to the government of T&T to receive gas from the multi-Tcf offshore Dragon gas field in Venezuela....
(Reuters, 24.Jan.2023) — The U.S. Treasury Department has granted a license to Trinidad and Tobago to develop a major gas field located in Venezuelan territorial waters, a senior Biden administration...
(LatAm Investor, 20.Jan.2023) — Most international investors keep clear of Argentina. It has an unenviable record of default and expropriations while successive governments seem unable to manage the country’s incredible...
(Reuters, 30.Dec.2022) — U.S. oil company Chevron Corp (CVX.N) is sending two oil tankers to Venezuela, one of which will load the first cargo of crude destined for the United States in...
(Investor’s Business Day, 29.Dec.2022) — U.S. diesel prices hit all time highs in 2022 as demand surged and supplies of the critical heating and transportation fuel tightened. However, analysts expect...
(Chevron, 7.Dec.2022) — Chevron Corporation today announced 2023 organic capital expenditure budgets of $14bn for consolidated subsidiaries (capex) and $3bn for equity affiliates (affiliate capex), which total near the high...
(Forbes, 2.Dec.2022) — A video that state-owned oil giant Petróleos de Venezuela posted to its Twitter feed this week shows a jovial meeting between Oil Minister Tarek El Aissami and...
(Reuters, 1.Dec.2022) — Chevron Corp is unlikely to add investment in Venezuela in the next six months despite a recent U.S. license to allow it to expand its operations in...
(Welligence, 1.Dec.2022) — Chevron Corporation has recently secured a license to renew limited operations within the country and source critical inputs necessary for processing crude, Welligence announced 1 December 2022...
(FT.com, 30.Nov.2022) — The ports of the US Gulf of Mexico coast will soon resume shipments that have been absent for more than three years: tankers full of Venezuela’s heavy...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Nov.2022) — Energy briefs as well as others related to finance and politics during November 2022 including Brazilian oil giant Petrobras launching its strategic plan for 2023-27;...
(AFP, 30.Nov.2022) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said the easing of an oil embargo on his country by the United States was not enough, and called Wednesday for the total...
(Al Jazeera, 26.Nov.2022) — The Biden administration on Saturday eased some oil sanctions on Venezuela after the government of Nicolas Maduro and the opposition signed a broad ‘social accord’ to...
(Chevron, 17.Nov.2022) — Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), announced today it signed a definitive agreement to acquire full ownership of Beyond6, LLC (B6) and its...
(Rystad, 24.Oct.2022) — As the supply side of the oil business continues to tighten globally, calls within the US to ease sanctions on what was once one of Latin America’s...
(Chevron, 26.Sep.2022)— Chevron New Energies International Pte, Ltd., and Mitsui Oil Exploration Co., Ltd (MOECO) announced the signing of a Joint Collaboration Agreement to explore the technical and commercial feasibility...
(Chevron, 21.Sep.2022) — Air Liquide, Chevron, Keppel Infrastructure and PetroChina (1) signed a memorandum of understanding to form a consortium which will aim to evaluate and advance the development of...
(Reuters, 1.Sep.2022) — Chevron Corp has asked the U.S. government to expand its license to operate in Venezuela after the oil major agreed with state-run PDVSA to revamp joint ventures in the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Jul.2022) — Energy briefs including US Vice President Kamala Harris speaking with Guyana's President Mohamed Irfaan Ali about energy and other issues; the board of directors of...
(AP, 27.Jun.2022) — Senior U.S. government officials have quietly traveled to Caracas in the latest bid to bring home detained Americans and rebuild relations with the South American oil giant...
(Cheniere Energy, 22.Jun.2022) — Cheniere Energy, Inc. (NYSE American: LNG) announced that two of its subsidiaries, Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC (“SPL”) and Cheniere Marketing, LLC, have each entered into long-term...
(QatarEnergy, 8.Jun.2022) — QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company (CPChem) have announced awarding the early site works contract for the Ras Laffan Petrochemical Project (RLPP), marking the commencement of execution...
(FT, 2.Jun.2022) — Can the EU’s ban this week on most Russian oil imports breathe new life into a dead cow in Patagonia? Argentina’s president Alberto Fernández thinks so. He...
(Chevron, 25.May.2022) — Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) provided an overview of the company’s business plans and operations at its annual stockholders meeting. “We are focused on delivering higher returns, lower carbon...
(Reuters, 24.May.2022) — The U.S. Treasury Department is getting ready to renew in the coming days Chevron Corp's license to operate in Venezuela, but likely without the greatly expanded terms...
(Chevron, 17.May.2022) — Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) sanctioned the Ballymore project in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. The project, with a design capacity of 75,000 barrels of crude oil...
(AP, 17.May.2022) — The United States government is moving to ease a few economic sanctions on Venezuela in a gesture meant to encourage resumed negotiations between the US-backed opposition and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.May.2022) — Energy briefs including Brazil’s state oil giant Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) reporting earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $15.1bn in 1Q:22; energy and...
(Talos, 4.May.2022) — Talos Energy Inc. (NYSE: TALO) announced its operational and financial results for the first quarter of 2022 and the increase of its borrowing base under the company's reserves-based...
(Chevron, 29.Apr.2022) — Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) reported earnings of $6.3bn ($3.22 per share - diluted) for first quarter 2022, compared with $1.4bn ($0.72 per share - diluted) in first...
(Staatsolie, 27.Apr.2022) — Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V. expanding their cooperation in shallow offshore Suriname. A production sharing contract for offshore Block 7 was signed for this purpose on 26 April...
(Gizmodo, 26.Apr.2022) — After 993 days, Steven Donziger is finally free. On Monday, the embattled lawyer, who has been targeted by Chevron for years in a Kafka-esque court struggle, finished...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Apr.2022) — Venezuela’s oil production is expected to gradually rise to as much as 1. 3 million barrels per day by 2028, according details revealed by Wood...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Apr.2022) — Energy briefs including Vista Oil & Gas, S.A.B. de C.V. planning to have an extraordinary shareholders' meeting on 26 April 2022; Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Dario...
(Reuters, 21.Apr.2022) — Some U.S. oilfield firms whose Venezuelan operations were frozen by sanctions are joining an appeal to Washington for authorizations to restart oil drilling in the South American...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Apr.2022) — Energy briefs including Argentina granting the El Trapial Este hydrocarbon concession to Chevron; and EP PetroEcuador reporting average production of 372,609 b/d in 2021. LATIN...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including ExxonMobil Angola celebrating an important milestone for the Kizomba A FPSO in its achieving its 1000th crude offload; Petrobras filing its Form...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Mar.2022) — Venezuela's petroleum sector is again front center on Washington’s radar due to the OPEC country's massive oil reserves, production potential and proximity after the US...
(WSJ, 22.Mar.2022) — For months, Biden administration officials snubbed top executives and lobbyists for Chevron Corp. who had pressed officials in Washington to ease sanctions so the company could boost production in Venezuela,...
(The Gleaner, 20.Mar.2022) — A day after Russia invaded Ukraine, sending oil prices skyrocketing to heights not seen since 2014, McCarthy Marie, a former University of the West Indies economist,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Mar.2022) — Energy briefs including Argentina Lithium & Energy Corp. (TSXV: LIT) (FSE: OAY3) (OTC: PNXLF) receiving TSX Venture Exchange approval of a definitive agreement with vendors; and...
(Chevron, 1.Dec.2021) — Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) announced a 2022 organic capital and exploratory spending program of $15bn, at the low end of its $15bn to $17bn guidance range and up more than 20%...
(S&P Global Platts, 30.Nov.2021) — Oil production by Venezuela's state PDVSA and its foreign partners rose to 660,000 b/d in November, up 40,000 b/d from October, Nov. 30 PDVSA production...
(Staatsolie, 13.Oct.2021) — By signing the Production Sharing Contract (PSC), Staatsolie grants Chevron rights for exploration, development and production in the offshore area, while Staatsolie retains the right to a...
(Shell, 26.Jul.2021) — Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, announces the final investment decision (FID) for Whale, a deep-water development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico...
(Chevron, 1.Jul.2021) — Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Chevron Australia Pty Ltd. as operator and the Gorgon joint venture participants will proceed with the approximately...
(S&P Global, 29.Jun.2021) — In the second half of the year, Venezuela's state-owned PDVSA will restart the drilling of oil wells while intensifying work to open 3,700 shuttered wells and...
(Bloomberg, 21.Jun.2021) — In Venezuela, waiting in line at a gas station -- sometimes for days -- has become so routine that it’s hard to imagine life without it. But...
(Woodmac, 10.Jun.2021) — Pressures around climate change and the energy transition are having an impact, says Wood Mackenzie Vice-Chair, Americas, Ed Crooks. The events of May 26, 2021 look like...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 2.Jun.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: EP PetroEcuador generating $768mn thru ten tenders of Oriente and Napo crude oil between January...
(Reuters, 1.Jun.2021) — Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA is turning to local partners as it seeks to plug the gap left by Western companies in the OPEC nation's oil sector,...
(Talos, 13.Apr.2021) — Talos Energy Inc., along with affiliates of bp plc and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (collectively, the "Co-Owners") today announced successful drilling results from the Puma West exploration project...
(Bloomberg, 24.Mar.2021) — The oil tankers docking at the refinery in Baytown, Texas, look exactly like many others plying the waters of the Houston Ship Channel. But stashed inside their...
(Chevron, 29.Jan.2021) — Chevron Corporation reported a loss of $665mn ($(0.33)/share - diluted) for fourth quarter 2020, compared with a loss of $6.6bn ($(3.51)/share - diluted) in fourth quarter 2019....
(Reuters, 26.Jan.2021) — Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA’s inventories of its main export crude grade dipped this week to their lowest levels since late November, internal company documents seen by...
(Bloomberg, 15.Dec.2020) — Tropical rains have washed away most outward traces of the oil spill that ravaged Rio Seco this fall. But the fishing village in the shadow of Venezuela’s...
(Argus, 14.Dec.2020) — Washington's failure in the past two years to force regime change in Caracas by means of severe sanctions gives the incoming US administration of president-elect Joe Biden...
(Argus, 11.Aug.2020) — Nigeria's full compliance to the OPEC+ deal hangs on a key oil grade being treated as a condensate. Since OPEC+ allowed ultra-light oil to be exempt from...
(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...
(Chevron, 31.Jul.2020) — Chevron Corporation reported a loss of $8.3 billion ($(4.44) per share - diluted) for second quarter 2020, compared with earnings of $4.3 billion ($2.27 per share -...
(Reuters, 28.Jul.2020) — Chevron Corp expects to restart Train 2 of its Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Australia in early September after completing repairs, a company spokesman said...
(Sasol, 1.Jul.2020) — Sasol and Chevron have signed an agreement that will result in Sasol selling its indirect beneficial interest in the Escravos GTL (EGTL) plant in Nigeria to Chevron....
(S&P Global Platts, 26.Jun.2020) — Argentina has extended a 99-day-old economic lockdown for three more weeks to try to contain a surge in coronavirus cases, including by tightening restrictions on...
(Bloomberg, 20.Jun.2020) — Oil revenue, the financial lifeline of Venezuela, is quickly drying up, adding to the growing instability of Nicolas Maduro’s embattled regime. Crude exports that once accounted for...
(Argus, 3.Jun.2020) — Suriname is edging closer to a change of government that could pave the way for expanded offshore oil exploration. The South American country is hoping to emulate...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.May.2020) — Korean Ambassador Jang Myung-soo visited the Loma Campana field, where production comes from the Vaca Muerta formation, together with personnel from state controlled YPF, as...
(Upstream, 1.May.2020) — Argentine oil company YPF has appointed industry veteran Sergio Affronti as chief executive, replacing Daniel Gonzalez, amid headwinds from the coronavirus pandemic and the collapse in oil...
(Oilprice.com, 23.Apr.2020) — On Tuesday, the Trump administration told the last remaining American oil companies in Venezuela that they had until December to wind down operations in the country. The...
(Reuters, 22.Apr.2020) — Chevron Corp has been banned from drilling or transporting oil in Venezuela and its assets there are “mothballed” as the Trump administration cracks down on money going...
(Bloomberg, 21.Apr.2020) — Chevron Corp. will be forced to effectively wind down its operations in Venezuela, dealing the Maduro regime’s crumbling oil industry another blow as U.S. President Donald Trump...
(AP, 21.Apr.2020) — The Trump administration on Tuesday ordered Chevron Corp. to “wind down” operations in Venezuela by Dec. 1, barring the California-based oil giant in the meantime from drilling...
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