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Petrobras on Commercial Strategy for Diesel and Gasoline
(Petrobras, 16.May.2023) — Petrobras informs that its Executive Board approved yesterday, 15 May 2023, the commercial strategy to define Petrobras’ diesel and gasoline prices, replacing [more…]
ExxonMobil Moves Forward with Largest Renewable Diesel Facility in Canada
(ExxonMobil, 26.Jan.2023) — ExxonMobil announced its majority-owned affiliate, Imperial Oil Ltd, will invest about $560mn to move forward with construction of the largest renewable diesel [more…]
Diesel Prices in 2023? Don’t Expect Much Relief
(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 [more…]
PDVSA Extends Diesel Sales in Dollars, Cutting Subsidy
(Reuters, 30.May.2022) — Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA has ordered over a hundred stations to begin selling diesel in dollars, reducing a subsidy that had allowed truckers [more…]
YPF Taking Steps to Provide Diesel to Farmers Amid Shortage Concerns
(S&P Global, 30.Mar.2022) — YPF, the biggest oil producer and refiner in Argentina, said late March 29 that it is taking steps to meet farmers’ [more…]
Petrobras On Record S-10 Diesel Sales
(Petrobras, 13.May.2021) — Petrobras reports that in April it registered total diesel sales of around 824,000 bpd, representing 59% growth in comparison with sales in [more…]
Petrobras Reports Rise In S-10 Diesel Sales
(Petrobras, 1.Apr.2021) — Petrobras informs that in March it recorded total diesel sales in the amount of 791 thousand bpd, representing growths of 35% and [more…]
LatAm Briefs: Ambar Eyes Bolivian Gas, PDVSA Shuts Cardón Refinery
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Mar.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean regions Bolivia and Venezuela including Ambar executives seeking a deal for piped [more…]
YPFB To Boost Fuel Supplies For “Todos Santos” Weekend
(Energy Analytics Institute, 31.Oct.2020) — Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YFB) announced plans to boost fuel volumes to supply the general population over the weekend and [more…]
Fuel Shortages Persist Across Venezuela
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Oct.2020) — Venezuela continues to suffer from severe shortages of fuel from gasoline to diesel and across the entire country despite the [more…]
Petrobras Reports Record S-10 Diesel Production, Sales
(Petrobras, 7.Oct.2020) — Petrobras reports that in September, for the fourth month in a row, it surpassed the record production of S-10 low sulfur diesel, [more…]
ANP To Temporary Reduce Biodiesel Mixture To 11%
(Energy Analytics Institute, 7.Oct.2020) — The ANP Collegiate Board approved on 7 October 2020 the exceptional and temporary reduction of the mandatory mixture of biodiesel-to-diesel [more…]
Brazil Updates Biodiesel Auction Details
(Energy Analytics Institute, 7.Oct.2020) — An updated schedule for the 76th Biodiesel Auction has been published on the auction page on the website of Brazil’s [more…]
Petrobras Reports Record S-10 Diesel, LPG Production
(Petrobras, 9.Sep.2020) — Petrobras announced that, for the third month in a row, it has broken the production record of S-10 Diesel, low-sulfur diesel. In [more…]
Ecuador Applies Fuels Price Band
EP PetroEcuador will apply the fixation and publication of prices in Ecuador’s clean products terminals in compliance with executive decree no. 1054 of 19 May 2020, by means of which the “regulation of prices of petroleum derivatives” was amended.
Guaido Team Promises Fuel Surge In Venezuela
(Argus, 8.Jun.2020) — Venezuela’s US-backed political opposition is promising to restore stable fuel supply in two weeks if it takes power, kicking off with crude-for-products [more…]
Venezuela’s Gasoline System Fails To End Epic Lines
(Reuters, 7.Jun.2020) — Hundreds of Venezuelans queued up in miles-long lines to try to fill their cars with subsidized gasoline over the weekend, a week [more…]
Venezuela, In Historic Shift, Scales Back Fuel Subsidy
(WSJ, 31.May.2020) — The regime of Nicolás Maduro, grappling with intense gasoline shortages, said it will scale back its longstanding fuel subsidy and privatize service [more…]
US Seeks Ways To Halt Iran’s Oil Sales To Venezuela
(Wall Street Journal, 20.May.2020) — The Trump administration is weighing new sanctions and other legal steps to disrupt Iranian oil exports to Venezuela, U.S. officials [more…]
Iran’s Oil Supply To Venezuela Eases Glut
(Argus, 19.May.2020) — Iran’s gasoline shipments to Venezuela are helping to ease a supply glut at home, where demand has collapsed because of strict measures [more…]
Argentina Extends Diesel, Gasoline Frice Freeze
(Argus, 30.Jan.2020) — Argentina’s government said Thursday it has extended a freeze on diesel and gasoline prices until the end of February, as it tries [more…]
YPFB Guarantees Fuel Supplies Across Bolivia
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 14.Jan.2020) — Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) guaranteed residents in La Paz and interior portions of [more…]
YPFB Dispatches Fuel, LPG From Senkata Plant
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 23.Nov.2019) — Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos announced the dispatch of 1.8 million liters of gasoline and [more…]
Petrobras Says Daily Gasoline And Diesel Prices Available On Website
(Petrobras, 22.Apr.2019) — Petrobras informs that as of today, the daily prices of gasoline and diesel in each of its points of sale throughout the [more…]
Petrobras Informs About Studies Of Caixa Econômica Federal To Sell Its Shares
(Petrobras, 17.Apr.2019) — Petrobras says it has received correspondence from Caixa Econômica Federal informing that it is studying the possibility of selling shares that they [more…]
Bolivia Eyes 30% Increase In Hydrocarbon Subsidy In 2019
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 1.Dec.2018) — Bolivia envisions a 30% increase in its hydrocarbon subsidy due to the rise in the price of oil [more…]
Petrobras Announces Adjustment Of Diesel Sale Price
(Petrobras, 29.Nov.2018) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on October 29, 2018 informs that, due to the methodology established in the National Petroleum [more…]
PetroEcuador To Open Envelopes For Import Of 3 MMBbls Of Premium Diesel
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart and Ian Silverman, 28.Nov.2018) — EP PetroEcuador will open envelopes related to the importation of 3,120,000 barrels plus or minus [more…]
EP Petroecuador To Open Envelopes For Diesel No. 2 Tender
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 13.Nov.2018) — EP Petroecuador will open envelopes today related to the import of 3,120,000 barrels (plus or minus 2%) of [more…]
Is Your Gasoline Burning Out Faster?
(Trinidad Express, Sandhya Santoo, 7.Nov.2018) — Is super gasoline burning faster? This is the claim by some motorists who are insisting that the fuel is [more…]
Mexico’s Next Government Faces Bind In Pemex Ethane Deal
(Reuters, Diego Oré, 17.Oct.2018) — Mexico’s incoming government will soon inherit a costly dilemma over an ethane supply contract between national oil company Pemex and [more…]
Pemex Rolls Out New Fuel Additive To Protect Gasoline Engines
(Pemex, 11.Oct.2018) — Pemex introduced the new gasoline additive that will be added into Pemex Magna and Pemex Premium fuels, the additive will be promoted [more…]
Khan: No Fuel Supply Disruption
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Julien Neaves, 26.Sep.2018) — Energy Minister Franklin Khan has assured there would be no disruption in fuel supply to the travelling [more…]
Jamaica: Gas Prices Down $0.72, Diesel Down $0.35
(Jamaica Gleaner, 12.Sep.2018) — Gas prices are to go down by $0.72 tomorrow Thursday, September 13 The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 will sell [more…]
Mexican Fuel Consumption 778 Mb/d: Jan.-Jul. 2018
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 3.Sep.2018) — During the first seven months of 2018, the average consumption of gasoline in Mexico was 778,000 barrels per [more…]
Kamla Floats Guyana Help for Trinidad Refinery
(Stabroek News, 2.Sep.2018) — Trinidad Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar has raised the prospect of Guyana oil being used to rescue the beleaguered Petrotrin refinery [more…]
Brazil’s Energy Agency Opts for Argus Prices
(Argus Media, 30.Aug.2018) — Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) will start using prices published by leading global energy and commodities [more…]
PDVSA Leaves Argentine Gas Station to Fend for Itself
(Reuters, Luc Cohen, 15.Aug.2018) – As Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA saw its finances devastated by low oil prices and mismanagement, it funneled millions of [more…]
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 [more…]
Venezuela Petrol To Rise to Int’l Levels
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 13.Aug.2018) — The price of Venezuela’s subsidized petrol, long one of the cheapest in world, is set to rise. Effective [more…]
Pemex Lets Contract for Tula Refinery
(Oil and Gas Journal, Robert Brelsford, 11.Jun.2018) – Mexico’s Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), through its processing subsidiary Pemex Transformacion Industrial (formerly Pemex Refinacion), has let a [more…]
Brazil Oil Workers Strike, Defying Court Order
(Efe, 30.May.2018) – Brazilian oil workers defied a court order on Wednesday by launching a three-day strike affecting oil refineries. The FUP, a federation that [more…]
Ecuador Permits Alcoholic Beverages at Service Stations
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – Ecuador has decided it will allow its service stations to again distribute alcoholic beverages. The distribution of [more…]
Pemex Gasoline Consumption At 22% of Total Vs. 8% in 2011
(Energy Analytics Institute, Fidencio Casillas, 5.Jun.2016) – The consumption of premium gasoline in Mexico has evolved favorably over the last six years with the Premium [more…]
San Mateo Petrol Station Starts Operations
(Energy Analytics Institute, 25.May.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – The artisan fishing and ship vessel diesel station in San Mateo, located in the province of Manabí, [more…]
Táchira Petrol Stations Sell 91 Grade Gasoline for Bs. 200/Liter
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 1.May.2016) – Ten gasoline stations – which form part of Venezuela’s Exclusive and Special Service stations – are selling PDVSA’s [more…]
PetroEcuador Highlights Benefits of Esmeraldas Workover
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Apr.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – EP PetroEcuador stands to gain the most from the recent workover to the Esmeraldas Refinery, reported the [more…]
PetroEcuador Refineries Have 175 Mb/d Capacity
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Apr.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – EP PetroEcuador’s three refineries — Esmeraldas, La Libertad and Shushufindi — had a combined processing capacity of [more…]