(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Aug.2020) — Ecuador’s state oil company EP PetroEcuador awarded the third spot market sale of 2020 for a volume of 6,480,000 barrels of Oriente crude oil of...
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.
(Argus, 13.Jul.2020) — Ecuador's austerity-minded government is in discussions with China to secure a new loan backed by oil sales. The fresh loan of at least $1.4bn would be secured...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Jul.2020) — Technical staff with the Consortium Suez-Ecuambiente continues with previous work related to the export of hazardous waste from the Las Esmeraldas refinery, which consists of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Jul.2020) — René Ortiz, the head of Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources (MERNNR) extended terms for the delivery of technical and economic offers --...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Jul.2020) — René Ortiz, head of Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources (MERNNR), CELEC EP General Manager Gonzalo Uquillas Vallejo, and Ecuador’s Hydrocarbon Vice Minister...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 30.May.2020) — Ecuador’s state oil company EP Petroecuador is monitoring emissions at the Esmeraldas refinery, especially those of sulfur dioxide (SOx) even though preliminary reports...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 12.May.2020) — State oil company EP PetroEcuador automated the personnel selection process across Ecuador for the first time with use of a technological platform that...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 7.May.2020) — EP PetroEcuador on 2 May 2020 started dispatching super gasoline from the Barbasquillo Clean Products Terminal located in Manta in order to satisfy...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 5.May.2020) — EP PetroEcuador reprogrammed its imports of high-octane naphtha ron 93, naphtha ron 80, premium diesel, cutter stock and diesel oil. “Derivatives imports have...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 1.May.2020) — Intervention activities continue at 40 defined sites in Ecuador, of which at least 220 focal points have been established to concentrate on environmental...
(Argus, 15.Apr.2020) — Ecuador's oil production dwindled to just 68,000 b/d on 13 April in the wake of weather-related pipeline ruptures last week, forcing state-owned PetroEcuador to reprogram most crude...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Apr.2020) — Ecuador will extend the deadline for the submission of offers within the public selection processes for concession of the El Aromo (200 megawatt)...
(AmazonWatch, 9.Apr.2020) — Ecuador’s state-run oil company, EP PETROECUADOR, reported the pipeline bursts of the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline (SOTE), the OCP (Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados-Heavy Crude Pipeline), and the Poliducto Shishufindi-Quito...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 8.Apr.2020) — EP PetroEcuador announced an issue related to the National Interconnected System (SNI) on 7 April 2020 caused an unscheduled failure in the process...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 7.Apr.2020) — EP PetroEcuador announced suspension of operations at the Sistema de Oleducto Transecuatoriano (SOTE) due to the sinking of a portion of the pipeline...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 3.Apr.2020) — State oil company EP PetroEcuador announced plans to suspend activities at the La Libertad refinery located in Santa Elena province for 14 days,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 26.Mar.2020) — EP PetroEcuador is reinforcing security measures at its facilities to face the country's health emergency, including measures at the El Chorrillo LPG Storage...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 18.Mar.2020) — Ecuador’s state oil company EP PetroEcuador announced 18 March 2020 in an official statement that it guarantees normal development of its activities and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 18.Mar.2020) — Ecuador’s state oil company EP PetroEcuador has begun to implement office protocols to reduce the spread of coronvirus. Once Ecuador declared a health...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 18.Nov.2020) — Ecuador’s state oil company EP PetroEcuador awarded the company Gunvor S.A. a deal for the importation of 590,000 barrels of Nafta Ron N°...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Mar.2020) — Ecuador’s government has issued a sanitary emergency decree in response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to details revealed in an official statement from...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 11.Mar.2020) — EP PetroEcuador General Manager Pablo Flores supervised operations at the Esmeraldas Maritime Port and the Balao Maritime Terminal, which are part of the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 19.Feb.2020) — Ecuador’s state oil entity EP Petroecuador awarded its first spot market sale of 2020 to refining company Phillips 66 Company. The deal is...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 21.Feb.2020) — Empresa Pública PetroEcuador completed negotiations with Thailand state-owned company PTT International Trading PTE. LTD. related to reprogrammed 6,480,000 barrels of crude oil, equivalent...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 23.Jan.2020) — An inter-institutional agreement between EP PetroEcuador and the municipalities of Manta, Jaramijó and Montecristi aims to provide a solution to problems related to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 3.Jan.2019) — Ecuador’s state oil company PetroAmazonas EP boosted its production of crude oil by 4% in 2019, according to the country’s Ministry of Energy...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 26.Dec.2019) — A scheduled stoppage at the Bajo Alto Natural Gas Liquefaction Plant located in the El Guabo in the province of El Oro concluded...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Dec.2019) — EP PetroEcuador initiated start-up activities on 25 December 2019 at the Crude Unit 2 (R2) of the Shushufindi Refinery, located in the province...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 22.Dec.2019) — EP PetroEcuador announced that technicians from the company will carry out installation of a new 5.6-kilometer stretch of pipeline tubing that transports Cutter...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 20.Dec.2019) — Operations at the Shushufindi-Quito poly-duct pipeline have been halted due to a fissure detected in the Baeza sector, which lead to the spill...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 20.Dec.2019) — EP PetroEcuador awarded Lukoil Pan Americas Llc a contract to import 1,770,000 barrels of Naphtha Ron 85, a mixing component in the production...
(Institutional Institute for Sustainable Development, 17.Dec.2019) — A long-standing tribunal under the France–Ecuador BIT has issued its final award on compensation. The award orders Ecuador to compensate oil and gas...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 16.Dec.2019) — EP PetroEcuador awarded Trafigura Pte. Ltd. a contract to import of 3,360,000 barrels +/- 2% of Premium Diesel. The fuel will be imported...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 29.Nov.2019) — EP Petroecuador awarded the export of 380,000 barrels of Fuel Oil No. 4 to Freepoint Commodities LLC. Freepoint won the contract by presenting...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 28.Nov.2019) — Ecuador’s state oil and gas company EP Petroecuador awarded Glencore Ltd. a contract to import 1,050,000 barrels of Cutter Stock. Glencore won the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 22.Nov.2019) — Ecuador’s new oil minister José Agusto announced the South American country continues with plans for another bid round, while he added the country...
(Reuters, 19.Nov.2019) — Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno on Tuesday named a close ally as the new energy minister as the Andean nation seeks to boost oil production and expand its...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 20.Oct.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to EP PetroEcuador lifting force majeure and the programmed stoppage at the Esmeraldas Refinery. PetroEcuador...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 9.Oct.2019) — Ecuador’s Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) halted operations at 1pm on Oct. 9. The stoppage was due to the low delivery of crude oil...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 9.Oct.2019) — Operations at the SOTE have been affected during protests in Ecuador and resultantly operations have been reduced to 30% of capacity, due to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 4.Sep.2019) — Ecuador’s state oil company EP PetroEcuador awarded the export of 1,080,000 +/- 5% barrels of 17-degree API Napo crude oil to Repsol Trading...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 4.Jul.2019) — Trafigura Pte. Ltd. was awarded a deal by EP Petroecuador for the export of 340,000 barrels ± 3% of Vacuum Gas Oil (VGO)....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Jun.2019) — EP Petroecuador awarded Glencore Ltda. a deal to import 1,890,000 barrels ± 2% of cutter stock, a diluent used in the preparation of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Ian Silverman, 25.Jun.2019) — Heard on the street related to the Latin America and Caribbean upstream, midstream, downstream and renewable energies sectors. ARGENTINA --...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 6.Jun.2019) — EP PetroEcuador awarded for export 3,960,000 barrels of Oriente crude oil of 24-degree API plus/minus 5% to Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company LLC,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 20.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to the Petroamazonas EP and contracts for $78.1 million with China’s CNPC And Sinopec, optimized...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 19.May.2019) — Petroamazonas EP’s production of crude oil in the first four months of 2019 peaked at 428,780 barrels per day of equivalents, up 5.42%...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to OPEC’s Monthly Oil Market Report, EP PetroEcuador awards Trafigura deal to import 2,750,000 barrels...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 1.May.2019) — EP PetroEcuador announced the restart on 1 May 2019 of operations at the non-catalytic unit #1 of its Esmeraldas refinery, the company announced...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 18.Apr.2019) — EP PetroEcuador announced that production of 400,974 barrels per day (b/d) in 2018 from 11 fields generated revenues of $6,199 million, the company...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 18.Apr.2019) — Crude oil production from Ecuador’s Sacha Field, operated by PetroAmazonas and located in the province of Orellana in Block 60, reached 70,021 barrels...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 8.Apr.2019) — Ecuador’s production of crude oil rose to 522 Mb/d in March 2019 compared to 519 Mb/d in February and 517 Mb/d in January...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 1.Mar.2019) — EP PetroEcuador started a 54 day work stoppage today 1 March 2019 at the non-catalytic #1 and catalytic #1 units of its Esmeraldas...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 26.Feb.2019) — EP Petroecuador, within the preventive maintenance plan for its offshore installations, carried out work related to changing a 42-inch off buoy hose along...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Dec.2018) — Petroecuador completed its fourth spot market sale of crude oil in 2018, with the export of 1,080,000 barrels of Oriente crude of 24-degree...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, Ian Silverman and Aaron Simonsky, 11.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs about Chile’s electric buses, Echo Energy’s well stimulation in Argentina,...
(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 (+/-) 2% of Premium Diesel...
(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 No. 2 Diesel Oil No....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 27.Sep.2018) — EP PetroEcuador General Manager Pablo Flores supervised operations at the El Chorrillo, Pascuales and a Estación de Transferencia Tres Bocas Transfer Station in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 27.Sep.2018) — Today at approximately 12:10 pm a fire was reported at the Esmeraldas Refinery AOV 14 Asphalt tank. The EP PetroEcuador fire brigade located...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 15.Sep.2018) — EP Petroecuador detected a clandestine connection in the liquids line of the northern section of the gas capture station of the Shushufindi Refinery....
(BBC, 8.Sep.2018) — An international tribunal in The Hague has ruled in favour of the US oil company, Chevron, in an environmental dispute with the government of Ecuador. Chevron had...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 14.Jul.2018) – Glencore Ltd won a recent EP PetroEcuador spot auction, which guarantees the Ecuadorian entity income of $279.3 million. The Swiss company offered the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 10.Jul.2018) – Nearly 27 engineering students studying Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology Engineering at Ecuador's Americas University (Universidad de las Américas or UDLA by its Spanish...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 15.Jun.2018) – Production costs at the state entity remain below the $20 per barrel mark. PetroAmazonas EP’s production costs rose slightly to $17.01/bbl in May...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 15.Jun.2018) – Ecuador’s EP PetroEcuador announced all its activities continue under normal conditions after a magnitude 5 earthquake was reported this morning in Ecuador. The...
(Pampa Energía S.A., 19.Mar.2018) – Pampa Energía S.A. announced that regarding the conflict that EcuadorTLC (a subsidiary company established in the Republic of Ecuador and which Pampa holds a 100%...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – Trafigura PTE LTD won a bid by EP PetroEcuador whereby the former will export 950,000 barrels of No. 6 Fuel Oil, announced...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – EP PetroEcuador turned over formal activities related to the containment, cleaning and monitoring along the Daule river, kilometer 24 in the Merced...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – Ecuador's oil output reached 556,000 barrels per day in May of 2016, up sequentially from 555,000 barrels per day in April of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – Three companies, Adelca, Novacero and Practipower, presented their bids to buy an estimated 6,500 tons of salvage left over from the Esmeraldas...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – Ecuador will benefit financial from the recently completed overhaul of the Esmeraldas refinery. The country will save more than an estimated $1...
EEnergy Analytics Institute, 1.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – EP PetroEcuador has a gasoline network comprising 276 service stations, reported the state company in an official statement. PetroEcuador affiliates operated 215...
(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, started operations on May 19,...