(Petrobras, 12.Jul.2022) — Petrobras, regarding the news published in the media about its frequency of readjustments in fuel prices, clarifies that, in 2022, it carried out an increase and a...
(S&P Global Platts, 12.Jul.2021) — The US Department of Treasury granted a sanctions waiver July 12 allowing US companies to export or re-export LPG supplies to Venezuela, the first move...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Jul.2021) — The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued general license no. 40 which allows “all transactions and activities related to the exportation or reexportation,...
(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 through the “Todos Santos” holiday,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Oct.2020) — Energy briefs from Venezuela regarding ongoing shortages of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and Italy’s Eni submitting a proposal regarding the offloading of FSO Nabarima. Heard...
(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 August, the company's refineries processed...
(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...
(Galileo Technologies, 2.Jul.2020) — The Agreement was signed yesterday in Sao Paulo and will leverage Golar Power’s natural gas distribution Project, without pipelines, in the interior of Brazil. The project...
(S&P Global Platts, 30.Jun.2020) — Brazil's refineries returned close to pre-pandemic levels in June, despite several incidents at processing units across Latin America's biggest country that led to output volatility...
(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, 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...
(Argus, 10.Mar.2020) — The oil price collapse is prompting Argentina to revive state intervention to protect the domestic oil industry. The national government is putting the brakes on imports of...
(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 diesel and 10,119 bottles (cylinders)...
(Petrobras, 19.Nov.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the press release of November 7, 2019, reports that it has signed today with Copagaz and Nacional Gás Butano a contract for sale...
(Argus, 14.Nov.2019) — Brazil will increase LNG imports if pipeline natural gas supply from Bolivia is interrupted because of political unrest, according to Brazilian hydrocarbons agency ANP. Brazilian state-controlled Petrobras...
(Petrobras, 5.Aug.2019) — Petrobras reports that its Executive Board has approved revision of its LPG pricing policy for residential use, sold for bottling in cylinders of up to 13 kg,...
(Reuters, 29.Mar.2019) — Brazilian state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA said on Friday it had kicked off a second attempt to sell its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distribution unit after...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 16.Mar.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Bolivia's plans to build ammonia-urea and urea formaldehyde plants, a Bolivian polypropylene-polypropylene plant under economic...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 28.Feb.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on plans by the Bolivian and Paraguayan presidents to discuss LPG, urea, and gas, Brazil's Petrobras...
(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...
(Reuters, Tatiana Bautzer and Carolina Mandl, 19.Feb.2019) — Brazil oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA has hired the investment banking unit of Banco Santander Brasil SA to revive efforts to sell...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 19.Nov.2018) — Bolivia’s Hydrocarbon Minister Luis Alberto Sánchez and Paraguay’s Public Works Minister Arnoldo Wiens signed a Memorandum of Understanding related to construction of a...
(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 and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 31.Aug.2018) — Severance packages for Petrotrin workers will cost upwards of $1 billion, Energy Minister Franklin Khan estimated yesterday. But compared to the Pointe-a-Pierre...
(Petrobras, 15.Jun.2016) – Petrobras started the competitive process to sell Liquigás Distribuidora S.A., a wholly-owned, privately-held subsidiary operating in the bottling, distribution and selling of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Liquigás...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 11.Jun.2016) – Officials from YPFB and its Paraguayan counterpart PetroPar meet with LPG distributors in Paraguay to evaluate the expansion of sales and purchase agreements....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 2.Jun.2016) – YPFB plans to increase the number of LPG cylinders in Santa Cruz to 45,000 per day from 37,000 per day in order to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 25.May.2016) – YPFB will increase the supply of LPG cylinders to an average 158,000 per day from 130,000 per day to guarantee supply of the...
(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 state company in an official...
(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 175,000 barrels per day at...