BOGOTĂ, COLOMBIA (By Ana Sanches, Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Dec.2025, Words: 315) â Petroecuador awarded crude oil export contracts totaling 13.68 million barrels (MMbbls) of Oriente and Napo crude oil. The exports will generate direct revenue estimated at $683mn for the Ecuadorian state to contribute to public finances.
Tag: Petrochina
EP Petroecuador awards tender for 8.6 MMbbls of Oriente crude to Unipec and Petrochina
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Aug.2025, Words: 150) â EP Petroecuador awarded the export of 8.6 million barrels (MMbbls) of Oriente crude oil through 3 international tenders to the state-owned companies Unipec AmĂ©rica Inc. (-$3.70/bbl) and (-$3.05/bbl) and Petrochina International Co. Ltd. (-$3.62/bbl, which emerged as […]
Maiden LNG cargo heading for Asia puts Canada on the LNG exporting club map
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (By Steve Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Jun.2025, Words: 574) â The new LNG Canada export facility, located in Kitimat, British Columbia, in the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation, successfully loaded a first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) that is now destined for global markets. This […]
Ecuador inks 4 export deals for 8.64 MMbbls of Oriente oil with Shell, Petrochina and Trafigura
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 6.May.2025, Words: 210) â EP Petroecuador awarded 4 international tenders for the export of 8.64 million barrels (MMbbls) of Oriente crude oil. The contracts were awarded to Shell Western Supply and Trading Limited (-$3.93/bbl), Petrochina International Co. Ltd (-$4.51/bbl and -$4.04/bbl), and […]
Shell Invests in Phase 2 of Surat Gas Project in Australia
(Shell, 12.Aug.2024) â Arrow Energy, an incorporated joint venture between Shell (50%) and PetroChina (50%), has announced plans to develop Phase 2 of Arrow Energyâs Surat Gas Project in Queensland, Australia. The gas from the project will flow to the Shell-operated QCLNG liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility on Curtis Island, […]
China Slows Venezuela Crude Buys
(Reuters, 23.Nov.2023) â The suspension of U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan oil has rattled its biggest customers, China’s independent refiners, who are now holding off on making new purchases amid wide discrepancies in offer prices, trading sources say. The independent refiners have for years bought Venezuelan oil at steep discounts, but since Washington lifted […]
PetroChina Aims to Resume Venezuelan Oil Imports after 4-year Pause
(Reuters, 2.Nov.2023) â China’s PetroChina is proposing to buy up to 8 million barrels a month of Venezuelan crude from state-run oil company PDVSA, according to four people familiar with the matter, hoping to resume a trade suspended four years ago by U.S. sanctions. In October, the U.S. Treasury Department temporarily […]
Air Liquide, Chevron, Keppel and Petrochina Form CCUS Consortium in Singapore
(Chevron, 21.Sep.2022) â 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 large-scale carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) solutions and integrated infrastructure in Singapore. The consortium intends to research, test, and […]
Cheniere and PetroChina Sign Long-Term LNG Sale and Purchase Agreement
(Cheniere, 20.Jul.2022) â Cheniere Energy, Inc. (NYSE American: LNG) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cheniere Marketing, LLC, has entered into a long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with a subsidiary of PetroChina Company Limited. Under the SPA, PetroChina subsidiary PetroChina International Company Limited (PCI) has agreed […]
NRGBriefs: Ecopetrol’s and Oxy’s Caribbean Deep-Water Deal
(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Apr.2022) â Energy briefs including Colombiaâs state-owned Ecopetrol and US-based Occidental announcing plans to jointly participate in exploration activities in four blocks in the deep-waters offshore Colombiaâs Caribbean coast; Frontera Energy releasing its 2021 sustainability report; and PetroChina establishing an effective ESG management mechanism. LATIN AMERICA AND […]
PetroChina Continues with Positive Momentum in 1Q:22
(PetroChina, 29.Apr.2022) â PetroChina Company Limited (HKSE: 00857; NYSE: PTR; SSE: 601857) announced that in the first quarter of 2022, the company placed stable development as top priority and achieved a steady increase in its operating results while maintaining smooth and efficient operation in its oil and gas industrial chains. […]
NRGBriefs: Ecopetrol Sends First Carbon-Neutral Cargo to PetroChina
(Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Dec.2021) â Energy briefs including Colombiaâs state-controlled Ecopetrol agreeing to ship 1 MMbbls of Castilla blend oil to PetroChina for delivery in Feb. 2022; Venezuelaâs opposition lawmakers voting to for the continuity of the National Assembly and its leader Juan GuaidĂł; and more. LATIN AMERICA AND THE […]
Ecuador Begins Crude Exports In Larger Vessels
(Reuters, 28.Jun.2021) â Ecuador for the first time on Monday exported a cargo of one of its flagship crudes, Oriente, aboard a very large crude carrier (VLCC), following an upgrade to a terminal that the South American country hopes will help it boost exports to Asia. The shipment of 1.08 […]
New Chinese Tax Narrows Venezuela’s Oil Export Options
(Argus, 17.May.2021) â A Chinese tax overhaul threatens to orphan up to 400,000 b/d of Venezuelan heavy sour crude that has been a lifeline for Caracas since the US imposed oil sanctions in 2019. Although Chinese companies moved away from directly lifting Venezuelan crude around August 2019, independent refiners regularly […]
Tipco Wins Bid To Export Napo Crude
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Apr.2021) â EP PetroEcuador awarded the Thai company Tipco Asphalt Public Company Limited a deal for the export of 720,000 barrels of Napo crude. The barrels will be offered in 2 shipments of 360,000 barrels +/- 5% each, which will be delivered in April 2021, PetroEcuador announced […]
Venezuela Resumes Direct Oil Shipments To China
(Reuters, 22.Dec.2020) â Venezuela has resumed direct shipments of oil to China after U.S. sanctions sent the trade underground for more than a year, according to Refinitiv Eikon vessel-tracking data and internal documents from state company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). Chinese state companies China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and its […]
Slew Of Tankers Head Toward Venezuela
(Reuters, 11.Nov.2020) â At least 18 oil tankers are expected to load oil for export from Venezuela in the coming weeks, according to tracking data and internal documents from state-run PDVSA, in a sign the sanctioned OPEC nation’s crude exports may rebound this month. Venezuela’s oil exports fell to their […]
WoodMac On PetroChina Emissions Ambition
(WoodMac, 31.Aug.2020) â Last week PetroChina became the first national oil company (NOC) in the world to announce a ânear-zeroâ emissions ambition. Principal analyst Max Petrov commented on the event: âPetroChina’s announcement is illuminating even if details are lacking. It reveals one of the more ambitious paths the company could […]
ADNOC Reveals New Chinese Partner
(Asharq Al-Awsat, 28.Jul.2020) â The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, ADNOC, announced on Monday its agreement to the transfer of rights in its Lower Zakum and Umm Shaif and Nasr offshore concessions from the China National Petroleum Corporation, CNPC, to China National Offshore Oil Corporationâs subsidiary CNOOC Limited. The transfer […]
Ecuador Seeking New Oil-backed Loan From China
(Argus, 13.Jul.2020) â 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 by some 50mn bl of crude sales under a long-term arrangement that replicates a series of oil-backed debt contracts that […]
Over 30 Cos Vie For Guyana Oil Trading Contract
(Reuters, 21.Apr.2020) â More than 30 companies, including commodities traders like Gunvor and Vitol as well as units of oil majors like Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell, submitted expressions of interest for a contract to market the Guyanese governmentâs share of the countryâs crude, the government said on Tuesday. […]
Asia Eyes LatAm For Heavy Crude Amid Supply Risk
(S&P Global Platts, 8.Jan.2020) â Some Asian importers of Iraqi crude oil may scout for more heavy sour crude from Central and South America in the first quarter, as ongoing missile strikes in Iraq has put regular flow of Basrah crude to the Far East at some risk. Asian refiners […]
Petrobras Refinery Sale Draws PetroChina
(Reuters, Tatiana Bautzer and Rodrigo Viga Gaier, 26.Aug.2019) â Brazilâs planned privatization of eight Petroleo Brasileiro SA refineries has lured several of the worldâs largest trading and oil companies as prospective bidders, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. Around 20 companies have signed non-disclosure agreements granting them access […]
CNPC Backs Out Of Oil Purchases With Venezuela On Sanctions Scare
(Oilprice.com, Julianne Geiger, 16.Aug.2019) â Russia and China have stuck with Venezuela during its most recent time of need, but at least one of their loyalties may soon come to an end, according to anonymous sources who spoke to Bloomberg on Friday. CPNCâs PetroChina has canceled loading plans in August […]
Venezuela Oil Exports to China Slump
(Reuters, 17.Jun.2018) â Reuters) – Chinaâs imports of Venezuelan crude oil could sink to their lowest in nearly eight years in July as the OPEC producer struggles with shrinking output and mounting logistics issues, according to people familiar with the matter and shipping data. State-controlled PetroChina expects June loadings from […]
PDVSA Completes First Ship-to-Ship Transfer
(Kallanish Energy, 11.Jun.2018) — Venezuelaâs PDVSA has reportedly completed its first ship-to-ship (STS) transfer last week, in a move to tackle the severe bottleneck of tankers around its main crude ports. Reuters reported the inaugural operation was with the Suezmax tanker Sonagol Kalandula for a Thai companyâs refinery in Kemaman, […]
PetroChina, Rosneft Leave Venezuela Refining Projects
(Kallanish Energy, 28.Mar.2018) â Chinese and Russian state oil companies PetroChina and Rosneft will not pay the costs of repairing and modernizing Venezuelaâs CardĂłn and Amuay refineries for PDVSA, according to union sources. Ivan Freites, senior official of the Venezuelan Unions Federation of Oil Workers, told local newspaper El Nacional […]
Venezuela Sends Two Fuel Tankers to Singapore
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Jun.2016) â Venezuela sent two fuel tankers at full capacity to Singapore, reported Reuters. The tankers, New Dream, rented by PetroChina, Britanis, and Trafigura, are en route to Singapore with 270,000 tons of fuel, reported the news agency. ***