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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]