HOUSTON, TEXAS (Philipp Markopulos, Energy Analytics Institute, 7.Mar.2025) — bp operates 2 refineries in the US: Whiting, Indiana, and Cherry Point, Washington with a combined capacity to process about 700,000 barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil, representing about 40% of bp’s global refining capacity, the company announced on 7 […]
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Petrobras Boasts New Refinery Production Records
BELIZE CITY, BELIZE (Aaron Simonsky, Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Jan.2025) — Rio de Janeiro-based Petrobras said its gasoline and S-10 (low sulfur) diesel production in 2024 surpassed historical records from previous years. Petrobras said the total volume of gasoline produced reached 24.4bn liters, exceeding the previous record of 24.2bn liters in […]
Petrobras Ends Petrobras BiocombustĂvel (PBio) Divestment Project
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Nov.2024) — Petrobras‘ Executive Board approved the end of the divestment project of its wholly-owned subsidiary Petrobras BiocombustĂvel S.A. (PBio), which will be retained within the company’s portfolio. This decision is in line with Petrobras’ current strategic guidelines which takes into account the company’s low-carbon businesses, profitably […]
Fact sheet: Citgo Petroleum’s US refineries, terminals, and pipelines
HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Oct.2024, Words: 185) — Citgo Petroleum Corp. has 3 strategically located, deep conversion refineries in Texas, Louisiana and Illinois. Combined, these 3 refineries have a combined total refining capacity of approximately 807,000 b/d. Each refinery has the capability to process large volumes […]
Petrobras Sets New Refinery Production Records
(Petrobras, 7.Oct.2024) — Petrobras reports that the Total Utilization Factor (FUT) of its refineries reached 96.8% in Sep. 2024, representing the highest monthly result in 2024. As a result, the accumulated FUT for the third quarter of the year (3Q24) reached 95.2%. The third quarter of this year also registered […]
Pemex Posts Drop in Oil Output as AMLO Exits
(Reuters, 27.Sep.2024) — Crude output by Pemex fell in August as Mexico’s national oil company failed to reduce fuel imports in line with company targets, while overall falling well short of the lofty energy trade goals of the country’s outgoing president. While locally produced petroleum product volumes rose during the […]
Petrobras Extends Deadlines for Sale of Refining, Logistics Assets
(Petrobras, 15.Jul.2022) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 27 June 2022, has extended the deadlines for participation in the sale processes of Refinaria Abreu e Lima (RNEST), in Pernambuco, Refinaria Presidente GetĂşlio Vargas (REPAR), in Paraná, and Refinaria Alberto Pasqualini (REFAP), in Rio Grande do Sul, as […]
Petrobras Comments On Fuel Orders Fulfillment
(Petrobras, 18.Oct.2021) — Petrobras clarifies about pieces of news in the media regarding cuts in fuel orders fulfillment. As disclosed in the 2Q21 Production and Sales Report, the company operated its refining facilities in the first half of 2021 with a utilization factor (UF) of 79%, in line with the […]
Five Illegal Refineries Destroyed in Norte de Santander
(General Command of the Colombian Military Forces, 13.Jan.2021) — Through a joint, coordinated and interagency operation conducted by the Colombian Air Force, the National Army, the National Police and the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) of the Attorney General’s Office, it was possible to find and destroy, in a controlled manner, five illegal refineries for fuel production, which […]
PDVSA Weighs Plan To Pay For Refinery Work With Fuel
(Reuters, 25.Jun.2020) — Officials from Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela have spoken with private contractors about paying for work fixing the country’s refineries with fuel and byproducts, a half dozen people familiar with the talks said. The possibility of in-kind compensation comes as U.S. sanctions on PDVSA and […]
Petrobras Starts Refinery Binding Phase
(Petrobras, 31.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 10/24/2019, informs the beginning of the binding phase related to the sale of downstream assets, which includes: Isaac Sabbá Refinery (REMAN) in Amazonas, Lubrificantes e Derivados de PetrĂłleo do Nordeste (LUBNOR) in Ceará, and the Shale Industrialization Unit […]
Brazil, China, UAE Firms Eying Petrobras Refineries
(Reuters, Tatiana Bautzer and Carolina Mandl, 28.Nov.2019) — Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA has selected four groups for the second round of bidding for four refineries up for sale, including China’s Sinopec, Abu Dhabi’s state investor and two Brazilian firms, according to four people with knowledge of the […]
Third Circuit Rejects Citgo Rehearing
(Argus, Elliott Blackburn, 21.Nov.2019) — Federal appeals court judges have denied Venezuela’s request to rehear a July decision upholding the pursuit of the country’s US refining subsidiary Citgo to satisfy billions of dollars of debts. The US Third Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request to hear arguments on the […]
Petrobras Starts Non-binding Phase For Refineries
(Petrobras, 24.Oct.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the press release issued on September 13, 2019, reports the beginning of the non-binding phase related to the sale of downstream assets, which includes: Isaac Sabbá Refinery (REMAN) in Amazonas, Lubrificantes e Derivados de PetrĂłleo do Nordeste (LUBNOR) in Ceará, and the Shale […]
Petrobras Says 20+ Groups Interested In Refineries
(Reuters, 13.Aug.2019) — More than 20 potential bidders are interested in the refineries that Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA plans to sell, the company’s chief executive officer said on Tuesday. CEO Roberto Castello Branco said more than 20 groups are interested in the four refineries in a first […]
Esmeraldas Refinery Stoppage Delayed Until March 2019
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 22.Aug.2018) – A scheduled 54-day stoppage at the Esmeraldas Refinery for the maintenance of the Non-Catalytic 1 and Catalytic 1 units will be postponed until March 2019. The stoppage, originally planned to commence on August 16, 2018, was postponed by PetroEcuador as the contractor in […]
Venezuelan Oil Assets to be Seized by Creditors
(Express, Simon Osborne, 16.Aug.2018) – Venezuela’s oil assets are being targeted by angry creditors after a US court granted a Canadian mining company permission to send in the bailiffs. Firms owed billions by the beleaguered South American country and its state-owned oil firm PDVSA are now lining up to make […]
Ecopetrol Reports Higher Sales, EBITDA in 2Q:18
(Ecopetrol, 14.Aug.2018) – Ecopetrol S.A. announced the Business Group’s financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2018, prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards applicable in Colombia. The figures included in this report are unaudited. Financial information is expressed in billions of Colombian pesos (COP), […]
Mexico’s Fuel Plan Won’t Immediately Impact Texas
(Texas Tribune, Juan Luis GarcĂa Hernández, 14.Aug.2018) – After a dramatic spike in gasoline prices incited widespread protests in Mexico last year, then-presidential candidate AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador made a promise that caught the attention of Texas officials and the state’s oil and gas industry: The veteran left-wing politician vowed, […]
AMLO Pledges More Than $11 Bln for Refineries
(Reuters, 13.Aug.2018) – Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his administration will invest more than $11 billion to boost refining capacity in order to curb growing fuel imports. Lopez Obrador, who will take office on Dec. 1, told reporters his government plans to invest $2.6 billion to […]
Venezuela’s Citgo Refineries At Risk Of Seizure
(Forbes, Robert Rapie, 12.Aug.2018) – In 2007, following Venezuela’s expropriation of billions of dollars of assets from U.S. companies like ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, I suggested a potential remedy. Since Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA (PetrĂłleos de Venezuela, S.A.) owns the Citgo refineries in the U.S., I felt the companies that […]
Is Venezuelan Oil Output Falling Faster Than Expected?
(OilPrice.com, Nick Cunningham, 12.Aug.2018) – The bad news from Venezuela continues. In July, Venezuela’s oil production came in lower than PDVSA had targeted, according to Argus Media. While PDVSA had hoped that it, along with its joint venture partners, would produce as much as 1.65 million barrels per day (mb/d) […]
Crystallex Cuts Others In Line for Citgo Assets
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 11.Aug.2018) – Crystallex seems to have cut in line while there are many others already in line for CITGO assets and value. What follows are comments published by Venezuelan oil analyst Francisco Monaldi in a series of tweets related to the legal battle over CITGO: […]
Pemex Has or Doesn’t Have Money?
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.Aug.2018) – If Mexico’s Pemex doesn’t have the necessary funds to invest in deep water or shale activities, how is it the state oil company will have funds to invests in new refineries as proposed by President-elect AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador? Join the discussion below […]
Mexico Oil Output to Trend Upwards in 2027
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 31.Jul.2018) – Mexico’s oil production will cease to decline in 2025. That’s according to details of a report published by S&P Global Platts Energy Analyst and Consultant Manager Javier DĂaz during an energy forum. DĂaz announced details of projections for Mexican crude oil production until […]
PetroTrin Refinery Importing Shortfall
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 31.Jul.2018) – That’s according to reports in a local newspaper. “The refinery at PetroTrin has a capacity of 140,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd); the company produces about 42,000 bopd – a shortfall of about 100,000 bopd, which must then be imported,” reported the […]
Wheatley Falls: Latest Casualty of Energy Scandal
(Jamaica Gleaner, Edmond Campbell, 31.Jul.2018) – The ongoing scandal that began at the state-owned oil refinery Petrojam has claimed its latest casualty with the resignation yesterday of Andrew Wheatley as minister of science and technology. This follows several weeks of allegations of nepotism and cronyism that triggered investigations from several […]
Mexico’s Next President Promises Pemex Investment
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman, 30.Jul.2018) – Mexico’s incoming president named a new chief executive officer for Pemex and promised government investment of 75 billion pesos ($4 billion) in the oil sector, in a bid to revive the state-owned oil company. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tapped longtime political ally Octavio Romero Oropeza, […]
Hold It Right There, Petrotrin!
(The Sterling Report, Yanique Leiba-Ebanks, 29.Jul.2018) – Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd (affectionately known as Petrotrin) is the state-owned oil company in Trinidad and Tobago. Its crude oilfields are located across the south-western peninsula of Trinidad, off the east coast of Trinidad, and in Point Fortin. The country’s […]
U.S. Revokes Visa of Citgo CEO
(Bloomberg, Lucia Kassai and Fabiola Zerpa, 18.Jul.2018) – Being a blood relative of Hugo Chavez used to open doors. Now Asdrubal Chavez, cousin of the late Venezuelan socialist leader, is finding out it can close some as well. In the most recent blow against Venezuela, the U.S. revoked the visa […]
Machado Says Venezuela “Show Can’t Go On”
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 13.Jul.2018) – Opposition leader MarĂa Corina Machado said the “show can’t go on” during a video broadcast from Punto Fijo. The leader’s video in reaction to a recent oil spill at PDVSA that the state oil company blamed on workers. El “show” NO PUEDE continuar.Mi […]
CNH Says Mexico Must Reduce Oil Dependence
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 13.Jul.2018) – Mexico must reduce its dependence on the United States in regards energy issues. The country can achieve this goal by increasing its refining capacity, reported the daily newspaper La Jornada, citing National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH by its Spanish acronym) President Juan Carlos Zepeda. […]
Mexican Refineries a Must for “Energy Security”
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 10.Jul.2018) – Given Mexico’s dependence on imported fuel, construction of two new refineries in the country “isn’t a business issue, it’s for energy security,” said researcher and hydrocarbons analyst Fluvio Ruiz AlarcĂłn. Just as recently as May 2018, Mexico imported 520,000 barrels per day of […]
Petrobras, CNPC to Finish Rio Refinery
(Efe, 4.Jul.2018) – Brazilian state oil company Petrobras and China’s state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation signed a letter of intent to conclude construction of a refinery in Rio de Janeiro, the South American company said. Work on the refinery, known as the Rio de Janeiro Petrochemical Complex (Comperj), has been […]
Venezuela’s Declining Crude Exports Squeeze India’s Refiners
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 3.Jul.2018) – Venezuela’s crude shipments to India, its third largest export market, fell 21 percent in the first half of the year, according to internal documents from state-run PDVSA, adding to supply troubles for Indian refiners as they are increasingly pressed to diversify oil imports. Venezuela’s production […]
US$1.4B Deal to Restart St Croix Refinery
(Stabroek News, 3.Jun.2018) – U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Kenneth E. Mapp announced yesterday an agreement which would reopen one of the world’s largest refineries, create hundreds of jobs in the territory and buttress the solvency of the Government Employees Retirement System (GERS). According to a release from his office, Mapp […]
Citgo Appoints Aruba Refinery Executives
(Reuters, 28.Jun.2018) – Citgo Petroleum, the U.S. refining arm of Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA, said it appointed two senior executives to new positions as it works to refurbish an idled Aruba refinery. Luis Marquez was named vice president and general manager at the refinery, a 235,000-barrel-per-day plant in San […]
PDVSA’s Amuay Halts Cat Cracker
(Reuters, 27.Jun.2018) – Venezuela’s 645,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Amuay refinery has halted its catalytic cracking unit and its distillation unit No. 5, a refinery worker and a union leader said on Wednesday, while state oil company PDVSA said the units were operational. The cat cracker was halted on Saturday while the […]
EIA Publishes Updated Venezuela Country Report
(EIA, 21.Jun.2018) – Venezuela holds the largest oil reserves in the world, in large part because of the heavy oil reserves in the Orinoco Oil Basin. In addition to oil reserves, Venezuela has sizeable natural gas reserves, although the development of natural gas lags significantly behind that of oil, reported […]
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 contract to a partnership of Saipem SPA and Mexican subsidiary Saimexicana SA de CV for works to be carried out on the heavy oil (H-Oil) […]
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 assembles most of Brazil’s oil workers’ unions, said in a statement that the top labor court’s decision to declare the strike illegal had not “intimidated” […]
PDVSA’s Deterioration on All Fronts
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 22.May.2017) – In recent weeks PDVSA has reported at least three accidents: Petrotrin oil spill in Sucre state and incidents at its Cardon and Curaçao refineries. The writing on the wall continues to point to a cash-strapped state oil company with an inability to […]
PDVSA Halts Cardon Catalytic Unit
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 16.May.2017) – PDVSA halted the catalytic cracking unit at the 310,000 barrel-per-day Cardón refinery in Punto Fijo, reported Reuters, citing a worker at the plant and a union official. It is unclear when the unit will be back online. ***
PLC Refinery Conversion to Conclude in 2018
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 17.Feb.2017) – PDVSA estimates that the deep conversion project at its 100 percent owned Puerto La Cruz refinery, which will require foreign investments of $10.5 billion and allow the refinery to process 210,000 barrels per day, will conclude in late 2018. ***
Maduro Names Citgo President as Venezuela’s Oil Minister
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 20.Jan.2017) – Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro announced the appointment of Nelson MartĂnez, the actual president of Citgo Petroleum Corporation, as the country’s new petroleum minister. MartĂnez replaces outgoing Petroleum Minister Eulogio Del Pino. “Our friend Eulogio Del Pino remains in front of PDVSA,” reported state […]
EP PetroEcuador Lays Out Goals for 2016
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Jun.2016, Clifford Fingers III) – EP PetroEcuador revealed some of its goals for 2016, reported the state company in an official statement. The goals for 2016 include, but are not limited to the following: — Operation of product pipeline Pascuales Cuenca, — Company restructuring, — Construction of […]
Three Companies Interested in Esmeraldas Overhaul
(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 Refinery overhaul. A total of 29 companies from Ecuador were qualified to present bids for salvage from the Esmeraldas Refinery […]
CITGO, Aruba Gov’t Finalize San Nicolas Refinery Deal
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 11.Jun.2016) – Authorities from the governments of Aruba, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and officials from Venezuela’s state oil company PetrĂłleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) and CITGO Aruba, gathered in Caracas, Venezuela to take part in the execution of a commercial agreement between CITGO […]
Esmeraldas Overhaul to Reduce Imports by Nearly $355 Mln
(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 million per day due to the decrease in fuel and derivative imports which will translate into an annual savings of […]
Company Profile: Oleoducto Central S.A. (Ocensa)
(Moody’s, 4.Jun.2016) – Oleoducto Central S.A. (Ocensa) is the largest crude oil pipeline and the only public-use pipeline in Colombia. Its pipeline is ~845 km in length with 745,000 b/d of capacity starting in mid-2016. Ocensa connects the country’s largest crude producing fields in the Llanos Basin at El Porvenir […]