(Reuters, 8.Jan.2019) — Curacao’s 335,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Isla refinery has resumed work, management of the government-owned facility said on Tuesday, after eight months of paralysis caused by a dispute between its...
(Reuters, 7.Jan.2019) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday that his crackdown against fuel theft was yielding positive results, even as the intervention sparked severe fuel shortages...
(Pemex, 6.Jan.2019) — By mandate of the Mexican Government, Pemex has made significant progress in restoring fuel distribution, using various alternative supply lines in the affected states. Although there have...
(Pemex, 5.Jan.2019) — Petróleos Mexicanos reports that safer transportation methods are being used as part of the Joint Plan of the Mexican Government to combat fuel theft, which has caused...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, Piero Stewart, and Jared Yamin, 31.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on complaints from oil executives in Argentina over constant changes at...
[caption id="attachment_5666" align="alignnone" width="2850"] Petróleos Mexicanos General Director Ing. Octavio Romero Oropeza. Source: Pemex[/caption] (Pemex, 15.Dec.2018) — The general director of Petróleos Mexicanos, Eng. Octavio Romero Oropeza, affirmed that with...
(ARPEL, 13.Dec.2018) — The Workshop on “Best practices in the operation and maintenance of hydrocracker and diesel hydrotreating units” was held December 12-14 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. The meeting...
(OilPrice.com, Irina Slav, 12.Dec.2018) — Canadian miner Crystallex has accused Venezuela of breaching a US$1.4-billion settlement agreement as PDVSA continued to try and overturn a court order that allowed Crystallex...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Julien Neaves, 12.Dec.2018) — More than US$11 million (or over TT$74 million) has been paid to two global consultancy companies for work done on behalf of...
(Loop News, 11.Dec.2018) — The deepening Petrojam scandal has now seen the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) calling for the resignation or firing of Opposition Spokesman on Energy, Phillip Paulwell....
(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,...
(CITGO, 11.Dec.2018) — CITGO Petroleum Corporation presented twenty scholarships to the recipients of its inaugural CITGO Innovation Scholarship Program, an initiative within the CITGO STEM Talent Pipeline. Each student will...
(Reuters, Alexandre Meneghini, 10.Dec.2018) — Mexico’s new government detailed plans Sunday to build an $8 billion oil refinery in the home state of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and to...
(Pemex, 9.Dec.2018) — The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced the National Refining Plan, which includes the rehabilitation of six refineries owned by Pemex and the construction of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Dec.2018) — Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented the country’s National Refining Plan, which includes rehabilitation of six Pemex refineries, and construction of another...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 6.Dec.2018) — Venezuela this month plans to import over 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of refined products to ease domestic fuel shortages caused by hobbled refineries and...
(Reuters, Mayela Armas and Mariela Nava, 5.Dec.2018) — Angelica Vera of Venezuela’s western state of Zulia planned to cremate her father's remains after he died of cancer in November because...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 1.Dec.2018) — Termination and other exit payments owed to Petrotrin’s workers as part of a $2.7 billion compensation settlement have finally started appearing in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin and Piero Stewart, 28.Nov. 2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from Mexico, OPEC producers Ecuador and Venezuela, and Peru. Heard On...
(Houston Business Journal, Olivia Pulsinelli, 28.Nov.2018) — Houston-based refiner Citgo Holding Inc. will remain owned by Venezuela’s state-run oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela SA, if PDVSA follows through with the...
(Ecopetrol, 27.Nov.2018) — Ecopetrol S.A. reported that in 2019 the Ecopetrol Business Group (GEE) expects to invest between $3.5 and $4billion, up 16% to 33% over the projected 2018 figure....
(Ecopetrol, 27.Nov.2018) —The Ecopetrol Business Group (GEE) expects investment in 2019 of $3.5 billion to $4 billion, up 16% to 33% over the projected 2018 figure, according to Colombia’s state...
(Houston Chronicle, Sergio Chapa, 26.Nov.2018) — A payment on a $1.4 billion arbitration award to a Canadian gold mining company is allowing Venezuela to keep ownership of Citgo Petroleum’s three...
(Fox Business, Mike Obel, 26.Nov.2018) — Venezuela managed to retain ownership of Citgo, the big U.S. refining and gasoline marketing company that is one of its few remaining sources of...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 22.Nov.2018) — Crude oil’s importance to the TT economy is now second to natural gas, but its contribution is by no means miniscule —...
(Bloomberg, Fabiola Zerpa, 21.Nov.2018) — Venezuela’s fuel shortages are worsening as mass resignations at the state oil company’s tanker fleet have delayed gasoline shipments. Petroleos de Venezuela SA’s refineries are...
(CMC, 16.Nov.2018) — The Trinidad and Tobago government Wednesday said it provided guarantees of more than US$400 million to the cash-strapped oil company, Petrotrin, to meet its financial and other...
(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....
(Reuters, Tibisay Romero, Deisy Buitrago, 13.Nov.2018) — With chronic shortages of basic goods afflicting her native Venezuela, Veronica Perez used to drive from supermarket to supermarket in her grey Chevrolet...
(S&P Global Platts, Bernardo Fallas, 13.Nov.2018) — Argentina-based energy company Pampa Energia is cutting polystyrene and styrene butadiene rubber production amid lackluster demand in Argentina and barriers to export, two...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 12.Nov.2018) — Construction of the Talara refinery in Perú continues. Modernization work at the refinery -- which is comprised of 16 processing units and 5...
(Trinidad Express, Sandhya Santoo, 7.Nov.2018) — Is super gasoline burning faster? This is the claim by some motorists who are insisting that the fuel is burning faster, leading to lower...
(Ecopetrol S.A., 31.Oct.2018) — Ecopetrol S.A. announced the Business Group's financial results for the third quarter and year-to-date 2018, prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards applicable in Colombia....
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Azard Ali, 29.Oct.2018) — Starting today, Petrotrin will employ measures to stop people from grabbing its lands. The state-owned refinery is expcted to cease operations on...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 28.Oct.2018) — Petroleum sector accidents and oil spills in Venezuela have become an almost regular occurrence. Between two and three accidents are happening each per...
(Ft.com, Gideon Long, John Paul Rathbone, 28.Oct.2018) — Gideon Long in Caracas and John Paul Rathbone in Washington October 28, 2018 Print this page 95 In the lobby of the...
(OilPrice.com. Tsvetana Paraskova, 26.Oct.2018) — Although Venezuela is regularly delaying or avoiding bond payments and is behind on billions of U.S. dollars in such payments, it is preparing to make...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Oct.2018) — Four distillations units at PDVSA’s Cardón refinery, located in Falcón state, are said halted due to a lack of oil and power failures,...
(Ft.com, Gideon Long, 25.Oct.2018) — In a month in which emerging market government bonds have been hammered by the prospect of US rate increases, geopolitical risk and fears of a...
(Bloomberg, 24.Oct.2018) — Petroleos de Venezuela SA’s plan to make a $949 million bond payment would mark a rare exception for Nicolas Maduro’s regime as it tries to hold on...
(Pemex, 22.Oct.2018) — Petróleos Mexicanos evaluated several proposals for shipments to supply light crude oil, in accordance to the parameters established by Pemex Transformación Industrial (Pemex Industrial Transformation). As a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 19.Oct.2018) — Production of special gasolines from Bolivia’s three existing refineries isn’t sufficient to cover the country's demand. Domestic supply only covers 71.4% of domestic...
(Hydrocarbon Engineering, Alex Hithersay, 18.Oct.2018) — Petrobras has announced that it has signed an integrated project business model agreement (IPBMA) with China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Co....
(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...
(Reuters, Diego Oré, 17.Oct.2018) — Mexico’s incoming government will soon inherit a costly dilemma over an ethane supply contract between national oil company Pemex and a consortium led by a...
(Reuters, 17.Oct.2018) — Mexico’s Salina Cruz oil refinery is operating normally after three people were injured in an electrical accident, a spokesman for state oil company Pemex said on Wednesday....
(Reuters, 17.Oct.2018) — Mexico’s state-run oil company Pemex received bids this week for up to six 350,000-barrel cargoes of U.S. Bakken crude it wants to import from November through December,...
(Foreign Policy, Lisa Viscidi, .16.Oct.2018) — A potential return to resource nationalism could set both countries back. Until this year, resource nationalism—when a government asserts its control over a country’s...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 13.Oct.2018) — Venezuela has solicited an audit of costs related to the Pacific Coast Refinery and Río Napo JV in order to discuss potential investment...
(InSight Crime, Parker Asmann, 10.Oct.2018) — The ways in which gangs of fuel thieves in Costa Rica are tapping oil pipelines in order to steal and later resell the good...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 4.Oct.2018) — Venezuela’s September crude sales to the United States rose to their highest in over a year, boosted by purchases by Citgo Petroleum, the U.S. refining...
(CMC, 3.Oct.2018) — The Trinidad and Tobago government Monday reiterated its position that it was necessary to close down the refinery of the state-owned oil company, Petrotrin, insisting that the...
(Renaissance Oil Corp., 2.Oct.2018) — Renaissance Oil Corp. announced that Mexico's president-elect, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who will take office on December 1, 2018, assured private energy executives on September...
(Reuters, 1.Oct.2018) — Mexico’s state-run Pemex has launched a tender to buy 350,000 barrels of U.S. Light Louisiana Sweet (LLS) crude for October delivery, according to a document seen by...
(Bloomberg, 1.Oct.2018) — Venezuelan oil workers protested against a new minimum wage at key crude processing facilities last week, claiming the new law disregards previous pay scales and union agreements....
[caption id="attachment_3882" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Petrotrin refinery in Trinidad. Source: Trinidad Guardian[/caption] (LoopTT, Darlisa Ghouralal, 1.Oct.2018) — Severance packages for retrenched Petrotrin workers are expected to cost the State in the region...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 30.Sep.2018) — Members of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago and a Petrotrin transition team meet to discuss issues related to closure of the...
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, David Alire Garcia, 28.Sep.2018) — Mexico will need to double to about $4 billion its annual oil exploration investment to reverse a 14-year decline in output, a...
(S&P Global Platts, Daniel Rodriguez, 27.Sep.2018) — Pemex plans to begin importing light crude from the US Gulf Coast in the second half of October, CEO Carlos Trevino told S&P...
(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...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Julien Neaves, 26.Sep.2018) — Energy Minister Franklin Khan has assured there would be no disruption in fuel supply to the travelling public with the closure of...
(PetroTal Corp., 26.Sep.2018) — PetroTal Corp. is increasing production from the Bretaña oil field on Block 95, as well as evaluating the Osheki prospect in Block 107. Key highlights from...
(Reuters, David Alire Garcia, Marianna Parraga, 26.Sep.2018) — Mexican state-run oil company Pemex expects to begin importing up to 100,000 barrels per day of light crude oil, likely from the...
(Reuters, 24.Sep.2018) — Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said on Monday that it would cut the average price of gasoline at its refineries by 0.59 percent after pump...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Yvonne Webb, 20.Sep.2018) — Days before Petrotrin's refining operation ceases and workers are retrenched, a member of the board who would have participated in the restructuring...
(Pemex, 19.Sep.2018) — The CEO of Petróleos Mexicanos, Carlos Treviño Medina, launched the Management Assessment System at the Cangrejera Petrochemical Complex, located in the state of Veracruz that will help...
(CMC, 19.Sep.2018) — The Trinidad and Tobago g overnment Monday said the compensation package for workers being laid off by the closure of the oil refinery of the s tate-owned...
(Trinidad Express, 17.Sep.2018) — Former Director of Energy Industries at Industrial, Jim Catterson, says closure of the Petrotrin refinery makes no economic sense. He said the closure would decimate south...
(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....
(Jamaica Gleaner, 14.Sep.2018) — Barbados says it is holding discussions with a number of suppliers to replace the energy arrangements it had with oil refinery Petrotrin. The refinery, based in...
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Sasha Harrinanan, 12.Sep.2018) — Most everyone knows about the 1,700 workers who will be out of a job once Petrotrin closes its oil refinery in Pointe-a-Pierre....
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 12.Sep.2018) — PDVSA expects to reopen the south dock of Venezuela’s main oil port Jose by the end of September, easing strains on crude exports delayed due...
(Jamaica Gleaner, 12.Sep.2018) — Gas prices are to go down by $0.72 tomorrow Thursday, September 13 The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 will sell for $137.82 per litre and...
(Bloomberg, Amy Stillman and Eric Martin, 6.Sep.2018) — Mexico’s next president said he will continue with tenders for drilling service contracts starting when he takes office. “We are preparing the...
(OilPrice.com, Irina Slav, 5.Sep.2018) — Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has plans to build the country’s largest refinery with a capacity to produce 400,000 barrels of gasoline daily, Reuters...