Exxon, Shell To Delay Vaca Muerta Production
(Seeking Alpha, Carl Surran, 20.Nov.2019) — Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell say they want to ramp up oil and natural gas production in Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale play but...
Ecopetrol To Ratchet Up Oil Output By 4% In 2020
(S&P Global Platts, 30.Oct.2019) — Colombia's state-controlled Ecopetrol is targeting 2020 production of 740,000-760,000 barrels of crude and equivalents per day, up to 4% more than expected average output this...
Ecopetrol’s 3Q:19 Results
(Ecopetrol, 29.Oct.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. announced the Ecopetrol Group's financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2019, prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards...
Mexico Taps Banks As It Nears End Of Hedge
(Reuters, Devika Krishna Kumar and Stefanie Eschenbacher, 23.Oct.2019) — Mexico’s finance ministry has completed a majority of its annual oil hedging program, working with at least four top investment banks...
Colombia Eyes Oil Round
(Reuters, Julia Symmes Cobb and Luis Jaime Acosta, 26.Sep.2019) — Colombia hopes to sign 20 contracts for oil exploration and production rights in its coming auction, the head of the...
TechnipFMC Inks GOM EPCI Contract For PowerNap
(Technip, 22.Aug.2019) — TechnipFMC has been awarded a significant(1) integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (iEPCI™) contract by Shell for the PowerNap project, located in the Gulf of Mexico. TechnipFMC...
Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Meets With Governors, Companies
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 20.Aug.2019) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Gustavo Lopetegui held a meeting in provinces with governors and oil company executives to discuss recently announced freezes to oil...
Brazil Approves Transfer Of Saturno Stake To Ecopetrol
(Ecopetrol, 18.Jul.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. said the Ministry of Mines and Energy of Brazil has authorized the transfer of a 10% stake in the Saturno block, located in the Santos...
Total, Shell, Petrobras Launch Mero 2 Project Offshore Brazil
(Chron.com, Jordan Blum, 12.Jun.2019) — The Libra Consortium led by Petrobras, Royal Dutch Shell and Total said they've authorized construction of the multibillion-dollar Mero 2 project offshore of Brazil. The...
Libra Consortium Takes FDI On Mero-2 FPSO In Brazil’s Pre-Salt
(Shell, 11.Jun.2019) — Libra Consortium announced the final investment decision to contract the Mero-2 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to be deployed at the Mero field offshore Santos...
Shell To Invest At Least $397 Million In Deepwater Oil Projects In Mexico
(Reuters, 11.Jun.2019) — Mexico’s independent oil regulator on Tuesday approved deepwater energy exploration plans for five areas operated by Royal Dutch Shell Plc in Mexican waters near the maritime border...
Trinidad Moves Past Venezuela To Tap Border Gas
(Argus, 11.Jun.2019) — Trinidad and Tobago has cleared Shell to develop the country's side of a shallow-water natural gas field that straddles the maritime border with Venezuela, prime minister Keith...
UOCRA Union Leader Arrested In Argentina
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 7.Jun.2019) — UOCRA union leader Juan Carlos Levi was reportedly arrested in Argentina after a search of his home, online media Diariamente Neuquen reported. Levi...
LatAmNRG Argentina Briefs: YPF Gas Exports, Shell Dumping, Phoenix Global
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to the state entity YPF’s plans to ship natural gas to Chile through May 2020,...
LatAmNRG Bolivia Briefs: YPFB And Shell Deal For Yapucaiti X 1 Well
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 24.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to YPFB being the withholding agent for transport carriers in Chaco, and YPFB and Shell...
LatAmNRG Q&A With ANH Colombia: Exploratory Drilling To Start In 2H:20
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.May.2019) — As part of Energy Analytics Institute’s ongoing coverage of the Latin America and Caribbean energy sectors from conventionals, unconventionals to renewables, Colombia’s Hydrocarbons...
Shell Commences Production At Appomattox Field In U.S. Gulf Of Mexico
(Shell, 23.May.2019) — Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiary Shell Offshore Inc (Shell) announces today that production has started at the Shell-operated Appomattox floating production system months ahead of...
Colombia Oil Reserves Up 9.9% In 2018; Gas Reserves Decline
(Reuters, 13.May.2019) — Colombia's crude oil reserves were up 9.9% to 1.96 billion barrels at the end of last year, as efforts to increase exploration, production and reserves paid dividends...
Delek’s US GOM Caesar Tonga Oil Acquisition Cancelled
(Globes, 12.May.2019) — One of the existing partners has exercised its first right of refusal on the rights in the Caesar Tonga oil field. The share price of Delek Group...
LatAmNRG Argentina Briefs: Gutiérrez Shell Chat, Tecpetrol Accident
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 8.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to eight oil and gas sector deaths in the Neuquina Basin in 15 months, Neuquén...
Finnish Refiner Neste Hit By Venezuela Oil Sanctions
(Reuters, Tarmo Virki, 26.Apr.2019) — Finnish biofuel producer and oil refiner Neste reported a bigger than expected fall in quarterly profit on Friday, with U.S. sanctions against Venezuela having curbed...
Shell Announces Deep-Water GOM Discovery At Blacktip Prospect
(Shell, 24.Apr.2019) — Shell Offshore Inc. (“Shell”), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, today announced a significant discovery at the Blacktip prospect in the deep water U.S. Gulf of...
Shell Strikes Big Oil In Blacktip Well Of Gulf Of Mexico
(Reuters, 24.Apr.2019) — Royal Dutch Shell’s U.S. unit said on Wednesday that it had made one of its biggest oil discoveries in the Blacktip deepwater well in the U.S. Gulf...
Lee: Dragon Gas Deal Dead
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Yvonne Webb, 19.Apr.2019) — Deputy political leader of the United National Congress, Pointe-a-Pierre MP David Lee, has said the Dragon gas deal between TT and Venezuela...
Shell Awards Contract To Halliburton For Offshore Project In Brazil
(Chron.com, Sergio Chapa, 17.Apr.2019) — Royal Dutch Shell has awarded a three-year contract to Houston oilfield service company Halliburton to explore and develop two projects off the coast of Brazil....
Trinidad PM Rowley: Pray For Oil
(Trinidad and Tobago News Day, Sean Douglas, 17.Apr.2019) — The Prime Minister has publicly implored prayerful citizens to pray for new deposits of oil to be found in exploratory drilling...
Shell’s STEM Path To The Future
(Trinidad and Tobago News Day, Melanie Waithe, 11.Apr.2019) — Ever took a walk on the bottom of the sea, to see how natural gas is extracted from beneath the earth’s...
Shell Invests In Nature In Move To Tackle CO2 Emissions
(Shell, 8.Apr.2019) — Carbon-neutral driving launch in the Netherlands complements investments in new electric vehicle charge points. Reforestation partnerships announced in the Netherlands and Spain Shell today announces a programme...
Students Put Energy Efficient Cars To The Test At Shell Eco-marathon Americas
(Shell, 7.Apr.2019) — Make the Future Live California featuring Shell Eco-marathon Americas drew more than 1,000 students to Sonoma Raceway to compete for the title of most fuel-efficient vehicle. Northern...
IEEFA Report: Argentina’s Vaca Muerta Patagonia
(IEEFA, 21.Mar.2019) — The Vaca Muerta oil and gas project, which promises to double oil and gas production over the next six years in Argentina, is facing such strong headwinds...
Venezuela’s Oil Re-opening Unlikely Before 2024
(Argus, 14.Mar.2019) — Venezuela’s political opposition is proposing a comprehensive oil reform that would allow foreign investors to own up to 100pc of oil assets from the wellhead to the...
LatAmNRG Argentina Briefs: Shell’s Rooney On Vaca Muerta, YPF Foundation
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 28.Feb.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Shell Argentina’s Sean Rooney comments on the productivity of Vaca Muerta, YPFB Foundation training in...
Shell To Tap Brazil Pre-Salt Gas For Power Project
(Argus, 13.Feb.2019) — Shell is making its first foray into Brazilian power generation with a ground-breaking project that will use natural gas from the country´s extensive offshore pre-salt deposits. The...
Argentina Can’t Afford To Pay Vaca Muerta Subsidies To Producers
(IEEFA, 8.Feb.2019) — The Argentine government’s plan to develop the massive Vaca Muerta oil and gas reserves in northern Patagonia has hit a major obstacle. The success of the plan...
Fact Sheet: Hunt Oil In Peru
(Hunt Oil, 2.Feb.2019) — Hunt Oil Company of Peru L.L.C., Sucursal del Perú (HOCP) is part of the Camisea Consortium and holds a 25.2% interest in the License Contracts related...
Rowan Reports Contract Extension With Shell For Gorilla VI In Trinidad
(Rowan, 2.Jan.2019) — Rowan Companies plc said the Rowan Gorilla VI (a Super Gorilla class jack-up) has been extended by Shell in Trinidad. The rig will continue its current drilling...
LatAmNRG Briefs: Maurel & Prom Venezuela, Argentina Renewables, Ecopetrol Pre-Salt, Guyana Governance
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 21.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Argentina’s renewable energy sector, Maurel & Prom’s acquisition of Shell’s interest in the Urdaneta West...
Ecopetrol Expands Presence In Brazil’s Pre-Salt With Deal With Shell And Chevron
(Ecopetrol, 21.Dec.2018) — Ecopetrol S.A. closed a deal with companies of the Shell and Chevron groups, which will allow it to expand its stake in Brazil’s Pre-Salt Region. The agreement...
Vista Preps First Two Shale Oil Pilots In Vaca Muerta
(S&P Global Platts, 26.Nov. 2018) — Vista Oil & Gas plans to invest $157.4 million in its first pilot projects in Vaca Muerta, betting on the Argentinian shale play for...
Economics Of Vaca Muerta’s Development Trumps Climate Concerns
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart and Pietro D. Pitts, 20.Nov.2018) — Argentina’s Vaca Muerta unconventional shale gas formation in Neuquén is at the center of an energy revolution taking place...
Shell Adds New, Deep-water Production In Brazil
(Oil & Gas Technoloy, Mark Venables, 13.Nov.2018) — New, deep-water production is underway at Lula Extreme South in the Brazilian Santos Basin. Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiary Shell...
Chevron Stayed In Venezuela Long After Rivals Quit
(Wall Street Journal, Kejal Vyas and Bradley Olson, 8.Nov.2018) — For nearly a century, Chevron Corp. has weathered dictatorships, coups and nationalization drives to keep pumping oil in Venezuela. But recently,...
Royal Dutch Shell Provides 3Q:18 Highlights For Brazil And Argentina
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 2.Nov.2018) — Royal Dutch Shell provided an update related to portfolio developments in Brazil and Argentina during the third quarter 2018. Third Quarter 2018 Portfolio...
Echo Energy Appoints Independent Non-Executive Director
(Echo Energy, 2.Nov.2018) — Echo Energy announced appointment of Dr. Gavin Graham as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the company with immediate effect. Dr. Graham has nearly 40 years’ experience...
Shell Seeks To Sell Venezuela JV Stake
(Reuters, 12.Oct.2018) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc is negotiating the sale of its stake in a Venezuelan oil joint venture to Paris-based Maurel & Prom , three sources said this...
Maurel & Prom Confirms Discussions With Shell Over Urdaneta West Field In Venezuela
(Maurel & Prom, 12.Oct.2018) — Etablissements Maurel & Prom notes recent press articles and confirms it is working on the acquisition of Shell Exploration and Production Investments B.V.’s 40% interest...
Aker Solutions Wins Subsea Order for Libra’s Mero Field Offshore Brazil
(Aker Solutions, 5.Oct.2018) — Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Petrobras to provide a subsea production system and related services for the Mero 1 project within the Mero field...
Shell Adds Material Acreage To Its Deep-water Position In Brazil
(Shell, 28.Sep2018) — Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, and its bid consortium member Chevron Brasil Óleo & Gás Ltda, won a 35-year production sharing...
Argentina’s Conventional Oil and Gas Attract Explorers
(Ft.com, Charles Newberry, 23.Sep.2019) — Fresh discovery indicates life beyond Vaca Muerta. A few years ago, when the giant shale play of Vaca Muerta was starting to lure oil majors...
Venezuela Oil Production Continues to Collapse
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Sep.2018) — The decline is consistent and constant as well as consistently and constantly bad, writes Caracas Capital Market in a research note emailed to...
Concerns Raised Over Contract Release Program in Mexico
(S&P Global, 6.Sep.2018) — Mexico gas market observers have expressed concern that a lack of liquidity and supply guarantees will complicate the final phase of Pemex's natural gas contract release...
Carolyn Wants Details on Dragon Gas Deal
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Sean Douglas, 28.Aug.2018) — Four questions have been posed by Congress of the People leader and former energy minister Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan over the Dragon gas deal...
Venezuela Gas Price Deal Competitive—Khan
(Trinidad Guardian, 27.Aug.2018) — Government is giving no details on the pricing structure this country will pay for gas from the Dragon Field under the agreement signed with Venezuela on...
Five Things About T&T, Venezuela’s Dragon Gas Deal
(Loop News, 26.Aug.2018) — On August 25, 2018, an historic agreement was made between Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for access the Venezuela's Dragon Field....
Venezuela to Send Dragón Gas to Trinidad
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.Aug.2018) — Venezuela will send its Dragón field natural gas to Trinidad for processing. That’s according to a deal signed today in Caracas between the...
MEEI Updates on Status of Trinidad Energy Infrastructure
(MEEI, 24.Aug.2018) — The Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI) has been monitoring the impacts of the 6.9 magnitude earthquake which occurred on Tuesday 21st August, 2018 at 5:31...
Trinidad and Venezuela to Sign Gas Agreement
(CMC, 24.Aug.2018) — Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley will lead a delegation to Venezuela tomorrow to sign an agreement for the development of the across border gas from the Venezuelan...
Dragon Gas Deal Finalised Tomorrow
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Carla Bridglal, 21.Aug.2018) – After nearly two years of negotiations between this country and Venezuela the deal that will allow TT to process gas from the...
Major Petroleum Cos. Pay T&T $114.7 Bln during 2010-2016
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 20.Aug.2018) – Payments by major oil and gas companies to the government of the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago totaled $114.7 billion during 2010-2016....
Companies to Invest Nearly $900 Mln in Iñiguazu
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Aug2018) – In Caraparí, in southern Bolivia, a law was enacted that paves the way for the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbon resources in Iñiguazu....
Shell calls in a BIG RIG
(Trinidad Express, Aleem Khan, 7.Aug.2018) – More hints that major discovery on the horizon. Offshore Trinidad was one of two sites in the world where oil and gas service provider...
Atlantic Puts Focus on Process Safety
(Trinidad Guardian, 21.Jul.2018) – Atlantic CEO Dr Philip Mshelbila and Rob DiValerio, BP’s Vice President—Group Process Safety Central, have highlighted the central role of employees in the systems that protect...
Guyanese Tanker Workers Undergo Safety Training
(Stabroek News, 18.Jul.2018) – Approximately 35 Guyanese Pritchard-Gordon Tankers (PGT) workers were educated on safety practices as Shell partnered with the company to host a one-day workshop yesterday. The workshop...
Stock to Watch: ExxonMobil in Guyana
(OilPrice.com, Meredith Taylor, 10.Jul.2018) – American energy dominance is on the rise. In March 2018, the U.S. beat its all-time record and pumped more than 10.4 million barrels per day...
Stuart Young Leads Venezuelan Energy Talks
(LoopTT, 27.Jun.2018) – Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs and Minister of Communications Stuart Young led a...
Uncertainty Looms Large Over LatAm Oil
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 20.Jun.2018) – While oil industry analysts and market participants are watching Venezuela closely for clues about how low its oil production will go, several other countries in...
Brazil Raises $830 Mln in Pre-Salt Auction
(Efe, 7.Jun.2018) – Brazil raised 3.15 billion reais (around $830 million) in fixed signing bonuses on Thursday in its fourth auction of oil blocks in a deepwater region of the...
Fact Sheet: Peru LNG
(Shell, 1.Jun.2018) — Peru LNG is the first natural gas liquefaction plant in South America and began operations in 2010 with a 4.45 mtpa capacity. It receives dry gas through...
The Insignificance of Venezuela’s 342-Year R/P Ratio
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 24.May.2018) – Venezuela’s reserves-to-production or R/P ratio was a remarkable 342 times in 2016 based on reserves of 300.9 billion barrels and production of...
PDVSA Ex-President Luis Giusti Says Co. Bankrupt
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 14.May.2018) – Venezuela’s state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) is bankrupt, at least that what its former president Luis Giusti thinks. “If you...
TT’s Energy Landscape
(Trinidad and Tobago’s Newsday, Richardson Dhalai, 10.May.2018) — Trinidad and Tobago has been involved in the petroleum sector for over 100 years and is the largest oil and natural gas...
Vaca Muerta Megaproject – A Fracking Carbon Bomb In Patagonia
(Observatorio Petrolero Sur, 5.Feb.2018) — Vaca Muerta is a leading case for the next generation of fossil fuels. Big Oil and Gas companies are keen to turn it into a...
Shell Made Mistake Pulling Out of Guyana basin
(CaribbeanLife, Bert Wilkinson, 31.Jan.2018) — Now that Guyana’s oil and gas basin has been deemed as one of the hottest and most exciting prospects in the world, Shell Oil has...
Trinidad – Upstream Activity Snapshot in 2018
(Kevin Ramnarine, Strategic Energy Adviser). Former Minister of Energy. Business School Lecturer. International Speaker, 3.Jan.2018) – This is a summary of upstream activity for Trinidad and Tobago in 2018. 1)...
PDVSA, Shell Discuss Gas Exports
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 21.May.2017) – PDVSA and Shell continue to conduct discussions related to the exportation of Venezuelan natural gas to the twin-nation island of Trinidad and Tobago,...