(Repsol, 22.Oct.2020) â Repsol will build the first production plant for advanced biofuels in Spain at its Cartagena refinery. From this new facility, the multi-energy company, committed to the circular […]
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Bolivia Briefs: Elections, Responses From Abroad
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Oct.2020) â Bolivia brief related to general elections held 18 October 2020 as well as initial responses from abroad. Boliviaâs Arce Says His Election Has âRecovered Hopeâ […]
Repsol Begins Producing At Its Delta Wind Project
(Repsol, 1.Oct.2020) â Repsol, as part of its commitment to an efficient and sustainable energy transition, has reached a new milestone and started to generate wind power with the connection […]
PdV Restarts Coker For Export Via Cuba
(Argus, 20.May.2020) â State-owned PdV has partially restarted a 70,000 b/d delayed coker which had been off line for over a year at its 305,000 b/d Cardon refinery, three PdV […]
Repsol Makes Deepwater Oil Find In Mexican Waters
(Repsol, 4.May.2020) â Repsol has made two significant offshore oil discoveries in Mexicoâs deep water with its Polok-1 and Chinwol-1 exploration wells in Block 29 in the Salina Basin. Both […]
Tullow Announces Carapa-1 Well Result
(Tullow, 2.Jan.2020) â Tullow Oil plc announces that the Carapa-1 exploration well, drilled on the Kanuku licence offshore Guyana, has encountered approximately four metres of net oil pay based on […]
UN Secretary Chief Guterres: âPoint Of No-Return Hurtling Towards Usâ
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.Dec.2019) â UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres addressed the media in a press briefing one day ahead of the COP25 2019 to be held in Madrid, […]
JinkoSolar To Supply 950MW To X-ELIO
(JinkoSolar, 26.Nov.2019) â JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd., one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world, announced it has delivered to X-ELIO, a leading company dedicated […]
Repsolâs Brufau Says Gas The Only Transitional Energy
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 10.Oct.2019) â Repsolâs President Antonio Brufau said during a visit to Bolivia that natural gas is the only transitional energy. âAll the countries that are […]
EDPR Secures New PPA For 100MW In Mexico
(EDP RenovĂĄveis, 30.Sep.2019) â EDP RenovĂĄveis, S.A. (EDPR) secured a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to sell the energy produced by a wind farm project of 100 MW. The contract is […]
Repsol Winds Down Operations In Venezuela
(VOA, Martin Arostegui, 21.May.2019) â Spain’s Repsol, the last western oil giant with major operations in Venezuela, is leaving the embattled country, as pressure mounts from U.S. sanctions and continuing […]
Repsol And Petro-Peru Raise Fuel Prices Again In Peru
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 8.Apr.2019) â Repsol and Petro-Peru released details of their new fuel prices over the weekend. According to the details, fuel oil and gasoline prices rose […]
IGU Releases 2019 World LNG Report As Global Trade Continues To Grow
(IGU, 2.Apr.2019) â The International Gas Union (IGU) released its 2019 World LNG Report â an annual, in-depth analysis of the current state of the Global LNG Industry over the […]
Colombia Temporarily Suspends Search For Electricaribe Buyer
(Reuters, 1.Dec.2018) â The government ordered the liquidation of the company – a subsidiary of Spainâs Gas Natural – in March 2017 because of service provision failures, after taking temporary […]
OPDEnergy To Build Solar Photovoltaic Plants In Spain, Chile And Mexico
(OPDEnergy, 30.Nov.2018) â The multinational corporation OPDEnergy – specializing in the production of energy assets and in the management of all related phases (development, financing, construction, operation and maintenance) – […]
Tullow Oil to Drill First Guyana Well in 3Q:19
(Reuters, 5.Sep.2018) â Tullow Oil plans to drill its first well in the much-watched Guyana offshore basin in the third quarter of next year in its Orinduik licence bordering discoveries […]
Ex-Venezuelan Energy Official Pleads Guilty
(AP, 16.Jul.2018) â A former official at a state-run electric company in Caracas, Venezuela, pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy relating to an alleged multibillion-dollar graft scheme in the Venezuelan […]
ExxonMobil Reconfirms March 2020 for First Guyana Oil
(Denis Chabrol, DemeraraWaves, 12.Jun.2018) â ExxonMobil on Tuesday reconfirmed that Guyana will pump up its first barrel of oil in March 2020, even as the Guyana government continued to fend […]
PDVSA owes Cardon IV partners Eni and Repsol $1bn
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 25.May.2018) â- Venezuelaâs state oil company PetrĂłleos de Venezuela owes an estimated $1bn to its partners in the CardĂłn IV natural gas project offshore. Gas […]
Mexico Awards Blocks In Final Oil Auction Before Election
(Reuters, David Alire Garcia & Marianna Parraga, 27.Mar.2018) — Mexico awarded just under half of the 35 shallow-water blocks it tendered on Tuesday, in an auction muddied by the promises […]
Repsol Starts Gas Production at the Sagari Field in Peru
(Repsol, 27.Dec.2017) – Repsol has begun gas production from the Sagari field, located in block 57 in the Cusco region of Peru, reinforcing the companyÂŽs gas output drive in its […]
Petrobras, Total Move Forward with Alliance
(Petrobras, 21.Dec.2016) â Petrobras signed a Master Agreement with the French company Total, in connection with the Strategic Alliance established in the Memorandum of Understanding signed on 10/24/2016, as previously […]
Venezuela to soon initiate gas shipments to Colombia
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 4.Jul.2016) â Venezuela plans to soon initiate shipments of natural gas to Colombia, reported Venezuela’s new agency AVN, citing the country’s Oil Minister Eulogio Del […]
Company Profile: Oleoducto Central S.A. (Ocensa)
(Moody’s, 4.Jun.2016) â 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 […]
Repsol Visits Bolivia to Discuss Investments
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 9.May.2016) â Repsol President Antonio Brufau visited Bolivia to discuss overall investments in the small landlocked country with officials from YPFB and investments in three […]
PDVSA advances with plants at Sinovensa, Petrocarabobo projects in Venezuela
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 28.Apr.2016, Words: 285) â PDVSA has started work on the heavy oil treatment plants at the joint-venture companies Petrolera Sinovensa and Petrocarabobo, located in the […]
Venezuela to Start Mariscal Sucre Project by YE:15
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 1.Oct.2015) â Venezuela will soon start offshore gas production at the Mariscal Sucre project. Production from Cardon IV block is currently at 300 million […]
Ecopetrol Announces Caribbean Deepwater Find
(Ecopetrol S.A., 28.Jul.2015) â Ecopetrol informs that at a depth of 3720 meters, the Kronos-1 well verified the presence of hydrocarbons in ultra-deepwater of Colombian south Caribbean area. This discovery […]
Seaway Signs Perla Gas Deal
(Seaway Heavy Lifting, 9.Apr.2015) â Seaway Heavy Lifting entered into a contract with Cardon IV in Venezuela for transportation and installation of the Perla project gas production platforms complete with […]
LatAmNRG: Heard on the Street 1Q:15
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Mar.2015) â Information in this section, provided by Energy Analytics Institute editors and reporters, is hearsay and thus should be treated as such. REGARDING COLOMBIA * A […]
Eni CEO comments on Perla
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 28.Aug.2013) â Eni Chief Executive Officer Paolo Scaroni comments during a special event at PDVSAâs headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela about his company’s participation in activities […]
Speech by Rafael Ramirez from Puerto Ordaz
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Jul.2013) â PDVSA’s and Venezuelaâs Oil Minister President Rafael Ramirez spoke at the closing of the Sixth National Production Meetings in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela. What […]
Boliviaâs Nationalization of Oil and Gas
(Council on Foreign Relations, Carin Zissis, 12.May.2006) â In a region seen as turning leftward, forging alliances would seem a natural course of events. But Bolivian President Evo Moralesâ decision […]