BELIZE CITY, BELIZE (Aaron Simonsky, Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Jan.2025) — Argentina’s state-owned YPF SA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with 3 Indian companies for [more…]
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TotalEnergies on Production Start-up at Fenix Field Offshore Argentina
(TotalEnergies, 20.Sep.2024) — TotalEnergies announces the start of production from the Fenix gas field, located 60 km off the coast of Tierra del Fuego in Southern [more…]
TotalEnergies Joins Japanese Fund Dedicated to Developing Low-carbon Hydrogen
(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Sep.2024) — TotalEnergies entered as an investor in the “Japan Hydrogen Fund” at its first close, joining several major Japanese companies. The fund [more…]
US LNG Industry Under Pressure as Challenges and Uncertainty Mount
(FT.com, 17.Aug.2024) — The US liquefied natural gas industry faces mounting challenges as legal clashes with activists and contractors combine with a federal permitting freeze [more…]
TotalEnergies Reports 2Q:24 Results, Eyes Suriname Block 58 FID
(TotalEnergies, 25.Jul.2024) —The Board of Directors of TotalEnergies SE, chaired by CEO Patrick Pouyanné, met on 24 July 2024, to approve the second quarter 2024 [more…]
TotalEnergies Buys Interest in OranjeWind Offshore Wind Farm
(TotalEnergies, 25.Jul.2024) — TotalEnergies signed agreements with German renewable developer RWE, to acquire a 50% stake in OranjeWind, a 795 MW offshore wind farm under development [more…]
TotalEnergies Mobilized to Support the People of Libya
(TotalEnergies, 18.Sep.2023) — Following the devastating floods in Libya last week, TotalEnergies answered Libya’s National Oil Corporation’s call for support from the very first hours [more…]
TotalEnergies Inks 25-year PPA for a 1 GW Wind Project in Kazakhstan
(TotalEnergies, 9.Jun.2023) — TotalEnergies confirms its commitment to the energy transition in Kazakhstan with the signature of a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the Mirny project. This [more…]
Oman: TotalEnergies is Rolling Out its Integrated Gas Strategy
(TotalEnergies, 20.Jan.2023) — In line with its growth strategy in gas and LNG, a fuel contributing to the energy transition, TotalEnergies announces the start of [more…]
Oman LNG Signs 3 Binding Term-sheet Agreements with Japan
(Oman LNG, 27.Dec.2022) — Oman LNG announced today the signing of binding sheet agreements with three (3) Japanese firms for the delivery of LNG, starting [more…]
TotalEnergies and Sempra Expand Alliance for the Development of LNG Exports, Renewables
(TotalEnergies, 31.Mar.2022) — TotalEnergies and Sempra are expanding their North American strategic alliance with the signing of two Memorandums of Understanding (MoU): one for the Vista [more…]
Six Companies Selected to Export Argentine Gas to Chile
(Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Dec.2021) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat authorized six companies — YPF, Total, PAE, Vista, Pampa and Tecpetrol — to carryout gas exports from [more…]
Guyana, Suriname Reveal Joint Gas Development Strategy
(S&P Global, 19.Aug.2021) — The presidents of Guyana and Suriname said Aug. 19 their countries will craft a joint strategy to develop their natural gas [more…]
PDVSA Restarts Drilling Campaign Suspended Since 2019
(S&P Global, 29.Jun.2021) — In the second half of the year, Venezuela’s state-owned PDVSA will restart the drilling of oil wells while intensifying work to [more…]
Westmount Re-starts Drilling At Jabillo-1, Canje Block, Offshore Guyana
(Westmount Energy, 7.June.2021) — Westmount Energy Limited (UK AIM: WTE.L, USA OTCQB: WMELF) noted the announcement by the Maritime Administration Department, Guyana, that the Stena [more…]
SEOGS2021 Highlights : Day 1
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Jun.2021) — Select highlights from 1 June 2021 from the Suriname Energy, Oil and Gas Summit or SEOGS2021, and speakers from President [more…]
Total Changes Name To TotalEnergies SE
(Total, 1.Jun.2021) — Total’s Ordinary and Extraordinary Meeting of Shareholders decided on 28 May 2021 to change the company’s name to TotalEnergies SE. The name [more…]
Total Starts Production From Zinia Phase 2
(Total, 6.May.2021) — Total (Paris: FP) (LSE: TTA) (NYSE: TOT), operator of Block 17 in Angola, together with the Angolan National Oil, Gas and Biofuels [more…]
Total Confirms Remobilization, Planning Of The Papua LNG Project
(Total, 5.May.2021) — A meeting took place on 3rd of May between Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of Total, and a Delegation of Papua New [more…]
Total, Siemens To Reduce LNG Related Emissions
(Total, 13.Apr.2021) — Total and Siemens Energy signed a Technical Collaboration Agreement to study sustainable solutions for CO2 emissions reduction. The collaboration will focus on [more…]
Total, CNOOC Reach Deals On Uganda, Tanzania Projects
(Reuters, 12.Apr.2021) — French major Total said on Monday and its partners have concluded final agreements to launch the Lake Albert resources development project in [more…]
Suriname Energy Summit: 1-3 June 2021
(Energy Advance, 12.Apr.2021) — The Suriname Energy, Oil & Gas Summit (SEOGS) will be hosted virtually from 1-3 June 2021. The inaugural SEOGS hosted by Staatsolie is the official event [more…]
Bulletwood-1 Well Results, Jabillo-1 Ops Update: Guyana
(JHI, 16.Mar.2021) — Bulletwood-1, the first well in the Canje Block, was safely drilled in 2,846 meters (9,337 ft) of water by the Stena Carron [more…]
Total To Continue Suriname Exploration
(Argus, 10.Mar.2021) — Total and Apache Corp. will continue their oil exploration program offshore of Suriname after ceasing drilling in one key test well upon [more…]
Exxon’s Bulletwood-1 Finds Non-Commercial Volumes
(Westmount Energy, 4.Mar.2021) — Westmount Energy Limited, the AIM-quoted oil and gas investing company focused on the Guyana-Suriname Basin reports that, further to its announcement [more…]
Apache Updates On Suriname Drilling Program
(Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Feb.2021) — Apache Corporation provided an update in its annual 10-K report (thru year-end 2020) on its operations in Suriname in South [more…]
Apache Eyes Suriname FID In 2021, First Oil By 2025
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Feb.2021) — Apache Corporation announced it is targeting a final investment decision (FID) by year-end and first oil flows by 2025 from [more…]
José R. Pocaterra Elected Chairman Of Citgo BODs
(Citgo, 12.Feb.2021) — The Citgo Petroleum Corporation Board of Directors announced today that Jose R. Pocaterra has been elected Chairman of the Board of Directors. [more…]
Total And Sigeif Mobilités Open NGV Filling Station
(Total, 12.Feb.2021) — Total has inaugurated France’s largest filling station exclusively dedicated to Natural Gas for Vehicle (NGV) and bioNGV, with the onsite presence of [more…]
Total’s 4Q:20 Earnings Call Transcript
(Motley Fool, 9.Feb.2021) — Executives with France’s Total participated in the company’s fourth quarter 2020 earnings call on 9 February 2021. What follows is the [more…]
Total Joins In On Zero Carbon Shipping
(Total, 4.Feb.2021) — Total joins today the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping as a strategic partner and accelerates its R&D program for [more…]
Italy Seeking Documents For Eni, Shell Nigeria Case
(Reuters, 20.Jan.2021) — Italian prosecutors asked a Milan Court on Wednesday for documents sourced from U.S. bank JPMorgan to be filed as part of a [more…]
Suriname Latest Big Oil Find As Industry Cuts Costs
(The New York Times, 20.Jan.2021) — The small South American country has become a hot prospect for oil companies looking to produce fossil fuels while [more…]
France’s Total Acquires Fonroche Biogaz
(Total, 11.Jan.2021) — Total announces the acquisition of Fonroche Biogaz, a company that designs, builds and operates anaerobic digestion units in France. With close to [more…]
Exxon Spuds Bulletwood, Offshore Guyana
(Offshore Engineer, 5.Jan.2021) — U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has reportedly started drilling at the Bulletwood-1 well site on the Canje Block, offshore Guyana. The news [more…]
Egypt Signs 9 New Deals For Oil And Gas Exploration
(Arab News, 3.Jan.2021) — The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources has signed nine new petroleum agreements to search for petroleum and natural gas [more…]
Total Enters A New Operated Exploration Permit In Egypt
(Total, 3.Jan.2020) — An international consortium led by Total (Total 35% Operator, Shell 30%, KUFPEC 25%, Tharwa 10%) and the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding company [more…]
Total Asks Mozambique Staff To Leave Over Attacks
(Bloomberg, 1.Jan.2021) — Total SE asked some staff to vacate its $20 billion Mozambique liquefied natural gas project as Islamist militants are staging attacks increasingly [more…]
Spills In Venezuela Offer A Bleak Vision Of An Oil End
(Bloomberg, 15.Dec.2020) — Tropical rains have washed away most outward traces of the oil spill that ravaged Rio Seco this fall. But the fishing village [more…]
Total Closes Participation in the Energía Costa Azul LNG Export Project
(Total, 10.Dec.2020) — Total, Sempra LNG and IEnova signed binding agreements finalizing Total’s equity investment in the Energía Costa Azul liquefied natural gas export project (ECA [more…]
Argentina Draws 16 Bids For Subsidized Gas Supply
(Argus, 3.Dec.2020) — Argentina received bids from 16 companies in a path-breaking auction to supply more than 70mn m3/d of natural gas at subsidized wellhead [more…]
Bright Future For Suriname And Guyana
(Petroleum Economist, 2.Dec.2020) — Crumbling oil prices and volatile energy demand have tipped Latin America into a sharp recession, exacerbated by one of the world’s [more…]
Total And ADNOC Ink CO2 Emissions Framework Deal
(Total, 12.Nov.2020) — Total signed a strategic framework agreement with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), to explore joint research, development and deployment partnership [more…]
Apache Highlights Suriname And Egypt On 3Q:20 Call
(Apache, 4.Nov.2020) — Apache Corporation announced its financial and operational results for the third quarter 2020, highlighting activities in Suriname and Egypt. Key Takeaways — [more…]
Sungrow Crosses 1 GW Of PV Inverter Shipment In Chile
(Sungrow, 28.Oct.2020) — Sungrow, the global leading inverter solution supplier for renewables, announced that the Company hit 1 GW PV inverter cumulative shipment to Chile [more…]
Total Obtains 20% Of Volumes In Solar Tender
(Total, 27.Oct.2020) — Total, through Total Quadran, a wholly-owned affiliate dedicated to developing and producing renewable energy in France, was awarded 67 megawatt-peak (MWp) of [more…]
Uganda OKs Tullow’s $575mn Divestment To Total
(Tullow, 21.Oct.2020) — Tullow Oil plc announced the government of Uganda and the Ugandan Revenue Authority have executed a binding Tax Agreement that reflects the [more…]
Apache On Kwaskwasi-1 In Block 58 Offshore Suriname
(Apache, 14.Sep.2020) — Apache Corporation and Total S.A. provided an update to the technical evaluation of the Kwaskwasi-1 discovery well offshore Suriname. As previously announced, [more…]
Total Resigns Operator Role In Foz Do Amazonas Basin
(Total, 7.Sep.2020) — Total notified its partners on 19 August 2020 about its resignation from its role of operator for five exploration blocks, located in [more…]
Big Oil Sees Major Potential In Suriname
(Oilprice.com, 7.Sep.2020) — Suriname is one of Latin America’s poorest countries. Up until July 2020, the former Dutch colony was mired in a political crisis [more…]
Stena Inks Deal For Tullow Suriname Well
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Sep.2020) — Stena Drilling inked a new contract with Tullow Suriname BV for the Stena Forth drillship to drill one well offshore [more…]
Angola Aims To Ramp Up Oil Production
(Oilprice.com, 30.Aug.2020) — Angola, Africa’s second-largest oil producer after Nigeria, will need foreign and government investments to discover up to 57 billion barrels of crude [more…]
Guyana And Suriname To Benefit From Joining Forces
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Aug.2020) — Neighboring Guyana and Suriname in South America have been well off investor’s radars until recently. The countries are now regular [more…]
Total Launches Mero Field 3 FPSO Development
(Total, 17.Aug.2020) — Total and its partners have taken the investment decision for the third phase of the Mero project (Libra block), located deep offshore, [more…]
Petrobras Inks Charter Deal For Mero 3 FPSO
(Petrobras, 14.Aug.2020) — Petrobras signed a letter of intent with the company MISC Berhad for the chartering and services for FPSO (floating production storage and [more…]
PPSA Sale Plan Stokes Oil Contract Debate
(Argus, 12.Aug.2020) — The Brazilian government’s plan to sell state-owned pre-salt marketing company PPSA has stalled amid congressional foot-dragging over a change in pre-salt contract [more…]
Mexico’s Lopez Wants Plan To Execute Energy Vision
(Reuters, 11.Aug.2020) — Mexico’s president has given officials until late September to craft a plan to reassert state control over the energy industry as an [more…]
Suriname Election Soothes Investor Nerves
(Petroleum Economist, 11.Aug.2020) — The small Latin American nation of Suriname is poised for profound change. Revenues from major offshore oil discoveries announced this year [more…]
Total Closes Sale Of Non-Core Assets To NEO Energy
(Total, 6.Aug.2020) — Following the regulatory approvals and the agreement of partners, Total closed the sale of UK North Sea non-core assets to NEO Energy. [more…]
Total Maintains 2Q:20 Dividend At €0.66/share
(Total, 30.Jul.2020) — Total’s Board of Directors met on 29 July 2020, and declared the distribution of the second 2020 interim dividend at €0.66/share, stable [more…]
Total Gabon Divests Mature Non-Operated Assets
(Total, 30.Jul.2020) — Total announces that its 58% owned affiliate Total Gabon has signed an agreement with Perenco to divest its interests in seven mature [more…]
Apache Finds Oil Offshore Suriname At Kwaskwasi-1
(Apache, 29.Jul.2020) — Apache Corporation and Total S.A. announced a major oil discovery at the Kwaskwasi-1 well drilled offshore Suriname in Block 58. The well [more…]
Total, BP And ENI Make New Gas Find Offshore Egypt
(Reuters, 28.Jul.2020) — French oil company Total said on Tuesday that, along with its partners BP and ENI, it had made a gas discovery at [more…]
Suriname Elects Santokhi As President, Brunswijk As VP
(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Jul.2020) — Suriname elected Progressive Reform Party (VHP) front man Chan Santokhi as the country’s president and Ronnie Brunswijk, leader of the [more…]
Suriname Elects New President Santokhi
(The New York Times, 13.Jul.2020) — Desi Bouterse has cast a long shadow over Suriname since its independence. Once a dictator, he returned as a [more…]
Suriname Closes Oil Drilling Deal For Later This Year
(Stabroek News, 10.Jul.2020) — Having gone almost entirely unnoticed in the global oil & gas industry for decades, both Guyana and neighbouring Suriname are now [more…]
Total Secures $15.8bn For Mozambique Gas Project
(Reuters, 8.Jul.2020) — French oil major Total has secured $15.8 billion in funding for its massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in northern Mozambique, according [more…]
Suriname Awaits Drilling Of Third Apache Well Offshore
(Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Jul.2020) — Suriname, the small Dutch-speaking South America country looking to emulate the success of its immediate neighbor to the north, Guyana, [more…]
Fitch Downgrades Suriname’s IDR To ‘C’
(Fitch Ratings, 2.Jul.2020) — Fitch Ratings has downgraded Suriname’s Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘C’ from ‘CCC’. KEY RATING DRIVERS The downgrade [more…]
Eni Reports New Gas Discovery Offshore Egypt
(Eni, 1.Jul.2020) — Eni has successfully drilled the first exploration well in the North El Hammad license, in the conventional Egyptian waters of the Nile [more…]
Supermajors Are Flocking To This Booming Oil Frontier
(Oilprice.com, 30.Jun.2020) — Exxon is moving to rapidly expand its exploration footprint in this little-known venue, French Total SA is spudding its first well here, [more…]
Total And Sonatrach Extend Their LNG Partnership
(Total, 25.Jun.2020) — Total and Sonatrach have signed an agreement to renew their partnership in the field of liquefied natural gas (LNG). This agreement notably [more…]
Total Reports Ramp-Up On Iara With Second FPSO
(Total, 25.Jun.2020) — Total and its partners announce the start-up of the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) P-70 of the Iara cluster (Block BM-S-11A), [more…]
Petrobras Starts Production In Atapu Pre-salt
(Petrobras, 25.Jun.2020) — Petrobras reports that it started today the production of oil and natural gas from the shared deposit of Atapu, through platform P-70, [more…]
The Oil Nation Aiming To Emulate Guyana’s Success
(Oilprice.com, 20.Jun.2020) — Paths to economic development might vary, ranging all the way from ruthless dictatorships hewing their way with an iron fist to established [more…]
Total Joins The “Getting To Zero Coalition”
(Total, 8.Jun.2020) — Total has joined the Getting to Zero Coalition to support the maritime industry’s decarbonisation by collaborating with companies across the maritime, energy, [more…]
