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…]
Tag: World Bank
World Bank Releases Report on Offshore Wind in Brazil
(World Bank, 17.Jul.2024) — The World Bank Group released a study on “Scenarios for Offshore Wind Development in Brazil” conducted by DNV, the global independent energy [more…]
Ministerial Roundtable Sets Stage for Future Minerals Forum 2024
(Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 8.Jan.2024) — The Ministerial Roundtable, a pivotal precursor to the third edition of the [more…]
Consortium to Develop a 1,500 MW Hydropower Project in Mozambique
(TotalEnergies, 13.Dec.2023) — The consortium of EDF (40%), TotalEnergies (30%) and Sumitomo Corporation (30%) announces that it has been selected as strategic partner by the [more…]
The World Bank: LAC Returns to Pre-Pandemic “Unsatisfactory Growth Rates”
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Apr.2022) — This week The World Bank published its 62-page semiannual report for Latin America and the Caribbean (April 2022) dubbed “Consolidating [more…]
If Biden Wants to Lower Gas Prices, he Should Talk to Guyana | Opinion
(Miami Herald, 23.Mar.2022) — President Biden recently sent a team of senior U.S. officials to Caracas for talks with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro about a [more…]
World Bank: Global Growth to Slow Through 2023
(World Bank, 11.Jan.2022) — Following a strong rebound in 2021, the global economy is entering a pronounced slowdown amid fresh threats from COVID-19 variants and [more…]
IMF Approves Extended Arrangement for Suriname
(IMF, 22.Dec.2021) — The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a 36-month arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Suriname in [more…]
Colombia Not Liable To Pay $736 Mln To Miner Eco Oro – Gov’t
(Reuters, 10.Sep.2021) — Colombia’s government said on Friday a World Bank tribunal has ruled it is currently not liable to pay $736 million in damages [more…]
Venezuela Economy To Shrink 25% In 2020: IMF
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Oct.2020) — Venezuela, home to the world’s largest oil reserves and sizable natural gas and mineral deposits, is expected to be the [more…]
Metor Pauses Venezuela Methanol Output
(Argus, 31.Jul.2020) — Mitsubishi-operated Metanol de Oriente (Metor) in eastern Venezuela has suspended methanol production as a health precaution. The 750,000 t/yr Metor 1 plant [more…]
Global Gas Flaring At Levels Not Seen Since 2009
(World Bank, 21.Jul.2020) — Estimates from satellite data show global gas flaring increased to levels not seen in more than a decade, to 150 billion [more…]
As Guyana Elections Remain Up In The Air
(News America, 8.Mar.2020) — As tension continues in Guyana one week after its general elections and a top court upheld an injunction blocking the elections [more…]
IFC And FRV Secure Financing For Potrero Solar
(IFC, 18.Sep.2019) — The International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, and Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV), part of Abdul Latif Jameel Energy [more…]
World Bank Partners With Guyana For New Oil Sector
(Guyana Department of Public Information, 12.Nov.2018) — Prime Minister Hon. Moses V. Nagamootoo held discussions with a high-level, five-member team from the World Bank, which [more…]
Bolivia’s Oil Revenue To Reach $2.2 Billion
(Xinhua, 14.Oct.2018) — Bolivia’s oil revenue this year is estimated to reach 2.2 billion U.S. dollars as it “will be able to fulfill” contracts with [more…]
Cure for Venezuela’s Mercantilism, Rentism Disease
(EnergyNomics, Carlos A Rossi, 18.Aug.2018) – Are natural resource endowed countries victims of their own wealth? Is there a richness threshold beyond which the institutions [more…]
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 [more…]
World Bank Says Oil To Average $65 in 2019
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Aug2018) – The World Bank expects the price of oil to average $65 per barrel in 2019. “Oil prices are [more…]
World Bank Sees $65/bbl Oil for 2019
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 3.July.2018) – The price of crude oil is forecast to approach around $65/barrel in 2019 by the organization. However, the [more…]
Solar Power Lights Up Rural Bolivia
(World Bank, 11.May.2018) – How do you turn on a light at night when you’ve left the power grid far, far behind? In Bolivia, the [more…]
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 [more…]