- Repsol-YPF pays Ecuador $ 88 mm in back taxes, more to come
- Petrobras signs $ 1.28 bn of refinery contracts
- Japan and Venezuela sign Orinoco oil cooperation deal
- ONGC Videsh wants IOC as partner in Venezuela
- Petrobras may commence drilling offshore Cuba within a year
- Ecopetrol and Petrobras sign deals for projects in Peru
- Ecopetrol takes control of pipeline
- Ecopetrol to purchase Enbridge's stake in Ocensa pipeline
- Endesa to slash Latin American investments on market conditions
- Ecuador reaches deal with Repsol toward modified oil contract terms
- PetroEcuador and Repsol-YPF sign new contract
- Pemex awards contract to Schlumberger
- Ecopetrol to acquire Hocol from Maurel & Prom
- Pemex awards $ 492 mm in contracts for four rigs
- PdVSA and international oil firms to build two LNG liquefaction plants
- Venezuela signs joint venture deal for offshore natural gas fields
- Nicaragua finalizes offshore contracts with Infinity Energy Resources
- Peru reports on natural gas output in Jan.-Feb. 2009
- Venezuela slashing investment in oil contractors by 50 %
- SCAN wins seismic program project offshore Chile
- BPZ Energy to build thermal power station in northern Peru
- Peru bans some Petrobras-Repsol-Talisman oil exploration work
- Bolivia gives details of CIA activity in YPFB
- CPFL Energia estimates capex through 2013 at
$ 2.10 bn
- Galp sees Brazil's Santos as one of world's "geological jewels"
- Petrobras lets contracts for Tambau and Urugua subsea lines
- Ecuador to keep 70 % of Perenco output in tax dispute
- Geopark successfully tests Yagan gas well in Chile's Fell Block
- Vantage wins contract from ONGC for Petrobras business
- Petrolifera aims to pull out of Argentine market
- Mexico awards $ 250 mm oil drilling contracts
- Cuba expects more oil prospecting in Gulf of Mexico
- Cuba awaits its oil boom and runs short on cash
- FOGL collects seismic data offshore Falkland Islands
- Cantarell field output drops at fastest rate in 14 years
- Venezuela plans to boost oil output at least 12 %
with foreign investors
- Petrobras and Schlumberger sign pre-salt reservoir research deal
- bpTT installs Savonette platform
- Ecopetrol builds on success of active 2008 drilling campaign
- Ecopetrol plans $ 6.2 bn for 2009 capex
- Biodiesel producers hoping to resume operations in Argentina
- Light plans to invest $ 272 mm in Brazil
- Ecuador's president orders to collect taxes from French and Spanish firms
- OGX to invest in Brazil's post-salt basins
- PdVSA to revamp oil ventures with foreign partners
- Canadian Superior to monetize stake in Trinidad's Block 5(c) field
- Petrobras and Mitsubishi to build $ 830 mm drillship
- Caribe-Fram joint venture to pursue oil fields in
Trinidad
- MAN Ferrostaal to build 760 MW gas fired power plant in Trinidad
- Shell tests gas from New Mexico's Tucumcari area
- Fluor reaches first gas for BG at Poinsettia platform offshore Trinidad
- Ecopetrol and KNOC jointly acquire Offshore International Group
- Algeria eyes Peruvian natural gas development
- Coal and oil will make Magallanes "Chile's energy centre"
- Bolivia's gas investors to spend $ 530 mm in 2009
- Brazil's Tupi field to produce 1 mm bpd at full development
- Bolivia: The Saudi Arabia of lithium?
- Oiltanking acquires Dow Chemical's US and Colombian terminals
- Golar LNG delivers world's first FSRU to Petrobras
- Mexican president seeks foreign oil
investment
- Atlas pegs Peru's useable wind power potential at 22 GW
- Petrobras resumes subsalt drilling near Guara and Carioca finds
- Colombia's ANH awards Emerald Energy Durillo contract
- Petrotrin's subsidiary Trinmar needs $ 10 bn
- OVL's Cuban deepwater block yields two oil and gas leads
- PdVSA to buy Inelectra
- bpTT launches its fourth platform
- CPC acquires rights to search for oil and gas in waters off Belize
- Scorpion scraps plan to build rig for Petrobras
- BG Trinidad delivers first gas from Poinsettia field
- Eletronorte to invest $ 500 mm in Amazonas thermo plant
- Six firms purchase packages for Uruguay offshore round
- Bolivia to
raise output as Brazilian imports drop
- Ecuador ends oil contracts due to low oil prices
- BG Group to invest $ 4 bn over three years in Tupi field
- Schlumberger Trinidad hard hit by downturn
- ONGC pays Trinidad and Tobago $ 30 mm bonus to explore for oil
- Ecuador using OPEC cuts to take over the energy sector
- BPZ signs deal for oil from Peru's Corvina Field
- Petroleos del Norte successful bidder for Colombian block
- Russian oil consortium in Venezuela to expand to Cuba
- Peru's oil ambitions back to reality
- Bolivia nationalizes energy firm Chaco
- CTEEP to invest $ 950 mm in 2009-11
- Energy firms to maintain planned investments in Chile despite crisis
- Reliance begins seismic survey on offshore Colombian blocks
- Repsol plans $ 2 bn investment at Carioca pre-salt find
- Ecuador ends oil contracts due to low prices
- Several companies are going ahead with plans in Trinidad
- Companies to invest $ 634 mm in Peru
- Mittal subsidiary to invest in Trinidad's energy
- Argentina temporarily takes over gas pipeline operator
- AES and Marti to construct multi-fuel terminal in Trinidad and Tobago
- Iran and Mexico establish energy ties
- Ecuador's largest refinery to get overhaul
- Cepsa wins four blocks in the Llanos Basin of Colombia
- Copel to invest $ 465 mm with focus on Brazil's Maua hydro plant
- Oil firms
shelve plan to buy Brazilian sugarcane farms
- Galp Energia acquires eight blocks in Brazil
- Petrobras wins 13 blocks in onshore Potiguar basin
- Ecopetrol plans to invest $ 6.2 bn in future growth
- Cuba and Venezuela sign new accords on oil and gas
- PdVSA targets to start LNG exports by 2014
- LUKoil to develop Junin-3 oil block in Venezuela on its own
- Petrobras and YPF to jointly explore for oil and gas off South Atlantic coast
- LUKoil set to supply oil products to Argentina
- Anadarko sells interest in Peregrino oilfield offshore Brazil
- Transpetro signs $ 349 mm deal for four tankers
- Petrominerales wins blocks in Colombia's Llanos Basin
- Brazil's ANP qualifies 47
companies for 10th concession round
- Peru's surging natural gas business
- Analysis: Gazprom enters Brazil
- Petrobras signs deal for construction of Campos Basin's P-55 platform
- PdVSA provides data package to 19 companies for Carabobo tender
- Ende to begin Laguna Colorada geothermal project works in February
- Argentina could know its oil and gas output potential by 2011
- Enel's Latin American investments to hit EUR 1.09 bn through 2012
- PdVSA awards CGGVeritas 3D seismic program contract
- Uruguay opens River Plate for oil and gas exploration
- China and Cuba to fully cooperate in oil and gas sector
- PdVSA and Gazprom sign agreement on Ayacucho 3 block
- Cemig qualifies
for Brazil's 10th oil and gas licensing round
- ONGC Videsh wins prospective exploration clocks in Colombia
- Aneel auctions contracts for transmission lines and substations
- Pemex may award first oil exploration contract by end of 2009
- Pre-salt discovery to make Brazil's reserves world's 9th biggest
- Petrominerales to explore Peruvian Block 126 with Veraz
- ENI and Ecopetrol sign farm-in agreement for Gulf of Mexico prospect
- Petrobras expects Parque das Conchas project to produce 100,000 bpd
- Shell, Aramco and Petrobras speed up project spending cuts
- Petrobras postpones 28 rig tenders to 2009
- Ecuador keeps up oil cleanup fight against Chevron
- South Korea signs MoU with Brazil
- Camisea consortium launches production in Block 56
- Global crisis hits service companies in Trinidad and Tobago
- Brazil's Jupiter find contains more oil vs. gas than expected
- Brazilian ethanol project gets $ 1 bn funding
- Ecuador to sign new oil contracts with Repsol and Perenco
- Repsol starts seismic imaging project in Gulf of Mexico and Brazil
- Oil drillers eye Mexican expansion despite contract delays
- Colombia picks companies to operate in 22 oil areas
- Gazprom spuds first exploratory well in Gulf of Venezuela
- Shell to drill in Brazil's subsalt region in 2009
- Global Industries wins contract for Petrobras's Mexilhao field
- Petrobras to begin oil exploration offshore Cubawith Cupet
- Geopark starts output at Chile's Fell Block
- Petrobras signs MoU with Portuguese companies
- IFC provides financing to Peru's oil and gas industry
- Five Russian oil majors form Venezuelan consortium
- Ecuador reaches agreement with Repsol-YPF
- Chevron to begin Brazil's Frade oil production in 2009
- Gazprom to start exploratory gas drilling in Venezuela
- Venezuela holds greatest oil auction on earth
- Chevron's Brazilian project offers glimpse of oil's future
- Trinidad to send gas for Canadian LNG plant
- Maersk believes Brazilian oil rules delays may cause industry exodus
- Petrobras and Galp to sign operatorship MoU for Brazil's shallow basins
- Saipem wins onshore drilling contracts in Peru and Venezuela
- Petrobras and Galp Energia sign biofuels agreement
- Pemex awards Ku-Maloob-Zaap pipeline contract
- CNOOC eying role in Brazil's subsalt oil play
- Petrobras charters Technip pipelay vessel for 2 years
- Petrominerales tests positive oil flow at Colombian well
- India interested in Bolivian natural gas
- Bolivia reaches deal to buy out Ashmore
- Uruguay's Ancap to offer 11 blocks in first annual offshore round
- Canada's Sherritt pulls out of oil contract in Cuba
- PdVSA awards JGC refinery modernization contract
- Pluspetrol launches new production in Camisea block
- ONGC in arbitration over
Colombian Teca oilfield
- India seeks more access to oil fields in Brazil
- Colombia snatches back oil property from OVL and Sinopec
- Ivanhoe Energy to develop Pungarayacu heavy-oil field in Ecuador
- Cuba to make new investments in Cienfuegos oil refinery
- Global Industries wins pipeline contract from Pemex
- Camisea gas field boosts Peru's reserves
- Pemex launches tender for four Cantarell platforms
- Ultra-deepwater drillship West Polaris starts operations in Brazil
- BPZ successfully tests oil offshore Peru
- Ecuador to sign 30-year contract with Ivanhoe for Pungarayacu field
- Gazprom to become Russia-Venezuela energy consortium operator
- Ecuador to receive 60 % of oil
produced by Petrobras's block 18
- Argentinean gas producers to invest $ 1.5 bn to boost output
- Methane discovery in Colombia may ease natural gas export hurdles
- PetroFalcon to buy Anadarko Venezuela
- Conduit Capital wins concession for Peru gas pipeline
- Ecuador signs new oil deal with Canada's Ivanhoe
- Talisman winds up Trinidad and Tobago assets
- Ecuador threatens to expel oil companies
- Peru suspends oil contracts and fires official in scandal
- Tupi field development may cost $ 50 bn
- Keppel secures contracts for Brazil's Campos Basin
- Petrobras and PdVSA approve final terms for Abreu e Lima deal
- BHP Billiton acquires exploration rights for block onshore
Colombia
- RIL and CNPC win gas block in Peru
- Gazprom and PdVSA sign MoU for development and production projects
- US-owned firm to build Peru gas pipeline
- Shell expects two year exploration phase in Colombian blocks
- BG Trinidad to invest $ 1 bn into search for gas
- Mexico-led Central American refinery project in jeopardy
- Gazprom signs deal in Venezuela
- Gazprom injected $ 100 mm in Venezuela
- PdVSA to control joint consortium with Russia
- Nine oil companies invest in Colombian oil exploration
- RIL eyes oil fields in Latin America and Middle East
- Voyager signs PSCs for Trinidad's Central Range blocks
- Ecuador and Petrobras agree to
transfer block 31 to state
- Venezuela to form joint ventures with foreign oil companies
- Taiwan's CPC to explore off Belize
- Gazprom and ENI sign MoU for Venezuela's Delta LNG project
- Total and Gazprom sign Bolivian gas exploration deal with YPFB
- Petrobras to build P-55 platform in Brazil
- BHP Billiton to develop gas fields in Trinidad
- Russian oil companies want consortium in Latin America
- Syria signs contract for oil refinery with Iran, Venezuela and Malaysia
- Camisea consortium begins commercial output at block 56
- Vietnam and Venezuela in oily embrace
- Chevron lawyers indicted by Ecuador in oil-pit cleanup dispute
- BG's Brazilian oil discovery is three times
larger than expected
- Trinidad signs deal with LyondellBasell
- Reliance, CNPC and others win Peru oil and gas exploration blocks
- PdVSA looking to consolidate Chevron-Hocol joint ventures
- Apache receives approval for Neuquén Gas Plus program
- GAIL India plans petrochemical project in Colombia
- Reliance to begin drilling in Colombian asset in 2010
- Solana tests positive results at Colombian well
- Napesa to build refinery in Argentina
- Argentina's natural gas crisis crosses over to neighbouring Chile
- Ecopetrol awards contract for oil pipeline to Rubiales field
- Enarsa awards study for LNG terminal in Argentina and Uruguay
- Gazprom estimates Venezuela's Ayacucho 3 has
over 1 bn tons of oil
- PetroSA to search for oil in Venezuela's Orinoco belt
- Enarsa, Sipetrol and YPF to invest in Argentinean exploration
- Oil and gas extraction does not have to hurt the rainforest, or its people
- Bolivia plans to double gas reserves
- Venezuela's National Assembly to vote on nationalizing fuel distribution
- Ecuador, Venezuela and Chile plan to explore Ayacucho oilfield
- Impsa to invest more than $ 1.6 bn in wind projects
- Vietnam and Venezuela speed up talks on oil projects
- MODEC to supply pilot FPSO for Petrobras's Tupi field
- Andes Petroleum to invest $ 104 mm in Ecuador
- Cosan to invest $ 1 bn in ethanol pipeline
- Samsung Engineering to build
LNG terminal in Mexico
- PdVSA advancing in talks with ConocoPhillips
- Ivanhoe Energy to begin work at Ecuador's heavy oil Block 20
- Investors to pump $ 2.8 bn into Colombian refinery
- PetroFalcon seizes hydrocarbon plays in Venezuela
- Chinese oil firms team up for Peruvian assets
- PGS wins seismic work order onshore Mexico
- Petrobras Energia to invest $ 500 mm in Argentina
- Soros hedge fund buys Petrobras stake worth $ 811 mm
- Council approves Infinity's Nicaraguan contracts
- Chevron to sell Brazilian fuels marketing business to Ultrapar unit
- Petrobras selling ethanol to Japan
- Sherritt relinquishes offshore Cuba blocks
- Petrobras signs
agreement with ExxonMobil for acquisition in Chile
- Ecuador pays $ 69 mm to take over City Oriente oil wells
- Ecuador's government reaches contract deal with Petrobras
- Bolivia to buy Shell's share in Transredes
- PetroEcuador and Ivanhoe to sign deal
- Ecuador to take over City Oriente oil wells
- Portugal invests in oil and gas production in Libya and Brazil
- Petrobras to buy ExxonMobil's fuel-distribution unit in Chile
- PetroEcuador looking to upgrade Esmeraldas refinery
- Chevron to begin production from Brazilian field in March
- Chile and Spain to set up Latin America's largest wind farm
- YPFB and Transredes start construction of GCC gas line
- Enap celebrates
historic production record in Magallanes Area
- Petrobras ranked among the world's five energy leaders
- Gran Tierra and Solana announce merger plans
- Petroleos del Peru to build extension to Norperuano pipeline
- Natural gas finds in Trinidad boost 2008 levels
- Shell to invest $ 300 mm in search for oil and gas in Peru
- Mexico starts up Manzanillo LNG storage construction
- Petroandina plans 3-year E&P program in Bolivia
- Wood Group to provide services for Camisea project in Peru
- Paraguay opposes oil discovery announcement by Pantera Petroleum
- Petrobras signs $ 3 bn in contracts with Transocean
- Maurel & Prom say Colombian well is a success
- Argentina's Chaco province
plans first oil exploration
- BG plans up to 100,000 bpd output at Tupi field by 2011
- Political implications of Russian-Venezuelan oil agreements
- Petrobras and Mitsui sign ultra deepwater drilling contract
- Gazprom and PdVSA to size up Ayacucho-3 block reserves
- PdVSA and Belarusneft to double joint output
- TNK-BP signs joint study agreement with PdVSA
- LUKoil and PdVSA to jointly explore Junin-3 block in Venezuela
- OVL to bid for Ecuador blocks
- Japan to explore Orinoco oil deposits in Venezuela
- Colombian ANH awards eight blocks in heavy crude round
- Canadian Superior to test Bounty well off Trinidad
- New Santos wells are of same order as Tupi field
- ABB signs frame agreement for Petrobras refineries
- PdVSA sends first rig to Bolivia
- WesternGeco's MT survey enhances seismic data in Santos basin
- Petrobras seeks 40 % stake in Carabobo field
- Pemex sends production outlook to SEC
- PetroPeru and Reliance form alliance
- Samsung wins order from Petrobras
- Chile to announce decision on Otway block
- Petrobras joint venture formed to export Brazilian bioethanol
- Petrobras surges ahead with 4th largest reserves among traded companies
- Petrobras and ENI renew agreements
- Repsol to invest at least $ 1.5 bn in Brazil
- Cuba to sign exploration deal with Brazil's Petrobras
- Petrobras set to become global oil major
- Shell enters preliminary agreement with BPZ Energy for Peru exploration
- IFC lends $ 300 mm to Peru LNG
- Gazprom to play role in South American pipeline project
- LUKoil does not plan to quit Venezuela despite contract signing delays
- Pluspetrol aims to complete Cashiriari wells in 2010
- India approves ONGC Videsh’s investment plans in Trinidad and Brazil
- Brazil set to export ethanol to Sweden
- Cameron wins deal for 25 subsea trees for Petrobras
- Hupecol to sell 70 % of Caracara prospect to Cepsa unit
- Cupet plans offshore exploration
- PdVSA and CNPC venture to produce eight rigs annually
- OMEL to explore
off Trinidad
- Dominican Republic buys Shell's share of oil refinery
- Petrobras and Mitsui invest in ultra-deepwater drillship
- Geo-politics, Venezuela and Caribbean natural gas
- Transocean to operate drillship for Mitsui and Petrobras
- Peru to auction last "virgin" oil and gas exploration lots
- Petrotrin's fuel subsidy heads for $ 3 bn
- PdVSA creates eight new joint venture companies for oil industry
- PdVSA plans to build three LNG trains
- Reliance plans to explore for oil in Peru
- Solana's drilling campaign in southern Colombia tests positive
- Petrobras to create a global petrochemical company
- InterOil experiences continued success in Peru and Colombia
- M&P signs exploration and production deal with Colombia
- EdP and Sonatrach to co-develop projects in Latin America
- Bolivia spends $ 401.8 mm on hydrocarbon nationalizations
- Enarsa to begin selling offshore round data packages
- Wood Mackenzie initiates consulting contract with PetroEcuador
- Brazil's oil is costly to exploit
- Petrobras awards P-62 platform deal to Maua-Jurong
- CGX awards Fugro marine seismic contract offshore Guyana
- Petrobras signs LNG supply agreements with BG Group
- Drug cartels siphon pipelines in Ecuador for "white gas"
- Global declares positive test results for Colombian exploration well
- Bolivia seizes controlling stake in pipeline company
- Petrobras awards drilling contract to Sevan
- Petrobras awards deal to Scorpion for deepwater semisubmersible
- SBM secures LoI for Petrobras's Cachalote field
- bpTT to spend $ 4 bn over the next five years
- Taiwan to submit tender for oil exploration in North Peru
- BP finds shortcut through Panama pipeline to US West Coast refineries
- Bolivia to construct petrochemical plant for fertilizers and ammonium nitrate
- Consortium wins oil-drilling contract in Trinidad and Tobago
- Cuba interested in Indian business opportunities
- Chile to spend more on energy to shield economy
- Petrobras is third biggest company in the Americas by market value
- Bolivia warns companies to invest or loseassets
- Nationalized oil firms in Bolivia do not have premises to go to arbitration
- Galp Energia and PdVSA sign five cooperation agreements
- Petroleum Geo-Services wins largest-ever HD4D deal from Petrobras
- Brazil leases about 80 % of world's deepest drilling offshore rigs
- PdVSA will be exporting LNG by the end of 2014
- Sempra's West Coast LNG terminal ready for business
- Quintero to close project financing for LNG terminal in Chile
- Repsol-YPF believes in Trinidad's substantial hydrocarbon potential
- Excerpts from Falkland O&G's annual general meeting
- Petrobras postpones decision on buying Aruba refinery
- Petrobras to start long-term test at Tupi field in March 2009
- Nicaragua to receive 50,000 bbl of oil from Venezuela to alleviate crisis
- Venezuela to own 49 % of PetroEcuador refinery
- Peru prefers mountain gas pipeline route
- Venezuela creates new steel company with PdVSA
- Venezuela and China to create joint venture to supply new refinery
- PdVSA and Enarsa to build first LNG train in Venezuela
- Sempra receives first LNG cargo at Costa Azul
- Partners in Brazilian Tupi field get pilot production under way
- Peru and India cultivate oil ties
- First Reserve and Vopak complete Bahamas oil storage terminal takeover
- Bolivia on track to complete takeover of energy firms
- Brazil's oil trapped by 500-degree heat
- Colombia to seek oil off San Andres Island with Jamaican company
- Cosan to buy ExxonMobil's distribution and service stations in Brazil
- BP to acquire 50 % stake in Brazilian Tropical BioEnergia
- Venezuela to boost Sinovensa oil project output
- Shell to start output at Brazilian BC-10 oil block in 2009
- Argentina's Mendoza province awards 11 exploration blocks
- Wintershall wins two exploration licenses in Argentina
- Methanex to accelerate gas development in Chile with Enap
- MKJ Xploration to explore off Nicaragua
- Chile awards eight exploration blocks
- EOG Trinidad on track for gas increase in 2010
- Brazil and Trinidad approve OVL's bids
- Venezuelastarts output at Corocoro field
- LUKoil starts preparations for drilling in Colombia
- Petropars and Venezuelan company to expand ties
- Venezuela to challenge ExxonMobil in Dutch court
- Mexico launches drilling tenders for Chicontepec basin
- Oil finds prompt Brazil to consider changing rules
- Petrobras wants to acquire ExxonMobil’s assets in Brazil
- Venezuela's Congress approves new oil tax on windfall gains
- Enarsa launches offshore round
- Seadrill secures $ 4.1 bn of contracts in Brazil
- Ecuador eyes temporary oil contracts
- Atlantic LNG processes 792 bn cf in 2007
- Ecuador pays Occidental $ 100 mm to partly settle tax matter
- Petrobras
Energia to invest $ 2.4 bn in Argentina during 2008-12
- Gulf Ethanol to produce biodiesel in Central America
- YPFB and PdVSA to participate in YPFB PetroAndina SAM
- Lula signs law to increase sector stature of Eletrobras
- GNL Mejillones joint venture's long-term future depends on client interest
- Nicaragua awards exploration contracts to US energy firm
- Petrotrin president admits declining oil production
- PetroFalcon signs deal to acquire Anadarko's Venezuelan affiliate
- Petrobras and Mitsui to sign ethanol plant deal in May
- Petrobras to spend $ 15 bn to double oil output in Asia and South America
- RIL and ONGC acquire oil assets in Latin America
- BG TT optimistic of Trinidad's reserves
outlook
- Colombia plans to auction new Pacific oil blocks in 2009
- Enarsa and YPFB launch liquids separation tender
- PetroEcuador accuses Petrobras of oil contract breach
- Petrobras announces the world's first platform hull factory
- Ecuador to change oil contracts to give state majority
- Petrobras to reuse P-54 project for Roncador Field
- Aker Kvaerner enters subsea deal with Petrobras
- Colombia plans to auction new Pacific oil blocks in 2009
- Ecuadorean court fines Chevron with up to $ 16 bn in damages
- Cidade de Rio das Ostras FPSO begins Brazil's first heavy oil production
- PdVSA and Chevron to spend $ 7.71 bn on Orinoco upgrader
- Teekay achieves first oil from
Brazilian FPSO project
- Shell signs outsourcing deal with Trinidad and Tobago, EDS and T-Systems
- Pluspetrol to complete Malvinas expansion in H2
- Uruguay and Argentina to jointly build LNG plant in Uruguay
- Noble wins $ 4 bn in contracts offshore Brazil
- Petrobras announces new ethanol pipeline company
- Bolivia to buy gas holdings of BP and Repsol
- Bolivia sets deadline for Bolivian subsidiaries of international gas holdings
- PdVSA to launch Orinoco oil tender
- GNL consortium starts construction of Mejillones terminal
- São Paulo state calls off CESP auction
- Cepsa announces acquisition of Columbian block
- Exxon must undo false accusations against PdVSA
- Siat secures Enarsa pipe supply contract
- PdVSA refinances Petrocedeno debt
- Petrobras to close deal on ethanol-only pipeline
- Siemens opens power plant in Argentina
- Gazprom sings gas deal with Bolivia's YPFB
- Court backs Chavez in row with ExxonMobil
- Gazprom undertakes exploration in Bolivia
- Perenco wins Brazilian blocks
- Repsol-YPF announces $ 1 bn in new investment in Bolivia
- Mitsui, Korea Gas and Samsung to participate in LNG project in Mexico
- EOG Resources Trinidad reports on gas production
- Iran wants Petrobras involved in its oil sector
- PdVSA to divert Chalmette shipments to PetroChina
- Chile looking to
expand LNG project
- Repsol-YPF and PetroFalcon announce Gulf of Venezuela partnership
- Total acquires Caribbean marketing assets from ExxonMobil
- WestLB and BBVA financing $ 650 mm for Mexican deepwater rig
- InterOil receives Altair license in new Colombian license round
- Petrobras signs agreement to develop bio-oil production technology
- Shell and Petrobras sign LNG supply agreement
- Venezuela's oil belt reopens to private groups
- Fugro wins surveying contract from Pemex
- Venezuela to keep foreign investment opportunities open
- CFE awards Manzanillo LNG terminal contract to Asian consortium
- Joe Kennedy on his cheap heating oil deal with Hugo Chavez
- Start of new gaspipeline offshore Trinidad delayed yet again
- NNPC to import Venezuelan heavy crude for Kaduna plant
- Galp calculates Tupi block at minimum reserve of 5 bn boe
- StatoilHydro assumes 100 % operatorship of Peregrino project in Brazil
- Petrobras expects more oil finds in Brazil’s pre-salt area
- ONGC receives approval to invest in Venezuelan Orinoco field
- Brazilian CPFL plans to invest $ 3 bn in 2008-12
- China steps forward as Venezuela's key oil buyer
- British Gas believes Trinidad and Tobago has enough gas
- Ecuador wants agreement to end City Oriente deal
- Suez joint venture obtains approval for Chile LNG terminal
- Ecuadorean prosecutor suggests seizure of Petrobras licenses
- Petrobras signs partnership deal for ethanol pipeline project
- PdVSA and ENI sign $ 700 mm compensation deal
- Petrobras signs contract with Single Buoy Moorings
- ExxonMobil’s Orinoco assets are worth $ 750 mm
- Mexico’s business picks up for oil-service companies
- PdVSA and ENI sign deal to assess heavy oil reserves at Junin 5 block
- Repsol-YPF to invest $ 533 mm into block 39 in Peru
- PdVSA aims for $ 5.7 bn investment in former ExxonMobil venture
- Neoenergia to invest $ 1.1 bn in Brazil
- EDB spins off renewables assets into new subsidiary
- Pride International wins contract extensions from Petrobras
- PetroFalcon begins gas deliveries from Cumarebo Field in Venezuela
- Ecuador trying to reach new agreements with foreign oil firms
- ONGC wins oil contract in Trinidad
- M&E ranks Petrobras as world’s most sustainable oil and gas company
- MPX to invest $ 10.9 bn in Porto do Acu thermo plant thru 2018
- GTL plant near completion in Trinidad and Tobago
- New derrick/pipelay barge to support Petronas operations
- Venezuela pays $ 1.8 bn compensations to oil giants for Orinoco assets
- TransAlta to sell two plants in Mexico for $ 303.5 mm
- Bush and ExxonMobil vs. Chavez
- Arbitration between ExxonMobil and Venezuela
- PdVSA prepares Orinoco oil belt tender
- ENI and Venezuela agree on settlement for Dacion field
- ExxonMobil’s
oil production in Venezuela
- Venezuela to pay Total $ 834 mm in compensation for stake in Sincor
- Brazilian CTEEP to invest $ 590 mm in 2008-09
- ConocoPhillips approaching PdVSA differently from ExxonMobil
- Chinese CNODC interested in exploration activities in Costa Rica
- Suriname’s Staatsolie to launch new E&P round in July
- Colombia suspends privatization of five power utilities
- US private equity firm to buy PdVSA's Bahamas oil terminal
- Output at Colombia’s Rubiales field expected to hit 40,000 bpd in April
- Venezuela moves bank accounts after Exxon embargo
- Official warns Ecuadorean government of oil fields in nature preserve
- Venezuela transfers Sincor’s operations into a mixed
company
- BioEgroup to build two ethanol plants in the Dominican Republic
- BG Group believes Tupi could hold up to 30 bn boe
- Peru LNG wins $ 300 mm World Bank loan
- ANH launches Colombian E&P round
- Sonatrach to construct hybrid power station in Dominican Republic
- Oil companies to invest $ 7 bn in Colombia in 2008
- Venezuela to open bid round for Orinoco stakes
- Total to take on Venezuela’s Junin 10 Block project
- Ecopetrol and Petro Rubiales to build $ 300 mm oil pipeline
- Pemex and ExxonMobil sign deal to reduce exploratory risks
- Petrobras starts operations at Cabiunas-Vitoria pipeline
- ExxonMobil eyes Brazilian oil and gas reserves
- Petro Andina to explore blocks in Trinidad and Tobago
- Pan American Energy to invest nearly $ 1 bn in its Argentine operations
- For Peru's Indians, lawsuit against Big Oil reflects a new era
- Sempra to receive first LNG shipment at Mexican terminal end of March
- Venezuela to pay Total and StatoilHydro $ 1.1 bn for Sincor venture
- EDB and MPX hire Maire to build Brazilian thermo generator
- Ecuador gives IOCs new contract deadline
- StatoilHydro signs agreements in Venezuela
- Petrobras and PetroPeru eye $ 1 bn petrochemical plan
- PFC Energy ranks Petrobras the world's 6th biggest energy company
- Petrobras spreads its wings internationally
- OVL may be allowed to acquire stake in
Venezuela’s oil field
- Halliburton secures Mexican contract
- Cuba and China sign wind energy accord
- Sinopec signs Brazilian pipeline deal with Petrobras
- Ecuador renegotiating service contracts with foreign oil companies
- Deltamarin and Petroserv sign engineering contract with Brazil
- Argentina to impose sanctions against Shell
- Bolivia to explore oilfields with Pluspetrol, Tecpetrol and GLT Bolivia
- US Ex-ImBank refers Peru LNG decision to US Congress
- Perenco completes acquisition of Barrett’s heavy oil fields in Peru
- Petrobras set to explore Gulf of Mexico offshore Cuba
- Skanska to build Puerto Rican pipeline
- Nicaragua buys tank facility to store Venezuelan
oil
- CAF approves $ 100 mm loan for Transredes
- Pemex opens bidding for tanker renovation plan
- MODEC's FSO achieves first oil in Brazil
- Pemex to stop crude exports to US Pacific coast
- ArcelorMittal buys Venezuelan steel pipe maker
- Gran Tierra announces 2007 exit rate output at 3,300 bpd
- Bolivia’s hydrocarbon sector capex to approximate $ 1,266 mm
- Brazil’s Light company to double 2008 investments
- Nicaragua and MKJ to sign offshore E&P deals
- Colombia's La Creciente gas field starts up
- Pluspetrol raises proven reserves at Camisea gas project
- Cameron wins subsea contract with PdVSA
- US Petro Rubiales to build Colombian
pipeline
- Peru to receive $ 900 mm-plus from E&P contracts signed in 2007
- Gas Natural pays $ 1.4 bn for combined cycle plants in Mexico
- Petrobras wins BNDES funding for Amazonas pipelines
- Petrobras acquires 40 % stake in Petrobras Energia Peru
- Technip-Keppel consortium wins $ 1.2 bn contract in Brazil
- US Ex-Im Bank awards Peru LNG project $ 400 mm loan
- Argentine to pay $ 3.7 bn for stake in Repsol-YPF
- PdVSA and ENI sign Petrolera Gueiria joint venture deal
- BP brings Cashima field on stream offshore Trinidad
- Maurel & Prom signs final agreement for a joint enterprise with PdVSA
- Pacific Stratus signs deal for Peruvian blocks
- Braskem and Pequiven to install
petrochemical projects in Venezuela
- Wartsila wins contract for Trinidad and Tobago power plant
- Reliance signs deal for two Colombian blocks
- Atlantico Sul to build platform P-55 for Petrobras
- Enel acquires Mexican power plants from Conduit Capital
- CNPC to explore for oil in Costa Rica
- Nicaragua’s new nationalization plan
- Canadians and Japanese interested in Honduras exploration
- Pemex ramps up Cantarell gas output to help oil production
- Oil firms plan nearly $ 1 bn in investments in Bolivia
- ONGC wins rights to explore off Trinidad
- Petrobras is moving ahead with Chinese-backed gas pipeline
- OVL buys into Venezuelan oilfield
- Ecuador awards three marginal oilfields
- StatoilHydro estimates Brazil’s Peregrino reserves
- PdVSA and Belarusneft tap 26.5 bn bbl of crude oil in Junin block
- PdVSA signs oil joint venture with Belorusneft
- Costa Rica and China to jointly explore for oil
- PdVSA and partners finalize four joint venture deals
- Is Trinidad’s natural gas boom at an end?
- Pemex project attracts eight firms
- Gaz de France and Sonatrach extend LNG contracts with Petrobras
- Perenco wins five licenses in Brazilian auction
- Corus to deliver line pipe for Perdido Norte project in Gulf of Mexico
- Isagen plans $ 2 bn investment till 2018 in Colombia
- BPTT’s Mango platform
delivers first gas
- Skanska: “Civilizing” the Ecuadorian Amazon
- Gran Tierra starts up exploration and production in Peru
- OVL wins two blocks offshore Brazil
- Karoon Gas wins five blocks offshore Brazil
- PetroLatina secures Tisquirama license extension
- Galp acquires seven blocks offshore Brazil
- BHP to take majority stake in Falkland licenses
- Maersk Oil successful bidder on four Brazilian blocks
- Norse Energy wins three blocks offshore Brazil
- Colombia's Ecopetrol wins six blocks in Brazil's E&P auction
- Apache wins two exploration blocks in Chile
- Brazil's CVRD to invest $ 40 mm in gas exploration
- Brazilian E&P auction leaves out big
players
- StatoilHydro wins two blocks offshore Brazil
- PdVSA to divest Bahamas oil storage facility
- BPZ Energy signs two exploration contracts in Peru
- Sixty-seven companies register for Brazil’s licensing round 9
- Brazilian auction still attracts Big Oil
- Petrobras and YPFB to form energy joint venture
- Edenor to invest $ 1 bn thru 2016 in Argentina
- Peru signs 18 oil exploration contracts with foreign companies
- Brazil, the new oil superpower
- BPZ starts production from Corvina oil field off Peru
- Iberdrola to invest $ 1.5 bn in Latin America from 2008-10
- Argentina’s Pampetrol opens offers from three companies in tender
- Gran Tierra
starts production at Juanambu discovery in Colombia
- Total wins exploration permit in Chile's Magallanes Basin
- PetroVietnam to drill for oil and gas in Cuban blocks
- Galp to sign LNG deal with PdVSA
- BP Trinidad and Tobago starts output at Mango field
- Petrolifera says export tax hike sets ceiling of $ 42/bbl
- PdVSA and CNPC joint venture to develop Venezuelan oil field
- Chile awards oil and gas E&P contracts
- Tupi oil find could prompt Brazil to limit private oil companies
- BPZ Energy begins production at Peru’s Corvina block
- Next year’s oil round in Colombia to attract major firms
- Tractebel to invest $ 850 mm in Brazilian coal-fired plant
- Petrobras sees peak
production of Tupi field in 10-15 years
- Chile's Metrogas turns to biogas
- Petrobras and Suez sign LNG deal
- Petrobras estimates Tupi area holds 5-8 bn boe
- Canada’s Ivanhoe Energy eyes investment in Ecuador
- State-run companies dominate transmission lines auction in Brazil
- Swedish construction versus indigenous survival in the Amazon
- Siembra Petrolera to invest in order to increase production
- PPL completes Emel sale for $ 660 mm
- IBI to build biodiesel plant at Argentine port
- Petrodelta to be very active in coming months
- Brazil’s Schahin Group signs loan to build two Petrobras oil rigs
- PdVSA won't seek partners for former Exxon/Conoco fields
- Terpel buys Repsol-YPF’s service station network in Chile
- New Times Group to buy two Argentinean oil fields
- Endesa to invest $ 500 mm through 2012 in Peru
- TNK-BP signs pact with Venezuela to explore oil in Orinoco basin
- Pemex says two US deepwater fields may cause Mexican oil to leak
- PdVSA signs deal with Neptune to drill offshore gas wells
- Gas Natural to enter Mexican power market
- Chavez approves transfer decree for conversion of companies
- Brazilian power firm unveils 2008-16 investment plan
- RIL in talks with Peru for two oil blocks
- Iberdrola accepted for La Venta III tender as sole bidder
- Iran and Venezuela to form oil venture
- Ecuadorforbids drilling in Amazon jungle
- Production begins at Petrobras's Piranema field
- Ten firms submit offers for Chile’s Magallanes E&P round
- Galp and PdVSA to explore LNG and storage opportunities
- ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips leave technology behind in Venezuela
- Venezuela publishes law to end US firms' Orinoco rights
- Techint to build pipeline for Peru LNG
- OVL wins oil block in Trinidad and Tobago
- Suez and Codelco to build LNG terminal in Chile
- Nexen signs collaboration pact with Pemex
- Jamaica's PCJ signs contracts for offshore blocks
- Ecuador unveils plans to tighten grip on oil sector
- Petrobras reaffirms partnership with PetroPeru and Perupetro
- Peru LNG announces start of pipeline construction
- El Paso seeks suppliers before building Mexico LNG terminal
- Shell may expand Mexico LNG terminal if local demand rises
- PdVSA signs China shipbuilding deal
- Venezuela to supply 30 % of Portugal’s oil
- Petrobras to renegotiate Ecuador deal
- International players eye Chile’s deep south
- ConocoPhillips’s talks with Venezuelan are going well
- Technip signs deal with Trinidad and Tobago
- Repsol delays plan to sell shares in Argentine unit
- ExxonMobil seeks arbitration in oil row with Venezuela
- Repsol-YPF to renew Peruvian block 39 exploration in 2008
- Guyana to get greater part of oil basin in border
dispute with Suriname
- Gazprom to start drilling this year in Venezuela
- Petrolifera signs deal for Sierra Nevada 2
- Congressman in Ecuador raises old Texaco contamination case
- Colombian oil block auction favourable to companies
- TNK-BP seeking foothold in Venezuelan market
- Brazil to offer blocks next to pre-salt oil finds in November
- ANH awards 9 blocks in Caribbean round
- PSEG agrees to sell Electroandes to SN Power
- Petrobras wins four Caribbean blocks
- BP unveils Colombian investment plans
- Repsol wins Mexican LNG deal
- Venezuela to become one of world's top gas producers
- PdVSA ready for Orinoco arbitration
- Petrobras-Statoil deal paves way for biofuels collaboration
- Peru's gas developments spur drilling and petrochemical interest
- Ecuador to begin oil contract renegotiations
- Petrobras-led group begins drilling offshore Colombia
- Videocon-BPCL acquires stake in EnCanBrasil
- New Venezuelan supply deal with Citgo will remove “discount”
- CVRD signs deal with Shell Brasil to explore for natural gas
- Harvest signs joint venture deal with PdVSA
- CGE agrees to buy Emel for $ 660 mm
- PdVSA and CNPC to produce 800,000 bpd
- Foreign players expected to invest $ 580 mm in Bolivia
- Venezuela and China plan $ 10 bn joint oil venture
- ANH prequalifies 24 companies
for E&P round
- Petrobras announces international strategies
- Total to finalize Sincor conversion by yearend
- Petrobras to invest $ 2.7 bn in international business opportunities
- Enarsa receives six offers for GNEA pipeline tender
- Colombia eyes LNG exports as offshore drilling is set to begin
- Argentina orders closure of Shell refinery
- Repsol sole bidder for Manzanillo LNG supply
- Five companies submit offers for Argentinean blocks
- CNPC eyes refinery on Colombia's Pacific coast
- Pemex plans 10-year contract to maintain pipelines
- SK Energy sells stake in Peru LNG to Marubeni
- China may expand oil exploration and refining investments in Peru
- Rio Negro blocks under hammer
- YPFB and Gazprom begin E&P partnership talks
- BG and Challenger Energy farm into block off Trinidad
- ANH prequalifies companies for Ronda Caribe bidding
- Brenco targets 15 % ethanol market share by 2015
- Ecopetrol mobilizes rig to Colombia's Putumayo basin
- Petrobras pays 30 % more to build oil platform
- Foreign firms agree to supply Bolivian gas market first
- Brazilian Bioenergy company to invest in wind farms
- BW Offshore wins FPSO contract from Petrobras
- Cutuco Energy to begin LNG and power plant works in El Salvador
- Barrett Resources reviews alternatives for heavy oil fields in Peru
- Venezuela is creating its
own oil-field services company
- PdVSA and PetroEcuador sign MoU on Sacha mature oilfield
- Explorers face damages suit in Argentina’s Patagonia
- Repsol-YPF to invest $ 900 mm in Bolivia over next 3 years
- ONGC-Mittal wins gas block in Trinidad and Tobago
- Chavez and Morales launch YPFB-Petroandina
- Energias plans industrial park and inter-oceanic pipeline in Panama
- Pride International to sell Latin American units for $ 1 bn
- Petrozuata agrees to pay tax bill
- Daewoo and Industrial Perforadora to build deepwater rig
- Japan purchases 2 mm barrels of high-quality oil from Venezuela
- Suez and Codelco to invest $ 400 mm in Chile LNG project
- Barbados pressing ahead with
Trinidad gas pipeline
- Enap and Fracture Technologies sign exploration deal
- Suez and Codelco to invest $ 400 mm in Chilean LNG project
- PdVSA renames nationalized Orinoco joint ventures
- Pemex extends pipeline works tender for Campeche wells
- Trinidad and TobagoEC plans 250 MW plant at Point of Spain
- Dragados completes PB-KU-A2 platform for Pemex
- Devon starts oil flow from Brazilian Polvo field
- Honduran firm produces biodiesel from fish offal
- Petrolifera prepares to drill 45 new wells
- Cuba's oil and gas production is rising
- Pemex and BP agree to collaborate on technology
- Why China's CNPC got cold feet over Argentinean oil prospect
- Argentina’s exploration tenders attract 11 offers
- SK Energy wins exploration rights offshore Peru
- Gran Tierra Energy announces award of two new blocks in Colombia
- Brazil to see world's first green ethanol chemical complex built
- CPC Corp to meet in Houston to resolve Venezuelan oil disputes
- Jamaica receives proposals for four oil and gas blocks
- Shell to restart E&P activities in Colombia
- CNPC shifting focus from oil sands to Venezuela’s heavy oil deposits
- PetroVietnam to drill in Peru
- Petrotrin head predicts energy growth of Trinidad and Tobago
- Venezuela acting in good faith in ExxonMobil-ConocoPhillips case
- Peru awards thirteen new oil and gas blocks
- Norwood optimistic about Nicaraguan oil development
- Sixteen groups submit bids for Peru’s 2007 E&P round
- Venezuela and Iran to team up on oil project
- Colombia approves privatization of five power utilities
- Ecuador accuses Petrobras of illegal transfers
- Mesoamerican refinery attracts four companies
- Iberdrola's Mexican Tamazunchale plant start operations
- Braskem makes first ever 100 % plant-based polyethylene
- Pacific Stratus wins production licence for La Creciente block
- PetroEcuador to cooperate with Pertamina
- Petrobras and Galp Energia in biofuel pact
- China seeks heavy oil projects in Venezuela
- For some oil companies, Venezuela is
hardly the worst option
- Odebrecht to invest $ 2.6 bn to lead ethanol sector
- Norsk Hydro and Anadarko push ahead with Peregrino development
- Petrobras Energia and Fomicruz sign gas exploration deal
- ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips to negotiate their Venezuelan exit
- Statoil, Total, Chevron and BP sign joint venture deals with PdVSA
- Ecuador rejects arbitration in Occidental case
- Cuba grants operator status to Gold Oil
- Argentinean indigenous tribe confronts US oil and gas companies
- Venezuelan assembly approves Lagopetrol joint venture
- Shell to continue its gas activities in Latin America
- Qatar Petroleum-Occidental refinery in Panama to cost $ 7 bn
- Harvest receivesapproval for Venezuelan conversion
- Planned Chinese oil refinery to threaten Costa Rica environment
- Keppel/Technip consortium on course to deliver FPU to Petrobras
- Panama to negotiate E&P contract with Harken Energy
- Peru approves LNG project's main pipeline
- BG and Chevron sign gas deal for Dolphin development in Trinidad
- Colombia signs 11 oil exploration contracts
- Insurance difficulties cause delay of Bolivia's refinery takeovers
- CNPC interested in building refinery in Costa Rica
- Repsol to sell YPF stake soon
- Enap and BG sign deals to begin LNG plant construction
- Itochu and Petrobras to study bio-ethanol project in Brazil
- Staatsolie signs production sharingcontract with Murphy Oil
- US actress condemns Texaco’s Amazon pollution
- ONGC and Petrobras enter strategic tie-up
- BG finalizes Chilean natural gas supply deal
- Repsol to sell up to 45 % in Argentinean unit
- PetroPeru receives feasibility study offers for Talara revamp project
- Chile’s natural gas shortage expected to worsen in 2007
- Chevron announces Trinidad and Tobago gas sales deal
- Venezuela outlines Carabobo 2 reserves survey
- Burlington to explore Peru oil block
- Ashmore completes acquisition of DelSur stakes
- Marubeni to receive heavy fuel from PdVSA as loan repayment
- PetroCumarebo forecasts on output
- Global Industries wins its
first project in Brazil
- Suez and GasAtacama to build LNG plant in northern Chile
- Eight firms interested in Rio Negro's third tender round
- PdVSA and IFP to develop offshore software to help Orinoco production
- PetroLatina commits to Phase 2 of La Paloma exploration
- Bolivia to audit value of private oil firms for nationalization
- Repsol-YPF and PdVSA sign gas supply deal
- Panama signs refinery deal with Qatar and Occidental
- PdVSA to acquire Eleval private power utility
- Bolivia to move forward with campaign to nationalize oil and gas industry
- Ecopetrol and Chevron to ship gas to Venezuela
- Bolivia unveils next targets in energy-sector nationalisation
- Puerto
Rico’s AEE to begin work on gas pipeline and Aguirre plant
- Bolivia issues decree that stops foreigners from exporting oil products
- ENI signs up to PdVSA accord
- Chile invites March Resources to sign exploration contracts
- Venezuela’s Orinoco heavy oil agreements
- Bolivia signs contracts with twelve foreign oil companies
- Trinidad offers exploration blocks to Hardman-Centrica consortium
- Venezuela takes over foreign-controlled oil projects
- Occidental Petroleum accused of dumping waste in Amazon
- Scan Geophysical wins contract for surveys off northern Cuba
- Territorial dispute delays drilling in Guyana-Suriname waters
- ExxonMobil, Chevron, Total, Statoil and BP to hand over control of Orinoco
fields
- Oil contamination attorney invites Schwarzenegger to Ecuador
- Golar LNG secures employment for the world's first FSRUs
- Guatemala adds offshore blocks to planned E&P tender
- Centrica gets natural-gas license for Trinidad and Tobago
- CGE to invest $ 1 bn over 5 years
- Argentina’s Salta province launches exploration tender for 11 blocks
- Bolivia's Congress approves 44 new oil and gas contracts
- Shell thinks pre-salt layer oil find in Brazil is encouraging
- Layne Energy wins deal for CBM project in Chile
- Angolan private oil company wins international bid in Brazil
- Bolivia's gas exports threatened
- Braskem to raise finance for Ipiranga's petrochemical
business
- Calderon pledges less crude for Mesoamerican refinery
- Brazilian Energisa to invest $ 127 mm in 2007
- ConocoPhillips in talks with Venezuela over oil-projects compensation
- PdVSA’s bond issue oversubscribed threefold
- Venezuelan regulator proposes state control over all gas projects
- US worried about Petrobras’s growing activities in Iran
- Venezuela and China create $ 6 bn revolving fund
- Argentina’s Neuquen province signs contract with consortium
- Venezuela will only recognize booked investments in Orinoco
- Sonatrach eyes opportunities in Peru
- Mexico's oil reserves equivalent to 9.6 years of demand
- Bolivian Senate approves gas contracts with foreign
operators
- Arbitration court rules in favour of PdVSA in Enel dispute
- Pemex hands out development contracts for Burgos stakes
- Government spending strains PdVSA
- Petrobras to drill ten wells a year in Santos basin
- Copel to invest $ 240 mm in 2007
- Barbados to launch offshore exploration round
- Ecopetrol sets 2007 capex at EUR 1.75 bn
- Cesp to invest Euro 35 mm in new Brazilian projects
- Sinopec to help develop Ecuador's ITT oil field
- China and Venezuela form joint venture to tap oil
- Sao Martinho and Mitsubishi strike 30-year ethanol deal
- Errors in contracts complicate Bolivia’s gas nationalisation
- Bolivia and Venezuela
co-industrialize hydrocarbons
- Brazil and Ecuador sign Amazon energy agreement
- Bolivian gas contracts gain approval
- Argentina’s Rio Negro province pre-qualifies bidders for Neuquen blocks
- PdVSA sells $ 7.5 bn in bonds
- Brazil studying LNG import deal with Algeria
- SK Corp to invest $ 592 mm in Peru LNG project
- Enap takes steps to secure Chile's energy needs
- Petrobras to create petrochemical complex in southeast Brazil
- Mexico fights losing Cantarell battle
- Petrobras seeks bids for Gulf of Mexico FPSO
- Pemex seeks multiple alliances for deep-water oil fields
- Argentina’s Neuquen province awards Rio Barrancas block
- ExxonMobil and
Shell keen on Honduras E&P sector
- Petrobras signs deal with Jogmec of Japan
- Tractebel to invest $ 248 mm in 2007 in Brazil and Uruguay
- PetroEcuador to spend $ 4.8 bn in 2007
- Petrobras, Ultra and Braskem to buy stakes in Brazil's Ipiranga
- Peru and Venezuela to sign oil accord
- Politician says Pemex to be in critical condition
- Brazil giant backs US ethanol tariff
- Petrobras to start ethanol production from bagasse
- Spain’s Cobra wins E&P contract from Pemex unit
- PdVSA to convert refinery for heavy oil
- Chile to tender ten E&P blocks in May
- OVL wants greater stake in Venezuelan field
- Gold Oil and Plectrum sign E&P contract for Peru
block
- Venezuela hands 20-year gas license to Repsol-led company
- Ecuador to begin aggressive exploration program
- PetroEcuador to assess and certify reserves in Orinoco strip
- ONGC eyes 49 % stake in Venezuela block
- Repsol and Teikoku Oil win gas exploitation licenses in Venezuela
- Chile’s region V environmental authority approves LNG project
- GeoPark and Methanex sign Chilean gas supply and development deal
- Venezuela to pay $ 250 mm to BP and Total for seizure of Jusepin oil field
- Peru signs deals with foreign firms to develop petrochemical industry
- Japan to receive bulk of Brazil's ethanol exports
- Peru sees $ 1 bn investment in oil and gas sector in 2007
- Repsol and Gas Natural acquire three LNG vessels for Peru LNG project
- PetroEcuador plans $ 4 bn refinery in Manabi
- Big Oil makes big bucks in Venezuela despite Chavez
- Mexico and Brazil to expand technology pact
- India’s Jindal Steel secures gas supply contract for Bolivian plant
- Petrobras Energia purchases stakes in two Argentinean blocks
- Petroproduccion launches tender for Panacocha oil block
- Petrobras takes control of ConocoPhillips’ Patagonian fields
- Petrobras plans ethanol pipeline to Atlantic
- Petrobras and Mitsui to study ethanol pipeline network in Brazil
- Paraguay’s Ande to launch Acaray transmission line tender
- Pemex posts $ 3.8 bn net profit in 2006
- Gazprom and Petrobras sign memorandum of understanding
- Belarusneft to make reserve assessments in Orinoco belt
- Pemex sets gas output record in January
- Venezuela signs Orinoco nationalization decree
- Staatsolie, Paradise and Tullow sign E&P contracts
- Chevron and Vinccler announce Gulf of Venezuela partnership
- YPFB signs MoU with Gazprom
- Marubeni and Agrenco plan biodiesel project in Brazil
- Sherritt to survey four blocks off Cuba
- PdVSA to sign financial agreements with Japan
- ConocoPhillips receives big tax bill from Venezuela
- PetroVietnam to explore for oil in Nigeria and Cuba
- Atlantic LNG pays $ 46,7 mm in taxes to Trinidad and Tobago in
2006
- Japan signs 15-year oil deal with Venezuela
- YPFB and Gazprom sign MoU for collaboration
- Pemex launches second marine well data interpretation tender
- KNOC eyes Suriname’s oil sector
- Venezuela’s Ayacucho 6 output could reach 200,000 bpd by 2H08
- Cutuco to begin LNG terminal and power plant works in El Salvador
- Venezuela to fuel London’s buses in exchange for urban planning advice
- Trinidad’s NGC signs three new gas purchase contracts
- Petrotrin's billion-dollar investments
- Trinidad firm starts seismic survey at Otaheite Bank
- Brazil aspires to OPEC membership
- Skanska to build $ 136 mm thermo plant in Brazil
- Brazil and Bolivia
agree to quadruple Cuiaba gas price
- Pemex launches southern region well services tender
- Petrobras’ 2006 profits rise 9 % to record $ 12.3
- Pemex unit extends E&P bidding for Burgos basin
- PdVSA buys Seneca power company from CMS Energy
- Pertamina to explore in Ecuador this year
- ProInversion launches tender to build three pipelines
- Pemex plans $ 600-mm update of Cadereyta refinery
- Venezuela and AES reach EDC preliminary sale agreement
- JGI signs cooperation deal with Honduras
- BG estimates Brazilian Tupi field at 10 bn barrels
- BR to invest up to $ 481 mm in new coke-fired plants
- PCJ to receive offshore and onshore exploration proposals
- Trinidad anticipates increase in gas supplies after 2007
- Texas authorities halt Citgo refinery project
- Bolivia suspends contracts of 14 foreign oil firms
- Perupetro collects $ 690 mm in 2006
- PdVSA, Statoil and Total in talks with Sincor
- Venezuela hits US drilling company with stiff tax bill
- Petrobras and ONGC may swap exploration blocks
- ExxonMobil and Venezuela in Cerro Negro talks
- Study identifies eight “promising” Peru blocks
- PdVSA and CNPC team up for Poso block
- Ecopetrol sets $ 2 bn E&P budget for 2007
- AES to sell utility stake to Venezuela
- Petrobras begins oil and gas production from field in Gulf of Mexico
- Iberdrola starts test operations at Tamazunchale plant
- Bolivia’s state oil company leader resigns
- Emerald Energy wins Colombian exploration deal
- Foreign oil companies expected to invest $ 1.5 bn in Colombia in 2007
- PdVSA Gas signs consulting deal with Gazprom
- Perupetro set to accept bids for 18 blocks
- Venezuela to resume offshore E&P gas licensing
- Perupetro launching tender for 18 blocks
- PetroEcuador urgently requires $ 1 bn
- Endesa plans $ 3.2 bn Latin American investment for 2007-09
- Petrobras to boost output in Peru field
- Petrobras and Repsol left out of Bolivia-Argentina gas deal
- ISA and Etesa launch interconnection consultancy
tender
- Petrobras’s 2006 Brazil oil output averaged 1.778 mm bpd
- Pemex expects output to decline in 2007
- CB&I wins turnkey contract for Camisea liquefaction plant
- India considering Venezuela's offer to set up refinery
- PdVSA Gas to handle Gran Gasoducto engineering requirements
- PetroEcuador head identifies major problems in company
- Argentina’s Tecpetrol and Petrobras unit to explore Salta block
- Brazil and Venezuela take first step toward mega gas pipeline
- Ecuador reiterates plans to revise oil contracts
- Petrobras and PdVSA sign letter of intentions
- Suframa finishes feasibility study for gas-chemical complex in Manaus
- Petrobras to restart P-55
tender
- Venezuela and Saudi Arabia eye Indian oil sector
- Transelec launches tender for EIS of 2,000 km transmission line
- PetroAndina joint venture plans $ 1.17 bn investment
- Venezuela orders Orinoco projects to reduce synthetic crude exports
- YPFB receives eight offers to export gas to Argentina
- Venezuela to pass emergency legislation on Orinoco Faja belt
- PdVSA and Petrobras to form joint ventures for mature fields
- PdVSA to compensate indigenous Colombians for gas pipeline damage
- Brazil's gas and oil reserves decline
- Venezuela to buy AES’s shares in EDC
- Brazil’s environmental protection group clears Manati gas field start-up
- Ecuador earns $ 1.1 bn from
Occidental’s oil fields
- Oil firms in Venezuela’s Orinoco face threat of nationalization
- Petrobras won't change its investment plans
- Chavez moves to nationalize Venezuelan power and telecoms firms
- Cuba reports on oil and gas output in 2006
- BG and Chevron sign gas supply deal with Trinidad and Tobago
- Shell Brazil declares BS-4 area commercial
- BG Group to deliver LNG ships to Trinidad and signs gas sales deal
- Market value of Brazil's Petrobras tops $ 100 bn
- Nicaragua pre-qualifies firms for second offshore E&P round
- Brazilian oil output expected to continue steady rise in 2007
- Petrobras to restart tender for P-57 floating production
- Brazilian oilfield won’t
be affected by Norsk Hydro’s buyout
- Colombia signs Ecopetrol partial sell-off bill into law
- Petrobras to invest $ 22.3 bn in 2007
- Malaysian Petronas launches oil exploration in Venezuela
- PetroEcuador to invest $ 6 bn in refinery projects in next 5 years
- Petrobras calls off P-57 tender
- Shell declares 2 Brazilian blocks viable
- Petrobras declares 19 oilfields viable
- Aneel approves CPFL’s takeover of CLFSC
- Argentina’s Rio Negro province to sign four exploration concessions
- Prisma raises stake in Promigas to 53 %
- Ecopetrol to spend $ 2 bn in 2007 on exploration
- Venezuela and Iran create oil joint venture
- Ecuador to invest $ 6 bn inrefinery projects in next 5 years
- LUKoil and PdVSA continue assessment of oilfield
- Gran Tierra wins another block in Peru
- PdVSA plans Caribbean-Pacific oil pipeline
- Semarnat issues permits for Sonora LNG project
- Chevron and Ecopetrol to increase production at Ballenas gasfield
- Vietnam and Venezuela to form joint venture
- Energy giants shy away from Trinidad’s oil blocks
- Jamaica to offer offshore and onshore areas in second bidding round
- PdVSA expects Paria Oeste to produce 70,000 bpd in 2008
- Lawmakers approve plans for 20 % of Ecopetrol sale
- Venezuela and Brazil to build oil tankers
- Brazil plans to resume investment in Bolivia
- Manati well flows for Petrobras
- Occidental to shed oil holdings in Peru
- Perupetro approves exploration contract off Peru
- EEB wins bid to buy Ecogas for $ 1.43 bn
- Petrobras and Ecopetrol plan joint projects
- Peru approves E&P contracts
- New Bolivian oil and gas investment security law goes into effect
- Ecopetrol to invest $ 12.5 bn over 5 years
- Venezuela and Belize sign PetroCaribe deal
- Bolivia enters new oil stage in hydrocarbon industrialization
- Bolivian energy minister praises Shell’s investment plans
- Latin-American oil firms to develop Venezuelan projects
- Ecuador earns $ 930.7 mm from sale of Occidental fields
- ONGC wins oil block in Brazil
- Cancellation of round 8 could impact Brazil’s natural gas dependence
- Dolphin to increase thermo generator capacity at Guemes
- International firms win bids for Brazilian offshore blocks
- Brazil goes beyond self sufficiency level during October
- Bolivia and Shell to discuss nationalization of Transredes
- Brazil’s E&P auction to focus on natural gas and light oil areas
- Argentina’s Rio Negro province pre-awards exploration blocks
- India and China to form joint venture for African and Latin American assets
- Brazil awards 2,261 km of new transmission lines
- Petrobras expects domestic oil output to top 2 mm bpd in late 2007
- Chavez prepares to fight
with oil majors for control of oil fields
- PdVSA aims to raise China exports to 300,000 bpd by February
- CTEEP to invest $ 567 mm in 2007-09
- Petrobras expects domestic oil output to exceed 2 mm bpd by end-2007
- Chevron sees Argentine output capacity erode through strike
- Cantarell field expected to decline by 14 % per year
- Cheney and his Halliburton associates are "democratizing" Mexico
- Petrobras daily production reaches 2.3 mm bpd
- Cheap Venezuelan heating oil reaches New York City for second year
- Ecuador to spend $ 300 mm on ex-Occidental fields
- Ecuadorean tribe asks judge to rule on Chevron contamination lawsuit
- PetroPeru keen to develop petrochemical industry
- Orinoco gas to power new 450 MW plant
- Petrobras expects lifting costs to remain stable
- Peru sees oil, but no development
- ENI starts arbitration trial against Venezuela over Dacion field
- Venezuela wants major stake in La Ceiba field from ExxonMobil
- Infinity Bio-Energy targets 1 bn litres ethanol output in 2009
- Argentina’s Salta province signs contract for pipeline construction
- Bolivia draws line at compensation for oil and gas reserves
- Venezuela cuts Orinoco production to comply with OPEC reductions
- CNG to operate PdVSA’s thermal generation assets
- Pluspetrol expects to invest $ 450 mm in Peru in 2007
- Pemex’s 2007 capex to reach $ 16 bn
- Suez and GasAtacama sign MoU for $ 350 mm LNG project
- Shell starts development of BC-10 block off Brazil
- Jamaica seeking more oil exploration investors
- PdVSA demands contract change from ConocoPhillips and Chevron
- Peru reports on oil/liquids and gas output
- PetroEcuador receives 27 bids for 7 marginal fields
- Manzanillo bidding round attracts initial 30 companies
- BG thinks Bolivia’s nationalization is resolved in best way possible
- Williams International faces tax demand from Venezuela
- Total to invest $ 1.9 bn in Bolivia’s exploration and production
- PetroEcuador believes investment in oil sector could reach $ 5 bn
- Bolivia promises that oil firms can expect 15 %
profit
- PetroEcuador to analyze offshore blocks
- Caribbean gas pipeline advancement is pending Barbados’ decision
- Aneel's transmission auction attracts 32 companies
- PdVSA extends deadline on E&P licensing round
- Venezuela’s new power company to focus on oil-rich east
- Mexico inaugurates first LNG terminal
- Bolivia signs deals with all foreign oil firms
- Repsol welcomes deal with Bolivia over nationalisation of gas reserves
- PdVSA cleaning up Lake Maracaibo oil operations
- Bolivia bans Argentina from reselling gas to Chile
- Venezuela still wants to pursue oil output target
- Petrobras sets production record
- Pluris Energy to buy
Argentinean firm
- PdVSA produces extra 2.8 mm cmpd from Maracaibo
- Argentina backdates new Tierra del Fuego gas tax
- ICSID could be just the start of Occidental battle
- YPF submits sole bid for Tamberias exploration in Argentina
- Argentina and Bolivia sign 20-year gas deal
- Argentine province demands millions in royalties from oil firms
- China wins heavy oil area in Venezuela
- Bolivia slashes estimates at two large gas fields
- Pemex buys US goods and services with Ex-Im Bank loans
- Bolivia sticks to oil and gas nationalization deadline
- Perupetro to sign 18 E&P contracts by yearend
- Altamira LNG terminal begins commercial operations
- Petrobras to participate in Ronda Caribe bidding
- IMF thinks sustainability of Pemex output is “potential concern”
- First RasGas delivery reaches Mexico
- Repsol-YPF plans investment for Santa Cruz province
- Argentina ends Tierra del Fuego oil and gas export tax breaks
- Repsol-YPF plans investment in Argentina’s Chubut province
- Statoil studies plans to bid for Brazil’s eighth licensing round
- Brazil and Bolivia provisionally agree on natural gas deal
- PetroVietnam enters partnership with CubaPetroleo
- The most sustainable and socially responsible oil/gas firms in Latin America
- Enap and Chile’s ministry plan tender for Magallanes blocks
- Repsol-YPF and Gazprom to study gas andoil joint-ventures
- Petrobras confident of finding oil and gas in Colombian sea
- Chavez to expand program of home-heating oil for US poor
- Petrobras contracts two ultra-deepwater rigs
- PdVSA’s 2005 financial statements
- GNL Chile and BG Group sign deal
- Burlington signs E&P contracts with Peru
- PetroFalcon and Vinccler create Petrocumarebo joint venture
- Mexico’s Burgos E&P tenders attract fourteen groups
- Colombia to hold new Ecogas auction
- BPZ eyes projects in Ecuador and Peru
- Guatemala approves oil exploration and production contract
- Venezuela bets energy future on new CIGMA project
- Dutch Agrenco and Brazilian co-operatives to
invest in biodiesel plants
- Trinidad and Tobago looks to maximise on energy returns
- Chile receives two offers for Codelco-backed LNG terminal
- Petrobras may move LNG plant start-up forward
- ONGC eyeing oil assets in Kazakhstan and Cuba
- Bolivia’s second attempt to nationalize oil and gas
- Iran and Venezuela sign economic agreements
- PdVSA Gas expected to extract 300 mm cmpd artificial natural gas
- Bolivia suspends plans to take over Brazilian-owned refineries
- Petro-Canada to look for oil in Trinidad
- Are Bolivia and Brazil on a collision course?
- Pemex unit launches tender to drill and complete Burgos wells
- Bolivian protesters force Repsol unit to shut
down
- Gazprom considers taking part in Panama gas pipeline
- Venezuela takes softer line with Orinoco oil majors
- Barbados to sign on to Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline Project
- PetroEcuador forms firm to operate Occidental's former fields
- Venezuela’s Citgo decided to discontinue 7-Eleven contract
- Argentina receives seven bids for Rio Negro blocks
- ENI asks $ 830 mm in damages from PdVSA
- Trinidad extends hydrocarbons E&P round bidding
- Petrobras inaugurates gas station in Uruguay
- Chilectra and partners launch power supply tender
- Oil and gas sector in Brazil to receive $ 199 bn
- OVL in agreement with Cuba
- Petrobras eyes Jamaican
offshore oil
- Ecuador reports on crude oil exports
- Venezuelan tax authority asks for $ 15 mm from five oil companies
- Falkland Oil and Gas signs contract for seismic survey
- Enap and Iansa determine feasibility of biofuels development
- Chinese to look into hydrocarbons potential of Honduras
- Bolivia negotiates oil nationalization
- Colombia’s hydrocarbons regulator awards E&P blocks
- Peru’s Camisea contract talks to wrap up soon
- Bolivia sees first dividend from nationalization
- Repsol-YPF faces US class action suit over reserves cut
- Petrobras to launch LNG re-gasification bidding in October
- Venezuela to supply Dominica with fuel
- Mexicokeen to import LNG from Peru
- Venezuela moves expansion of national gas network forward
- PdVSA to take control over oil projects in Orinoco River basin
- Bolivia-Argentina pipeline reopens after shutdown
- Pemex unit sets dry natural gas output record
- PdVSA reports on net profits
- Petrobras wants to team up with Pemex
- Argentinean Epec plans exploration tender for three Cordoba zones
- Fresh evidence of construction problems in Camisea pipeline
- Brazilian firm links up with NASA and Boeing
- Glencore wins 51 % stake in Ecopetrol refinery
- Petrobras and Total want to resume oil exploration in Bolivia
- Pemex to launch Gulf survey tender
- Nicaragua’s comptroller voids Union Fenosa contract
- Ecuador to auction three oil projects
- Gazprom’s Latin American strategy
- Turkey's state oil company interested in Ecuadorean opportunities
- Petrobras and White Martins create consortium
- Bolivian energy nationalization up in the air
- Mexico's Altamira LNG terminal gets first cargo
- Bolivia signs audit contract for Petrobras fields
- Indians occupy pipeline station in Bolivia
- Twelve foreign companies claim stake in DeltaCaribe Project
- PdVSA and Harvest units sign deal for three additional fields
- Petrobras gets extension on Venezuelan gas project
- Teikoku to boost its Venezuelan gas
production
- Brazil to cut oil import
- Tecpetrol signs exploration assistance deal with Tierra del Fuego
- Argentina receives two bids for Salina Grande exploration area
- PetroEcuador board approves budget for block 15
- Orinoco could hold up to 1.3 tn barrels
- PdVSA to invest $ 265 mm in Kingston refinery
- Petrobras and YPFB to extend gas contract talks
- Sinopec and ONGC to buy stake in Colombia’s Omimex
- Board clears PdVSA’s refinery sale to Lyondell
- Bolivian oil nationalisation in chaos after cash runs out
- Peru communities to take oil companies to court
- Pemex to launch Burgos E&P tenders
- Petrobras to explore for natural gas in Santa
Cruz
- Honduras to buy fuels to build supply station
- Venezuela to finalise Petrojam joint venture
- Petrobras aims to boost Peru output
- PdVSA and Petrobras to undertake gas exploration in Mariscal Sucre
- Enagas reports on La Blanquilla Block
- Ecuador plans trusteeship for Occidental’s oil revenues
- Bolivia to help Argentina avoid economic slowdown
- Venezuela opens international bidding on offshore gas blocks
- Venezuela starts quantification process of Orinoco crude
- PdVSA to build three refineries
- Petrobras to double overseas investment
- PetroEcuador and Enap sign energy cooperation deal
- Petrobras expects to double exploration
spending
- Chevron accused of fraud in Ecuador
- Petrobras prepares September tenders for two production units
- India and China to buy US oil firm in Colombia
- Venezuela to drill in Orinoco belt
- Brazil and Uruguay to interconnect electric systems
- Venezuela expects thirty-four companies to bid for gas blocks
- PetroEcuador and Pertamina sign strategic alliance accord
- Peru reports on oil and gas output
- PdVSA signs MoU with Brazilian Andrade Gutierrez to build shipyard
- Petrobras to expand natural gas production
- Pemex expects production at Cantarell to drop at faster rate
- Brazil to start 914 MW capacity from renewable power projects soon
- Sherritt evaluates potential of Cuban oil fields
- Petrobras leases six new drilling units
- PdVSA and Gazprom sign gas development contract
- Salvador’s CEL seeks consultant to study offshore oil deposits
- Pemex to invest $ 13 bn this year
- Citgo Petroleum sheds less profitable business
- Leaky pipes and sparing aid slow Camisea
- Chevron signs joint venture deals with Venezuela
- Iran to spend $ 4 bn on two Venezuelan oil fields
- Petrobras to produce half of what Saudi Arabia does today in 2015
- Petrobras to invest four times as much in Colombia this year
- Nine oil firms bid for Colombia's Niscota oilfield
- Peru reports on June oil/liquids
output
- Gazprom considers joining South American gas pipeline project
- Colombia to privatise part of state oil group
- Petrobras plans new 500,000 bpd refinery
- Argentina and Uruguay to join oil project in Venezuela
- BP settles pipeline suit with Colombian farmers
- Venezuelan oil firms sign joint-venture contracts with Petrobras
- Fitun calls on Trinidad government to acquire PowerGen
- BG and Chevron deliver first gas from Dolphin development
- Oil majors are interested in Trinidad’s deep-water blocks
- Petrobras and Chevron sign joint ventures with PdVSA
- Argentina's Enarsa to oversee compilation of oil database
- Helicopter for pipeline survey crashes in
Colombia
- Pemex reports on crude output
- Brazil to hold new oil and gas blocks auction
- Brazil signs $ 600-mm oil contract with China
- Pan Andean to seek oil and gas in Peru
- ONGC and Ecuador discuss production of seized Occidental field
- Bolivia audits foreign oil companies
- Bolivia awards audits of 56 fields
- Petrobras considers Gazprom as potential partner for pipeline
- Petrobras to repurchase $ 1 bn of worth of bonds
- Peru's oil and gas sector to invest $ 2.3 bn between 2006 and 2010
- Venezuela has no plans to reduce oil supply to US
- Petrobras signs over control and revenues from oil operations
- PdVSA and Ancap sign La Teja expansion
MoU
- Peru voids Camisea audit tender
- Perupetro to sign three exploration contracts
- PdVSA signs joint venture deals with Perenco, Lundin and Tecpetrol
- Bolivia to invest $ 1.2 bn into La Paz department
- Petrobras has big plans to take on the world
- TGP negotiating with Peru LNG to expand pipeline
- Skanska to build gas pipeline in Brazil
- Venezuela struggles to meet natural gas deficit
- Petrobras to invest $ 650 mm in Argentinean refining assets
- Petrobras more than doubles gas investments
- In Venezuela, Big Oil ponders how to deal with Orinoco
- Petrobras sees decline in global investment
- Peru LNG project faces questions
- Petrobras to spend $ 150 mm in Colombia
- PetroCaribe deal slow to take effect
- Peru reports on oil/liquids output
- Bolivia makes YPFB nation’s exclusive wholesale fuel distributor
- Petrobras looks to launch new investments
- Suez unit eyes LNG terminal in Chile
- Brazil to become more attractive to oil exploration
- PdVSA reports on Chevron’s Deltana gas block
- Oil companies pay $ 266 mm in back taxes to Venezuela
- Ecuador and Venezuela to sign oil agreements
- Consortium to invest some $ 800 mm in Peru block
- Foreign firms to account for fast increasing share of Brazil’s oil output
- Colombia's ISA buys controlling stake in CTEEP
- Honduras to call for bids on fuel terminal
- PdVSA Gas could buy 35% of Pluspetrol's Tiznados gas field
- Repsol-YPF lays out investment plans for Argentina
- PdVSA changes terms of agreement with PetroEcuador
- Chevron-led group to invest in Brazilian oil field
- Peru congress commission calls for Camisea renegotiation
- Chevron and partners to develop Brazil’s Frade field
- Chile’s LNG project could expand to 20 mm cmpd output
- Chile’s SIC requires $ 486 mm investment through 2012
- Brazil will not go for full nationalization of Petrobras
- Petrobras to stop fuel distribution operations in Bolivia
- Caracas invites Gazprom to build Venezuela-Argentina gas pipeline
- Toyo wins oil refinery modernization project from Petrobras
- Ecuador to refine crude in Venezuela
- BPZ and Suez Energy sign export pipeline evaluation MoU
- ICA Fluor wins contract from Indelpro to build plant in Mexico
- Ecuador to run Occidental oil fields by itself
- Enap thinks commercial reserves in Lago Mercedes well are 99 % certain
- Repsol-YPF plans to accelerate upstream investment drive in Argentina
- Reliance eyes petrochemical project with Pequiven
- Venezuela’s Suelopetrol to launch ethanol production subsidiary
- High oil prices drive wedge between oil firms and Cuba-US community
- Proinfa to add 914 MW to Brazil’s renewable energy plan by yearend
- Petrobras to start
P-52 operations early 2007
- Pemex tests deep water well
- YPFB and Gazprom agree to form joint venture
- PdVSA-CNPC orimulsion plant to complete test runs by August
- Repsol plans to invest $ 30 mm in Amazon oil block
- Enerbrasil to start wind project
- Eletrobras agrees to buy Urucu field ahead of pipeline conclusion
- ENI willing to negotiate oil deal with Venezuela
- India to get access to Venezuela’s Orinoco crude
- Venezuela signs oil and gas deals with Ecuador
- PdVSA to invest in mature oil fields
- Shell hopes to take part in Venezuelan offshore exploration
- Iran and Venezuela meet to refine bilateral pacts
- Venezuela expects to book 30 bn
bbl heavy oil reserves by 1Q 2007
- Franklin and YPFB to build Bolivia's first GTL processing plant
- PdVSA and YPFB sign six energy deals
- Petrobras hits new oil output record
- PetroEcuador to select state oil company to operate block 15
- Repsol-YPF keen to continue oil and gas operations in Bolivia
- Bolivia withdraws troops from oil industry sites
- Ypergas to invest $ 40 mm this year in Venezuelan gas field
- Venezuela eyes Orinoco tar deposits to supply global energy needs
- Petrobras to boost gas in high potential areas
- PdVSA Gas to promote gas exploration in new onshore blocks
- Petrobras, Shell and others to lose Bolivian gas stations
- Petrobras to sell $ 500 mm of
fuel oil to Puerto Rico generator
- Petrobras plans to raise oil and gas output through 2007
- PdVSA studies supply depot in Antigua and Barbuda
- Mexico and Venezuela compete for oil markets
- Malaysia interested in Ecuador's oil industry
- PdVSA to help Cuba increase oil production
- Gazprom eyes $ 2 bn investment in Bolivia
- Venezuela’s CRP to add 130,000 bpd syncrude capacity
- Repsol-YPF investing heavily in Brazil
- Mexico approves Tidelands international gas pipeline project
- Repsol-YPF now third largest oil producer in Brazil
- Atlantic LNG's Train 4 starts production
- Petrobras to produce soy oil and diesel mix
- Petrobras to sign first
contracts of fleet renewal program
- Mexicans cling tightly to “their” oil
- Brazil’s Petrobras to buy Uruguay’s Gaseba
- Petrobras announces plans for petrochemical joint venture
- Bolivia’s 2005 gas royalties set record
- Petrobras project may open doors to gas from Arab countries
- PdVSA wants 60 % stake in Orinoco projects
- Bolivia to compensate Petrobras for refinery expropriation
- Petrobras to modernize Brazil's Revap and US Pasadena refineries
- Repsol teams up with Hydro and ONGC for exploration in Cuban waters
- YPFB ends contract with DeGolyer & MacNaughton for overstating
- Petrobras has no intention of pulling away from Bolivia’s natural gas
- PdVSA to boost output
in San Tome district
- Petrobras to boost Espirito Santo output
- Venezuela to book Orinoco oil reserves starting in June
- German firm plans biogas projects in Chile
- PetroProduccion to take over Occidental's block 15 operations
- Ecuador to keep Occidental's share in pipeline unchanged
- Bolivia turns to Venezuela for gas
- Petrobras to speed up exploration of Brazilian gas fields
- World oil firms eye business in Bolivia
- Brazil may substitute Bolivian gas with ethanol
- PdVSA to buy oil tankers from China
- Repsol-YPF renews contract with Ecuador
- Repsol to sell stake in Argentinean subsidiary
- Ecuador cancels contract with Occidental
Petroleum
- Nationalisations in Latin America threaten oil supplies
- Venezuelan parliament approves new oil taxes
- Petrobras to invest in Peru
- Occidental files arbitration claim against Ecuador
- Ecuador is not planning to nationalise oil industry
- Brazil’s income of oil output to rise
- Petrobras to invest $ 16 bn in natural gas sector
- Oil companies can still profit from investments in Bolivia
- OVL to acquire stake in seven blocks in Cuba
- Bolivia closer to gaining control of three foreign energy companies
- Bolivia does not want to build gas pipeline with Petrobras
- PdVSA and YPFB to sign new joint venture deal to operate in Bolivia
- Venezuela's congress recommends state control of oil projects
- Venezuela to increase oil export to Asia
- Latin America wrestles with Big Oil
- The case for nationalization of oil and gas in Bolivia
- Brazil considering new sources of natural gas
- Repsol-Irving Oil LNG terminal in Bolivia not affected by seizures
- Three foreign energy companies to remain in Bolivia
- YBFB suspends new investments in Bolivia
- PdVSA to install gas separation plant in Bolivia
- India and China bid for Colombian oil firm
- Jamaica to invite Petronas for exploration
- Oil groups weigh up their options in Bolivia
- PdVSA to purchase oil rigs from Chinese company
- Perupetro to sign four E&P contracts
- Peru reports on oil/liquids and gas output
- Cuba signs deals with oil firms for drilling off Florida’s coast
- Petrobras and Sinopec sign contract for gas pipeline
- Shell still interested in Bolivian opportunities
- Peru signs contract with Hunt Oil
- Oil and gas nationalization in Bolivia
- Venezuela buys Russian oil to avoid defaulting on deals
- Venezuela’s future is extra-heavy oil and natural gas
- Nicaragua signs deal with MKJ for Caribbean blocks
- Colombia's Ecopetrol to develop gas reserves for export
- Trinidad signs deal with Westlake Chemical for ethylene complex
- Trinidad plans to increase downstream
investment
- Bolivia to increase price control over Repsol and Petrobras
- Brazil celebrates oil self sufficiency
- Petrobras hires Sinopec to build 300 km stretch of Gasene pipeline
- Cooperation between the state and private industry in Venezuela
- Pemex reports on crude exports to US
- Bolivia’s electricity regulator to launch new tender
- Venezuela is still an attractive proposition to oil companies
- Venezuela and Cuba form joint venture to update Cuban oil refinery
- Venezuela sets up oil export deal with India
- BHP Billiton signs offshore E&P contracts with Colombia
- Venezuela warns oil companies of further tax increases
- Russian government to help Gazprom expand to
Latin America
- ENI receives notice of contract termination for Venezuelan field
- Argentina to call for bids to expand gas pipelines
- Camisea liquid gas pipeline ruptures for fifth time
- Pemex oil output expected to drop without extra investment
- Venezuelan Congress approves new oil joint venture rules
- ExxonMobil looks to stay in Venezuela
- Two US firms to explore for oil and gas off Nicaragua’s coast
- Oil independents tap smaller opportunities in Argentina
- YPFB to sign energy MoU with Shaw Group
- Venezuela steps up pursuit of foreign oil companies for tax
- Peru awards exploration contracts to Amerada Hess and Petrobras
- Venezuela sends bill to Total's Sincor extra
heavy crude project
- ONGC to buy 15 % stake in Brazilian oil field
- Ecuador to develop new oil field in Amazon by year-end
- Brazilian energy companies looking for energy partnership with Russia
- Venezuela to award Repsol-YPF and Teikoku gas exploration licenses
- New conditions for oil firms in Venezuela
- Venezuela optimistic about new joint ventures
- Oil MS Brazil invites Zarubezhneft to develop Brazil oil fields
- Venezuela to tender offshore Guarapiche block
- New PdVSA join venture partners to receive shares and vouchers
- Gazprom and Stroytransgaz may build pipeline in Latin America
- Peru reports on oil and gas output
- Colombia signs five new oil and gas exploration
contracts
- Petrobras signs new production contracts in Venezuela
- Statoil was not forced to sell out Venezuelan oil field
- Venezuela takes control of oil field from Total
- Venezuela to cut size of oil drilling areas
- Pemex goes to deep water seeking big oil discovery
- ANP calls on Petrobras to hand over inactive fields
- Mexico's CFE to launch Manzanillo tenders
- Venezuela halts oil lifting at Exxon's La Ceiba field
- Petrobras invests $ 16 bn to reduce Brazil's gas dependency
- PdVSA to invest $ 123 bn through 2012
- Sulgas sees Brazil's demand outpacing supply in 2008
- UTE to purchase 60 MW of renewable energy
- Pemex reports continued slide
in reserves
- PetroEcuador rejects proposal from Occidental to end legal dispute
- Pemex reports on crude reserves
- Pemex starts up Tajin oil complex
- Petrobras starts drilling for natural gas in Venezuela's Cojedes State
- Venezuela begins 14 new exploration wells in 2005
- Venezuela to hit heavy oil projects with natural gas bill
- Mexico to explore new oil fields
- Brazilian Cemig to invest $ 774 mm in 2006
- Meta plans $ 1 bn project to boost oil output in Colombia
- Brazil's gas law plan gives Petrobras concessions
- Fourteen firms line up for Trinidad’s 2005/06 bid round
- Petrobras to seek oil in Ukraine, Turkey and Egypt
- Petrobras expects
oil prices of $ 60-$ 65 a barrel this year
- CFE to build combined cycle plant in Mexico’s Baja California state
- BP's Trinidad Canonball project near completion after pipeline problems
- Enap signs MoU with Pacific Stratus for sale of Columbian assets
- Brazil's gas law plan gives Petrobras concessions
- Ecopetrol invites four pre-qualified firms to bid on Cartagena project
- Venezuela demands royalties in crude rather than in cash
- EnCana closes sale of interests in Ecuador to Andes Petroleum
- Peru reports on oil and other hydrocarbon output
- Rights of isolated indigenous communities violated by Amazon pipeline
- Latin American gas pipeline to be in hands of interstate company
- Report alleges TGP forfour ruptures in Camisea pipeline construction
- Pemex to increase oil output by 2.7 % in 2006
- Petrobras approves sale of El Paso's Araucaria stake to Copel
- PdVSA’s Dragon field doesn't cross into Trinidad’s waters
- Petropars to develop oil field in Venezuela
- Antigua preparing to capitalise on PetroCaribe initiative
- Caribbean needs to go solar
- PetroCaribe’s proposal is very generous to Trinidad
- Petrobras ranks as world’s second best in corporate governance
- PdVSA to stop filing with the SEC
- Chevron to provide gas for new Colombia-Venezuela pipeline
- PdVSA and ConocoPhillips to double drilling capacity at Petrozuata
- Chevron will not increase Venezuelan
production until 2007
- PdVSA increases supply of gasoline to domestic market
- Ecuador’s oil exports in turmoil as protests continue
- Petrobras reports on January oil output
- Petrobras reaffirms $ 18 bn investment program for 2006
- Colombia expects exploration boom after record 2005 investments
- Bolivia’s new YPFB president envisions continental partnership
- Trinidad and Venezuela to hold talks on shared gas fields
- Belize is hopeful about oil
- Colombia-Venezuela pipeline construction to begin in July
- Guascor prepares to export 450 diesel generators to Cuba
- Venezuelan crude deliveries to Citgo could rise by 100,000 bpd
- BG Group to supply LNG and build regasificationterminal in Chile
- Repsol-YPF signs deal with Bolivia for gas pipeline and LNG factory
- Gazprom interested in Venezuela-Brazil-Argentina gas pipeline
- Caricom in harmony on PetroCaribe oil deal
- PdVSA buys 50 % of Ancap stake in Petrolera del Conosur
- Petrobras to invest $ 5 bn in Bolivia's gas sector
- Ecopetrol prequalifies four firms for Cartagena refinery contract
- Meta Petroleum to increase production at central Colombian field
- PdVSA to pay off debt
- Pequiven cancels ExxonMobil’s Venezuelan olefins project
- Mexican wind projects need new law to connect to grid
- Cheap Venezuelan oil for Vermont
- Petrobras board approves acquisition of Pasadena refinery
- US oil investors interested in Cuba
- Meeting the energy challenge in Trinidad
- Peru reports on hydrocarbons production
- ONGC to buy 30 % stake of ExxonMobil’s Brazilian oil field
- Petrobras agrees to buy Macae plant from El Paso
- Electricity demand in Chile’s central grid drops below GDP in 2005
- First private-sector oil summit between US and Cuba
- Bolivia to renegotiate gas deals with Argentina and Brazil
- PetroCaribe is best available solution to Caribbean oil crisis
- Petrobras seeks partnership with new Bolivian government
- Colombia approves eight new oil and gas exploration contracts
- Pemex to close $ 5.5 bn syndicated loan
- Brazilian Furnas toinvest $ 587 mm in generation and transmission
- Pemex to issue $ 1.5 bn debt on international market through bonds
- Alliant Energy closes sale of assets to Sobrapar
- Sempra builds first LNG terminal in Mexico
- Australian company to search for oil and gas in Jamaica
- Mexico's oil output may decline sharply
- Ecopetrol expects oil output to fall 1.4 % in 2006
- Iberdrola’s Latin American electricity generation up 18.2 % in 2005
- Petrobras and Gazprom discuss pipeline cooperation
- Trinidad to tender eight deepwater blocks by end of March
- Petrobras in talks with Bolivia on contract changes
- Chevron to invest in Brazilian oil project
- Bolivia and Venezuela sign energy
integration accords
- Shell and Petrobras pay retroactive tax debt to Venezuela
- Repsol-YPF to cut hydrocarbon reserves estimate by 25 %
- Perupetro to sign ten new exploration contracts
- PdVSA and Enarsa sign geological studies accord
- Colombia signed 59 technical and production contracts in 2005
- PdVSA and IFP to implement new heavy crude refining technology
- Venezuela cuts Shell’s tax bill by 90 %
- Petropars selects Iranian consultant for Venezuelan oil field
- Occidental denies cutting output in Ecuador contract dispute
- Venezuela expects boost in oil income
- Bolivia’s coveted gas and oil resources
- Kerr McGee lifts Chinook field reserves estimate
- Perupetro and Monterrico to sign E&P contract
- Repsol-YPF and Tierra Del Fuego sign E&P accord
- Member of Bolivian transition team threatens Andina with lawsuit
- Venezuela hits natural gas projects with royalty changes
- Petrobras reports on 2005 oil output
- CFE and Pemex launch tender for Manzanillo regasification project
- Petrobras announces proved reserves in 2005
- Private firms expected to invest $ 16.9 bn in Brazil through 2010
- Peru LNG signs deal to export LNG to Mexico and US
- Repsol-YPF starts up Peru LNG project
- India formally approves pact with Venezuela
- Petrobras and partners to invest $ 18 bn in Santos basin
- Venezuela: The new Saudi
Arabia
- Argentina signs offshore accords with Repsol and Petrobras
- Petrobras to invest $ 18 bn in production
- Peru LNG to export LNG from Camisea to Mexico and/or US
- Perupetro approves Petrolera Monterrico contract
- Trinidad sees gas-to-liquid delivery as a feasible option
- Trinidad sees bigger focus on deep and ultra-deepwater development
- Jamaica and Trinidad sign deal with US/French consortium for LNG facility
- Peru’s transmission system requires $ 120 mm investment through 2007
- Bolivia and Spain discuss hydrocarbons
- Venezuela regains control of 32 privately operated oil fields
- Peru reports on 2005 oil and hydrocarbon liquids output
- ExxonMobil avoids showdownwith Venezuela over oil field
- Venezuela demands back taxes from three foreign oil companies
- Petrobras' biggest production unit begins operations
- Venezuela reports on oil exports to China and Singapore
- Venezuela’s ministry unveils 2006 plans for PdVSA
- Venezuela exports 140,000 bpd of oil to China
- PdVSA doubles profit to $ 9.4 bn for 2005
- Pemex to develop gas blocks in northern Mexico
- Venezuela urges ExxonMobil to accept PdVSA-controlled joint venture
- Venezuela plans tender for Deltana gas blocks
- Brazilian state-owned firms fill void left by private power sector
- Shell to sell downstream businesses to Petrobras for $ 140 mm
- Campos basin helps Petrobras to newoil output record
- Trinidad is learning from Petronas
- Petrobras’s P-50 FPSO to bring Brazil closer to self-sufficiency in oil
- Chevron agrees to migrate to PdVSA-controlled joint ventures
- ExxonMobil fights with Repsol over small Venezuelan oil field
- Repsol-YPF signs contract with Perupetro
- Jamaica and Trinidad move forward with $ 250-mm gas investment
- Atlantic LNG starts up Train 4 facility
- Is Latin America a dangerous neighbourhood to the US?
- Perupetro signs six E&P contracts
- Brazil awards seven hydro concessions
- Pequiven and ExxonMobil to seek financing for olefins joint venture
- Repsol-YPF signs new hydrocarbons contracts in Peru
- CDC signs contract with Petrobras
- OVL gets nod for Brazilian block
- Enap and PdVSA discuss joint oil projects
- Repsol-YPF to increase planned investment in Argentina to $ 6.7 bn
- Uruguay benefits from Venezuelan oil export policy shift
- CNPC to explore for oil and gas in southeast Peru
- Bolivia’s SIE to launch new tender for Punutuma-Tarija line
- Peru’s Osinerg hires consulting firms after Camisea pipeline spills
- Brazilian auction to include 11,501 MW from thermoelectric projects
- Judge rules that Pemex's MSC contracts are legal
- Hunt faces suspension or loss of its Camisea concession
- Petrobras to start intensifying operations in Brazil and US
- Petrobras unveils investment plans for 2006
- Venezuela and Iran to conduct survey in Orinoco belt
- PdVSA comments on damaged pipelines
- Petrobras may explore offshore Argentina
- BP and Shell to form joint ventures with PdVSA
- Edenor to invest $ 402 mm to improve service quality
- PdVSA’s oil pipeline blown up by government foes
- BNDES to loan Petrobras $ 896 mm to boost Campos oil output
- Jamaica sees new investments in energy sector from Brazil
- GE invests capital in Chilean grid
- Enap receives environmental approval for LNG project in Chile
- Argentina's Bridas eyes $ 5 bn oil asset sale
- Brazil’s Celesc finds “Light for All” program not
profitable
- Mexico approves AFCY’s oil pipeline plan
- Petrobras to boost efforts in northern Peru
- PdVSA’s surplus to be spent on “building the new socialism”
- Taghmen Energy wins oil and gas licences in Belize and Guatemala
- Venezuela to sell cheap oil to poor Americans
- Shell announces sale of its 56 service stations in Jamaica
- Petropars to develop oilfield in Venezuela
- President launches Petrobras platform
- Venezuela to lay gas pipeline from north Colombia
- Grupo CGE creates subsidiary in Chile
- South Korea to deepen energy ties with Venezuela and Peru
- Pequiven and Braskem to sign PDA for Venezuelan polypropylene plant
- Argentina’s
Enarsa may join PdVSA in upstream activities
- Norsk Hydro buys EnCana's share of Brazilian offshore discovery
- PdVSA could tender seven offshore gas blocks in 2006
- Petrobras and Repsol-YPF to develop Southern Cone joint ventures
- ISA starts up three transmission lines in Bolivia
- World's largest methanol plant meets nameplate capacity
- Trinidad sees new tax regime retroactive to 2004
- Petrobras announces Mexilhao project to cost $ 1.9 bn
- Colombia’s ANH to sign over 50 contracts
- Venezuela awards three E&P licenses in Rafael Urdaneta phase B
- Venezuela and China sign oil supply deal
- Japan's Teikoku Oil wins exploration rights in Venezuela
- Colombia approves five newoil and gas exploration contracts
- PdVSA installs Corocoro offshore drilling platform
- Statoil thinks Venezuela is a crucial region for the company’s future
- LUKoil and Gazprom look to joint ventures in Venezuela
- Venezuela nets $ 61 mm from gas licenses
- Ecuador tells Occidental of contract violations against PetroEcuador
- LUKoil and PdVSA in final stages for heavy oil joint venture deal
- Peru consortium led by Hunt Oil delays EPC contract awards
- Ecuadorian leaders fear for their lives because of Chevron lawsuit
- PdVSA to certify 235 bn barrels high-density oil reserves
- Venezuela sells three out of five gas blocks in bidding round
- Venezuela to add another 380 MW in generation
capacity
- Petrobras expects Brazil to show $ 2 bn oil trade surplus in 2006
- Petrotrin's refinery upgrade comes timely
- Trinidad Bulk Traders launches into ethanol production
- Repsol-YPF to invest in Trinidad
- Pequiven gains independence from PdVSA
- Amazon Watch charges Chevron for hiding massive liability in Ecuador
- Trinidad and Tobago now home to world’s largest methanol plant
- Foreign majors likely to agree on partnership with PdVSA
- PdVSA puts emphasis on integral development of Venezuela
- CNOOC affiliate takes 50 % stake in Caribbean exploration tract
- Venezuela’s new oil pricing system to start at the end of the year
- South American pipeline project is
completely feasible
- Foreign energy firms hungry for Brazilian blocks
- Series of wells possible in Paraguay
- Venezuela reiterates all firms to lose operations if not in joint venture
- Pemex working with Petrobras to develop deep water crude fields
- Amazon Indians protest oil contamination allegedly left by Texaco
- Venezuela still plans Sincor II heavy oil project
- Petrobras, Petrogal and Shell win bids in Brazilian E&P auction
- Brazil upgrades power supply network
- Pemex reports on crude output
- Petrobras signs deals to supply gas for steel mill
- LUKoil and PdVSA to study reserves at Orinoco oil block
- PdVSA to invest $ 2,17 bn in regional refining capacity
- Venezuela grants Gazprom and Chevron offshore licenses
- PdVSA and LUKoil to form joint venture on Orinoco Faja
- International firms waver since South America goes nationalist
- PdVSA spending more on social programs
- American and Dutch oil firms to search for crude oil in Panama
- Petrobras opens bid to commission 42 new oil tankers
- PdVSA to invests $ 2,17 bn in regional refining capacity
- Brazilian bank to finance largest wind farm in Latin America
- Brazilian lawmaker wants to probe Shell
- Ecuador plans first offshore oil contracts in 20 years
- Oil executives warn Argentina of diesel shortage in 2006
- Enarsa’s Espinosa comes out with different stance
- Venezuela expects private oil output to rise in 2006
- Teikoku, Perenco and Tecpetrol sign deals with Venezuela
- Venezuela grants Gazprom and Chevron offshore licenses
- Brazil keen on cooperating with Russia in oil sector
- PdVSA and Petrobras to explore Ocoa bay in Dominican Republic
- Shell seeks acceptable agreement with Venezuela
- Peru sees rise in hydrocarbons output
- Ex-Im Bank financing to support Mexican oil and gas projects
- Petrotrin is pointing the way with ethanol
- PdVSA to start building $ 100 mm gas pipeline in June 2006
- Repsol-YPF signs MoU with Venezuela and Argentina
- Brazil and Venezuela sign five oil related agreements worth $ 10 bn
- Total negotiating new oil taxes with Venezuela
- Petrobras selling oil field to raise up to $ 3 bn
- Black Rock Oil wins Colombian exploration license
- Venezuela's Cadafe plans to start construction of a 100 MW wind project
- Venezuela to ship extra gasoline to US
- OVL to invest in Cuban oil and gas blocks
- Brazil’s oil output expected to be self-sufficient by yearend
- Camisea gas pipeline leak contaminated jungle rivers
- ANP prepares process for B2B pipeline expansion
- Pemex struggles amid oil boom
- Petropars to help develop heavy oil project in Gulf of Venezuela
- Enarsa looks for foreign help in oil exploration
- PdVSA and CNPC to produce 350,000 bpdin mid term
- Venezuela’s natural gas opening gets to slow start
- Gazprom and Chevron win Rafael Urdaneta licenses
- CFE to call for bids on La Venta III wind project
- Mexico downsizes Fenix petrochemicals project
- India to explore for oil in Cuba's Gulf waters
- Brazil’s grid operator calls for $ 5.9 bn expansion through 2009
- Mexico’s power demand to rise 5.6 % annually through 2015
- CPC and CNPC buy Ecuador fields
- Venezuela to boost China oil sales
- Suez backs Tractebel Energia’s Brazilian investment plans
- Petrobras to survey oil search options in Guyana
- BrazAlta announces proposed acquisition in central Brazil
- Shell sells business in
French Guyana and French Antilles
- EnCana sells Ecuador oil and pipeline business to Andes Petroleum
- Petrotrin to install new GTL plant
- Petrobras' and PdVSA's investment plans
- Petrobras proposes Brazil-Venezuela super gas pipeline
- Chevron’s Deltana gas find enough for LNG train
- Brazil to build pipeline through Amazon
- Only six foreign firms submit bids for Venezuelan gas project
- CFE and Spanish consortium sign La Venta II wind contract
- Basell consolidates expansion with Petroken purchase
- Petrotrin to lose Jamaica market
- ONGC in talks for Cuban oilfields
- Brazil publishes draft guidelines for new power auction
- Bahiagas to expand
network in north-eastern Bahia state
- Venezuela to increase oil shipments to China
- PdVSA China to develop Venezuelan oil in Asia
- Petrobras firms up partnership with PdVSA
- PetroEcuador’s output recovering after protests
- Venezuela expects oil exports to China to soar five-fold by 2012
- Shell and ExxonMobil leave Venezuelan gas project
- Petrobras expects proven reserves to continue rising
- Venezuela to build three new refineries and extend two existing ones
- PeruPetro receives letters of intent for basins in offshore Peru
- IFC finances Argentine drilling and waterfloods projects
- Oil majors attracted by the scent of non-conventional reserves
- Petrobras to restart
Urucu-Manaus gas pipeline tender
- PetroBank in talks for exploration contract in Colombia
- Petrobras hopeful about new Amazon oil finds
- Ecuador's Amazonian region residents trying to stop oil production
- Petrobras achieves record drilling at 6,407 meters below sea level
- Protesters force PetroEcuador to halt operations of oil pipeline
- Petrobras reports on oil and gas production
- FINCOR provides financing for Trinidad energy venture
- Authorities move to seize Shell assets in tax dispute
- GE wins EPC contract from UTE
- Chaco Resources wins two E&P concessions in Paraguay
- Bolivian President names Ramiro Suarez Soruco new YPFB head
- Peru grants Petro-Tech and ConnacherE&P contracts
- Petrotrin to increase its gas business
- Venezuela promises Uruguay full oil supply for 25 years
- CFE awards La Venta II wind project to Spain's Gamesa
- Comgas to invest up to $ 149 mm in Brazil
- ENI receives $ 24 mm tax bill in Venezuela
- NNPC and Petrobras to enhance bilateral trade on petroleum
- Ecopetrol and Occidental to increase oil output at oldest field
- Petrobras to raise natural gas supplies
- PdVSA’s stake in E&P joint ventures could reach 80 %
- Pernambuco refinery to process Venezuelan crude
- The energy co-operation agreement "PetroCaribe"
- Trinidad looks to establish new refinery
- PetroCaribe more about easy
financing rather than cheap oil
- Oil firms sign deal with PdVSA to convert operations to joint ventures
- Head of PetroEcuador steps down
- Venezuelan oil production is climbing
- Repsol-YPF signs deal with Hunt Oil to market gas from Camisea
- PdVSA’s first stage of ICO pipeline to deliver gas in December
- Iberdrola wins $ 55.5mn transmission contract from CFE
- 2002-2003 strike cost PdVSA $ 12.8 bn
- PdVSA to expand San Roque and build new Guanoco refinery
- Guyana awards petroleum prospecting license to Groundstar
- PdVSA considers merging foreign refining assets
- Repsol-YPF purchases three oil fields and one gas field in Trinidad
- Brazil and China sign term oil supply
contract
- Shell Venezuela assures transparency in fiscal reviews
- Trinidad and Tobago and BHP sign lift and cargo agreement
- PdVSA invests $ 2.84 bn in social interest development projects
- Tax authority orders Harvest Vinccler to pay $ 94 mm to Venezuela
- Venezuela orders Shell to pay $ 131 mm in back taxes
- Venezuela expects firms to spend $ 10 bn in petrochemical investment
- Research reveals oil companies’ links with Ecuador military
- Is investment in the Orinoco Belt still a good deal?
- PetroCaribe is historic and precedent making...
- IFC signs $ 250 mm loan for PAE's capex program
- Pequiven to build $ 700 mm Moron fertilizer plant
- GE Energy and Atlantic LNG signcontract
- Petrobras delays pipeline construction as Sinopec raises cost
- Venezuela to tender heavy oil Orinoco Faja blocks in 2006
- IFC and Vinccler sign $ 24 mm loan agreement
- Colombia puts exploration investment up 16 %
- Barbados seeking to import natural gas
- Peru to invest $ 1.5 bn in natural gas exploration
- PetroCaribe members to receive 185,700 bpd from PdVSA
- Venezuela to use petroleum income for agrarian and food programs
- Enap eyes Magallanes gas potential
- Uruguay supplies emergency electricity to Argentina and Brazil
- Venezuela launches Caribbean oil alliance PetroCaribe
- PdVSA begins making overdue oil payments
- PdVSA expects$ 6.5 bn net profit in 2005
- Chevron to finish new heavy oil plan in Venezuela
- PeruPetro actively seeks investment in Peru’s oil and gas sector
- Petrobras reports on foreign output
- Ecopetrol launches Llanos basin heavy crude project tender
- There is oil in Belize!
- Bolivia and Brazil to shut down thermo plants as contingency measure
- Heavy oil projects in Venezuela may face another round of tax hikes
- President Chavez creates Venezuelan Petrochemical Corporation
- Camisea lacks gas to export LNG
- Petrobras to boost investment abroad
- Petrobras tries to minimize damage from pipeline
- CFE awards TransCanada $ 181 mm pipeline contract
- PdVSAsigns fuel oil deal with PetroChina
- Petrotrin begins $ 430 mm upgrade
- BP Trinidad and Tobago agrees to sale of oilfields
- Cadafe to invest $ 300 mm in transmission and distribution this year
- Petrobras to put 18 production units into operation
- Repsol reports occupation of Bolivian oil fields has ended
- Venezuela’s heavy oil ventures may face more taxes
- Bolivian farmers take three oil fields from Repsol-YPF
- CMA to inaugurate Carina and Aries platforms
- PeruPetro reports on oil and other hydrocarbon liquids output
- Harvest and PdVSA negotiate transition agreement
- Petrobras to make offer for Venezuela's Deltana Block 5
- Petrobras’ May oil output at record
high
- Bolivia to export gas even after nationalization
- Repsol-YPF and Hunt Oil sign MoU for Peru LNG operations
- Repsol-YPF to invest $ 850 mm in E&P through 2009
- Endesa approves San Isidro II and Palmucho projects
- Repsol-YPF freezes investment in Bolivia’s oil industry
- Ecopetrol to call for bids on Llanos heavy crude upgrading project
- Repsol-YPF to invest EUR 21.1 bn in 2005-2009 plan
- ExxonMobil and PdVSA move forward on petrochemicals plant
- Venezuela to take 30 % royalty on Sincor oil project
- Venezuelan oil production stable during first quarter
- CFE to call for bids on Manzanillo LNG supplies by August
- Colbun joins Enap offtaker pool for LNG
project
- Venezuela's Ramirez accuses foreign firms on violating contracts
- Pemex boosts maintenance spending to $ 3 bn in 2005
- Repsol investors demand expansion outside Argentina and Bolivia
- PdVSA faces potential collapse
- ANH and Ecopetrol to invest $ 15 bn through 2020
- JBIC, Mitsui, and NEXI to lend Petrobras $ 1.2 bn
- LUKoil seeks Venezuelan production contract
- Venezuela to adopt public oil pricing system by year-end
- ExImBank approves loan guarantee for sale of US equipment for Petrobras platform
- Petrobras to boost international investment
- Desire Petroleum identifies seven drilling locations off Falklands
- Petrobras sees new Venezuelan oil legislation as
positive
- PdVSA blames missing oil export revenues on old contracts
- Experts believe Pemex requires major surgery
- ExxonMobil expects to begin drilling in Colombia's Caribbean in 2008
- Suez Energy International to build power plant for Camisea gas
- Repsol sees Argentina has energy difficulties, not an energy crisis
- Shell to supply Mexico’s Altamira terminal with Nigerian LNG
- Algeria's Sonatrach wants to buy into Peru LNG
- PdVSA will not reimburse oil companies' operating costs in dollars
- Canadian operator to drill more wells into Colombia's Orito oil field
- PdVSA is seriously injured
- BG believes Trinidad will play major role in US LNG boost
- Northern Oil to
purchase Brazilian offshore licenses
- PetroBank and ANH negotiate four exploration contracts
- Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela agree to set up Petrosur
- Petrobras to lease FPSO for Mexilhao start-up in 2007
- Venezuelan Cabruta refinery to cost $ 4 bn
- Petrobras to tender three new platforms this year
- AN to begin investigation of transnational oil firms operating in Venezuela
- Argentina's gas shortage is eroding energy company’s profits
- Petrobras reports record crude output
- Brazil to take steps to self-sufficiency
- Venezuelan army takes control of oil facilities to prevent sabotage
- Falkland oil and gas project larger than initially estimated
- PdVSA to offer joint
venture partners new exploration opportunities
- Petrobras to invest $ 394 mm in refinery
- Venezuela seeks bids for Rafael Urdaneta project
- Peru expects to sign more oil and gas deals
- PdVSA to search for oil off Cuba
- Bolivian senate passes bill raising taxes on oil companies
- China Bank to fund construction of Brazilian pipeline
- Environmentalists to challenge ChevronTexaco
- Colombia approves new oil exploration and production contracts
- Petro-Tech to start cryogenic plant operations in May
- The tussle for energy supremacy
- Venezuela's oil service contracts must migrate to joint venture deals
- Venezuela invites potential gas license bidders to sign up
- Chilean generator Colbun weighs up alternative gas supplies
- Chinese firms to explore oil opportunities in Colombia
- Venezuela’s tax hikes exclude Orinoco oil projects
- Brazil expects oil firms to prefer known blocks in next licensing round
- Petrobras studies oil and gas exploration prospects in Pakistan
- Statoil to invest $ 100 mm in Venezuela in 2005
- Espirito Santo state well may finally be living up to expectations
- Only 10 % of foreign oil firms have paid income taxes to Venezuela
- Trinidad awards four new oil and gas contracts
- Kappa signs deal with Loon Energy for Colombian contract
- Venezuela to replace operating agreements with joint ventures
- Petrobras to spend $ 6.1bn to expand gas pipeline network
- Pemex invests $ 14 bn in 2004
- Pemex wants to increase exploration spending
- Petrobras expects to conclude Mexilhao gas study soon
- Petrobras to charter oil rig to boost output
- Shell to ship Gorgon LNG to Mexico
- PetroEcuador reports on oil export
- Peru signs deal with Harken Energy for Maranon basin gas block
- PdVSA to stop orimulsion output within a year
- Shell hopes to keep 30 % stake in revamped Mariscal Sucre project
- Tokyo Gas buys into Brazil's Malhas pipeline
- Chinese firms to explore oil opportunities in Colombia
- Venezuela and India to start project on heavy oil exploration
- ONGC eyes
investment opportunities in Trinidad and Tobago
- Action required to save Mexico's energy industry
- OVL in talks with PdVSA for 49 % stake in Tomoporo oilfield
- Pemex reports on crude oil output
- Venezuela ready to sell two Citgo refineries
- PdVSA to build three refineries by 2010
- ConocoPhillips to receive gas license for raising royalty payment
- Pemex is on the verge of bankruptcy
- Endesa and Metrogas to buy gas from Enap’s LNG project
- Tokyo Gas buys into Brazil's Malhas pipeline
- PdVSA to separate Mariscal Sucre gas blocks
- PdVSA splits Orinoco oil belt into 18 development blocks
- Venezuela cracking down on high-cost operating contracts
- Shell’s Brazilian unit to invest $ 200 mm in 2005
- Eletrobras could cut 2005 $ 1.7 bn investment plans
- ChevronTexaco and Repsol to develop Venezuela's Orinoco area
- Repsol-YPF signs deals with PdVSA
- Pemex sets all-time drilling record in 2004
- Petrobras earmarks $ 1.7 bn for overseas operations this year
- Sinopec eyes Venezuelan petrochemical projects
- Will the confrontation between US and Venezuela soon abate?
- ALNG's Train 4 to start ahead of schedule
- Petrobras buys MPX Termoceara electric plant
- PetroEcuador aims to revise parts of contract with Occidental
- ONGC eyes investment opportunities in Trinidad and Tobago
- Ecuador again extends
bidding on oil services concessions
- PetroEcuador invites firms to bid for oil supply contracts
- Petroreconcavo declares commercial feasibility of BT-REC-10 field
- Pemex replaces 57 % of its reserves in 2004
- Peru's 2005 hydrocarbons output may rise 40 %
- Higher Bolivian tax could prompt Petrobras to scale down investment
- Peru's cabinet approves E&P contracts
- Sinochem and Pequiven discuss petrochemical joint ventures
- Argentina's Metrogas to create natural gas trading unit
- Mexican authorities order Pemex to replace leaky pipeline
- Bolivia upgrades gas flow to Argentina ahead of winter crunch
- Gasmig and Petrobras plan 500 km pipeline expansion
- Praxair and Pemex
sign deal for enhanced oil recovery project
- PdVSA plans three new refineries to increase capacity by 15 %
- PdVSA and Iran's Petropars to develop natural gas blocks
- BP Trinidad and Tobago to sell three oil fields
- Brazilian Cemig to invest $ 485 mm in 2005
- Jamaica’s exploration tender could attract large bidders
- President urges Argentines to boycott Shell
- Venezuela allows Total to start new oil project
- Reliance hunts for oil assets in West Africa, South America and Middle-East
- ONGC to get 49 % equity in Venezuelan oil block
- Capex studies wind-to-hydrogen project in Argentina
- Pemex sees more investment as crucial
- Ecuador to approve Petrobras’ sale of assets toTeikoku Oil
- Venezuelan congress to investigate Citgo affair
- Mitsubishi and Marubeni to build crude loading terminal off Brazil
- Peru LNG signs deal for Camisea gas
- ChevronTexaco fights environmental suit in Ecuador
- Mexican service contracts put off oil majors
- Hunt Oil to purchase Peru's Camisea gas
- Petrobras to invest $ 11.6 bn in 2005
- Suelopetrol consortium wins contract from Pemex
- ExxonMobil to challenge Venezuela’s oil tax increase
- Petrobras posts 2004 net profits
- Alleged corruption threatens PdVSA’s western oil output
- Petrobras confirms gas joint venture talks with Repsol-YPF
- Petrobras starts second oil platform at
Barracuda
- Trains I, II and III to produce more LNG in Trinidad
- Venezuela and Caribbean energy matters
- Petrobras confirms talks with Repsol on exploration in Santos Basin
- Top oil firms find contracts for deep-water Gulf of Mexico not profitable
- Pemex to call for bids on Chicontepec blocks
- Venezuela will not withdraw oil from US market
- Statoil to drill first Brazilian exploration wells in 2006
- Mexico estimates deepwater investment at $ 200 bn through 2025
- AES units to invest $ 207 mm in Brazil
- Chesf to invest $ 155 mm in transmission this year
- LUKoil and Conoco eye Venezuelan reserves
- PetroBank to sign two exploration contracts with Colombia’s ANH
- Total reports on Latin American oil output
- Veneconomia welcomes change in government-oil companies relations
- Pemex gives drilling contract for Burgos Basin
- Venezuela and Jamaica to team up within PetroCaribe
- Repsol-YPF to invest $ 1.1 bn in Venezuelan province by end-2009
- Shell and PdVSA agree to Mariscal Sucre joint venture
- Shell wins permission for LNG terminal in Gulf of Mexico
- PdVSA is trying to diversify its sales
- PdVSA-Intevep and Cuba Petroleo conclude oil field study
- Petrobras and PdVSA sign 15 energy MoUs
- Peru's TGP looks at building third Camisea pipeline
- Petropars set to invest in Venezuela
- Petrobras to start up 18 offshore
platforms in 2005-2008
- Petrobras reports on oil production
- Iran to send oil specialists to Venezuela to train PdVSA staff
- Venezuela interested in cooperation with Russia's LUKoil
- Sinopec signs up for oil production in Cuba
- Enap calls for bids on exploratory well in Largo Mercedes area
- China and Venezuela sign oil accord on sales and investment
- Iran to help Venezuela to sell more oil to Asia
- Hurdles ahead for Caribbean gas pipeline project
- Endesa Spain budgets $ 3.3 bn investment for Latin America
- Analyst believes Pemex's pipeline faults expose lack of authority
- Cuban oil finds may bring global change
- Petrobras invested $ 940 mm in exploration in
2004
- Projected sale of Citgo would be a step in right direction
- Colombia to privatise Ecogas
- Pemex declares Ricos MSC tender void due to lack of bids
- Venezuelan President's visit to China to focus on oil
- Pemex to open exploration to greater private participation
- Pemex's exports top $ 23 bn in 2004
- Petrobras to invest in Mexilhao natural gas field
- Mexico’s oil sector trade surplus leaps in 2004
- Trinidad’s NGC receives project financing
- EOG increases natural gas production from Trinidad operations
- Pemex to award its first deep-water oil exploration contract in 2006
- PdVSA-Enarsa seek to service 12 % of Argentina's gas market
- Pemex estimates huge oil reserves in Gulf
- Pemex aims for crude output of 3.8 mm bpd in 2006
- Enarsa may partner with PdVSA
- Venezuela wants to get out of non-profit businesses in the USA
- Petrobras and CNPC pledge oil cooperation
- Petrobras plans refinery upgrades to lower sulphur levels
- Petrobras moves to explore new prospecting zones off Cuba
- Canadian legislators urge Mexico to move forward with energy reform
- Conoco looks to soothe tensions with Venezuela
- Pemex reports fourth pipeline accident
- Venezuela wants to get better deals by rewriting its contracts for oil
- Teikoku Oil acquires stake in two Ecuadorian blocks
- Repsol-YPF to invest $
1.2 bn in Argentina in 2005
- FuelNation confirms completion of oil deal with PdVSA
- Petrobras to expand its role in Venezuela
- Brazil building huge new oil platform to raise crude production
- ONGC keen on setting up $ 2.5 bn refinery in Ecuador
- Minister warns of reversal of Mexico's oil fortunes
- PdVSA and Gazprom sign MoU to seek joint projects
- Ecuador invites Indian firms to explore for oil
- ConocoPhillips eager to drill in Venezuela
- BHP Billiton announces first oil production from Angostura field
- Biggest-ever hunt for oil in Falklands is getting under way
- Liquid gas from Camisea spills into Peruvian jungle river
- Argentina signs pipeline accord with
Emgasud
- PdVSA invests in public projects
- Entre Rios province to invest $ 9.4 mm in 2005 for gas and power
- Repsol-YPF starts exports from Margarita field
- Halliburton and Petrobras reach milestone in offshore Brazil project
- Petrobras board approves purchase of Uruguayan gas distributor
- FPSO vessel starts production in Barracuda field
- CGV secures $ 195 mm financing for Mexican power plant
- Repsol-YPF to boost gas production in Venezuela
- Repsol and PdVSA to create new gas company
- Argentine Grupo Galileo to expand virtual pipelines
- Russian oil companies drill wells in the new world
- Subsea7 wins pipeline contract from Petrobras
- Oil
companies in Bolivia call 2004 "a lost year"
- Pemex to offer $ 6 bn in drilling contracts
- Petrobras increases ownership of Fafen power plant to 100 %
- Global and Burlington to invest $ 70 mm in Peruvian blocks
- Harken Energy agrees to sign exploration pact with PeruPetro
- Petrobras to boost 2005 oil output by 500,000 bpd
- Brazilian power firms offer transparency in exchange for financing
- Ivanhoe and Ecopetrol sign MoU for heavy crude upgrade project
- Enap to drill for gas in Tierra del Fuego
- Venezuela seeks cooperation with Russia in oil and gas sector
- Twelve oil firms qualify for field services concession of PetroEcuador
- Petrobras plans massive overseas expansion by 2010
- Japan Teikoku Oil to buy 63.7 % in JNOC’s Venezuela unit
- Venezuela to create new petrochemical firm
- Ecuador qualifies sixteen firms for Amazon tender
- Halliburton focuses on Brazilian project
- Petrobras may raise investments
- Petrobras’ new oil rig to start production
- ExxonMobil to buy 40 % interest in Santos block
- Petropars to call for bids on 4 months of fuel supplies
- Petrobras Energia plans unprecedented offshore oil exploration
- Pemex says Burgos gas contracts showing results
- ONGC to bid for stake in EnCana’s Ecuadorian oilfields
- Petrobras to inaugurate heavy oil transport system at year-end
- BHP Billiton reports on Angostura oil
reserves
- Statoil to expand Brazilian operations
- PdVSA looks to expand oil refining network
- Petrobras and Sevan sign production MoU for Piranema field
- Argentinean province to launch tender for 24 blocks by year-end
- Hocol looks to increase oil exploration in Venezuela
- Petrobras to drill 56 wells in 2005
- Petrobras launches bidding process for 42 oil tankers
- PdVSA and LUKoil sign agreement to study joint ventures
- Petrobras in talks with PdVSA on $ 2.5 bn refinery
- Sincor’s success deserves our commendation
- Names change, but policies remain the same at PdVSA
- China-Argentina oil investment deal gives Angola key role
- Petrobras
identifies oil leak in Campos basin
- Decision for oil minister to also lead PdVSA being criticized
- More than 21 firms express interest in Amazon oil fields
- Repsol-YPF to embark on Venezuelan joint venture
- Petrobras seeks partnership with Argentina's Enarsa
- Pemex set to break output record
- Abengoa and Transleste 2 consortium win transmission bidding
- Ecuador opens bidding for 96,000 bpd under new pricing methods
- UPME to call for interconnection transmission bids
- Pemex may decide to drill in deep-water
- Petrobras close to signing gas pipeline deal with ExImBank and Sinopec
- UTE asks combined cycle bidders to revise technical offers
- PdVSA and LUKoil sign
agreement to study joint venture projects
- Shell does another step to pull out of Latin American market
- Venezuela's oil and gas sector needs $ 44 bn in investments
- Petrobras launches oil tanker bidding
- Taurus bids highest premium for PetroEcuador’s crude
- Local Mexican consortium wins Pandura-Anahuac block
- ANP will likely hold seventh licensing round in October 2005
- BNDES approves loans to build oil rig for Petrobras
- Pemex awards Burgos gas contract to Mexican firm
- Petrobras plans to invest $ 1.1 bn in Venezuela over five years
- Teikoku Oil plans to invest $ 200 mm in Venezuela by 2012
- CPC, CNPC and CNOOC in talks with Enarsa
- Shell to sell Caribbean fuel
network to Sol Group
- Pemex to invest $ 11.2 bn in production and exploration
- Aneel cuts power shortage surcharge by 21.4 %
- Colombia’s UPME to call for interconnection bids
- Argentina and Brazil sign accord to finance pipeline expansion
- Venezuela signs oil pact with Brazil
- Argentine president signs decree to create Enarsa
- LUKoil plans to invest up to $ 1 bn in Venezuela
- US forces to be doubled in Colombia for sake of oil
- Contract signed for Trinidad and Tobago’s petrochemical plants
- Pemex receives two bids for natural gas block
- Is Shell about to give up its leading place in Barbados?
- Argentina leaps back into the energy business
- ONGC to bid for five oil blocks in Ecuador
- Shengli and YPFB line up seven contracts
- Mexico to build nation's largest petrochemical complex
- Trinidad to renegotiate Atlantic LNG contracts
- Russia and Venezuela: mutual attraction of two oil giants
- Trinidad builds offshore natural gas platform
- Oil firms study legal options after royalty increase in Venezuela
- Brazil’s TSN consortium to start building Piaui-Ceara line
- Petrobras to spend $ 1.4 bn in Argentina
- Petrobras unit seeks partners to build refining projects
- Argentina approves bill to create state energy firm Enarsa
- Queiroz Galvao to invest $ 350 mm in Brazilian Manati field
- Petrobras
looks southeast to boost reserves to 17 bn boe by 2010
- El Paso's 2005 Brazilian investment to top $ 50 mm
- CNE's 10-year plan shifts focus from natural gas to coal and LNG
- PdVSA president promotes oil and gas integration in Latin America
- Petrobras to start exploratory drilling operation in Santos basin
- Study links childhood leukaemia to oil spills
- Ecuador to receive Amazon pre-qualification bids
- Petrobras expects to announce commercial viability of Campos fields
- PetroEcuador to boost exports in October
- Foreign oil firms wait for Venezuela to organize new licensing round
- Brazil’s power transmission tender secures $ 735 mm investment
- Argentina revives state role in energy sector
- Petrobras forecasts record output despite delays in building oil platforms
- Iran interested in Venezuelan oil and gas exploration deal
- Trinidad to sign energy deal with Sonatrach
- Petrobras to launch new oil platform to increase production
- Brazil will achieve oil self-sufficiency by 2005
- Repsol-YPF believes Bolivian gas sector needs billions in investment
- Paraguay to sign twelve exploration and production contracts
- ONGC bids for oil block in Ecuador
- Six groups interested in bidding for 51 % Edeersa stake
- DGH continues concession contract signing in Nicaragua
- Petrobras to stay in Bolivia despite legal changes
- Ecuador examines foreign oil contracts with magnifying
glass
- PdVSA believes world will require increasing volumes of oil from OPEC
- Vintage Petroleum completes acquisition of Rio Alto’s Argentine unit
- Argentine government lobbies for creation of state-run energy firm
- PetroColombia wins Mapuiro block
- Energy committee presents reform plan for Pemex
- Petrobras to spend $ 3.5 bn on natural gas pipelines
- Global signs contract with Colombia's hydrocarbons regulator
- Mexican executives step up calls to open up energy industry
- Ex-Im Bank helps finance US exports to Peru
- New Mexican energy infrastructure to benefit Texas companies
- Mexico calls for Pemex to raise crude output to 3.44 mm bpd in 2005
- Peru’s gas export plan
to cost $ 2 bn
- Petrobras signs letter of intent with Sinopec
- Peru signs contract with Hunt Oil to tap Amazon gas
- Ecopetrol to offer contracts to reactivate 14 small-sized oil fields
- Ecuador’s ITT zone has 1.3 bn barrels
- Venezuela offers OVL share in five oil fields
- Second inspection of Texaco’s Amazon contamination begins
- Colombia's hydrocarbons regulator signs deal with PetroColombia
- Oil industry brings Norway and Brazil closer
- Petrobras declares Sergipe oil field commercial
- Brazilian power firms raise investment in energy conservation programs
- Environmental liabilities of Pemex are difficult to estimate
- Colombia signs oil exploration pact with ExxonMobiland Petrobras
- Petrobras to construct gas pipeline
- Petrobras may double Espirito Santo oil reserves
- ExxonMobil joins Ecopetrol and Petrobras in exploration deal
- Caribbean countries and Venezuela to form new oil distribution firm
- Petroleos de Venezuela: The third best business in the world
- Ecuador approves oil drilling in Amazon reserve
- Brazil's sixth licensing round draws 19 bidders
- Pemex believes new oilfields will more than double Mexico’s reserves
- Argentina hopes to cooperate with China in oil exploration
- Venezuela to tender natural gas and petroleum blocks
- Pacific Stratus announces acquisition of Colombian oil and gas rights
- Venezuela offers seven gas
blocks for bidding in Maracaibo area
- Ecuador to cancel oil deal with Occidental
- Angostura launches fuel ethanol project
- Taking gas downstream in Trinidad and Tobago
- Pemex did not discover new reserves in Gulf of Mexico
- Shengli to invest in Bolivia
- IDB signs loan repayment deal for Camisea gas project
- PeruPetro and partners sign Camisea 2 deal
- Venezuela invites India to take over five oil fields
- Repsol-YPF and Petrobras interested in assets of Shell Chile
- Peru's TGP Camisea Gas to place bond issues
- Pemex issues tender for Monclova and Pirineo gas blocks
- Venezuela studies purchase of Shell's Argentine units
- Petrobras dominates
start of Brazil's sixth oil block auctions
- Pemex reports on 7-month crude oil output
- Trinidad’s Angostura launches fuel ethanol project
- ANP qualifies 24 firms for its sixth oil and gas licensing round
- Petrobras acquires 40 % of natural gas distributor
- Argentine Senate approves creation of new state-owned energy firm Enarsa
- GM to launch three-fuel powered vehicle in Brazil
- ChevronTexaco warns Argentina may have to import oil by 2007
- Peru signs exploration and production contracts with Occidental
- Pemex urgently needs new financing mechanisms
- Brazilian gas reserves could triple with Santos basin development
- Argentine minister urges more investment by Petrobras
- ChevronTexaco proposes Venezuelan heavy crude oil project
- Hunt Oil-led group begins pumping gas from Camisea field
- Petrobras to invest in electricity generation plant in Chile
- Search for oil off Cuban shores yields mixed findings
- Bolivia defines new role of YPFB in gas development
- Ecuador reports on oil output
- PdVSA forecasts on company’s gross revenues in 2004
- Venezuela's Chavez inaugurates ChevronTexaco gas project
- Sherritt to resume exploratory drilling in northern Cuba
- Petrobras negotiates acquisition of Eletrobolt
- Ecuador expects decline in oil sector investment in 2004
- Will PdVSA invest in Argentinean Sea?
- Pemex unveils investmentplans for Campeche Sound
- Looking for partners in Peru gas and power project
- Venezuelan private oil firms wait for new terms on heavy oil projects
- Pemex opens second round of bids
- Repsol-YPF confirms presence of high-quality reservoirs off Cuban coast
- Firms invest millions in offshore oil exploration in Argentina
- Unocal affiliate sells interest in Brazilian production venture
- Dominicans plagued by unending fuel shortages and blackouts
- PdVSA still in talks with Shell on natural gas joint venture
- Camisea consortium prepares for inauguration of natural gas complex
- Petrobras to appraise and drill 27 areas for commercial feasibility
- Mexico invites British firms for oil and gas trade
missions
- Trinidad reclaims unused Petrotrin lands
- Trinidad and bpTT agree on gas royalties
- Colombia ready for $ 10 bn assets sell-off
- Pemex successfully sells old euro bond
- Petrobras to drill in Amazon basin
- Venezuelan Offshore Organization to develop gas projects
- Repsol-YPF to restrain Bolivian investments
- Japan to finance power project in Mexico
- Pemex reports on June crude output
- Colombia prepares to sell off $ 10 bn in assets
- IFC provides up to $ 90 mm in financing to Brazil's Comgas
- Shell reconsiders Mariscal Sucre output capacity
- Petrobras to invest $ 53.6 bn until 2010
- Petrobras and CNOOC
may explore for oil in South China Sea and Brazil
- Petrobras to pay $ 19.6 bn in debt through 2010
- Petrobras' expects to boost oil reserves by 37 % by 2010
- Peru's Camisea projects meets conditions for IDB loan
- Venezuela and Caribbean states forge common energy policy
- Mexico to open oil industry to private sector in 2005
- Caribbean countries propose new company to sell cheap oil
- PdVSA to stop producing orimulsion
- PdVSA to double gas production in five years
- British express interest in Paraguayan oil potential
- PlusPetrol and partners to invest in Amazon block
- Trinidad and Venezuela are making cross-border history
- Repsol may set up joint venture with
PdVSA
- Petrobras buys Agip’s liquid gas operations
- Repsol in talks with PdVSA over Mene Grande oil field development
- Mexico continues to lure Texas companies
- Repsol-YPF inaugurates first well in Venezuelan gas project
- Bolivia to request compensation from foreign oil firms
- Venezuela approves increase of gas production in Repsol field
- Repsol’s oil search in Gulf of Mexico could herald change for Cuba
- El Paso Production to purchase Unocal's interest in UnoPaso
- Vintage Petroleum to acquire Rio Alto’s Argentinean unit
- Pan American to boost gas investment by 47 % in 2004
- Austral Marina-1 consortium to invest in gas production projects
- New oil company to explore
offshore South and East Falklands
- Cheetah Oil & Gas completes acquisition of Scotia Petroleum
- PdVSA to invest $ 37 bn to increase oil production
- Pemex increases production
- PdVSA to create south-south division
- Petrobras expands exploration and production activity in Gulf of Mexico
- Petrobras to invest $ 3 bn to lay gas pipelines
- Perupetro plans drilling on Block 56 for early 2005
- Petrobras to invest $ 120 mm in Venezuela over 5 years
- Shell to invest $ 100 mm in Venezuela in 2004
- Enap hires Citigroup to advise on natural gas
- Hunt Oil wins rights to develop new gas field in Peru
- Petrobras expands production
- Russian engineering
companies to bid for contracts in Uruguay
- Hunt Oil wins rights to develop new gas field in Peru
- Petrobras begins first oil production from Marlim Sul field
- Petrobras Energia looks to explore for oil in Argentine waters
- Paragon wins offshore contract from Pemex
- Techint Peru to sell bonds to finance construction of pipeline
- Petrobras to receive BNDES financing for its rigs
- Venezuela to call for bids on seven offshore blocks
- PdVSA's production surpasses 3 mm bpd
- PeruPetro’s new royalty scheme
- Petroecuador sees decreasing role in oil industry
- Brazil seeks Russian participation in natural gas projects
- Pemex: Taming the untamable, Part II
- Pemex: Taming the untamable, Part I
- PdVSA details investment plans
- Repsol-YPF compares phenomenon of Bolivian discoveries to Norway
- Pemex cancels drilling contract bidding process
- Heavy crude is the future of Ecuador´s oil industry
- South African firm exploits Mexican connections in energy market
- South American seismic highlights
- Petrobras expects to boost crude oil exports to China
- PetroFalcon signs agreement with World Bank affiliate
- Pemex assigns contracts to build 20 offshore oil platforms
- Pemex will carry out reforms to gather investment
- PdVSA reveals thoughts on high oil prices
- Pemex opens three bids for offshore project
- Ranhill unit seeks 49 % stake in Bermudan oil and gas firm
- PetroEcuador needs $ 3 bn investment
- Petrobras invests in five petrochemical projects
- Whither Pemex?
- Petrobras announces 2004-2010 investment plan
- ExxonMobil to start exploration off Colombia
- Argentina backs creation of regional energy giant to rival US majors
- Petrobras wants to be self sufficient by 2006
- Monte Rio, Union Fenosa and Seaboard hand over power debts
- Brazilian energy brokerage increases
- Occidental Petroleum and the warring rebel factions of Columbia
- PetroEcuador and OCP Group at odds over pipeline connection
- Mexican government to return surplus crude revenue to
Pemex
- Trinidad and Tobago selects PSC contractors for nine blocks
- Argentina announces creation of new state energy company
- BG to purchase four more LNG vessels
- Kerr-McGee successful bidder on Trinidad offshore block
- Petrobras, ExxonMobil and Ecopetrol enter exploration agreement
- ExxonMobil to begin exploration activities offshore Colombia
- BG to acquire Brazilian exploration licence from El Paso
- Petrobras may expand power generating plants
- UK companies approach Pemex to offer offshore technology
- Heavy crude is the future of Ecuadorian oil industry
- PetroFalcon confirms commencement of gas pipeline in Venezuela
- Petrotrin to revamp catalytic cracker
soon
- PdVSA seeks $ 10 bn loan from banks
- Trinidad steps up efforts to satisfy US natural gas demand
- Argentina launches plan to cut energy consumption
- US drillers move offshore rigs across the border to Mexico
- Brazil and Venezuela consider teaming up to drill off Argentina's coast
- Indonesia to supply LNG to Mexico and US
- Staatsolie and Repsol-YPF sign contract for Suriname block
- Why Pemex will not be privatised
- Petrobras starts operations at Amazon gas plant
- ExxonMobil to begin exploration activities offshore Colombia
- BG to acquire Brazilian exploration licence from El Paso
- Petrobras may expand power generating plants
- UK
companies approach Pemex to offer offshore technology
- Heavy crude is the future of Ecuadorian oil industry
- PetroFalcon confirms commencement of gas pipeline in Venezuela
- Petrotrin to revamp catalytic cracker soon
- PdVSA seeks $ 10 bn loan from banks
- Trinidad steps up efforts to satisfy US natural gas demand
- Argentina launches plan to cut energy consumption
- US drillers move offshore rigs across the border to Mexico
- Brazil and Venezuela consider teaming up to drill off Argentina's coast
- Indonesia to supply LNG to Mexico and US
- Staatsolie and Repsol-YPF sign contract for Suriname block
- Why Pemex will not be privatised
- Petrobras starts operations at Amazon gas
plant
- Venezuela’s Yucal Placer gas project begins production
- Pemex reports on Mexican oil production
- Statoil buys Brazilian deep-water block from ConocoPhillips
- Venezuela announces new Faja heavy oil fields auction
- Bolivia authorizes Repsol-YPF and Petrobras to export gas to Argentina
- Pemex posts highest oil revenues since 1985
- Inelectra, Otepi, Tecnoconsult to compete for ChevronTexaco’s business
- Mexican president satisfied at decision to drop gas contracts challenge
- Tractebel looks for investor for Peruvian Enersur company
- Pemex offers workers cash incentives to boost production
- YPFB’s revival depends on funding
- Petrobras outlines role in petrochemical
industry
- Global Industries unit wins pipeline installation deal from Pemex
- Petrobras ranks as first company for Latin American profits
- Petrobras Energia upgrades stake in Transener
- PdVSA pledges oil to help alleviate Argentinean energy crisis
- Petrobras to build platform at local Brazilian shipyards
- Syntroleum closes sale of interest in Peru block to Nuevo Peru
- What is the future, if any, for the Trinidad deep waters?
- Strike at Trinidad’s ALNG Train 4 lifts public awareness
- Venezuela expects to send first cargoes of LNG to US by 2009
- Pemex to open chain of franchised petrol stations in Central America
- Trinidad gas company negotiates ethylene complex
- Fifth
Trinidad LNG train to have different owners
- Pemex makes CSM contracts more attractive for investors
- ANP to promote sixth petroleum exploitation tender
- Perupetro to sign oil exploration contract with CCP
- BG Group to buy Aventura Energy
- Peru sells 31 % stake in Pampilla refinery
- BPTT's Kapok may be first field to be unitised with Venezuela
- Indians fight Texaco over clean-up in Ecuadorian Amazon
- Trinidad launches first locally constructed offshore oil drilling platform
- OMV sells Venezuelan assets
- Ex-Im Bank supports export of US equipment and service to Pemex
- PdVSA to scrap the expansion of Orimulsion fuel
- Petrobras sets priorities in its Bahia state
projects
- Pemex will not be privatised
- Bolivian government blocks Petrobras’ natural gas export pipeline
- Sinopec and Cupet to explore oil blocks in Cuba
- PdVSA urges US to expand refinery capacity
- Argentina's Petrobras Energia reports on output
- US Ex-Im Bank supports development of Mexico's Cantarell oil field
- Petrobras oils its acquisition wheels
- Petrobras reports on output
- NGC and EOG negotiate deal for Train IV project in Trinidad
- Peru expects increase in oil exploration contracts this year
- Ex-Im Bank supports export of US equipment and services to Pemex
- Mexican energy secretary opposed to Marathon Oil project
- Japan Bank to
lend $ 620 bn to Pemex
- ChevronTexaco to be awarded license for Plataforma Deltana Block 3
- Strike forces Atlantic LNG plant to flare gas
- ChevronTexaco to invest $ 400 mm in Venezuela in 2004
- PdVSA to invest $ 1.3 bn in natural gas projects
- Bolivia and Mexico to discuss gas exports projects
- Petrobras starts cooperation talks with Sinopec
- Proposed Eastern Caribbean Natural Gas Pipeline firmly on the road
- Venezuela's four heavy oil projects
- BG increases profits from Atlantic LNG investment
- Marathon Oil abandons Baja natural gas terminal project
- PdVSA again increases social spending
- Mammoth Pemex: Still a money-losing company
- Bechtel's Atlantic Train IV could be in jeopardy
- Pemex notes that fuel theft costs billions
- Ecuador makes PetroEcuador tender more attractive
- Marathon cancels plans for Tijuana project
- Pemex sees net 2003 loss grow
- Outsiders find oil industry in Ecuador lucrative but frustrating
- PdVSA's negotiations with NB Power come to temporary stop
- Repsol-YPF lifts Latin American hydrocarbons production 15 % in 2003
- ExxonMobil to invest in projects in northern Argentinean port
- Repsol lifts Latin-American hydrocarbons production to 1.05 mm boepd
- Pemex presents plans for Burgos Basin
- Repsol-YPF could sell Mexican plant if Bolivian plan fails
- Repsol-YPF to explore for oil in Cuba and Equatorial Guinea
- Ecopetrol to complete seismic study of Tayrona area
- Talisman plans investment in Trinidad and Tobago
- Petrobras seeks to stem losses caused by slack demand
- Shell to leave Venezuelan gasoline market
- Shell plans LNG exports from Mariscal Sucre in 4-5 years
- Atlantic LNG may develop train V and VI in Trinidad
- Petrobras sets up natural gas joint venture
- Repsol to build LNG plant in Mexico
- Petrobras does not expect production to rise until yearend
- Petrobras offers $ 600 mm for ENI’s Brazilian unit
- Guardian Holdings and AIC back Caribbean pipeline
- PdVSA to double planned spending on
social needs
- Petrobras asked to help start petrochemical venture
- PdVSA and ENI to study projects of common interests
- Petrobras posts record profits, thanks to Iraq and Argentina
- Petrobras Energia and Anadarko to increase exploration in Venezuela
- Petrobras' foreign oil reserves rise sharply
- Petrobras reports big increase in reserves
- Oil companies find it difficult in Ecuador
- Endesa to invest $ 3 bn in Latin America during 2004
- US Valero Energy to acquire El Paso's refinery in Aruba
- Pemex reports total sales of $ 60 bn in 2003
- Bolivia seeks to raise taxes on foreign oil companies
- PlusPetrol sells stake in PlusPetrol Norte unit to CNPC
- ENAP to invest $ 49 mm during 2004
- Pemex needs to look to deep water deposits
- Repsol to increase investment in Trinidad and Tobago
- Repsol-YPF holds its first board meeting in Trinidad and Tobago
- PdVSA plans to investigate past oil sales
- Petrobras to stimulate use of natural gas
- bpTT launches new book
- Brazil announces start of 6th stage of bidding process
- Petrobras and Rio de Janeiro government debate oil pipeline
- Brazil approves creation of AES-BNDES holding
- Petrotech to build gas liquefication plant in Parinas
- Petrobras sets aside fund for electricity losses
- Repsol and Trinidad government to establish energy training centre
- Exxon, Chevron and BP snub Mexico’s invitation for service contracts
- Venezuela’s Ramirez discloses PdVSA’s 2004 budget breakdown
- CNPC becomes second largest foreign oil company in Peru
- Venezuela to bar oil firms from boosting output
- Trinidad and Tobago does not have gas for Jamaica
- Petrotrin forced to purchase gas volumes
- Venezuela to postpone LNG deal with Shell and Mitsubishi
- Argentina's Tecpetrol to bid for another Ecuadorian oil block
- Venezuela seeks to change oil contract taxes
- ChevronTexaco and Ecopetrol extend deal for Guajira gas production
- Petrobras acquires controlling stake in Termo Rio power utility
- PdVSA receives $16 bn for oil sales in 2003 despite
strike
- Peru signs contract for hydrocarbons exploration
- Sinochem acquires Ecuadorian oilfield
- Repsol and Burlington to produce oil in Peru
- Repsol-YPF needs to raise gas prices to revive investments
- ExxonMobil signs exploration pact with Petrotrin
- Cuba plans oil bonanza with deep-sea drilling rig
- PdVSA plans to sell Ruhr stake
- Pan American Energy unveils 2004 investment
- Sempra and Shell venture to build Mexican LNG terminal
- Staatsolie signs agreement with Repsol-YPF
- Venezuela tries to lure oil investors
- Emerald Energy enters contract for Fortuna Block
- Technip/Fels Setal consortium signs contract for Petrobras platform
- Venezuela’s central bank to help Petrobras reconstruct statistics department
- Petrobras discreetly gains foothold in Mexico
- Petrobras remains major discoverer
- Suriname believes in good oil future ahead
- Venezuela to receive new offshore tenders by May 2004
- Peru may sign up to five new oil exploration contracts
- Petrobras searches for partners in new fields
- Teikoku Oil wins bid to develop gas reserves in Mexico
- PdVSA talks about production recovery and strategy going forward
- Pemex grants gas production contract to three-nation consortium
- Chinese oil companies bid for Mexican natural gas block
- Harvest Natural unit to conduct field evaluation studies with PdVSA
- Venezuela to explore for gas close to maritime border with Colombia
- Comments on PdVSA's financial results for 2002
- Pemex gets no bids for 5th natural gas tender
- PdVSA launches tender for maintenance at CRP plants
- Total demands $ 1 bn compensation from Argentina
- Petrobras to invest in Rio Grande do Norte
- Workers contain oil spill from unmanned platform off Trinidad's coast
- Sonatrach increases its participation in Camisea project
- PeruPetro approves contract for Repsol and Burlington
- ChevronTexaco's pollution trial in Ecuador comes to a close
- Pemex expects bids for Mision block
- Pemex expects to have stakes in petrochemical projects
- Mexican-Argentine consortium submits proposal to Pemex
- ChevronTexaco’s Amazon suit may be indicative for developing nations
- San Antonio firm to run gas pipeline to Mexico
- Pemex expects oil production to be steady through 2004
- Pemex receives bids from Brazilian-Mexican-Japanese consortium
- Jamaica to appoint adviser for LNG project
- Stakes are huge in ChevronTexaco’s Ecuador trial
- Repsol-YPF to invest in Mexican gas production
- Pemex awards gas contract to Repsol-YPF
- Petrobras invites Russian firms to help build Brazilian gas pipeline
- Rolls Royce opens ship unit in Brazil
- Turmoil forces Total to suspend operations in Venezuelan gas project
- Repsol, British Gas and Pan American Energy invest in Bolivia
- Petrobras to start work on Amazon gas plan
- Enap and Petrobras consider petrochemical and refinery deal
- Petrobras Argentina does not expect sale of Transener until 2005
- Gas bidding attracts 149 companies in Bolivia
- Tokyo Gas considers taking stake in Petrobras gas pipeline
- Sonatrach increases share in Camisea project
- Texaco denies environmental damage charged by Ecuadorian Indians
- Hunt Oil to sell Camisea fields to Tractebel
- Repsol-YPF's Loma la Lata field reaches peak production
- PdVSA and BP Trinidad negotiations break down
- Peru to become net energy exporter with Camisea gas
- Police clash with fired PdVSA workers over company housing
- Colombia to sell gas transporter Ecogas
- Petrotrin to upgrade Point a Pierre refinery
- LNG transporters interested in pipeline between Baja Peninsula and US
- Pemex must change or die, observers say
- Pemex to enlist oil giants to develop gas reserves in northern Mexico
- Venezuela to open bidding for Tomoporo field
- Pemex plans expenditure for new exploration and development
- Petrobras estimates a fivefold increase in natural gas reserves
- ENAP and Shell to export gasoline to Central America
- Petrobras affected by 24-hour strike
- Environmentalists oppose energy plan for Camisea in Peruvian jungle
- Brazil’s new gas finds could change scenario
- TransAlta commissions second Mexican power plant
- PdVSA’s crude oil production stands at 2.61 mm bpd
- Sonatrach to purchase part of PlusPetrol’s share in Camisea project
- Petrobras does not agree with request to lower tax system
- LUKoil to bid for Venezuelan gas
- Petrobras may return to Cuba in search for crude
- BP’s windfall from Spanish heat wave
- Venezuela seeks bids for Deltana 3 and 5 gas blocks
- Marathon signs supply deal for Mexican LNG plant
- Sao Paulo state to boost co-generation plants
- Petrobras dominates Brazil's fifth licensing round
- Pemex executives under probe for corruption
- Shell wants to sell Brazilian oil production locally
- Venezuela to award Deltana natgas blocks by end-year
- Pemex unveils investment plan through 2006
- Mexico sets back deadline date for bids on natural gas contracts
- Venezuela plans to invest $ 1.5 bn in power plants
- New OCP oil pipeline in Ecuador nears completion
- Shell starts oil production off Brazil
- PdVSA will invest $ 43 bn in five years
- Sempra wins environmental approval for Baja California LNG plant
- Mexico grants three more permits for LNG terminals
- Sempra to continue LNG project without CMS
- Shell starts oil production off Brazil
- CVP to control 43 % of PdVSA's production
- Brazil’s Ultrapar buys Shell’s LPG unit
- Petrobras declares Caravela Sul field commercial
- Petrobras returns exploration and production blocks
- Colombia renews oil-exploration contracts to prevent shortages
- Shell signs agreement to bring Australian LNG to Mexico
- Peru signs contract with Etevensa for Camisea gas
- Venezuela to invite Russian oil companies to tap Tomoporo field
- Petrobras wins most of the areas of new bidding round
- Ecopetrol to call for Cartagena refinery bids
- Peru’s Camisea pipeline to continue construction even without loans
- Russia and Venezuela discuss gas collaboration
- PdVSA torn by internal divisions
- Ecuador expects oil
output to reach 500,000 bpd by year end
- Brazil expects deal with Venezuela for Deltana offshore exploration
- Venezuela hopeful of Tomoporo oil field discovery
- Venezuela has bright future in development of its gas resources
- Petrobank to start seismic study in Colombia
- Bomb explodes at PdVSA’s eastern Caracas office building
- Ecuador to import gas from Venezuela
- Evergreen Resources has big impact on Trinidad area
- ConocoPhillips Venezuela resumes construction at Ameriven
- Venezuela hopes to attract investments in natural gas projects
- Brazil frustrates foreign electric power companies
- PdVSA to increase production capacity to 6 mm bpd by 2010
- Pemex must urgently
grow and develop
- Venezuela seeks foreign capital for oil deals
- PdVSA plans to invest about $ 40 bn
- PdVSA reports eight companies running for exploration licences
- PdVSA believes it can sustain current output
- International firms want Ecuador to overturn fuel price decree
- Pemex calls for first bids on natural gas contracts
- Ecuador outlines investment required to boost oil production
- PdVSA succumbs to Venezuela's revolution
- Kemp's oil deal
- YPFB to open bids for three blocks in the 2003 round of licensing
- Kemp's oil deal
- New bill to exclude PetroPeru from privatisation program
- Petrobras cancels power generator bids for two
platforms
- Ecuador to import Venezuelan gas from Jan. 2004
- Napocor may be fined for not implementing new generation charges
- Rolls-Royce to play key role in cross border energy deal
- ChevronTexaco to invest in Venezuelan offshore gas field
- Brazilian firm receives $ 40 mm IFC loan for gas exploration
- Petrobras Energia Venezuela to receive $ 105 mm loan from IFC
- Investe Brasil seeks financing for feasibility study
- Repsol-YPF confirms investments through 2008
- Argentine mayor buys one Shell share to demand ecological repairs
- Occidental to invest in Ecuadorian oil field
- State of Rio de Janeiro modifies oil tax bill
- Petrobras signs gas pipeline loan
contracts
- Kerr-McGee acquires deepwater interests offshore Bahamas
- Endesa Spain reshapes Enersis
- ChevronTexaco to develop gas field off Venezuela's eastern coast
- Colombian government spins off Ecopetrol
- Petrobras affirms claim on delayed Halliburton rigs
- BNDES approves loans for Petrobras gas pipeline project
- Gas Natural acquires Enron’s stake in Puerto Rican project
- PdVSA to invest in Argentine gas stations
- FFOS tackles multinationals on green LNG train in Trinidad
- Shell still believes Trinidad is a very interesting country for oil and gas
- PetroEcuador to call for insurance bids
- IFC to extend loan to private Bolivian power transmission firm
- CAF to prepare residential gas connections tender in Bolivia
- GasAtacama calls for different focus in Chilean transmission debate
- Power problems put Brazil to the test
- PetroEcuador workers end strike
- Petrobras reports on production
- Brazil's fifth oil licensing round so far attracts just 13 bidders
- Atlantic LNG to build world's largest processor of LNG in Trinidad
- PdVSA to outsource maintenance contracts
- Franklin Park Energy to invest in Latin America
- Trinidad and Tobago begins Cross Island Pipeline project
- TransAlta begins operation of new Mexican power plant
- Repsol-YPF confirms plans for investment in Venezuela
- Petrobras to invest $ 30
mm in Ecuador this year
- Repsol-YPF to expand production in Venezuela
- Petrobras to resume petrochemical investment
- LPG lobby hinders Tractebel’s natural gas development in Mexico
- Assailants kidnap pipeline workers in Peru's Andes
- ChevronTexaco sells Venezuelan gas tract interest to ConocoPhillips
- Alusa to start construction of transmission lines in Brazil
- Mexico to import natural gas to shore up supply
- ChevronTexaco and ConocoPhillips to explore Venezuelan gas field
- Mexico begins to suspect America has plans with its oil too
- Venezuela to use marketing group to sell oil in US
- Pemex to invest in Chicontepec basin
- Sapet to invest in Peru block
- PdVSA hires back 900 workers
- Pemex forecasts large investment in Chicontepec basin
- Petrobras starts production from another Coral field
- Colombia expects more investment in oil industry
- Petrobras dazzles market with record first quarter profit
- Pemex reports on exports of crude oil
- PdVSA to launch tender for drilling rigs this year
- PdVSA open to new investments on basis of win-win perspective
- Nicaragua awards exploration and production contracts to US firms
- Methanex buys 90 % of Titan methanol plant in Trinidad
- Petrobras acquires Perez Companc
- Petrobras issues additional bonds
- Petrobras boosts reserves on Campos basin block
- Shell to seek partners for Altamira LNG project
- PdVSA plans increase in production
- ABB to enter into Brazilian wind power energy sector
- Repsol to boost oil output in Ecuadorian block
- ExxonMobil's Cerro Negro joint venture to double crude production
- ChevronTexaco faces $ 5 bn pollution suit in Ecuador
- International executives affirm interest in PdVSA's business activities
- Lawsuit filed against Occidental for involvement in Colombian massacre
- Pemex to expand its refinery in Minatitlan
- Enron abandons sale of Latin American assets
- Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela gas deals can be complex process
- Halcrow prepares environmental assessment for Brazilian oil
basins
- Ecuador to carry out analysis of state oil company's difficulties
- Ecuadorian Indians file lawsuit against ChevronTexaco
- Petrobras raises electric power provisions
- Marathon secures storage permit for Mexican LNG project
- Repsol starts operations at third LNG plant in Trinidad and Tobago
- ChevronTexaco is optimistic about future investment in Latin America
- Petrobras reaffirms investment through 2007
- BG to make first shipment from Train 3 expansion in Trinidad
- Etevensa wins Camisea natural gas contract
- Petrobras to become net oil exporter by 2007
- Ecuador gets no bids for oil block concessions
- ChevronTexaco optimistic about Latin American investment
prospects
- Occidental to triple Ecuador output when new pipeline opens
- Explosions, anarchy and mercenaries in the new PdVSA
- Petrobras to boost oil production
- Shell receives environmental permit for Mexican LNG terminal
- Trinidad and Tobago to add two more offshore blocks to auction
- Fate of PetroEcuador up for bid
- Petrobras lays out production and spending plans
- Brazil and Venezuela to discuss commercial ties
- Petrobras predicts higher oil output for Brazil
- Petrobras to boost output of Perez Companc
- Chilectra unveils 2003 investment plans
- AES Gener to sell GasAndes stake by July
- Venezuela approves ConocoPhillips’ Corocoro
project
- PdVSA lifts force majeure on gasoline
- Oxy-Ecuador
- Petrobras to invest in new pipeline
- ConocoPhillips to receive shipments of Venezuelan oil
- Pemex to offer petrochemical plant control to private sector
- A view on Petrobras
- Sempra gets environmental permit for Mexican LNG terminal
- Chinese Petroleum to invest in Venezuelan oil field
- ConocoPhillips gets final approval for Venezuela’s Corocoro field
- Shell to produce petroleum off Brazil by July
- Shell and IBP work to overcome Brazil's difficult tax structure
- PSEG abandons interest in Edeersa due to economic crisis
- Hunt delays plans to call for bids on Camisea plant
construction
- HQI Transelec buys transmission lines from Endesa
- Foreign companies expected to invest in new Venezuelan oil fields
- Shell returns offshore block to Trinidad government
- Peru questions contract extension between PlusPetrol and PeruPetro
- Ministry uncovers frauds in refining division of Pemex
- Privatisation deal for Guyana power company collapses
- Colombia to re-examine deal with ChevronTexaco
- Venezuelan oil industry recovers its previous revenue level
- Grant successfully completes seismic survey in Colombia for Hocol
- CGE buys Rio Maipo from Enersis
- OCP meets opposition in constructing Ecuador oil pipeline
- Petrobras owes $ 100 mm on natural gas
payments
- PlusPetrol Norte secures loan from Credit Suisse
- Venezuela to persuade EIA on oil output
- PdVSA faces trouble in collecting oil revenue
- Cuba owes Venezuela $ 144 mm for delivery of crude
- Conservationists take offensive against Camisea gas project
- Investors cancel investments in Brazil's power sector
- Commission to present findings of Palo Azul field to PetroEcuador
- Emgesa produces 20 % of Colombia's power
- Gas Natural ESP plans to issue bonds in June
- Pemex to place $ 500 mm bonds
- Pemex to unveil “Project Phoenix” for petrochemical industry
- Voith Siemens wins contract with Mexico's Comex Hidro
- Pemex reports on oil
production and exports
- Pemex identifies potential new sources of oil
- Petrobras interested to resume Cuban oil exploration
- Pecom Energia to double 2003 capital expenditure plan
- Uruguay appoints power market chairman
- Eletrobras tasks Lightpar to manage federalized power companies
- Export-Import Bank approves US oil service investments in Mexico
- Hunt Oil lilely finds buyer for Camisea gas
- Venezuela's reviving oil industry
- CRE to rule on LNG permits
- Pemex produces a record 3.42 mm barrel of crude
- Brazil postpones 5th auction of exploration and production licenses
- PdVSA transfers its crude trading from PEPEX to CITGO
- Petrobras
forecasts average domestic oil production
- Shell remains committed to Altamira despite El Paso’s withdrawal
- Bolivian pipeline in jeopardy
- BP sells Venezuelan blocks to Perenco
- U'wa tribe renews resistance after new oil discovery
- Neptune wins oil transport deal from PdVSA subsidiary
- PdVSA faces trying recovery
- Brazil’s Mato Grosso to establish natural gas distribution company
- Petrobras unveils new oil rig tender rules
- Repsol-YPF opens permanent office in Mexico
- Professor helps to clear hurdle for Trinidad and Tobago’s expansion
- Pemex reports drop in gasoline imports
- Pemex to offer eight Burgos Basin blocks for bidding
- Rosneft
and Ecopetrol agree on Colombian oil sales
- ChevronTexaco and Ecopetrol sign natural gas deal
- Ecuador approves continuance of oil pipeline construction
- Colombia to extend duration of all exploration contracts
- Brazil seeks solutions to energy crisis
- Brazil plans incentives for platform construction
- Hunt Oil and SK confirm participation in Camisea
- PdVSA begins construction of orimulsion plant
- Pemex reaches natural gas crossroads
- Pemex to contract out eight gas-field regions to private firms
- ChevronTexaco and Statoil receive Venezuelan licenses
- Pemex publishes terms for Burgos gas contracts
- Repsol-YPF reveals 2003 investment plans for Brazil
- Venezuela's oil output could hit 2.8 mm barrels by mid-March
- Venezuela to invite for Deltana license bids
- The destruction of Petroleos de Venezuela
- Ecuador lifts suspension of OCP heavy crude pipeline
- Mexico faces growing gas shortage problem
- Chile conducts far-reaching investigation into local oil industry
- Braskem prepares for expected growth in demand in Brazil
- Pemex CEO warns lawmakers of natural gas shortages
- The United States of Central America
- Petrobras postpones oil rig tenders indefinitely
- Cemar needs $ 89 mm investments
- Hunt Oil and Pacific LNG discuss possibility of joint venture
- Mexico to restrict use of natural gas over nextnine months
- Shell plans deep sea drilling off Trinidad and Tobago
- Renor signs up PdVSA to invest in Suape refinery
- Colombia and Panama could save costs through interconnection
- Indian firms interested to invest in Brazilian refinery
- Bolivia’s power regulator to receive transmission bids
- Iberdrola cuts 2002-2006 Latin American investment budget
- Repsol-YPF buys BPTT stake in Trinidad and Tobago
- AES may transfer Eletropaulo to BNDES
- Shell to commence new exploratory drilling program in Trinidad
- Petrobras overhauls outsourcing strategy
- Gamesa to erect seven wind power plants
- InterGen to install cutting-edge pollution control equipment in Mexico
- To change Mexico, Fox must first change Pemex
- ChevronTexaco to expand drilling activities in Neuquen province
- SK Corp joins Hunt Oil in Camisea LNG consortium
- Repsol-YPF is now Bolivia's largest energy company
- SK Corp joins Hunt Oil in Camisea LNG consortium
- Eletrobras to decrease investment by 27 % from 2002
- Mexico to boost natural gas production near Texas in February
- Enertrade calls for new electric sector law on Brazilian government
- Pemex to invest $ 10 bn in new oil and gas projects in Mexico
- Pemex to raise crude and natural gas output in 2003
- Brazil and Argentina resolve controlling interest in Perez Companc
- IHC Caland wins Petrobras FPSO order
- Ecopetrol signs association contract with Petrobras
- Metrogas expands gas pipelines networking in Chile
- Pioneer to invest in Argentina
- Chile needs more than doubling of current installed capacity
- Gas from Camisea could reach Peru soon
- Mexico's state power utility plans LNG plant
- How recent events began in Venezuela
- Power sector in Honduras needs private sector funding
- Mexico's state power utility seeks bids for LNG plant
- Marathon teams up with KBR and Techint for Mexican energy project
- Brazil intent on becoming major global energy supplier
- Ecopetrol and Braspetro sign contract for Tafura block
- AES Andres completes financing for LNG
project in Dominican Republic
- Ecuador to boost crude oil production
- Peru suspends privatisation of four distributors indefinitely
- Repsol-YPF to drill eight wells in Llancanelo
- Petrobras plans to divest stake in power plants because of turmoil
- Enap seeks new partners for Punta Arenas project
- Petro-Canada acquires La Ceiba oil block in Venezuela
- Petrobras’ oil finds could attract investors
- Petrotech Peruana to call for pipeline bids
- ChevronTexaco accused of polluting Amazon rainforest
- Russian firms express interest in Ecuadorian market
- Bolivia and Paraguay to sign pipeline protocol
- Venezuela to reoffer natural gas blocks
- Burlington to invest in Peru's Huallaga basin
- PdVSA to develop Mariscal Sucre project with Shell and Mitsubishi
- PlusPetrol’s first Camisea development well exceeds expectations
- PdVSA and Statoil agree to technical cooperation
- GasAtacama to transfer transmission lines to new subsidiary
- ConocoPhillips plans to develop Corocoro field off Venezuela
- Ecopetrol forecasts 2003 crude oil output
- PdVSA's business plan calls for $ 43 bn investment
- Repsol-YPF reports on investments in Argentina
- Kerr-McGee wins drilling licence for Bahamas
- Perez Companc receives gas license for San Carlos gas deposits
- EdF to start operations of Rio Bravo projects in 2004
- Huge gas extraction project threatens rain forests in Peru
- Pemex to lower gas prices to compete with US filling stations
- Hunt Oil and Halliburton seek financing for Camisea project
- PetroEcuador accepts bids for blocks in Pacific Gulf of Guayaquil
- Venezuela ready to license rights to offshore gas
- Ecuador offers Pacific Coast blocks for bidding
- Pemex completes Madero refinery upgrade
- Transelectric and ISA to call for bids for Peru-Ecuador transmission line
- Hunt Oil to call for bids on construction of its liquefaction plant in Peru
- Pemex evaluates country's oil and gas potential
- Partners of Capim Branco complex seek individual financing
- Pemex reports on crude
output
- Pemex reports on gas output
- Transener proposes financing plan for Chile-Brazil interconnection
- Veco to build new crude oil storage facility in Barbados
- Trinidad and Venezuela pursue cooperation in energy projects
- Ecopetrol decides on Cartagena contract winners
- Ecopetrol and Occidental sign exploration and production contract
- El Paso makes planned investment in Brazil
- Hunt Oil believes Camisea reserves can support LNG export project
- Mexico's CFE to call for Altamira LNG plant bids
- ISA and Transelectric to start interconnection operations
- PlusPetrol to sell stake in Peruvian gas pipeline
- PdVSA plans to start exporting gas by 2005
- Hunt Oil thinks Camisea reserves can also support LNG export project
- PlusPetrol calls for enormous exploration initiative in Peru
- Brazil announces 5th tender round for oil exploration
- Repsol-YPF and Syntroleum to study GTL projects in Bolivia
- PlusPetrol wins block in Peru
- Multinational oil companies join forces to boost Colombian reserves
- Venezuela sets terms for natural gas bidding process
- Siemens focuses on Brazilian power sector
- IFP calls for more private investment in Mexican oil exploration
- Pecom Energia and Teikoku to exploit Venezuela blocks
- Ecopetrol and Mercantile sign exploration and production contract
- Camisea project gains more time for rights-of-way on
pipeline routes
- PetroEcuador auctions blocks in Guayaquil Gulf
- PdVSA sells 40 sets of bidding rules for nitrogen injection project
- Petrobras starts production at offshore Jubarte Field
- Teikoku acquires stakes in Venezuelan gas fields
- Bahia Las Minas to award conversion contract to Alstom
- Techint starts construction of natural gas pipeline
- CFE calls for geothermal bids
- El Paso to invest in alternative power generation in Rio Janeiro state
- Electric power equipment manufacturer’s order portfolios are shrinking
- Seven companies to take advantage of royalty reduction in Peru
- Saesa starts negotiations of loan
- Brazil's antitrust authority approves gas chemicals
consortium
- Pemex reports on crude output
- Petrobras to invest in Perez Companc
- Solana Petroleum to purchase Colombian gas field from Petrobras
- PdVSA forecasts investments in 2003
- Petrobras and Perez Companc sign definitive purchase agreement
- Petrobras oil rig straightened
- Ecopetrol approves association contracts
- Colombia to sign new oil exploration deals with US firms
- Dessau-Soprin may sign electrification agreement with Peru
- EarthTech wins contract from Mexico's government commission
- Pemex postpones Burgos gas field development tender
- PQU prepares expansion plan after modification of state law
- Bolivia speeds up project to
spread uses of natural gas
- ConocoPhillips to develop Corocoro Field discovery in Venezuela
- Pemex to tender two petrochemical projects in February
- Parques Ecologicos to start 20 MW wind construction
- Pemex signs further contracts for Noble jackup drilling units
- Brazilian power distributors invest in thermal electric power plants
- Fenosa seeks strategic partner for three power plants
- Sonatrach makes offer for PlusPetrol's Camisea stake
- Mexican power monopoly seeks private bids for natural gas terminal
- Enap and PetroEcuador sign agreement
- Petrobras to open its LPG distribution network to other companies
- Petrobras to sell mature fields in seven lots
- Pemex
secures $ 1.1 bn Ex-Im credit
- Marathon upsizes energy centre project in Baja California state
- Petrobras to invest further in pipeline integrity programme
- El Paso sets up electric power plant in Parana
- Trinidad and Tobago plan to expand LNG production
- YPFB abandons concession round after receiving no bids
- Petrobras production grows at 12 % a year
- Biodiesel makes appearance in Paraguay
- Bolivian power regulator to auction 3 transmission lines
- Mexico to build first wind-powered generation project
- Brazil solves energy transmission bottleneck
- PetroEcuador to call for bids on seismic studies
- Cautious investors are watching developments in Venezuela
- ICE to expand Tejona wind plant
- Bancoldex creates energy fund
- Harvest Natural Resources signs gas supply contract with PdVSA
- Venezuela to stretch asset division deadline
- DSG to invest in thermoelectric power plants in Sao Paulo state
- Venezuela's oil reserves stand at 78 bn barrels
- McKinsey to reorganize PdVSA
- Enelven secures financing for Termozulia power project
- Enap implements ambitious $ 1.3 bn investment plan
- Gamesa to promote feasibility study of wind power plants
- Sener studies new power cost system
- Pemex produces record barrels of crude
- Petrobras aims to increase participation of natural gas
- Venezuelato award four natural gas distribution concessions
- Petrobras explores Columbian wells
- Banco Popular grants loan for Dominican power plant
- Tax dispute in Ecuador threatens oil investment
- CPFL invests in power efficiency programs
- Gastream venture studies LNG regasification options in Mexico
- PdVSA Gas considers Anaco project
- BP Solar and Banco do Nordeste negotiate partnership
- Gazprom negotiates partnership with Petrobras
- Mexico to invite tenders for two LNG plants
- TotalFinaElf increases Latin American production
- PdVSA believes producers need to cooperate for stable market
- PdVSA CEO reports on Venezuela at World Petroleum Congress
- PdVSA receives award for social responsibility
- PdVSA launches PDV brand in Brazil
- Petrobras oil rigs at core of debate
- Petrobras to build pipeline through Amazon forest
- Pemex to invest in heavy crude output at Ku-Maloob-Zaap oilfields
- BG and ChevronTexaco expand interests in Atlantic LNG
- Five energy companies to develop Deltana Platform project
- Petrobras to invest in Coral and Estrela-do-Mar fields
- Atlantic LNG consortium starts second liquefication train
- Venezuela focuses on Mariscal Sucre and Deltana Shelf projects
- Petrobras targets major deepwater production expansion
- EDC to supply natural gas to Machala power plant
- Pemex expects
growth in non-associated gas output
- Marubeni and Itochu to transport crude oil to Brazil for Transpetro
- Pemex to invest in clean gas-compression equipment
- PdVSA to open gas stations in Brazil
- Elebras and Innovent to invest in Brazilian wind parks
- Enron puts Latin American assets up for sale
- Petrobras to invests in Refinaria de Paulinia
- Nippon Oil and JNOC withdraw from La Ceiba exploration block
- Pemex to invest $ 422 mm in Campeche field
- Seven oil majors sign agreement for Plataforma Deltana region
- Pemex to drill for oil on Veracruz state coast
- Ecopetrol to drill former Occidental well
- Pemex to invest in Coatzacoalcos exploration
- Atlantic LNG to develop Dolphin Deep and Starfish fields
- Shell plans major development off Brazil
- Solana Petroleum buys stake in Magdalena natural gas field
- Repsol-YPF and Atlantic LNG consortium start liquefication train
- People's Electric to build power plant south of Rio Communities
- Trinidad and Tobago grants conditional approval for oil refinery
- Mexico considers to increase scope of private investors
- Petrobras to invest in Campos Basin
- Brazil celebrates 25 years of production from Campos Basin
- Venezuela to award blocks to BP, BG and ChevronTexaco
- Aneel expects 22 bidders for new power transmission lines
- Petrobras to concentrate more on projects in Gulf of
Mexico
- Pemex forecasts investment in hydrocarbon production
- Waertsilae to start construction of thermoelectric project
- Environmental opposition to Camisea pipeline forces public hearings
- Petrobras to acquire full control over Santa Fe
- Ecuador field holds proven reserves of 600 mm barrels
- Vibrapar secures land to build refinery
- Pemex loses millions to fuel thieves
- Brazilian energy partners create CPFL distribution and generation holding
- TotalFinaElf proceeds with Bolivian project studies
- Trinidad to approve construction of French oil refinery
- PetroEcuador increases production target
- Petrobras negotiates sale of 2,400 MW
- PetroEcuador invites insurance bids for assets
- Petrobras requests to speed up exploration of Neuquen
- Eletronorte to return transmission concessions to Aneel
- Repsol-YPF to continue investing in Argentina
- Pemex reports on produce of hydrocarbons
- Indonesian Medco to supply natural gas to Mexican plant
- Mexico releases regulations for building LNG facilities
- ISA and Dispac sign contracts for power transmission line
- Ecopetrol extends deadline for Cartagena refinery expansion bids
- Mexico's oil monopoly faces competition from across the border
- Tractebel considers construction of LNG complex in Mexico
- Petrobras to acquire Perez Companc
- Petrobraskeeps investments in thermal electric power plants
- Petrobras to acquire Petrolera Santa Fe
- Pemex to invite tenders for construction of petrochemical complex
- Enap studies feasibility for Argentine petrochemical project
- Mexican taxes to affect Pemex investment in petroleum projects
- Empire Energy to bid for oil and gas exploration licence in Nicaragua
- Pemex to call for bids on privately financed refinery
- Burlington interested in Mexican gas reserve development
- ANP and Petrobras in opposition about gas flaring
- Brazil completes installation of 37 emergency generation plants
- Nicaragua to launch bidding round soon
- Nicaragua allows US companies to explore oil and gas deposits
- Venezuela may approve Pequiven-ExxonMobil joint-venture
- Hardman wins blocks in South Falklands Basin
- Australian companies to become world’s first Falkland explorers
- Petrobras and Rio Grande do Sul sign pipeline deal
- BP and Colombian partners study Creg natural gas price resolution
- Peru Petro signs oil exploration and development contracts
- PetroEcuador ends contract with Schlumberger
- Petrobras to expand in Argentina
- Petrobras to increase energy portfolio in Latin America
- Petrobras invests in Peroa and Cangoa development
- Siepac to start power interconnection tender process in July 2003
- PdVSA to invest $ 5.41 bn on second semester
- CETIC toexpand activities in Peruvian power sector
- PdVSA to buy LPG gas from Ecopetrol
- Ecopetrol, PdVSA and Chevtex approve feasibility of gas pipeline
- Ecopetrol invites bids for six blocks
- Venezuelan power companies need to restructure
- Five firms compete for Colombian gas pipeline
- Independent oil companies acquire Brazil blocks
- Shell is full of hopes to strike crude in Brazil
- Pemex surprised at level of interest in natural gas contracts
- Billiton bids high in Brazilian oil license auction
- PdVSA, Shell and Mitsubishi to exploit Venezuelan gas fields
- Venezuela signs Mariscal Sucre gas development deal
- Shell fined for pesticide pollution in Brazil
- Multiple service contracts meet controversy at Pemex
- Delta Gas deals go to wide group of domestic and international firms
- Chile still waits for addition in power supply
- Statoil wants to develop natural gas reserve in Orinoco Delta
- Emerald asks Ecopetrol to launch commercial production at oil field
- Vintage sells stake of Trinidad block to Vermilion Resources
- Peru finds buyer for Egasa and Egesur
- Petrobras to raise $ 1.5 bn via expected stock and debentures issue
- EdF to raise stake in Brazil's Light
- PdVSA's exploratory wells confirm potential of Deltana gas basin
- Red devils protest Peru privatisation of Egasa and Egesur
- Ecopetrol invites bids for six blocks
- Enron keeps role in Bolivian pipeline project
- Devon Energy successful bidder on Brazilian deepwater block
- Eight multinationals likely to win Pemex gas contracts
- Foreign firms cautiously optimistic about Mexico contracts
- Pemex opens gas industry to global bidders
- Shell proposes new LNG terminal in Baja California
- Peru postpones power transmission sale
- Peru suspends Egasa and Egesur sales
- TotalFinaElf wants share of Venezuelan natural gas deal
- Pemex reports on oil production
- Qatar to join Venezuela’s Paria LNG project
- Twenty-nine oil companies qualified to bid for Brazil auction
- Venezuela to move gas projects forward in jet
stream
- Petrobras suspends part of electric power project investments
- Pemex to triple spending in southern Mexico
- Colombia's ISA wins auction for Peru utilities
- PdVSA to use government resources for cash flow shortages
- Tecpetrol opens data rooms for sale of international assets
- Petrobras reports on production
- Mitsubishi to take part in Venezuela LNG project
- Ecopetrol authorizes commercial operations on Guando field
- Tractebel wins major gas distribution deal in Peru
- Environmentalists protest construction of Ecuador pipeline
- Ecopetrol gives Petrobras go-ahead to begin drilling
- PdVSA Gas plans $ 9 bn investment over five years
- Brazilian companies to invest in generation projects
- Mexico welcomes various LNG terminal proposals
- Trinidad signs MoU with 12 exploration companies
- Pemex to invest in Tabasco drilling projects
- CMS Energy to sell off its oil and gas unit
- Pemex to burn off less than 120 mm cfpd of gas by 2003
- Australian energy companies interested in Mexican gas sector
- Petrobras delays investments in thermoelectric plants
- Guatemala cancels exploration and drilling rights in eastern Guatemala
- Mexico seeks new forms of energy sector financing
- Petrobras expresses interest in Argentine oil firm
- Peru’s sale of Edelnor wins more than initial expectations
- Petrobras to invest in Colombian exploration blocks
- Mexicans cautious of proposed LNG terminal
- Panama and ChevronTexaco affiliate sign duty-free zone deal
- Brazil oil block bidding round has fewer interested bidders
- Ecopetrol remains optimistic for big oil find
- Gasmig to invest in network expansion
- PdVSA keeps participation in Delta Project to 30 %
- Consortium wins Argentinean exploration block
- PdVSA Gas sets production record
- Privatisation efforts in Mexico face ongoing obstacles
- Petrobras to begin production tests in Campos Basin
- U'wa tribe sends Oxy oil company packing
- ISA to call for bids for construction of Virginia-Certegui
power-line
- Mexico to build first manure-based power plant
- Competition for Petrobras platform construction gears up
- BNDES to provide grants to Brazilian energy sector
- Delay of electric utility sale won't derail Peru privatisations
- Petrobras to invest in expansion of Urucu basin
- Chile and Peru compete for multinational gas pipeline
- Occidental Petroleum to pull out of Colombia
- Brazil's oil exploration and production round set for June 19-20
- Venezuela expands list of companies to develop offshore Paria gas
- Petrobras claims deepwater installation record
- Pemex reports on gas production
- Vintage Petroleum to sell Ecuador oil assets
- PdVSA begins offshore natural gas project
- Tractebel to invest $ 200 mm in Peru gas plan
- Eletrobras to sell Itaipu energy
- Energy firms find Mexican legal terms do not favour investment
- Trinidad signs oil and gas production agreement with EOG
- Petrobras expects new oilfield to start production in 2003
- Aneel delays tender for new transmission lines
- Pemex wants to double natural gas output by 2010
- Brazil to support new wind projects
- Ali Rodriguez is planning to make PdVSA a number one oil company
- BHP Billiton and partners to explore off Trinidad
- Conoco hopes to resolve outstanding differences with Venezuela
- Shell levels criticism at
Petrobras
- Pemex plans investment in natural gas
- Pemex increases natural gas production
- Pemex to grant contracts for natural gas exploration in late 2002
- ANP authorizes eight more companies to import fuels
- Pemex to invest $ 800 mm in ethylene plant
- Privatisation of Bolivian natural gas networks fails to draw bids
- Burlington acquires blocks in Ecuador and Peru
- Greenpeace targets Sempra and its Mexican energy projects
- BP to start drilling in Colombia block
- PetroEcuador to offer six blocks in 9th bidding round
- Pemex head calls for more private participation
- Ecuador cancels auction of electric utilities due to lack of interest
- Petrobras wants to open up refining market
- Ecopetrol signs association contracts with LUKoil and Emerald
- Eletropaulo to invest $ 110 mm in 2002
- Pemex to take bids for natural gas fields
- Enap signs gas supply contract with Methanex
- Pemex trying to attract capital for Burgos natural gas field
- Petrobras to drill new test wells
- US faces hardest impact from Venezuela oil export stoppage
- Venezuela president sacks seven dissident oil company executives
- LUKoil signs oil exploration contract in Colombia
- Pemex natural gas test well produces 15.4 mm cfpd
- Shell to build gas terminal in Baja California
- Pemex completes first phase of sulphur
reduction program
- Pemex announces anti-corruption plan
- PdVSA returns to 100 % of its normal crude production
- Petrobras revives plan to take full control of fuel distribution arm
- Petrobank to buy AEC Colombia's interests
- Ipiranga to invest in compressed natural gas stations
- Iberdrola to sell all its assets in Chile
- VBC Energia to invest in distribution and generation
- Consortium to invest in San Alberto field
- Pemex calls for pipeline bids and drilling contracts
- Pemex Gas to invest $ 552 mm in 2002
- Falklands look to entice oil companies back to South Atlantic
- Emerald Energy and Ecopetrol to develop oil fields in Colombia
- Venezuela sets new terms for natural gas project
- GE gains full ownership of SIGEN
- Promigas plans pipeline extension
- Alberta Energy plans upstream investments in Ecuador
- Shell to develop LNG project in Mexico's Baja California state
- Pemex to raise production of light crude
- Iberdrola completes purchase of Gas Natural Mexico stake
- EdF to inject funds into Brazilian subsidiary
- Small companies facing great challenges in Brazil
- ENAP to invest $ 299 mm to maintain crude output levels
- Pemex expects to add oil to its reserves
- Groups sue agencies for approving cross-border transmission lines
- Petrobras to raise funds for expansion of domestic gas
pipelines
- Ecuador delays privatisation of power distributors and Emelec
- Petrobras growth may have negative effect on energy sector
- Pemex faces major challenges
- Pemex plans to increase 2002 output
- Statoil produces first crude from Sincor project
- EdP to build power plant in Brazil
- Ecuador temporarily suspends OCP licence
- Peru's Camisea gas field hurt by Argentine crisis
- Enel wins second large contract for Brazilian power grid
- Foreign firms to compete for Peru utility
- Brazil receives first non-Petrobras fuel imports
- Pemex to spend $ 2.3 bn in refinery upgrades
- Petrobras to sell 140 low-producing fields
- Petros to invest in power plants
- Tractebel to invest in co-generation
- PetroEcuador 2002 crude output to grow 15.9 %
- Pemex plans biggest crude output jump in 20 years
- Ecuador looses oil output due to Amazon protests
- Pemex plans to increase production by 10.5 %
- Ecopetrol reports good news
- Petros to invest in thermal electric power plants
- Petroperu awards Otepi and Cosapi refinery upgrade contract
- Privatising Pemex would need ideological shift
- Petrobras reduces participation in thermal power plants
- New president of PdVSA considers overhaul
- Ecopetrol in drilling talks with LUKoil
- Gaz de France to reduce
engagements in Argentina
- Chilean power companies to invest $ 2.45 bn to meet demand
- Pemex struggles to become bigger and better
- Gaston Luis Parra Luzardo new PdVSA President
- NRG Energy to expand investments in Peru
- Hunt Oil awards FEED for Camisea LNG
- Petrobras to triple natural gas imports from Bolivia by 2004
- Venezuela to launch PdVSA offshore gas exploration program
- Petrobras inaugurates natural gas plant in Bolivia
- PdVSA launches gas exploration program in Deltana area
- PdVSA to upgrade El Palito and Puerto La Cruz refineries
- BNDES announces 2002 portfolio for power sector
- Paria Sur LNG project waits for government specifications
- Petrotulsa plans oil refinery
- Perupetro expects 10 wildcats to be drilled this year
- El Paso to construct new power plant in Rio de Janeiro
- Endesa to invest in Brazilian power plant
- PdVSA to let university develop oil field
- Endesa units to invest in Brazil power plant
- Kerr-McGee to sell Ecuador pipeline share to Perenco
- PdVSA begins drilling in Paria's gulf waters
- Pemex to invest $ 14.7 bn in 2002
- US authorities approve Baja Norte gas pipeline
- PetroEcuador reports on 2001 crude exports
- Petrobras sets oil production record in December
- Repsol-YPF in delicate negotiations
- Petrobras invests in alternative power
generation
- Petrobras maintains growth strategy in Argentina
- SINCOR to start synthetic crude production in February
- Petrobras shops for Gulf of Mexico oil company
- Privatisation of Ecuadorian power distributors delayed
- Duke Energy believes Argentina power market could grow
- PEMEX needs to invest $ 19 bn to upgrade refineries
- PEMEX contracts Japan's National Oil for study of oil deposits
- PEMEX reports on 2001 oil output
- Petrobras sets new daily oil production record
- PEMEX has a tarred image
- Repsol-YPF to lift production from Venezuela gas field
- Willbros unit to construct Bolivian pipeline
- Saipem and Odebrecht set up joint
venture
- BG losing access to Brazil-Bolivia gas pipeline
- Petrobras and Repsol-YPF complete asset swap
- Sempra plans Pacific LNG deal for Mexico and California
- Petrobras plans to move up construction of Bolivia pipeline
- Tractebel wins auction for power plant in Brazil
- Syntroleum to develop integrated NGL and GTL project in Peru
- Oil companies overcome obstacle to build gas pipeline in Bolivia
- Petrobras to increase overseas investments
- Petrobras revises investments in thermal electric power
- Latin America feels repercussions of Enron bankruptcy
- Consortium signs deal to ship Bolivian gas to Mexico and US
- Reichstul to step down as president of Petrobras
- Argentina oil and gas tender yields no bidders
- Pemex reports on crude output
- PdVSA hits record gas production
- Petrobras to increase its overseas investments
- PdVSA to begin drilling project near Trinidad and Tobago
- Petrobras announces rise in planned foreign investments
- Iberdrola gives up on control of Guaraniana
- ChevronTexaco and partners announce first oil from Hamaca
- Aneel approves Duke's power imports from Bolivia
- Aventura Energy acquires blocks in Neuquen Basin
- BNDES to pay energy companies to compensate for losses
- Pemex needs to invest $ 3.4 bn pipelines
- Techint to expand electric operations
- Four oil
firms consider leases of Camisea blocks
- Duke Energy acquires power plants in Guatemala
- Ecuador to privatise power companies
- Talisman and partners win new block in Trinidad
- Repsol and ExxonMobil unit reach agreement on oxo-alcohol products
- Statoil to search for more oil in Lake Maracaibo
- Nissho Iwai and Inpex to develop oil field offshore Brazil
- Ecopetrol signs oil exploration contract with consortium
- Foster Wheeler to develop coker project for ENAP
- High profits at Petrobras paved way for oil workers strike
- Brazil resumes oil strike talks
- Wintershall buys into Esso block offshore Brazil
- El Paso advances on two LNG terminals in Mexico
- Brazil national output drops after oil workers strike
- Pluspetrol outlines Latin-American gas ambitions
- Petrobras' TBG to expand Brazil-Bolivia gas pipeline
- JNOC to end oil exploration projects in Algeria and Brazil
- Pluspetrol puts spotlight on Latin American gas ambitions
- TotalFinaElf casts net for new offshore opportunities in Latin America
- GE supplies services to Latin American oil and gas projects
- Petrobras tanker runs aground in southern port
- TotalFinaElf to develop gas fields offshore Tierra del Fuego
- Petroperu needs investments for refinery and transport systems upgrade
- EDP aims to expand capacity of Brazil power plant
- El Paso subsidiary to install natural gaspipeline in Gulf of Mexico
- Venezuelan government to get majority share in LNG project
- NRG Energy to merge power companies to expand operations in Peru
- Brazil's energy sector opens big opportunities for British firms
- Construction of electric power ventures to start up in Minas Gerais
- Brazil-Bolivia consortium to do feasibility study for Arica Fuel Project
- Petrobras to miss its year-end output target by 2-3 %
- Unocal announces completion of Lagosta exploration well
- Venezuela gets majority stake in former Cristobal Colon LNG project
- Petrobras raises $ 1.07 bn to finance production increase
- Enap and Pecom study possibility to work together in Latin America
- Perez Companc signs exploration
and production licence with Perupetro
- Petrobras to invest $ 834 mm to boost output in Campos basin
- OCP wins approval to build heavy-crude pipeline
- Repsol-YPF wins exploration rights for Argentinean oil fields
- Enap to form international consortium to build diesel plant
- CMS Energy to build new power plant in Argentina
- Pemex awards Global Industries Cantarell project
- ExxonMobil plans to invest $ 2 bn in Pequiven ethylene joint venture
- Citgo to increase commitment in Latin American and Caribbean market
- Petrobras expects natural gas market to increase by 42 % until 2005
- Venezuela to set up new government-owned gas company
- Tractebel and Promigas compete for gas distribution rights in
Peru
- Pemex needs $ 33 bn in next decade for oil and gas development
- Companies still invest in projects in Argentina
- Petrobras to invest $ 629 mm in Bolivia-Brazil natural gas pipeline
- AES closes on sale of Hidronequen interests to Total Austral
- Brazilian petroleum distributors to have access to Transpetro pipelines
- Venezuela steps up protection of strategic oil industry
- Petrobras to certificate oil produced in Marlim field with ISO 9001
- Petrobras to increase purchases from Brazilian manufacturers
- Petrobras and Polibrasil to embark on propane gas separation project
- Shell only company that does not buy naphtha from Petropars
- Ecuadorian refineries to be supplied with crude
petroleum
- Brazilian priority program includes 15 new power facilities
- DSG Mineracao plans two thermal facilities at Sao Paulo state
- Venezuela studies creation of new gas company
- PdVSA to open first gas stations in north of Brazil en of year
- Hunter Exploration makes acquisitions in Alberta and Argentina
- Apex Silver Mines and GasAtacama sign Chile-Bolivia power supply deal
- CNPC to acquire stake in Peruvian crude oil producer
- Pemex to offer multiple service contracts by next spring
- Pemex invests in Pidiregas scheme
- Ceara announces investment in energy power by private sector
- BNDES to extend conditions for financing electric power projects
- Privatisation of
power companies to generate revenues for Peru
- Petrotrin and PdVSA sign two-year health services agreement
- Minister Alvaro Silva inaugurates Cerro Negro heavy oil upgrader plant
- Venezuela to expand oil refining capacity in US and Venezuela
- AES Uruguaiana faces difficulties
- Pemex technology is behind times
- Hanover Compressor completes acquisition of assets from Schlumberger
- Brazilian electric power distribution companies report losses
- Pemex' bond issue raises $ 600 mm on international capital markets
- Sasol-Chevron considers to pour more investments into Venezuela
- Petrobras concludes negotiations with TSB for pipeline construction
- ANP to define new concession areas for oil and gas
exploration
- El Paso to invest $ 3 bn in energy by 2005
- Syntroleum, Advantage and ENAP to conduct study for Chilean plant
- Enersis to invests in Chile
- Ecopetrol to sell off two thermal energy generators
- Methanex and BP to proceed with construction of methanol plant
- Siemens Westinghouse wins equipment contract in Brazil
- PSEG to sell Argentinean interests to AES
- Pemex could face collapse unless it gets more private money
- ABB acquires Mexican FIP
- Colombia and Venezuela sign pact with Texaco for gas pipeline study
- Enterprise Oil plans oil extraction from Bijupira-Salema oilfield
- Ecopetrol's Guando oil fields contain not as much as was hoped
- ExxonMobil ships first upgrade crude from Cerro Negro
- Petrobras plans to acquire foreign companies to increase reserves
- PdVSA and Chevron to study styrene plant project
- CEG to invest in expansion of Rio pipeline network
- Mexico unveils new natural gas pipeline built by Gaz de France
- Roll Royce to invest in construction of Brazilian gas thermal plans
- Pemex announces investment projects for natural gas
- Petrobras forwards evaluation plan for gas field discovery to NPA
- Petrotech shows interest in new oil deposits in Peru
- Petrobras to upgrade and expand 5 of its 10 refineries
- Brazil studies ANP-ANEEL merge
- Petrobras to make increase in investments this year
- Brazil government did not reach agreement on auction of Copel
- Petrobras to raise $ 1.2 bn in international money market
- Brazilian Justice approves Petrobras-Repsol-YPF swap operation
- Pemex begins natural gas exploration in Cuenca Veracruz basin
- Petrobras to invest $ 6 bn investment in downstream sector
- PdVSA to start offshore exploration north of Margarita and Tortuga
- AES Gener postpones investment plans for Chile
- Celesc and El Paso to sign power purchase agreement
- BG and TBG to sign gas transportation contract through Gasbol
- Control change overview of Copene -- Petroquimica do Nordeste
- Endesa to build generation facility in Brazilian state of Ceara
- Petrobras and
partners hand over 58 oil exploration blocks
- BNDES reports on power projects portfolio
- Inepetrol subsidiary gets approval to share stake with Petrotrin
- AESGener announces time frame for Argentinean asset sales to TotalFinaElf
- Transpetro to make managing and operating changes in its units
- Trinidad's Petrotrin gets 50 % share in Venezuela's offshore Paria field
- PetroEcuador looks for partner to exploit ITTI oil field
- AES to launch offer for outstanding loan certificates of Edelnor
- Petrobras reviews strategic plan
- Brazilian privatisation commission authorizes Eletrobras investments
- Brazilian power line construction attracts international companies
- UK oil companies looking for oil and gas
reserves around Falklands
- Enersis and Endesa sign $ 1 bn syndicated loan
- Mirant to buy power plant and LNG terminal in Puerto Rica
- TotalFinaElf acquires control of Argentinean power station
- Repsol-YPF to maintain expansion goals in Latin America
- Occidental fails to find quantities of oil in U'wa Indians' territory
- Petrobras projects 90 mm cmpd of domestic gas sales in 2005
- Ecogas to invest in trans-Chile gas pipeline
- Odebrecht and Mariani win controlling stake in Brazil's Copene
- FERC approves Otay Mesa's request to build US-Mexico pipeline
- Pluspetrol selects Paragon for development of Camisea project
- Russian companies receive rights to seven Colombian oil and gas fields
- Rentech and GTL Bolivia sign MoU for GTL plant
- Brazilian power regulation body to issue five more licences
- Camuzzi plans energy project in southern region of Chile
- Bitor and CNPC to construct Orimulsion plant in Venezuela
- Iberdrola to acquire share in Gas Natural Mexico
- AEC starts construction of OCP Pipeline in Ecuador
- Duke Energy plans to invest $ 700 mm in Brazil power generation
- El Paso to spend $ 5 bn in Brazil by 2005
- Petrobras to make acquisitions through Internet
- PdVSA to forever be exclusive property of state
- EDC to intensify gas exploration in Ecuador's Gulf of Guayaquil
- Consortium seeks agreement to export Bolivian gas to California
- Repsol-YPF reveals strategic plan investment for 2001-2005
- Zurich North America provides political risk coverage for Petrobras
- Shell and El Paso plan new LNG regasification terminal in Altamira
- Occidental to freeze investments in light of Colombian terrorism
- Enap to offer early retirement programme
- AES and EdF to further unwind cross-holdings in Brazilian energy firms
- TotalFinaElf interested in Camisea gas reserves
- Gas Natural to invest in construction of gas pipelines in Sao Paulo
- OCP and Techint to construct oil pipeline in Ecuador
- Consortium to present US gas export plans to Bolivian government
- Petrobras and ANP to outline Gasbol's pipeline expansion program
- Argentinean Pluspetrol wins E&P rights of gas fields in Venezuela
- Trio Yukal Placer consortium to invest in gas fields
- Kerr-McGee acquires interests in deepwater acres in Brazil
- Oil lures some of Canada's biggest players to Colombia
- Texaco secures $ 1.1 bn financing for Hamaca oil project in Venezuela
- Venezuela orders oil export team to work with Bush administration
- Statoil receives two Brazilian deepwater licences
- Repsol-YPF hopes to produce Brazilian oil soon
- Petrobras ends oil exploration in Cuba
- Phillips wants to dive into Brazil's oil-rich waters
- Ocean Energy successful bidder on two Brazilian offshore blocks
- Petrobras wins 7 of 18 hydrocarbon areas tendered byANP
- Day three at Brazil's third auction of oil exploration licences
- Day two at Brazil's third auction of oil exploration licences
- Day one at Brazil's third auction of oil exploration licences
- Phillips buys Brazil oil block in Espirito Santo basin
- Petrobras to invest in gas-powered electricity generation projects
- Brazil's Tiete complex runs at sixth of its capacity
- Update on Brazil's auction of oil exploration licences
- Total Austral and Wintershall sign agreement with Neuquen province
- Pemex doesn't receive big enough budget to develop all its reserves
- TotalFinaElf consortium to develop Venezuelan gas fields
- Petrobras resolved to establish vertical electronic market
- Ecopetrol signs oil contracts with Nexen and Omimex
- El Paso believes PPAs don't provide security for Latin America
- Shell and El Paso to develop 50-50 LNG plant in Altamira
- Enterprise Oil receives approval from Brazilian licensing authority
- Brazil's National Development Bank plans to sell shares in Petrobras
- Repsol wins exploration licence to explore La Banda oil field
- BR Distribuidora to start operations in power co-generating market
- Pemex geological studies give indication of Burgos reserves
- ABB to build two high-voltage power transmission systems in Brazil
- Ecopetrol signs oil contract with Rosneft and two Colombian companies
- EdF acquires share in Edenor
- Colombia
authorizes sale of 13 power companies to private investors
- Total Austral to bid for oil exploration in Neuquen province
- ANP licenses 42 companies for third round of oil and gas bids
- Petrobras to return 50 from 99 blocks to ANP
- Brazil negotiates electric power partnership with Mercosur countries
- Petrobras and private sector to invest $ 300 mm in two power plants
- Petrobras expects to keep raising output
- Citgo to open gasoline stations in Dominican Republic
- Repsol-YPF to begin exploration in Neuquen province
- Ecopetrol to invest $ 160 mm in exploration
- PdVSA identifies 12 new oil-blessed provinces in Venezuela
- Venezuela's gas sector closed to foreign investment until further
notice
- BASF and Shell plan to build natural gas plants in north-eastern Mexico
- BP to build new natgas platform in Trinidad
- Foreign oil companies begin to revitalise Cuba's oil industry
- PdVSA announces spending plan for 2001
- Agreement formalised for Jose oil storage and loading terminal
- BG believes Bolivia could be next Qatar
- Bolivia gives Petrobras go-ahead for new gas pipeline
- Petrobras to renegotiate natural gas supply contracts
- Enron subsidiary to sell electrical power in Mexico
- Petrobras renews four important insurances
- Pemex launches program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- BP T&T to launch off-shore natural gas project in July
- BNDES to make construction feasible of nine Brazilian power facilities
- Petrobras to develop ten thermoelectric power plants
- Foreign oil firms to soon step up exploration in Colombia
- Pemex needs 1-bn-dollar investment for high quality gasoline
- Gas station use kerosene to dilute diesel fuel
- TotalFinaElf concentrates expansion on Latin America and MidEast
- Comgas steps up its investment program
- Ten foreign companies interested in importing LNG to Mexico
- PdVSA committed to grow as world leader energy corporation
- PdVSA to invest $ 230 mm in gas exploration
- Oil companies to invest billions of dollars in Venezuelan projects
- LUKoil wants to participate in Venezuelan oil
project
- Judge sends lawsuits against Texaco by rainforest Indians back to Ecuador
- Grant Geophysical enters Ecuadorian project with Occidental
- Shell fixes sight on Africa's deepwater basins and Americas
- Petrobras to advance investment program in power generating sector
- Oil field equipment manufacturers concerned by energy shortage
- Operational efficiency at Pemex leaves a lot to be desired
- JNOC to extend loan to Brazilian oil and gas exploration project
- Repsol-YPF plans LNG export to Mexico
- Gaz de France completes purchase of TransCanada's Mexican assets
- El Paso to establish LNG terminal plants in Mexico
- Pemex to reduce upgrade oil refining facilities this year
- Venezuela to see more than $ 45-bn investment in next five years
- Pemex needs speedy assistance from private sector
- Transelec offers power transportation line project to Codelco
- Brazil energy crisis speeds up El Paso's investment plans
- Repsol to push hard into Latin American natgas projects
- Petrobras resumes production at Campos Basin
- YPFB expects Bolivia's oil and gas investment to rise
- PDVSA to supply Singapore with Orimulsion fuel
- New Transocean rig begins contract with Texaco in Brazil
- Petrobras sells two mature oil field blocks at auction
- Neuquen province hopes to complete oil investment talks by early 2002
- EDP confident that investment in Brazil will bear
fruit
- Ocean Energy to expand deepwater exploration activities to Brazil
- Ameriven's extra-heavy oil project upgrader to start in July
- AES suspends planned power-plant investment in Brazil
- Petrobras to provide power stations with natgas in local currency
- Repsol-Petrobras asset swap close to conclusion
- Mexico names four government officials to Pemex board
- Pluspetrol studies alternatives for installation of gas liquefaction plant
- Apache wants to expand in Argentina
- SCP to divest oil areas in Venezuela and Guatemala
- PDVSA to enter bidding for refinery in Uruguay
- Tractebel plans to expand in Brazilian energy market
- Statoil believes long-term investment in
Venezuela to be safe
- CNPC discusses oilfield interest in Peru
- Petrobras seeks new oil rig after sinking of P-36
- Two electric power generators interested in Camisea gas project
- CEG to invest in Rio de Janeiro
- PdVSA to create PdVSA Petroleo and PdVSA Gas
- Pemex unveils elements of modernization plan
- Petrobras fined for two oil spills in Atlantic
- Petrobras publishes review of production goals
- PdVSA, Petrobras, Repsol-YPF and Perez Companc interested in Ancap
- Brazil industry group averts tax that jeopardizes investment
- Ecuadorian Indians to invest in Amazon jungle fuel production
- Pemex discovers leak in pipeline
- |Transalta to buildMexican power plant
- Oil consortium halts exploration activities offshore Suriname
- Camuzzi to invest in its businesses in Argentina
- Mexico probes Pemex over suspected siphoning of funds
- Mass kidnapping of Occidental Petroleum workers
- PetroEcuador reports on March crude exports
- Petrobras and FiatAvio begin construction of Ibiritermo project
- Devon Energy and Repsol-YPF find oil or gas signs offshore Brazil
- Petrobras and British Gas in Gasbol conflict
- Peru to auction Camisea take-or-pay contract held by Electroperu
- Petrobras reviews Cuban exploration plans
- Enap to stop producing leaded benzene
- Petrobras' natural gas reserves in Bolivia at 462 bn cm
- Gasco and Metrogas campaign for natural gas as fuel
- El Paso and Repsol YPF to extend GasPacifico's gas pipeline
- Pemex must invest to modernize operations
- Petrobras postpones oil storage transport after safety allegation
- El Paso focuses on Brazil for non-US investment
- Petrobras Bolivia increases natural gas reserves at two fields
- Mirant completes acquisition of Jamaica Public Service Company
- Alfa and Idesa to sink investments into Pemex ethylene refineries
- Four Peruvian oil companies discover natural gas reserves in Piura
- TotalFinaElf, British Gas, BP, and Shell interested in Bolivian pipeline
- PDVSA posts net profit of $ 7.353 bn
- BNDES-Exim starts Repetro program foroil and gas sector
- Repsol YPF promises additional investment in Argentina
- Shell to operate in Brazil's energy power sector
- Petrobras authorized to extend exploration term for 36 concessions
- Petrobras clears three employees in rig accident
- DNV to monitor probe into cause of Petrobras' rig disaster
- PDVSA wants to attract $ 10 bn to develop a natural gas industry
- PDVSA studies feasibility of three new joint-ventures in Orinoco belt
- Camisea project secures financing
- Petrobras oil rig disaster expected to triple insurance policy price
- Ecopetrol starts online selection process for electricity supply contract
- Gaz De France subsidiary invests in northern Mexico
- Pemex could use existing businesses abroad to expand globally
- Lloyd's faces bill of $ 500 mm after Brazilian rig disaster
- Oromin acquires Argentine approval for oil and gas property
- PDVSA signs deal with US Orion
- Loss of Petrobras rig will not prevent production boost
- Pemex drills in more than 400 locations in Burgos Basin
- Pemex makes losses through tax burden in 2000
- Pemex must become more efficient and less dependent on others
- PDVSA to spend $ 3.6 bn on Venezuelan purchases in 2001
- Gas Link consortium wins Argentina/Uruguay gas pipeline concession
- GE supplies long-term services on Venezuela's Margarita Island
- Alberta Energy to invest $ 300 mm into Ecuador this
year
- Williams closes purchase of interest in Accroven project in Venezuela
- Chronology of Petrobras' main accidents in past two decades
- Petrobras rig resumes sinking
- IBS and ISS in alliance for fuel management software in Latam
- World's biggest oil rig likely to sink after explosion
- Two groups qualify for LPG project in Ecuador
- Petrobras in talks with Nissho Iwai for financing of plant expansion
- Japanese-Venezuelan consortium to upgrade PDVSA refinery
- Barclays coordinates $ 500 mm Petrobras commercial papers operation
- Spain's Fenosa and Brazil's Petrobras sign alliance
- Two consortia qualify for $ 800 mm Ecuador oil infrastructure contract
- TransAlta to build
259-MW power plant in Mexico
- Chilean Petrox to invest $ 45 mm
- Pan American to invest $ 400 mm in Argentina in 2001
- Pan American Energy plans to invest $ 400 mm in Argentina in 2001
- Cubapetroleo interested in Venezuela's Intevep technology
- TotalFinaElf finalises accord to buy Gener's assets
- Argentina and Uruguay to start construction of Cruz del Sur gas pipeline
- Perupetro signs oil exploration agreement with Repsol
- Petrobras to invest in petroleum refinery project in Ceara
- Pemex to invest in Cuenca de Burgos
- Brazilian production development projects to generate 96,000 jobs
- Electroperu to sell Camisea natural gas in public auctions
- Mexico's CRE likely to
invite bids for natural gas distribution licenses
- PDVSA to boost production capacity and expand exploration
- Petrobras to enter into joint venture with PetroCosm
- PeCom becomes partner of OCP consortium
- Repsol YPF acquires stake in Empresa Petrolera Andina
- Shell-Mobil consortium to return Peruvian block near Camisea fields
- Petrobras to invest $ 29.40 bn in financial instruments
- PeCom to invest in gas and oil production activities in Latin America
- Pemex signs contracts with 500 Mexican companies
- PetroEcuador to improve infrastructures of SOTE oil pipeline
- Petrobras expects Campos basin proven reserve estimate to rise
- Sempra plans to build power plant in northwest Mexico
- Petrobras takes part in three petrochemicals projects
- Petrobras raises 2005 crude output projections
- Pemex announces investment plans
- Perez Companc joins Ecuadorian pipeline consortium
- Ecuador signs long-awaited pipeline contract with OCP consortium
- US industries consider relocating or expanding in Trinidad and Tobago
- Corporate change at Pemex to start with savings programme
- Venezuelan oil production to grow 59 % with PDVSA business plan
- Enron awaits approval for liquefied gas plant in Venezuela
- Anadarko to sell assets in Canada and South America
- Brazil allows Enron and British Gas to use Bolivia-Brazil pipeline
- PetroEcuador to supply crude to Uruguay and
Nicaragua
- Shell sells petrol stations and distribution bases in Brazil to Agip
- Conoco to study expansion of Petrozuata heavy oil upgrading project
- France and Norway celebrate first barrels from Orinoco oil belt
- WesternGeco signs contract with Suriname Staatsolie
- Repsol YPF sells 36 % of Andean pipeline to Alberta Energy
- Pemex wants private investment in petrochemicals sector
- Repsol-YPF and PdVSA to expand natural gas production project
- PDVSA renews operating deal for Jose Crude Oil Storage Terminal
- TotalFinaElf to invest in Venezuelan Jusepin oil field
- Pemex to boost output to satisfy domestic and export needs
- Enron and British Gas allowed to import natural gas from Bolivia
- Pemex to implement triple-pronged strategy
- Pemex to modify terms of consumer natural gas price-coverage
- TotalFinaElf to boost production in North and South America
- Brazil oil industry newcomers are already gearing up for boom
- Building power plants in Mexico to supply California
- Pluspetrol develops new power plant based on GE gas turbine
- Brazil orders Petrobras to make new public offer for distribution arm
- SK Corp cs. to begin Camisea environmental impact study in 2002
- Petrobras Trinidad signs exploration deal with Norsk Hydro
- TotalFinaElf buys TransCanada Pipelines' stakes in Argentina and Chile
- Pemex urges government to invests in modernization of its fleet
- Pemex
needs to invest over budget to keep world oil major status
- ENAP to invest $ 247.4 mm in 2001
- PDVSA to begin selling bunker fuel via two Internet sites
- Petrobras to boost output at Bahian refinery
- Petrobras to spend $ 5 bn to boost production at refineries
- Enap signs syndicated loan to restructure short-term debt
- Fox said every effort possible will be made to modernize Pemex
- Repsol-YPF and Perez Companc to swap oil and natural gas assets
- Repsol-YPF and Oiltanking Ebytem to invest in Argentine infrastructure
- Petrobras and Repsol-YPF end due diligence in asset swap
- Petrobras suspends plans for name change
- AES buys controlling share of Chile's Gener
- PDVSA to
invest $ 6 bn in this year
- ECGD backs UK investment in major Mexican power plant
- Mexico issues natural gas pipeline permit to Sempra Energy
- TGP plans construction for Camisea natural gas project in 2002
- PetroEcuador budget hike to add 18,000 bpd of crude next year
- Repsol-YPF and Enap swap upstream assets
- Argentina's Pluspetrol to invest $ 50 mm in gas fields
- Repsol YPF plans to build Argentina-Paraguay gas pipeline
- PDVSA to commit over $ 4 bn to exploration and production development
- Reliance signs agreement with PDVSA
- Conoco agrees to evaluate Venezuelan oil discovery
- Petrobras hits new production record
- Repsol-YPF to sell stake in Argentine electricity
distribution company
- Ecuador plans for PetroEcuador to allow foreign joint ventures
- BP Venezuela to increase daily output
- Barbados, Conoco and Elf sign legal agreement
- Repsol signs cooperation agreement with Cubapetroleo
- Repsol stakes early claim to explore Cuban zone
- ONGC signs deal to enter oil exploration in Venezuela
- Hunt Oil closes upstream and downstream segments of Camisea Project
- SK enters agreement for development of Camisea
- Peru signs Camisea contracts with Techint and Pluspetrol
- Peru's GMP to expand into Ecuador and Colombia
- Petrobras studies construction of second pipeline
- Williams drops bid to build heavy crude Ecuador pipeline
- North American consortium settles dispute with Venezuela
- Mexico earmarks budget for Pemex next year
- UK oil companies to assist oil and gas industries in Venezuela
- Pemex not to be sold but transformed
- TotalFinaElf starts recuperation project at Jusepin oil field
- Petrobras to nearly double worldwide Marlim crude exports
- PDVSA to allow consortium to resume operating oil terminal
- AES acquires 100 % of KMR Power
- Petrobras pushing ahead into the ranks of global oil and gas majors
- Petrobras a strong investment opportunity in Latin America
- AES to sell Gener's Argentine electricity and transmission assets
- Repsol must pay fine to Argentina
- Williams acquires interest in Venezuelan Accroven project
- TransCanada to sell more gas assets in Mexico and Venezuela
- Mexico could stop importing gasoline if Pemex builds refinery
- Repsol to acquire 26 Chilean Texaco gas stations
- Rolls-Royce to build Brazilian combined cycle power station
- Drilling for Venezuela LNG project to begin next year
- Repsol YPF sells one of its UK-based units
- Petrobras plans to boost crude oil production by about 7 %
- Facilities at Pemex to be rendered inadequate within five years
- Enron and Shell to invest in maintenance of Bolivian pipelines
- GE subsidiary lands orders for new power plants in Brazil
- Pemex' main challenge is to boost
competitiveness
- Repsol YPF to globally move to GeoQuest software solution
- Wintershall enhances Argentinean portfolio
- Occidental begins drilling near Indian U'wa tribe reservation
- Pemex to be totally transformed
- Noble Affiliates subsidiary receives Argentinean exploration permits
- Enap studies oil project with Texaco and Foster Wheeler
- Mexican gas companies demand opening up to private sector
- Occidental to farm out Ecuadorian interest to Alberta Energy
- Perez Companc to increase output and expand into retailing
- PNM to double generating portfolio in 5 years
- Pemex modernises facilities to meet environmental protection standards
- Petrobras and partners find gas
field
- Alstom and Sithe complete financing of Mexican power project
- ANP approves 56 firms to bid for mature oil wells
- Argentina extends oil and gas concessions held by Repsol
- Koch acquires Brazilian ATP Petroleo
- Sonatrach to take 10 % stake in Camisea gas project
- Test well in Colombia's Samore block due this year
- Petrobras to restructure for better international position
- Coral Energy inaugurates Texas-Mexico pipeline
- TotalFinaElf set to acquire assets from Chile's Gener
- Pemex to add 8,000 km to pipeline network in the next six years
- Pemex to increase Mexican natgas production and distribution
- BG to commence shooting seismic in Santos Basin
- Enap and Repsol-YPF to swap oil deposit stakes
- Pemex' Cadereyta refinery to be fully operational soon
- Gener announces capital increase to $ 460 mm
- Chavez announces profound restructuring of PDVSA
- Pemex director sees need for Mexican constitution modification
- Repsol YPF negotiates loan to bid for Iberdrola
- Maxigas Natural to invest $ 70 mm over the next 10 years
- Techint consortium sole bidder for distribution concession for Camisea
- Pemex to invite bids for four production expansion contracts
- Fox set to reorganise Pemex
- Colombia to contract Shell Global Solutions for oil refinery upgrade
- Union Fenosa and Enron to invest in Dominican Republic
- Pemex opens bids for Morelos petrochemicals ethylene plant
- TransCanada PipeLines sells interest in Metrogas
- Bellwether Exploration announces well results in Ecuador
- GE and Jenbacher announced distribution expansion to Mexico
- Halliburton unit receives data management deal from Petrobras
- Mexican Fox team identifies Pemex strategic energy project
- Petrobras announces broken record in oil production
- Landmark Graphics and Petrobras sign agreement
- Petrobras hits new oil production record
- Sonatrach joins consortium in tender for Camisea
- Ecopetrol awards 13 exploration and incremental production projects
- Natural Gas Mexico opens first national gas service-station
- Reliant Energy signs agreement to sell interests in Light Servicos
- AES building power plant in Dominican Republic
- Petrobras set to invest in ambitious growth plan
- BP's Trinidad oil and gas find to spur new investments
- Algeria interested in Venezuelan project to build undersea pipeline
- Peru's Camisea auction to go ahead despite political crisis
- Petrobras reveals names of companies to compete in auction
- Chevron announces investment in Lake Maracaibo area
- TransCanada to sell businesses in Mexico
- Pemex blamed for awarding contracts without calling for international bids
- Ecopetrol considers gas pipeline to western Venezuela
- Repsol could move investment out of
Argentina
- Gasco to buy 5.2 % of Metrogas
- Occidental Petroleum acquires new exploration block in Colombia
- Ecopetrol signs its 24th association contract so far this year
- Trinidad's state oil company to purchase Texaco's stake in Trinmar
- CanadianOxy wins new exploration block in Colombia
- PDVSA speaks to US on opportunities for mutual cooperation
- Harken's rights in Costa Rican MKJ Xploration challenged by court
- Pan Andean to buy Bolivia's Petrolex
- Phillips LNG technology selected for expansion of Atlantic LNG
- Enron and Petrobras to build thermoelectric power plant
- Pluspetrol and allies to bid for Camisea contract
- Shell's Brazilian unit began drilling for oil
in offshore wells
- Pemex' Morelos petrochemicals complex in gradual process of decay
- Cepsa confirms increased investment plan for Brazilian activities
- Enap extends deadline on Repsol-YPF agreement
- Ecopetrol signs two association contracts on oil exploration
- Pemex incapable of meeting natural gas demand
- GNM's Metrogas acquisition worth $ 100 mm
- Conoco oil discovery in Venezuela going forward despite objection
- Venezuela expects $ 1 bn investment in gas exploration
- Three oil consortiums give up exploration rights in Venezuela
- PDVSA announces start of bidding process
- Perez Companc sells its 100 % interest in Argentine oil fields
- Naftex Energy and subsidiaries
enter agreement with Petrobras
- Pemex Refinacion to reduce gasoline imports
- AES to acquire Reliant's interest in El Salvador Energy Holdings
- Grupo EDC to sell two regional power companies to Union Fenosa
- Conoco talks about expansion of Petrozuata with PDVSA
- Rio Polimeros launches construction of petrochemical complex
- Dapsa looking for strategic partner to promote market presence
- InterGen to import natural gas from Arizona
- Pemex to invest in four of its petrochemicals production complexes
- InterGen to build power plant in Mexico
- Dow to spend more on Argentinean petrochemical project
- Petrobras surpasses profit expectations
- Fluor to lead consortium in Hamaca
Crude Upgrader project
- PDVSA hopes to increase output by 200,000-250,000 barrels
- ABB to provide technology and consulting for Brazilian wind park
- Mexican petrochemicals industry gets $ 3.98 bn private investment
- Parker Drilling signs four-rig contract with BP in Colombia
- Texaco and partners approve contracts for Venezuelan oil project
- PDVSA reports on crude extraction and export in first six months
- Consortium to pursue Brazil's Campos Basin initiative
- Grant Geophysical completes Ecuadorian data acquisition project
- Brazil to depend on gas imports to meet growing demand
- Pemex hits 81.5 % of export target in first half of this year
- GasAndes to extend natural gas pipeline to central
Chile
- IENEX.COM builds infomediary hub for Brazilian energy industry
- Seven Seas begins trucking production of crude from Colombia
- Petrobras selects Citibank for American Depository Receipt program
- OSCA to provide sand control services to Perez Companc
- Brazil raises $ 4 bn from global stock offer for Petrobras
- Venezuela offers Petrobras four deals to pump oil
- Occidental to rise output at Colombia's second largest oil field
- Tractebel to buy up outstanding shares in Brazilian Gerasul affiliate
- Trinidad oil field to be developed by New Horizon and Petrotin
- Occidental wins 100 % working interest in two new exploration blocks
- Brazil fines Petrobras with record fine for disastrous oil
spill
- Repsol YPF and Uruguayan ANCAP to set up joint venture
- Chile's Santa Cruz-Yaconi group sells Inversora stake to Tractebel
- Pemex Refinacion to expand its combustibles distribution network
- Petrobras begins to accept US offers in country's biggest public offering ever
- Petrobras to swap oil reserves for equivalent reserves of US companies
- Petrobras wins approval to launch ADRs for foreign investors
- PDVSA asks private companies for letters of interest for new gas pipeline
- Enron to evaluate Mexican investment opportunities to grow operations
- Petrobras announces two new thermoelectric projects in Bolivia and Brazil
- Repsol-YPF to invest $ 6.94 bn in Argentina through 2005
- Venezuela
announces 12 bidders for Enelven and Semda power firms
- Spain's Natural Gas to invest more than $ 500 mm in Mexico
- Pemex earns over $ 8 bn from internal oil sale first half of 2000
- Petroecuador expects increase in income from SOTE pipeline
- Enron closes natural gas purchase and transport deal with Petrobras
- Petrobras to import $ 100 mm worth of Bolivian natural gas this year
- Tractebel acquires additional stakes in Chilean power generators
- Pemex reports on natural gas imports and export sales
- Private companies to construct Ecuador oil residue processing plants
- Petrobras announces MTBE spill from pipeline rupture
- Seven Seas Petroleum receives licenses from Colombian Ministry
- Pemex to soon
join the on-line world
- Spain's Gas Natural to buy Mexican assets of Spanish Hidroelectrica
- Repsol-YPF and Petrobras close deal to swap assets
- Consortium to present Ecuadorian government with major pipeline proposal
- Petrobras cancels orders for four Maritima drilling platforms
- Petrobras to invest $ 830 mm in petroleum refinery Reduc
- Conoco submits phase II development plan for Gulf of Paria West field
- Enron to construct power plant in Bolivia to export electricity to Brazil
- Perez Companc to invest $ 800 mm through 2001 in Argentina
- InterGen Mexico to sell surplus electricity to state of California
- Petrobras, ABB and ALSTOM to construct power plant in Brazil
- Petrobras and PDVSA to open
1,200 gas stations in Brazil in joint venture
- Pemex to start operating nitrogen-injection module at Cantarell oilfield
- Uruguayan president gives green light for UTE investment projects
- Brazil's biggest oil spill blamed on forgetful worker and faulty equipment
- Chiles Offshore acquires Mexican ultra-premium jackup drilling rig Tonala
- BP to sell stakes in two Venezuelan oil concessions to Repsol-YPF
- Pan American Energy to invest more than $ 500 mm in Argentina
- Sipetrol to allow Enap to double the supply
- Yaconi-Santa Cruz forms strategic alliance with Repsol-YPF
- Brazil's Petrobras refinery in Parana spills 4 mm litres of oil
- Repsol-YPF acquires BP Amoco's participation in two oil fields
- Pan American Energy to invest $ 500 mm until 2001
- Spain's Repsol YPF to acquire 45 % of Chilean gas firm Lipigas
- Spain is second major direct foreign investor in Brazil
- Chile's Enap to invest abroad to double crude oil production
- Gaz de France to expand presence in Mexico's energy sector
- Pemex to spend $ 4 bn over five years on gas and petrochemicals development
- BP Amoco agrees to LNG sale to AES for Dominican Republic
- InterGen and AEP Resources at financial close of Bajio power facility
- No oil for CGX Energy at drill site in Guyana and Surinam offshore concession
- Petrobras kicks off Brazil's biggest public bid ever
- AES Brasil inaugurates first turbine functioning with Argentinean gas
- ANP to require bidders for 73 mature oil fields owned by Petrobras
- Petroecuador to turn its subsidiaries into independent companies
- Australian AGL buys remaining 50 % of Chile's Gas Valpo
- Pemex accused of prohibiting lubricants sale
- Siderca expects strong growth in output and exports over next two years
- Petrobras signs foreign financing deals to invest in Campos Basin
- Halliburton to develop Barracuda and Caratina oil fields offshore Brazil
- CMS closes sale of Block 16 in Ecuador's Oriente Basin to Crestar
- Crestar acquires CMS Oil and Gas Ecuador
- Petrobras to anticipate construction of 10 thermal electric facilities
- Petrobras creates association with Portiguar II and Uno Paso
- YPF to export natural gas to Chile for 15 years at most
- Petrobras to auction 73 oil fields to stimulate growth
- Petrobras to raise international money for new projects
- Shell acquires BMC-10 offshore oil area in Campos Basin
- PDVSA and Petrobras to enter in oil related ventures in T & T and Cuba
- Pemex plans 800 mm cf increase in gas production to meet future demand
- TotalFinaElf to participate in Camisea gas project
- Chevron sees oil output to rise 50 % at Venezuela field by end 2000
- Phillips increases oil output at Venezuela's Ambrosio field
- Unocal unit acquires interest in Pescada-Arabaiana oil and gas project
- El Paso Energy International and Unocal sign agreement with Petrobras
- Ecuador to analyse proposals for construction of new heavy crude pipeline
- EIB to lend $ 50 mm to MetroGAS for renovation and extension of pipelines
- Endesa approves public auction up to 100 % of Transelec power transmitter
- PDVSA and Petrobras to co-operate in 600 Brazil gasoline stations
- Satmex and Globalstar sign agreement for 4,500 Mexican gas stations
- PDVSA ends operating contract at its Jose oil export terminal
- Tractebel wins Mexican gas contract
- Perez Companc to buy three companies with hydrocarbon assets
- PDVSA restructuring programme expected to save $ 5 bn
- PDVSA and Enron invest $ 600 mm in gas processing plant joint venture
- Venezuela to auction two regional electricity companies in
November
- PPL wins bidding for Brazilian electric utility for $ 289 mm
- Peruvian hydrocarbons trade shows increasing deficit
- Pan American Energy to invest $ 220 mm in Golfo San Jorge
- Pemex' plan to distribute LPG via pipeline approved
- AES purchases additional 23 % of Grupo EDC in Venezuelan offer
- World's largest nitrogen complex begins production in Gulf of Mexico
- Brazil to sell Petrobras shares on August 1
- Chevron grows interests in Brazilian Santos Basin
- Xstrata sells Santa Cruz stake for $ 121 mm to Perez Companc
- Perez Companc signs contract to buy Argentinean oil firm
- Brazil's National Petroleum Agency puts 23 tracts up for auction
- Brazil oil round luresbig spenders, with Petrobras as biggest winner
- Union Pacific wins Brazil's BT-SEAL-1 oil rights
- Petrobras wins rights to Brazil's BM-S-11 oil block
- Coastal group wins Brazil's BM-PAMA-1 oil rights
- Santa Fe group wins Brazil's BM-C-8 oil rights
- Queiroz Galvao wins Brazil's BT-REC-1 oil rights
- Brazil's oil exploration licenses auction start with a bang
- US Reema signs GTL plant pact in Trinidad
- Gas Natural gets approval to take stake in Mexican Metrogas
- Key facts about Brazil's second oil licensing round
- Petrobras looks for private partner for share in Termobahia facility
- First oil sale through internet platform completed
- Enron Mexico to construct a 284 MW
co-generation power plant
- PDVSA to sign agreement with Enron for LNG export plant
- Pemex must invest $ 8.5 bn to reach self-sufficiency
- Gas Natural to invest $ 300 mm in Brazil's south region
- Brazil's Odebrecht to bid for 5 Venezuelan natgas plants
- Portugal's Petrogal to operate in Brazil's Santos Basin
- Brazil plans to dissect electricity company Furnas
- Venezuela extends deadline for power company joint ventures
- Spain's Iberdrola to invest 1.3 bn real in Brazilian energy plants
- Pemex begins project to increase gas capacity in Mexico
- Petrobras to design $ 600 mm gas processing unit at Macae
- AES and Union Fenosa to participate in sale of Venezuela's Enelven-Enelco
- Enap to invest $ 50 mm in refineries this year
- Pemex privatisation to be left pending for next government
- Rainier makes highest bid for Brazil's Potiguar BM-POT-3 oilfield
- Chevron-led group wins Brazil BM-S-7 oil rights
- Shell wins rights to Brazilian BM-C-10 oil block in Campos Basin
- PanCanadian wins Brazilian BM-C-7 oil block rights in Campos Basin
- Amerada Hess group wins Brazilian BM-SEAL-5 oil block
- Petrobras consortium wins Brazil BM-S-10 oil block
- Petrobras consortium sole bidder in Brazil's BM-SEAL-4 oilfield
- Petrobras wins Brazil's BM-S-10 Santos offshore oilfield
- Petrobras to invest $ 15 mm in Santos Basin
- Coastal consortium wins Brazil's BM-PAMA-1 Potiguar
oilfield
- Petrobras makes highest bid for Brazil's BT-SEAL-2 oilfield
- Petrobras-led group bids highest for Brazil's BM-S-8 oilfield in Santos Basin
- Petrobras makes highest bid for Brazil's BT-POT-4 oilfield in Potiguar Basin
- Petrobras-led group makes top bid for Brazil's BM-S-9 oilfield in Santos Basin
- Petrobras-led group sole bidder for Brazil's BM-S-11 oilfield in Santos Basin
- Queiroz Galvao sole bidder for Brazil's BT-REC-1 oilfield in Reconcavo Basin
- Brazil sells 21 of 23 oilfields at marathon auction to raise 470 mm real
- Rainier wins Brazil's BT-REC-3 Reconcavo oilfield
- Brown & Root to construct 2 FPSO platforms in Rio de Janeiro shipyard
- TotalFinaElf announces acquisition of 46.5 % stake in Gas Andes
- Brazil kicks off second auction of oil exploration areas
- Uruguay's UTE invests to export electric power to Brazil
- Pemex' petrochemicals plants still seeking to overcome out of date situation
- Total to acquire gas pipelines shares from TransCanada Pipelines
- Potash to sign new Trinidad gas supply deal
- Spain's Repsol-YPF to invest $ 350 mm in oil pipeline in Argentina
- Uruguay's Ancap to invest $ 18 mm to expand Sol gas station network
- Agreement on GTL plant in Trinidad
- Britain's Emerald Energy Gigante field lives up to its name
- PDVSA and Amerada Hess to build coker at HOVENSA refinery
- TransCanada agrees to sell interests in several Latin American assets
- TotalFinaElf
buys Latin American gas stakes for $ 440 mm
- Petrobras to sell 73 oil and gas fields
- Fenosa signs contract for construction of Naco-Nogales power plant in Sonora
- Brazil Comgas ups investment plans on basis of good prospects
- Petrobras gives up Campos project finance
- Bolivian government issues official response to Petrobras deal criticism
- Gas Brasiliano to build a 420 km gas pipeline in Sao Paulo
- Spanish Grupo Fenosa to acquire share of Mexican Metrogas
- Argentinean Pluspetrol plans $ 40 mm investment in Peru during 2000
- Petrobras to build 8 thermoelectric plants to ensure sufficient energy supply
- British Gas acquires 20 % interest in Brazil's Pelotas oilfield
- Brazil approves 44 firms for
June oil site sales contest
- Four groups show interest for Camisea gas field contract
- Peruvian Camisea gas transport and distribution concessions up for auction
- Ecopetrol pulls out of Guaduas field
- Sale of stake in Brazilian Ipiranga sees international bidders
- El Paso Energy announces Phase II of Brazilian Termonorte Project
- Banks to sell Petrobras shares
- Geodyne acquires oil and gas field in Argentina
- Pemex begins construction of refineries to end gasoline imports
- Ecuador to receive $ 200 mm investment on oil field discovery
- BG Group to acquire 20 % of Brazilian exploration block
- France's Total sees even more natural gas potential in Bolivia
- Brazil into
second tender of oil exploration licenses
- PDVSA says four oil exploration blocks look promising
- Conoco optimistic about negotiations to improve Gulf of Paria terms
- Rio de Janeiro to speed up thermoelectric plant construction
- Chevron San Jorge acquires 4 Argentinean oil reserves
- Oil Tanking Abytem to set up $ 23 mm Argentinean tankers terminal
- Venezuela's LNG proposal already looking to expand
- PDVSA with Shell, Exxon-Mobil and Mitsubishi to develop LNG
- ExxonMobil to drill another 2 wells to probe La Ceiba field
- Colombia BP sees turn-around on Cusiana production by July
- Sempra Energy interested in Mexican power plant market
- Cruz del Sur planning to expand gas pipeline up to
Porto
- Coastal to make major thrust in Latin America after merger
- Venezuela to award first gas exploration licenses in December
- Pemex urgently needs new investment in Maya crude refineries
- Brazil's Vitoria Quimica formed alliance with Ameron
- Brazil's Petrobras plans to invest $ 6 bn in 2000
- Venezuela's PDVSA says petrochemicals unit profitable again
- Petrobras says moment is ripe for government sale of excess shares
- Algeria's Sonatrach interested in Peru's Camisea natgas fields
- Assets swap between Repsol-YPF and Petrobras given green light
- Brazilian government maintains Petrobras' oil monopoly
- Chevron buys four Argentine properties from Alberta
- Perenco
assumes operation of Venezuelan oilfield from BP Amoco
- LNG production project at Paria Gulf could begin next year
- Shell Gas and Power considering to expand presence in Bolivia
- Chile's Endesa power picks HSBC to handle sale of Transelec
- Mexico's Bufete unit wins bankruptcy protection
- Repsol-YPF and ENAP agree on Latin America joint ventures
- Technip wins turnkey project from PDVSA
- Construction LNG plant in Venezuela to start in 2001
- Repsol-YPF to open petrol stations and enter power generation in Brazil
- Repsol says close to deal with ENAP
- Burlington forced to deal with Amazon Indians
- Mexico to face LPG supply crisis due to lack of funds at Pemex
- TransCanada
agrees to sell Colombian operations to Enbridge
- ABB buys Brazilian distribution transformer company
- Pemex to invest $ 4 bn this year
- Pemex launches contract offer for construction of cogeneration plant
- Brazil's Ipiranga to sell part of assets
- PDVSA to increase investments in Monagas
- PDVSA grants first permit for private gas distribution
- Mexico's natgas industry successful in attracting private investment
- Sao Paulo state sells natgas license to Spain's Gas Natural
- TotalFinaElf buys 100 % interest in US Ecopetrol
- Coflexip Stena Offshore sets record for deepest flexible flowline
- Chile's Gasco to buy $ 25.44 mm stake in local natgas distributor
- Dominion
completes sale of Latin American generation portfolio to Duke
- Venezuela and China to study plans to build Orimulsion plant
- Petrobras looking to move back in petrochemicals
- European companies capture 55 % of Mexican natgas market
- Cogentrix and CDC close financing for 300 MW power plant in Dominican Republic
- Costa Rica awards 2.3 mm acres for exploration to Mallon Resources
- Venezuela 1999 oil reserves up by 1 % or 754 mm barrels
- 360 km gas pipeline to be built between Pernambuco and Paraiba
- EdF takes 51 % in Mexican power plant firm EEA
- Total to explore for oil in Colombia
- Venezuela's PDVSA says 60 companies qualify for pipeline project
- PDVSA announces 10-year business plan
- ANP to allow third parties access to oil facilities
- Petroamerica idea gets mixed reactions
- Eni now main multinational in Brazil
- Brazil expects to achieve energy surplus by 2003
- TotalFina-led group inaugurates Argentine gas separating plant
- Repsol-YPF and Petrobras confirm assets swap
- Enterprise Oil to invest $ 450 mm in Brazil till end 2002
- Conecta to invest $ 130 mm in gas distribution in Uruguay
- Judge prevents Oxy from drilling in Colombia
- Italy's Camuzzi increases stake in Argentine gas distributor
- Brazil's President inaugurates final leg of Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline
- Transpetro to take over Petrobras' logistics business
- Dow to triple ethylene and double polyethylene production in Argentine
- Brazil sets 2nd oil licensing round for June 7
- Spain's Cantabrico buying stakes in two Mexican gas distributors
- UK Enterprise Oil and Petrobras sign deals on deepwater offshore oil fields
- Enterprise Oil to invest $ 450 mm in Brazil Campos
- Four consortia pre-qualify for license for natgas network in Sao Paulo state
- ABB and Snamprogetti to develop $ 650-mm Brazil petrochemical complex
- Mexican oil reserves show slight drop
- Koch Oil signs E&P deal for onshore oil field in Suriname
- Argentina tells Repsol to sell 800 gas stations as block
- Petrobras sign $ 320 mm project finance agreement with JBIC
- Petrobras closes $ 289 mm financing deal with Nisho Iway
- Enron warns Argentina on taxes
- Mexico Bufete and Enron sign administration agreement
- Repsol-YPF and Petrobras talking on broad swap
- Pemex plans to spend $ 6 bn on 190 projects this year
- TGS-NOPEC in new seismic project in Northern Brazil
- Columbia Energy accepts $ 6 bn take-over offer from NiSource
- BP Amoco and Repsol picked for Brazilian power program
- Grant Geophysical awarded 3D survey for Tecpetrol in Ecuador
- Total Camisea investment could reach $ 2.6 bn
- Petrobrasproduced a record 410,000 bpd from Marlim
- Argentina Pluspetrol close to $ 181 mm loan for power plant upgrade
- Pluspetrol preparing to expand to Brazil and Venezuela
- Mexico obliges Pemex to improve information on prices and availability of natural gas
- Petrobras plans $ 293 mm long-term loan to finance exploration
- Petroecuador has a target of maintaining output
- Shell Brazil to cut retail investment and sell service stations
- New drilling success for Pebercan in Cuba
- Canada's TransAlta to build 250-MW plant in southern Mexico
- Brazil approves sale of a bloc of
shares in Petrobras
- Pemex to increase its ethylene capacity
- Canadian Hunter to buy Argentina gas producer Atalaya Energy
- Exxon Mobil plans investments of $ 100 mm in Argentina
- Pemex to spend $ 2.4 bn on Cantarell project in 2000
- Power distributor Edesur to invest $ 515 mm through 2005
- Brown & Root to order in Brazil to develop Barracuda and Caratinga oil fields
- Pan American Energy to invest $ 175 mm in Argentina
- Pluspetrol consortium wins Camisea auction
- Camisea sale attracts three bidders
- Pluspetrol to invest $ 15 mm in gas drilling in north-western Argentina
- Shell in talks for a new LNG project in Venezuela
- Ecopetrol chief sees bright year for new
contracts
- Venezuelan business surprised by Odebrecht selection for infrastructure deals
- Coastal and Corporacion EDC to jointly bid for natural gas projects in Venezuela
- Petrobras to spend 110 mm reais to clean up the Rio oil spill
- Argentinian Sideco sells stakes in natgas distribution firms to Italgas
- Argentina's TGS signs $ 20 mm gas pipe deal
- Mexico's Pemex eyeing joint ventures in petrochemicals
- Coastal signs agreement with Petrobras for onshore exploration block
- Venezuela needs to give clarity about its future
- Enron pipeline through tropical forest faces resistance
- Enap interested in a stake in TransCanada Pipelines
- TXU Group to spend $ 124 mm on 2,000 km pipeline network in
Mexico
- Repsol wins clearance for more Trinidad LNG trains
- Ecopetrol signs exploration contract with Canada's Quadra Resources
- Mexico's Tamsa raises 2000 sales forecast
- Chevron with Petrobras in exploration venture in Brazil's deep-water Salt Basin
- Petrobras in partnerships for Campos basin and Cumuruxatiba basin
- Another Petrobras pipeline leaks
- Ecopetrol signs eight new oil contracts
- Consortium signs LoI on greenfield gas chemical complex near Rio
- Halliburton step further with Barracuda and Caratinga developments off Brazil
- Chile aims to sell a stake of the international division of Enap
- Arabian Shield announces acquisition of Coin refinery in Mexico
- Gaz
de France-led group wins Mexico license
- Duke Energy acquires additional 51 % of Brazil's Paranapanema
- Alliant Energy Resources entering the Latam market
- PdVSA to spend $ 59 bn over the next decade
- Venezuela resurrects LNG project
- Venezuela responds on Conoco's negative comments
- Brazil seeks hefty fine for Petrobras' oil spill
- Perez Companc to invest $ 3.1 bn in 2000-2004
- Petrobras will keep oil refining and transportation
- Pemex is Mexico's biggest air polluter
- Colombian Pauto and Florena fields seen on stream early 2001
- Average 1999 output at Colombia's Cusiana-Cupiagua at 434,000 bpd
- PDVSA sets $ 8.9 bn budget for 2000
- Rogelio Montemayor replaces Adrian Lajous at Pemex
- First oil from Cerro Negro project
- Vopak acquires TMM interest in Mexican tank storage
- Vintage Petroleum announces acquisition of additional interests in Ecuador
- Gas Natural wins concession to distribute natural gas in Mexico
- Unocal buys Gulf of Mexico shelf assets of Tana Oil and Gas
- Petrobras in partnership with Unocal and Ipiranga
- Petrobras sealing more partnerships in E&P
- Brazil senate commission prohibits privatising more than 50 % of Petrobras
- Mexico's Pemex leadership switch seen as political
- Pemex' Adrian Lajous hands in his resignation
- Ecuador grants oil field concession to consortium of companies
- President of Petroecuador seeking financial autonomy
- Reliant Energy to sell its Latin American investments
- Exxon Mobil signs JV agreement for interest in Brazilian deepwater venture
- Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas announces 2000 drilling budget
- Eni to buy stake in Ecuador's Villano oilfield from Arco
- Conoco wants better terms in Venezuela
- Pemex to invest $ 500 mm to extend its pipeline network
- Enterprise Oil to farm-in to deep offshore Bijupira and Salema oil fields
- Repsol-YPF and Enap talk to jointly develop the LPG industry in Latin America
- BG to build another gas pipeline from Argentina to Brazil
- Tractebel buys Mexican natural gas distributor GNP
- Tesoro to sell
Bolivian E&P operations to BG International
- P-36 arrived in Rio
- TGS-NOPEC and Phillips Petroleum sign agreement on 2-D Brazil data
- Petrobras and Perez Companc buy 2 Bolivian refineries
- ABB acquires oil and gas equipment manufacturer in Argentina
- Argentina poses investment risk but return on investment is higher
- Amerada Hess and PDVSA seek cheaper alternative for $ 650 m bond issue
- Head of Colombia's Ecopetrol steps down to got to WTO
- Cooper Cameron buys oilfield equipment plant in western Venezuela
- Technit and Williams Engineering to build Ecuadorean crude pipeline
- Mobil and Pequiven talking on world-scale petrochemicals complex in Venezuela
- Platform for nitrogen injection plant for Cantarell is ready
- Benton in LoI with Schlumberger to develop South Monagas in Venezuela
- Italian Snam to develop natural gas distribution network in Sao Paulo
- Uruguay's ANCAP to buy 240 Sol Petroleo gas stations
- Argentine TGS receives $ 100 mm loan from the IADB for expansion
- LASMO confirms potential Venezuelan Dacion oilfield
- Petrobras in talks with Repsol-YPF and PDVSA
- Burlington Resources buys properties in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru
- InterGen reaches agreement on 1025 MW Brazil power plant
- Petrobras plans $ 32.9 bn investment in 2000-2005
- Petroleum Geo-Services to 3D survey Campos and Santos areas offshore Brazil
- Brazil sees 4 potential bidders for natural gas network in western Sao Paulo state
- PDVSA coming to terms with Chavez
- CMS Electric closes the acquisition in distribution companies in southern Brazil
- Brazil pension fund shifting investment to projects with Petrobras
- Petrobras getting its books in line with U.S. accounting standards
- Plans to build gas-fired power plants for $ 1.6 bn
- Venezuelan Hamaca heavy oil project seeks $ 2 bn in financing
- Venezuela's PDVSA prepares for output hike in 2000
- Mitsubishi interested in construction and maintenance of gas pipelines for Camisea
- PDVSA schedules $ 1 bn investments in exploration
- Petrobras stops negotiating with Esso on $ 2 bn Albacora Leste
oilfield
- Hyundai stepping up energy business projects in South America
- Odebrecht to develop Petrobras' oilfields in Campos
- Termo Rio power plant at Petrobras' Reduc oil refinery to produce 200 MW
- Enron to invest $ 500 mm in Brazil's power industry
- AES to set up 826 MW power plant in Argentina
- Petrobras' Cenpes to focus on deep offshore exploration
- Sempra-PSEG aims to grow in Chilean power and gas markets
- Ipiranga sold stake in Agip Distribuidora to AgipLiquigas
- Nor Andino gas pipeline starts supplying natural gas by end October
- CPFL to build 900-MW power plant in Sao Paulo
- Brazil Petrobras signs first partnership in telecommunications
- Eleven register to
qualify for auction of Camisea
- Entergy plans three power plants in Morelos State
- Phillips quietly pushing for pragmatic, pro-business policies in Venezuela
- YPF-Repsol spreading to Brazil
- YPF plans to lower share in gas market
- Trans-Dominion issued a joint license with Petrotrin for Trinidad exploration
- Chevron buys Argentina's second largest oil exporter
- Samsung lowest bidder to modernise Mexico's Salamanca and Tula refineries
- Petrobras needs restructuring to maintain competitive edge
- Ciavaldini says PDVSA to invest Bs$ 4 bn
- CGG starts non-exclusive 3D seismic campaign in Campos area in Brazil
- Argentine oil company San Jorge moving forward towards sale
- TotalFina and Duke qualify for Camisea project tender
- Petrobras to issue $ 300 mm short term credit issue
- Enap searches for private partner
- Uruguayan Ancap to acquire 247 gasoline stations from Sol Petroleo in Argentina
- Petrobras ready to compete in a newly liberalised sector
- World's top oil companies sign historic concession contracts with Brazil
- Natgas reserves at Petrobras' Bolivia discovery surge from 28 bn to 249 bn cm
- TransCanada completes 700 km Energia Mayakan natural gas pipeline
- Repsol-YPF wins four E & P contracts for offshore Brazil
- Petrobras to reduce purchases of oil on international markets
- Colombia grants Occidental permit for drilling near U'wa land
- CMS acquires 77 % ownership in group of Brazilian electric distribution utilities
- Enron to set up 200 MW power plant near Rio
- Samsung plans $ 1 bn oil refinery in Pernambuco state
- Emerald's Gigante field potential in Colombia double previously estimated
- Perez Companc presents offer to acquire 100 % of Petrolera San Jorge
- PSEG and Sempra acquire majority in Peruvian electric company Luz Del Sur
- Petrobras and partners to double crude production in six years
- BNDES to lend $ 300 mm for $ 850 mm gas-chemical project in State of Rio
- Ciavaldini brings change to PDVSA
- Eni acquires stake in the oil area Georgetown in Guyanne
- Barrett to explore oil Block 39 in Peru's northern jungle
- Foreign oil companies step up their lobbying under Chavez
- Petrobras starts pumping oil from new platform in deepwater Marlim field
- Ciavaldini insists on value of PDVSA
- Consortium forms alliance with Petrobras to lift oil production in Bahia
- Harken announces approval IFC Financing for Colombia-project
- PDVSA upstream and finance chiefs have asked for early retirement
- Hector Ciavaldini new head of PDVSA
- BOC completes financing for Cantarell nitrogen complex
- Consortium bidded for Verolme shipyard in Rio de Janeiro
- Sipetrol bidder for stake in Argentinean San Jorge
- Mexico soon to declare Salamanca refinery winner
- Petrobras signs deepwater oil exploration JV for Campos
block
- Petroecuador head to stay in job
- YPF and Petrobras to drill oil well in Brazil's Espirito Santo
- Colombia's Ecopetrol signs exploration deals
- Elf expects to sign oil exploration agreements in Campos Basin
- Petrozuata heavy oil project announces additional cost overruns
- Comgas investing to become largest gas distribution company in Latin America
- Petrobras lowers estimates for daily production
- Petrobras negotiates project finance with Japanese Eximbank
- PSG buys stake in Mayakan natural gas pipeline in Mexico
- Korean-led consortium to explore for oil off Surinam
- New thermoelectric plants will be built throughout Brazil
- Agip offering to finance Petrobras'
development projects
- Repsol-YPF considering alliance with Enap in Chilean oil refining
- Japans Ex-imbank to finance Petrobras' projects in Campos
- PDVSA happy about dismissal of oil dumping complaint
- Gaspetro aims to increase natural gas consumption
- Peru sets precise dates for Camisea auctions
- Pemopro closes $ 1.08 bn financing for Madero Project
- Repsol-YPF to invest $ 8 bn in Latin America until 2002
- Colombia's Ecopetrol may sell oil deposits
- Iberdrola to invest $ 2.7 bn in Latin America
- Venezuela extends sale deadline for Sincor heavy oil project
- Petrobras and YPF looking at asset swap
- Brazil's Confab sees bright future under Siderca
- EDC moves ahead offshore gas production project
- Burlington looking to acquire Arco-held Latin American exploration properties
- Broad Argentine interest in Repsol-YPF's gas stations
- CMS Energy starts construction gas pipeline from Argentina to Brazil
- Marubeni plans to invest $ 1.5 bn in E&P investment in Brazil
- Techint constructing TGM gas pipeline from Argentina to Brazil
- Pemex buys six new oil rigs
- World's largest nitrogen complex progressing
- Intesa intensifies marketing of ERP software
- Shell stops using Petrobras oil pipeline due to high costs
- Capsa confident it will survive and thrive
- Perez Companc plans to build petchem plant in Rio Grande do Sul
- Duke spending $ 200 mm on power generation for Central American
- DST group discussing an alliance on steel pipes with Japan's NKK
- Duke wins auction for El Salvadorian generating companies
- Petrobras to sign deal with YPF, Unocal, Japex and Marubeni
- LASMO sees output at Venezuelan Dacion at 40,000 bpd by year-end
- Enap to build thermoelectric plant
- GE to supply two steam turbines for Colombian power plants
- Amerada Hess expanding in Brazil
- Petrobras to invest $ 100 mm in management software
- CGDe builds thermoelectric plants in Brazil
- YPF and Perez Companc to explore for gas in Santa Cruz
- Repsol-YPF and Girsa combine synthetic rubber units
- ElPaso and GE form consortium to pursue Brazilian power generation complex
- Pemex chief says Cantarell project to be on time
- Petrobras, CVRD and Escelsa will build thermoelectric plant
- British Gas in $ 7.9 bn Latin American investment program
- Vintage acquires El Huemul concession in Santa Cruz, Argentina
- Shell to invest $ 2 bn in oil & gas development in Brazil in case of discovery
- Power firms and Petrobras team up to develop five thermoelectric plants
- Schlumberger to introduce new technology in Prisa project
- Consortia present bids to expand and upgrade Ancap's La Teja Refinery
- Camisea to be used for local power generation and petrochemical industry
- British Gas to research and develop gas in Brazil
- Mexico probing Pemex' offshore Cantarell project
- Mobil signs second deepwater farm-in agreement with Petrobras
- Repsol changes board directors at YPF but Monti remains on board
- Petrobras to arrange an auction to choose advertising agencies
- PDVSA and Petrobras sign letter of intent towards establishing a joint company
- Consortium to begin operations on offshore concessions in Camamu Basin
- Southern Cross Argentina-to-Brazil gas pipeline to be built soon
- Construction works on the Cruz del Sur gas pipeline to begin soon
- British Gas, Pan American Energy to begin gas pipeline works
- Petrobras formed joint venture with Kerr-McGee and Esso
- Marubeni to build power plants with Brazilian partners
- Petrobras to sign oil deal with Mobil and Unocal
- Repsol-YPF confirms Gulf of San Jorge operations
- New power plant projects in Sao Paulo
- PDVSA to construct $ 3.3 bn Anaco natural gas project
- Shell interested in Venezuelan LNG project
- Phillips to invest $ 1.5 bn into Hamaca oil project
- Gas Natural de Mexico announces 5 year investment plan
- Peru awards license for Lot 39 to Barrett
- Texaco and Petrobras sign partnership agreement
- Riogas to build gas pipeline in Rio de Janeiro
- Techint to complete acquisition of Confab
- Petrobras and partners may invest $ 1.4 bn in gas exploration in Bolivia
- PDVSA to offer for sale 15 % stake in Sincor heavy
oil venture
- Arco starts pumping first oil from Ecuador's jungle
- Texaco and Petrobras to drill for oil on continental shelf near Rio
- Financing the Renor refinery in Brazil
- PDVSA soon to tender natural gas fields
- Gas exploitation program for the Gulf of Guayaquil under way
- Mega's gas fractioning project issues $ 472 mm in guaranteed negotiable bonds
- Colombia's Ecopetrol lowers its stake in E&P associations from 50 % to 30 %
- Exxon acquires two additional exploration blocks offshore Brazil
- Argentine firms to develop oilfields in Ecuador
- Exxon acquires two additional exploration blocks Offshore Brazil
- YPF acquires 50 gas stations in Brazil
- Venezuela approves
Hamaca oil deal with Phillips and Texaco
- Arco swaps out of Venezuelan heavy oil deal
- US companies attracted by Mexican energy market
- PDVSA, PEMEX future-flow programs give good performance
- Consortium announces $ 1 bn thermal plant projects in Sao Paulo
- El Paso buys Newark Bay facility from PSEG and ENPEX
- CMS's GasAtacama pipeline-power project in Chile enters commercial operation
- Repsol clinches $ 13.1 bn bid for YPF
- Repsol wins 98 % control of Argentina's YPF
- Argentine to get $ 842 mm for YPF stake
- Four to bid to upgrade Uruguay's La Teja refinery
- CMS studies possibility of a gas pipeline to Venezuela's Margarita island
- Pemex participates in capital
injection in Repsol
- Pemex cancels ICA-Fluor Daniel contract
- Agip, YPF and Shell reveal exploration plans for Brazil
- Metrogas plans to lay 2000 km of gas lines in and around Mexico City
- New CFO for Petrobras
- PDVSA unveils 10-year business plan
- Final results of Brazil license auction
- Unocal-led group wins promising oil and gas block offshore Brazil
- Oil giants unite in offshore gamble
- BP-Amoco sees potential for billions of barrels in deep-water Amazonian block
- Agip emerges as biggest winner in Brazil' auction
- Consortium of five wins Brazil BM-FZA-1 oil block
- Repsol sells stake in Brazil power distributor Edenor
- Unocal group
seeks to develop gas for electricity in the Espirito Santo block
- YPF, Agip win Brazil's BM-C-4 oil exploration block
- Texaco wins Brazil's BM-S-2 oil exploration block
- Petrobras satisfied with what it got in auction
- Amerada Hess hopes to find oil and to invest $ 1.5 bn in Brazil
- US OPIC approves $ 200 mm for controversial gas pipeline in Bolivia
- Braspetro takes 30 % of deepwater Block E off Equatorial Guinea from Elf
- Peru sells 15 Camisea bidding rules
- Total targets Petrolera San Jorge
- PGS signs contracts for offshore oil exploration in Brazil
- Comgas outlines growth plans
- Total sells off stake in Argentina oil area to Vintage
- Endesa speeding up constructionof Taltal power plant
- Mexico awards Pemex permit to use national pipeline network to transport gas
- Brazil qualifies 38 firms to bid for oil area licenses
- International interest in Camisea sale
- Arco Oriente plans $ 150 mm investments
- Repsol/YPF to focus on Brazilian market
- Comgas looking to triple gas sales in 5 years
- Petrobras plans to bid on auction
- Amerada Hess made an act of faith when entering Brazil oil market
- Consortia Transportadora SulBrasileira de Gas formed to build pipeline
- Petrobras and PDVSA studying joint gas exploration and derivatives imports
- Occidental signs PSA in Ecuador
- Coastal and GENER won 50 % of Dominican power company
- Chile's Enap and Ecuadorian Petroecuador are considering a strategic alliance
- 42 companies signed up to bid for the 27 blocks in Brazil
- Enterprise negotiating for oil interests offshore Brazil
- Oil fields returned by Petrobras will be offered next year
- Petrobras cancels expired contracts for drilling equipment
- Coelba to invest R$ 180 mm in 1999
- Chevron sees its Venezuelan oil output rising
- Thyssen Krupp and Interoil search for new partners for Renor refinery
- Petrobras and FiatAvio search partners for 720 MW powerplant in Minas
- BP Amoco's budget for new fields is near zero this year in Venezuela
- BG sees Trinidad LNG production triple and export to Brazil
- Sempra wins
La Laguna-Durango gas project
- Endesa and CMS register increase in GasAtacama stakes
- AES to increase holdings in Light and Eletropaulo
- Brazil and Shell discuss oil terms
- Petrobras formed power project alliances
- Pemex invests up to $ 900 mm in acquisition of YPF
- Petrobras renegotiates contracts with suppliers after Real devaluation
- Enron is interested in Brazil's gas concessions and power generators
- Endesa Espana took over Chilean electric utility Endesa Chile through Enersis
- Enron to bid for 2 gas distribution concessions
- PSEG Global and Sempra Energy acquisitions in LatAm
- Suzano group signs contract with Petrobras to build a propylene plant
- Petrobras to
return 28 development areas
- Pemex launches tender offer for modernising two refineries
- Petrobras needs to return exploration licenses
- Argentina says offer Repsol for sell-off is not enough
- FPL Energy agrees to develop 650 MW power plant in Brazil
- CMS keeps eye on YPF-Repsol merger
- ALSTOM and PNM plan new transmission line between USA and Mexico
- Japan's Ex-Im Bank leads syndicated loan to Colombia
- Tribasa-Enron alliance to build $ 100 mm oil pipeline in Mexico
- Petrobras authorised to bid for June's auction
- Petrobras' TBG receives IADB loan for Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline
- BP Amoco considers 10 new projects in Mexico
- Pluspetrol growing in power
business
- Repsol pays 25 % premium for YPF
- Repsol aims to create one of the world's biggest energy companies with YPF
- Alfredo Llorente new president of Enersis
- Chile's Enersis might sell transmission lines to avoid vertical integration
- Petrobras to focus on deep sea oil & gas research and development
- Pemex opens a new gas processing plant
- Van Ommeren invited to bid for Camisea
- Sempra to participate in privatisation of power stations in Mexico
- Ecuador and EDC signs production agreement for Amistad field
- CMS aims to grow in Brazil
- OPP and Borealis form petrochemicals alliance
- El Paso Energy to invest $ 1.5 bn in Brazil
- Shell and
BG win Comgas
- BG and Shell to invest $ 200 mm in Comgas by 2001
- Petrobras reduces expenses with equipment
- Sempra and PSEG to buy Chilean power distributor
- Sempra and PSEG to acquire Chile`s Chilquinta Energia Partners
- Geco-Prakla and TGS-NOPEC Geophysical form joint venture in Brazil
- Petrobras to reduce stake in fuels distribution subsidiary
- Shell criticises high taxation in Argentina
- Petrobras signs fuel supply agreements with 158 distributors
- 42 qualified to bid in ANP auction for oil fields in June
- Petrobras to sell nearly 1,700 oil wells
- Phillips plans $ 2 bn investment in western Venezuela
- Western Geophysical to acquire 2-D seismic data in Brazil's
Santos Basin
- 20 groups prequalify for Comgas privatisation
- Siemens' Mexico refinery project worth $ 300 mm
- Venezuelan petrochemicals venture delayed
- PB Amoco plans to expand in Mexico
- Ecuador signs accord for heavy crude pipeline with consortium
- Petrobras has to redefines alliances with foreign partners
- Argentina - Brazil gas pipeline contract signed
- Enron E & C and Tribasa form alliance for infrastructure projects
- Perez Companc seen as attractive
- Petrobras opens to non-Brazilians
- Argentina-Uruguay gas pipeline contract signed
- Statoil to invest substantially in Venezuela
- Pemex' Cantarell offshore discovery confirmed
- Pemex downrates proven reserves to 34.2 bn barrels
- Brazil's government names Henri Philippe Reichstul as president of Petrobras
- Pemex says new find gives 5,000 bpd crude and 1 mm cfpd of gas
- Peru to invite bids for Camisea this year
- Petrobras pinning hopes on Campos Basin
- Petrobras to reduce concessions for oil exploration areas
- Harken's finding Cost in Bolivia at $ 1.10 per boe
- Perez Companc sells 80 % of YPF stake
- Brazil to tender oil exploration areas given back by Petrobras
- PDVSA seeks $ 900 mm in debt
- Rodolfo Tourinho to become new chairman of Petrobras
- Rentech signs MoU with Brazilian BC Projectos on GTL technology
- Shell
dissatisfied with Venezuelan conditions
- Chile Enap to explore for oil in Egypt and possibly Iran
- PennzEnergy Signs Agreement to Explore in Brazil
- Petrobras signs partnerships for oil exploration
- El Paso needs to pull out of Venezuelan gas injection project
- Brazil not ready for privatisation Petrobras
- Barbados suspends oil drilling
- BP Amoco waiting for opportunities and change in Venezuela
- Atlantic LNG sees revenues affected by link to oil price
- Odebrecht to divest assets in Bahia to allow a national restructuring
- Renno has finished his job
- Noble proceeds with development Amistad gas field off Ecuador
- Bradesco and ABN Amro co-ordinate Brazilian refinery
project finance
- Brazil does not plan to privatise Petrobras
- Consortium to build $ 400 mm Uruguay-Brazil gas pipeline
- Repsol to invest $ 500 mm till 2002 in Peru
- Mexico awards gas pipeline project
- Trinidad's Atlantic LNG to begin operation in April
- Atlantic LNG ready for production
- Mexican State received $ 25.4 from Pemex in 1998
- Brazilian state to sell Comgas, separate from new gas areas
- Comgas sees many companies to shift to natural gas
- Chevron pulls out block 52 in Peru
- Petrobras 1998 results in short
- Odebrecht Oleo e Gas forms alliance with Petrobras
- YPF reports results
- Arco seeks partner for
Boqueron oilfield in Venezuela
- Venezuelan Hamaca heavy oil development needs to wait
- British-Borneo to participate in Campos and Santos basins exploration
- ATP to focus on small oilfields
- International consortium aims to build oil refinery in Brazil
- Cantarell needs large investment
- BP Amoco cutting staff in T & T
- Repsol persuading YPF
- Shell reconsidering Camisea
- Petrobras sees need for import shrink
- Petrobras signs Santos and Campos deals
- Bechtel considers Mexico to be a very promising market
- YPF to reduce 1999 investment
- Battle over Comgas
- Petrobras develops production at 1,853 m in Campos
basin
- Repsol moving to control YPF
- Venezuela's Hamaca tar oil venture sees further delays
- International consortium planning first private oil refinery in Colombia
- Pemex to invest $ 720 mm in petrochemicals
- Japanese Eximbank to finance Brazilian oil sector
- Petrobras to order more in Brazil
- YPF to reduce investments for 1999
- Enron enters Panamanian energy market
- New pipeline project in Southern Chile
- YPF to set up methanol plant in Neuquen
- Petrobras to sell majority stakes in refineries
- Enron plans large investment in Mexico
- Strong competition for YPF's shares
- Shell and Cryogaz to build gasificationterminal in Brazil
- BNDES to finance gas pipelines in several states
- Pemex to construct gasoline stations in Guatemala
- Six bidders for modernisation Mexico's Tula refinery
- Petroecuador awards marginal fields
- PDVSA sells Jose crude terminal
- BP Amoco Mexico to co-ordinate petchem activity in Latin America
- General Electric and Gener form JV for maintenance of power plants
- Eni investing and growing in Brazil
- First service station with Agip flag in Sao Paulo city
- Nynas Petroleum to grow naphthenic oils business in Brazil
- Santa Fe signs agreements with Petrobras
- Comgas' privatisation approved
- Suriname's State Oil signs crude contractwith Petrotrin
- Arco signs agreement with Petroecuador to increase pipeline capacity
- Petrobras and CPM to invest $ 2.3 bn in Marlim oilfield
- Gas demand from B-to-B pipeline not up to expectations
- Petrobras signs E&P deals
- Tractebel expanding in Peru
- Petrobras raises $ 1.3 bn to develop Campos basin
- Pemex might reconsider policy of alliances
- Petrobras to reduce production fuel oil with coming of gas
- UPR signs contract with Petrobras
- Petrobras and PDVSA form joint venture for Brazil and Venezuela
- Pemex studies using fibreglass pipelines
- Pemex sees 14 % rise in gas use for 1999
- Petrobras increased output
- Enron ever more active in Brazil
- Petrobras signs $ 300 mm loan for field development
- New loan for Bolivia to Brazil pipeline
- Sixteen invited to bid for 14,99 % YPF stake
- Arco to invest $ 150 mm in Ecuador
- Pemex to invest $ 1.75 bn in pipelines coming years
- Shell franchising LPG business in Brazil
- Argentina-Uruguay gas pipeline ready by 2000
- Brazil gas distributor Comgas soon on the auction block
- German Thyssen to set up refinery in Brazil
- Tecpetrol signs deal with Petroecuador
- Still no oil at the Falklands
- Petrobras exploring offshore Cuba
- Dow Chemical investing in Latin America
- Shell plans to invest $ 3 bn in Brazil
- Petrobras and Shell set up LNG port and power plant
- YPF's 1999 budget as 1998
- Petrobras to make E&P deal with Cuba
- Petrobras signs deal with Perez Companc and Kerr-McGee
- Ecopetrol approves commerciality BP's Florena field
- Hess closes deal with PDVSA on Virgin Island refinery
- Petrobras signs agreement with consortium on gas development projects
- Ipiranga and Mobil negotiate partnership with Petrobras
- Petrobras negotiating project finance
- Repsol eyes YPF, Argentina eyes stability
- Repsol leaves Colombia
- Copagaz investing in gas processing plants
- Gas Natural and Tractebel
bidding for Mexico natgas tender
- Enersul to build 300 MW power plant
- Mobil awards facility management services to Johnson Controls
- Petrobras signs LoI on oil financing
- Petrozuata running over budget
- Coastal signs E & P contract with Petrobras
- Elf and Conoco to explore the Guanare oil tract in Venezuela
- Petrobras signs first upstream joint venture with YPF
- First foreign access to E & P at a specific site in Brazil
- Eletrobras sees need for foreign investors in power transportation
- Shell and Enron to build power plant in Mato Grosso
- AES builds power plant in Brazil
- Petrobras shares sell-off in preparation
- Special purpose company
to set up $ 800 mm petchem complex in Rio
- Petrobras signs $ 4.5 bn upstream finance deal
- PDVSA to form alliance with Petrobras
- Lundin finishes first well offshore Falklands
- Pemex' Lajous said oilproducers should communicate
- Black Sea Energy increases interest in Block 71 in Peru
- Venezuela heading towards full production again
- YPF to invest plans $ 1.5 bn in Brazil
- Petrobras signed technology transfer agreement with Agip
- Bechtel's currently with 4 construction project in Latam
- Venezuela's Hamaca tar-oil venture delayed
- YPF's response to crisis in financial markets
- Petrobras, Marubeni and Sithe to build 660 MW power plant
- Brazilcalled for bids for power stations, 7 awarded
- Bolivian bidding round disappointing
- Itochu and Mitsubishi in partnership with Petrobras
- CMS acquires 75 % of Venezuelan power company
- Petrobras investing $ 1 bn to reduce sulphur in diesel
- Texaco to invest $ 2 bn in Brazil over 5 years
- Elin aims big in Brazilian power market
- Perez Companc qualifies to bid for Venezuelan electric utility
- Petrobras negotiating $ 500 mm for refinery expansion
- Odebrecht and Petrobras to set up $ 5 bn petchem complex
- IDB approves support for electricity sector in Nicaragua
- Petrobras completes bridge loan agreement
- Texaco to invest $ 2 bn in Brazil coming 5 years
- Polibrasil secures $ 130 mm for PP expansion
- YPF looking for new reserves
- PDVSA reduces investment by $ 10 bn to strengthen prices
- Petrobras to raise $ 250 mm from commercial papers for investments
- Interest for LNG complex in Ceara
- Texaco ups investment in thermal power plant in Ceara
- Shell aims to become major gas player in Argentina
- Elf starts import of liquid gas in Cuba
- Perupetro signing more upstream contracts
- Mexico receives 9 international bids for 250 MW power plant
- Sodra and Desire to drill first well off Falklands
- Techint to build Argentina-Chile gas pipeline
- Mobil expands convenience stores in Mexico to 100
- ENI to invest $ 500 mm in Brazil's energy sector
- Petrobras calls for bids for Bijupira and Salema oil fields
- Petrobras creates pipeline and storage managing subsidiary Transdutos
- Petrozuata has started moving first extra- heavy oil from Orinoco Belt
- Venezuela allows sale part of Pequiven
- Shell aims at gas business in Argentina
- Petrobras urging companies to sign venture contracts
- Arco outlines plans for Block 10 in Ecuadorian jungle
- PDVSA Gas outlining investments to develop gas potential
- Enron takes office in Brazil
- Mexico's Samalayuca II power facility inaugurated
- World's deepest ocean oil rig Ursa being build off Curacao
- Pemex
continues refininery upgrades
- Uruguayan Ancap to invest $ 100 mm
- YPF whilst partnering to be partly sold
- Braspetro acquired Colombia's Lasmo Oil
- Opening Brazilian market causes Petrobras to invest $ 10 bn
- Brazil's Petrobras looks overseas to cut oil import costs
- Machinery companies aiming to expand in Brazil
- Petrobras to develop Roncador oil field
- Consortium to lay pipeline through Argentine rainforest say legal hurdles cleared
- ENI acquires majority stake in Brazil's CiaSP
- Maritima to raise $ 1 bn for rigs
- YPF to import oil for Brazil refinery
- Repsol takes 75 % stake in Ecuadorian Duragas
- Odebrecht has acquired ABB Lummus
Global
- Total strengthens position in South America gas sector
- Japanese lead offshore project in Brazil
- Duke Energy signs exploration agreement in Peru
- Pemex ranks very low in efficiency
- Itochu and Mitsubishi take part in $ 2 bn oil field development in Brazil
- Shell and Mobil cancel Camisea
- Enron wins large electricity distribution company in Brazil
- Petrobras to invests $ 6 bn through project finance partnerships
- Shell to invest $ 200 mm in Venezuela in 1998
- Shell plans investments in Brazil
- Toshiba and GE to produce turbines in Mexico and Japan
- Work on Argentina - Uruguay gas pipeline start soon
- AES completes acquisition of
Edelap
- Project financing for Cadereyta project completed
- Pan American Energy to invest $ 2.3 bn in Brazil
- Elsag Bailey's business is growing in Latin America
- Tennessee Gas Pipeline interconnecting with Pemex Gas
- Joint Venture released to proceed with Cantarell-project
- Electricite de France-led consortium wins bidding for Edemsa
- Japanese banks to loan 140 bn Yen to Pemex
- Petrobras' main reserve position is protected
- Pennzoil to begin operating Venezuelan blocks
- Petrobras and YPF team up for downstream projects
- GasAtacama signs new transportation contracts
- Financing for Cerro Negro heavy oil project in Venezuela
- NorAndino
consortium halted on trans-Andes pipeline
- Petrobras completes negotiations on 19 major E&P deals
- BASF warns for standstill of petchem privatisation in Mexico
- Pemex enters Central American retail market.
- Gerasul to issue privatisation tender in June
- Enersis and Endesa invest further in Coelce
- Tejas to construct 75 mile gas pipeline in Mexico
- Three consortia qualify for $ 400 mm NGL increase project
- Gulf Canada in Share Sale Agreement with Roc Oil for offshore Falklands
- PDVSA announces changes in the management
- Amoco and Repsol to build more LNG plants in Trinidad
- Vintage Petroleum has started drilling in Bolivia
- Amoco and Repsol form strategic alliance in
gas
- Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline seeking to sprout
- Van Ommeren to operate tank storage in Peru
- BG and Enron want to import natural gas in Brazil
- Occidental cancels drilling plans on U'wa territory
- Columbia grants offshore exploration contracts to Arco and Amoco
- Rio Grande Energia to build 700 MW power-plant
- Merrill Lynch backs off from Latin America
- PDVSA's Giusti honoured Petroleum Executive of the Year
- Pacific Enterprises wins bid for gas distribution systems in Uruguay
- Mobil and Pequiven start engineering for $ 2 bn petchem project
- Total targets Brazil for Argentinean Carina gas
- PDVSA seeking to place shipping in JV
- PDVSA
Petroleo y Gas launche bidding for Jose Crude Terminal
- Enron granted the first power marketer license in Argentina
- Mexico's Alpek and DuPont to build polyester plant
- Repsol investing heavily in South America
- Atlantic's LNG terminal on schedule
- Harken announces test results of Olivo #1
- PDVSA saves by linking Amuay and Cardon refineries
- Petrozuata Orinoco project financing record setting
- Argentina's Perez and Spanish Repsol awarded blocks in Peru
- Total plans LPG plant in Argentina
- Texaco & partners to develop 240 MW Brazil power project
- Esso investment in Brazil in 1998
- PDVSA cuts another $ 912 from 1988 budget
- Minex and Manti
to develop concessions in Gulf of San Jorge
- Petrobras to be provided with $ 2.8 bn for boosting production
- Geco-Prakla networking on integrated 3D survey off T&T
- Mobil and PDVSA accelerate financing Cerro Negro project
- YPF and Petrobras study new gas pipeline Argentine to Brazil
- Multi-national consortium wins Brazil exploration rights
- Chilquinta participating in Central America privatisations
- YPF expanding in Brazil
- Arco entering next stage in South America
- YPF and PDVSA to combine efforts and investment
- Furnas power generating company to be privatised
- Endesa led consortium wins 51 % of Brazilian electricity distributor Coelce
- PDVSA investing for
production increase
- Petrobras investing in refinery computers
- Harken progressing in Colombia
- CNG increases interests in Argentinean energy companies
- BG and Pan American win gaslink from Argentina to Uruguay
- Amoco expanding activities on Trinidad and Tobago
- Total to invest $ 2 bn in Venezuela
- ABB expanding in Brazil
- Enersis and Endesa after all enter in partnership
- Copec and Gener associate
- Shell announces investments in Venezuela
- Pan American setting up office in Rio and Sao Paulo
- Pemex subsidiaries write losses in 1997
- Pemex to invest in Cantarell field for production increase
- Construcciones
Protexa and IEP Global Development in energy JV
- Pemex ratifies spending program
- Amoco to develop Amherstia field off Trinidad & Tobago
- Consortium to build 240 MW thermal power plant in Brazil
- Arco gearing up in Latin America
- Harken acquires rights to exploration and development activities in Colombia
- Shell Oil entering Venezuelan retail market
- CMS sees successful development well in Venezuela
- Petroecuador may get allowance to set up joint ventures
- Asea Brown Boveri acquires 100 % of Argentinean electric producer
- T & T awards deepwater Block 27 to international consortium
- Franco-Mexican consortium to distribute gas in North Tamaulipas
- Pipeline constructionstarted from Cd. Pemex to Merida III
- Pemex looking for allies
- Production Sharing Contract signed for exploration offshore Trinidad
- Camisea partners looking for cost-reduction
- Petrobras may partner with Amoco for Campos and Santos basins
- PP&L and Emel acquire majority in electricity distribution company in El Salvador
- Pemex to invest $ 1 bn in Lazaro refinery
- Amoco moving up in Latam
- Exxon joins search for oil offshore Trinidad
- Two to supply gas to Toluca in Mexico
- Cubacan started drilling onshore Cuba
- Seismic survey data from Trinidad processed in record time
- North Mexican state to invest $ 1.5 bn in power plants
- Adair
acquires oil and gas fields in Colombia
- Triton reaffirms reserves for Cusiana and Cupiagua
- Shell and Agip in "risky" exploration off Trinidad
- El Paso increases interest in Argentina
- Shell and Agip to explore T & T waters
- Occidental to sell Venezuela operations to Union Texas
- Seven interested in Mexico gas distribution project
- Mexico awards gas distribution system to NorAm Energy
- Elf Aquitaine is leaving Ecuador
- Rio Polimeros bids for building $ 850 mm petchem complex
- ABB provides financing for Mexican power transmission project
- After GasAndes now also Gasoducto del Pacifico from Argentina to Chile
- Pemex projects $ 3.1 bn investment in refineries
- Peru awards expro contract to Argentina's Perez Companc
- The times of Petrobras' monopoly are over
- Mobil to close Barbados refinery on tourist-site
- Pemex to increase investments to stop decline in reserves
- Pemex needs to reduce investment plans
- TransCanada and Mexican Gutsa towards $ 1 billion investment
- Amoco and Partners begin gas deliveries from Colombian field
- Amoco and partners start deliveries from Opon gas field
- TransCanada signs Energia Mayakan agreement in Mexico
- Mexican CFE to invest 12.6 bn pesos in power-projects
- Texaco and Petrobras plan GTL project
- Capacity of Trans-Andean pipeline to be increased
- Cogentrix wins contract inDominican Republic
- Pemex reaches target of becoming lead-free ahead of schedule
- PDVSA's research arm is self-sufficient
- Shell to set up fuels & service stations in Venezuela
- Shell opens Mexican PET plant
- Race for Buenos Aires-Montevideo gas pipeline tender
- Start of exploration well in Cuba
- Petrobras founds new subsidiary
- British Gas/Texaco consortium sign PSC with Trinidad
- Delta-Omega to start oil base mud processing unit in Latin America
- Pemex and CFE investment budgets for 1998
- Petrobras receives 14 bids for gas pipeline construction
- Pemex set records in production and exports
- YPF and Unocal sign agreement for offshore
Argentine JV
- Pemex exports rise
- Pemex announces modernisation programme
- Yucatan gas pipeline to be financed by IDB
- Mexico's first private sector pipeline project reaches financial close
- Chile's Punta Arenas promoted for Falklands oil exploration.
- YPF invests in Bolivia
- PDVSA to offer pipeline contracts
- Cogentrix secures gas supply for cogeneration projects
- Ensco signs Venezuelan contract
- Ensco to build 3 new barge drilling rigs for Venezuela
- Pemex to spend $ 25 bn till 2001
- Exxon and PDVSA agree on $ 800 mm Orinoco development plan
- Arco and Agip start work on pipeline in Ecuador
- Coastal in MoU
with Maraven to produce, refine and market Orinoco crude
- Pemex signs propylene deal
- Exxon and Corpoven sign agreement on Orinoco development
- Total, Norsk Hydro, Statoil and PDVSA sign $ 4.4 bn Orinoco deal
- GasAtacama pipeline construction in Chile has started
- Pemex awards Cadereyta project
- Pemex has more refinery plans
- Transener wins power transportation line
- Cusiana and Cupiagua produce 300,000 bpd
- Celanese Mexicana investing in new plants
- Argentina's YPF sees revenue growing
- Six to bid for Enersul
- Chevron to set up $ 1 bn aromatics plant
- Pemex signs PP contract
- Mobil, Lagoven and Veba Oel
sign heavy oil agreement
- Chevron plans world-scale aromatics facility in Venezuela
- Gas Atacama gets two new partners
- Cusiana and Cupiagua produce 300,000 bpd
- Celanese Mexicana investing in new plants
- Argentina's YPF sees revenue growing
- Six to bid for Enersul
- Chevron to set up $ 1 bn aromatics plant
- Pemex signs PP contract
- Mobil, Lagoven and Veba Oel sign heavy oil agreement
- Chevron plans world-scale aromatics facility in Venezuela
- Gas Atacama gets two new partners
- Nimir c.s. invests in oil production in Latam
- Movement around the Bolivia - Brazil gas pipeline
- OPIC to invest $ 165 mm in
gas-injection project in Venezuela
- Pemex exports 17 % more in Q3
- Cliffs Drilling acquires assets of offshore drilling business of Well Services
- Pemex to renovate more refineries with Cadereyta-financing scheme
- Unocal and YPF jointly venture offshore Argentina
- Two bidding groups for Cadereyta refinery expansion
- Marubeni, BOC to build nitrogen plant for oil field rejuvenation
- Enterprise and AEC sign agreement with Perupetro on Lote 32 field
- BHP invests $ 100 mm in Brazil power projects
- AES starts construction Parana power plant
- YPF moves into power generation
- Pemex high amongst world-producers of ethylene and propylene
- BCO and Shell sign agreement for $ 1.9
bn gas complex in Camisea
- Completion of $ 600 mm project financing for Atlantic LNG
- Solvay raises PVC production in Argentina and Brazil
- Endesa-consortium wins 49 % of Colombian CODENSA
- Solvay expands PVC production in Argentina and Brazil
- Petroecuador to invest $ 200 mm in transport and storage
- Consortium builds 440 MW Brazilian power project
- Petrobras and YPF to build pipeline Brazil-Argentina
- ABB sales in Latam up via power ventures
- GasSur acquires and revives TrasGas project
- Negotiations GasAtacama and Norgas suspended
- Petrobras hopes to sign another gas deal with YPF
- Mexico in difficulties over gas concession
- Petrobras
wants to keep 350 oil fields and busy
- Petrobras to sign petrochemical deal
- Amerada Hess with Petrobras to invest $ 2 bn in Brazil
- Petrobras to hold 30 % of CPP
- Series of investment in power production in Brazil
- Brazilian Energipe privatisation auction by November
- Petroperu's storage terminal ready for privatisation
- Corpoven considers multi-billion dollar investments
- Amarada Hess contracts for drilling rig for Falklands
- Nissho Iwai and ABB in JV to build 2 power plants in Mexico
- Repsol wants to invest in Chilean natural gas
- Amoco and Bridas in strategic alliance in Southern Cone
- Siemens to invest in Brazilian energy
- Three bidders for Pemex $ 1 bn nitrogen plant
- Pemex increases production by 7.2 %
- Norgas starts pipeline construction
- Argentina's Perez Companc and Occidental win blocks in Peru
- Repsol and Total now control Bridas
- Colombia to sell off 21% of electric utility ISA
- Petrozuata drills first well in Venezuela's Orinoco Oil Belt
- Endesa controlling 4 of 5 "Chispas"
- Pemex production record high in July
- Nissho Iwai and ABB Energy invest $ 244 mm in Tijuana power-plant
- YPF to invest $ 808 mm in petchem
- Esso in oil R & D partnership with Petrobras
- Ancap and Petrobras to develop joint projects
- Petrobras, Eletrobras, Eletronorte make global investments of R$ 1.6 bn
- Water depth record in subsea oil production technology
- Two Brazilian power projects to be fuelled by B-to-B pipeline
- PDVSA restructuring expected to generate $ 10 bn
- Spanish- American- Argentinean consortium acquires stake in CEG and Riogas
- Tesoro acquires Zapata's interests in Bolivia
- Enron to erect 480 MW power plant in Mato Grosso
- Ipiranga wants to partner with Petrobras for investments
- Banco Graphus to evaluate Furnas and Eletrosul for privatisation
- Intesa and Schlumberger sign agreement
- Petrobras and Shell talking for partnership
- Atlantic LNG signs loan agreement for TrinidadLNG project
- Chilgener to invest in Columbia and Brazil
- GasAtacama pipeline project signs contracts
- Costs Brazil to Bolivia pipeline substantially reduced
- Argentinean Astra continues exploration at Venezuela
- Petrobras and Fiat build thermal plant
- GasAndes pipeline starts delivery in August
- YPF plans 6 % annual growth for 10 year
- MacDonald and Cubacan in strategic merger for Eastern Cuba program
- Petrobras purchases Kvaerner's manifolds
- Electrogas project to start soon
- Harken sees good prospects in Bolivar contract
- Conoco awarded Trinidad and Tobago's offshore blocks
- Uruguay's Ancap associates with private cie's for gas
distribution
- Repsol and Mobil want to acquire Bridas
- Amoco waiting for end Petrobras monopoly
- Tesoro with Total in Sub-Andean area in Bolivia
- First fibre optic cable network for Petrobras platforms in South Atlantic
- Southern Mineral acquires interest in Ecuador
- Cusiana and Cupiagua oil fields progressing to the 500,000 bpd target
- Work on Colombia's Cusiana and Cupiagua oil fields continues
- Dow to invest $ 1 bn in petchem Argentina
- Venezuela awards PanCanadian and Pennzoil producing block
- Union Texas and Preussag successful on Venezuela's Boqueron Area
- Lasmo successful bidder for the Dacion Area in Venezuela
- Chevron operated consortium awarded Maracaibo oilfield
- Maraven upgrades refinery
- Arco with Venezuelan partners acquire two blocks in Venezuela
- Gas Andes project starts providing Metropolitan Region in July
- Shell builds new refinery in Argentina
- Shell in Argentina to acquire Autogas
- Gas Atacama pipeline project awarded tenders
- Dow Brazil's petchem plant to receive gas from Bahiagas
- Local Brazilian electric utility company to be privatised soon
- Unistar invests $ 35 mm in PS plants
- Maraven and Chevron to study feasibility for $ 1 bn aromatics complex
- Citibank and Nations Bank to lead $ 335 mm Brazilian electrical operation
- Atacama project awards 925 km gas pipeline and powerplant
- SAGAS consortium bid to expand Toluca natural- gas system
- Furnas to invest $ 1.3 bn in power
- Roberts Oil and Gas purchases Colombian contract
- Gas Andes extends deadline for offers for natural gas pipeline
- Genoil in PSC with Cuba
- Shell, Enron to invest $ 263.5 mm in transportation segment YPFB
- Parker & Parsley and Triton jointly to drill in Guatemala
- Shell to invest $ 1.5 bn in privatisation projects in Brazil
- Petrobras to invest R$ 893 mm in refinery and petchem
- Argentina's Techint plans large investments in Latam
- Pan Andean ends Bolivian JV with BHP
- Petrobras to tender for gas pipeline construction
- Petrobras makes shortlist for partnerin power projects
- Total begins production at Jusepin in Venezuela
- CSN to set up power plant
- Electrogas signs contracts to supply natural gas
- GasValpo signs transportation contract with Electrogas
- Petrobras tenders for pre-qualification B-B line stretch
- Trans-Dominion to invest in Trinidad
- Shell sees rapid growth in gas demand in Latin America
- Roberts purchases Colombian Oil and Gas Association contract
- AES and CEA acquire Argentine electricity companies
- Petrobras studies $ 800 mln refinery with private Copene
- Key Energy acquires drilling rigs for Argentina
- 13 banks finance Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline construction
- Shell
proposes JV's with Petroecuador
- Suriname's Staatsolie invites partners for offshore search
- PDVSA awards GeoQuest service agreement
- Electrobras starts buying equipment for transmission line
- International JV for new propylene splitter in NW Venezuela
- Parker Drilling buys Bolivian drilling contractor
- VBC Energia to invest R$ 24 bn over the next 5 years
- Chilean bids for Eseba in Buenos Aires
- Enersis to invest heavily in expansion
- CEA to compete for Cemig's privatisation
- Colombian power company to invest $1.1 bn
- Corpoven with US companies in $ 3.5 bn Orinoco project
- Conoco becomes active in Colombia
- AES to invest $ 1.35 bn in Latamin 1997
- Esso completes investments in Argentina
- Benton and Union Pacific join for marginal fields Venezuela
- PDVSA sets up environmental committee
- Chilectra to invest $ 250 mm in South America
- PDVSA 1996 results up, investments up
- Noble Drilling announces Letter of Intent with Petrobras
- EDF interested in Cemig
- Japan Ex-Im Bank c.s. lend $ 250 mm to Brazil's Petrobras
- Lower costs through partnership for Corpoven
- MIHI and JGC to jointly bid on Mexican refinery expansion
- Amoco to invest $ 300 mm in Venezuela
- YPF plans substantial exploration investments
- Petrozuata to invest $ 450 mm in 1997 in Orinoco
- France's GFA to build 1150 MW powerplant in Western Mexico
- Enova and Pacific Enterprises in Chihuahua Natural Gas Project
- Consortium intends $ 1.5 bn Mercosur gas pipeline
- El Paso Energy takes interest in Argentina
- Chile's Enap with Evergreen in oil exploration deal
- Peru and Shell/Mobil consortium sign exploration and development contract
- Statoil and Norsk Hydro join Orinoco
- Argentina to build $ 235 mm power plant
- Arco, Agip clear to proceed with pipeline and field development in Ecuador
- Maraven 96 oil reserves and revenues up strongly in 1996
- Electroandina invests $ 760 mm in pipeline and power
- Chilean refineries to invest over $ 250 mm
- CMS Energy signs agreement with Empresa Nacional
- PDVSA to invest more than $ 23 billion to 2006
- Esso Argentine to open new refinery
- Maraven launches basic engineering Orinoco
- Statoil stays with Orinoco project
- Brazil Eseba to be privatised in June
- Total started with basic engineering Orinoco
- Five consortia bid for $ 300 mm Mexican gas duct
- Pemex crude production up 9.2 %, gas up 11.6 %
- Mobil and Pequiven sign $ 1.6 bn petchem deal
- Petrobras' imports not registered
- Harken started first of four wildcats in Colombia
- Venezuela on its way to become very major oil player
- Pemex opens two new liquid natural gas
pipelines
- SaskPower Commercial most favourable to invest in Guyana Electricity Corp.
- Pemex to invest $ 6 bn in 1997
- Nichimen with IPP's in $ 300 mm power project in Mexico
- Shell well positioned in promising Brazilian gas market
- ABB in Argentina in strategic alliance
- MacDonald Oil begins Cuban survey
- Unocal acquires 30% in Oleoducto Transandino
- Explogas via Genoil. in Cuba
- Petrobras heavily investing in refineries and exploration
- Shell started drilling offshore Argentina
- Mobil with Venezuelan Pequiven in $ 1.6 bn petrochemical complex
- Belgo Mineira and Samarco to set up power plant in Brazil
- Repsol obtains 45 % in Argentina's
Pluspetrol
- Basf to sell expanded styrene business in Brazil to Tuscarora
- Unocal to restructure UNO-VEN Company partnership with PDVSA
- Unocal in Transandean Oil Pipeline
- Pemex opens bids for 7 platforms and a gas expansion
- Dow with Petrobras and YPF in talks to build $ 400 mm Argentinean gasline
- Colombia Ecopetrol invests in cross-country pipeline
- PDVSA to invest $ 360 mm in Curacao refinery
- Colombia's Piedemonte vital for BP, sweeter terms wished for
- Chevron acquires new exploration acreage in Colombia
- Landhawk obtains 82 shut-in wells in Trinidad
- Colombia's Ecopetrol to spend $1.08 bn on expro
- Bolivia grants Enron and Shell YPFB's transportation segment
- Amoco to operate and own 50 % of New Bolivian Company
- Ultramar Diamond Shamrock sells Bolivian operations
- Consortium to start gas export Argentina to Chile
- Lagoven with Mobil in $2.3 bn Orinoco oil belt project
- Phillips and Texaco join Arco and Corpoven in Orinoco oil upgrade project
- Petrobras signs contract with Sulgas for Bolivian gas
- Enersis to invest $ 500 mm in Power in Brazil
- Venezuela Jusepin reserves at least 100 mmb
- Texaco, Philips with PDVSA in Orinoco oil upgrade project
- Petrobras announces huge oil well
- Amoco opens office in Rio
- Argentina key in Mobil'sLatAm strategy
