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(Reuters) - Ecuador's state-owned oil company Petroecuador has started meetings to renegotiate long-term sales oil contracts with PetroChina, a process it hopes to conclude in June with the signing of a new deal, it said on Friday. The negotiations with China's largest oil and gas producer form part of bid by Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Top oilfield services firm Schlumberger (SLB.N) reported a higher first-quarter profit on Friday and increased its dividend by 40%, as rising oil prices boosted demand for services and equipment. Oil prices climbed to their highest in more than a decade during the quarter as Russia's invasion of Ukraine upended global supply dynamics. Oilfield service firms,... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Global energy trader Gunvor Group reported a net profit of $726 million for 2021, the highest since 2015, buoyed by its natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) divisions, the company said on Tuesday. The profit was the highest since 2015 when net profit was boosted by the sale of most of its... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Peru's government wants to ramp up oil production in some of its dormant Amazonian fields as global crude prices soar on supply fears linked to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Among the areas prime for a reboot is Block 192, the Andean country's largest - and leakiest - field. Located deep in the Amazon... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) — U.S. refiners Valero Energy Corp and Marathon Petroleum Corp., along with Shell Plc’s trading unit Shell Western Supply and Trading, are rushing to secure Ecuadorian barrels after America banned imports of Russian crude. Ecuador’s state oil company EP Petroecuador held back-to-back meetings this week in Louisiana with several refiners and trading houses, according... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Petroecuador, Ecaudor's state-owned oil company, on Friday said it will look to double production to 800,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed) in the next five years, which will need private sector investment worth some $12 billion. To achieve the goal, Petroecuador hopes to team up with private-sector oil companies via consortia... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - The first contract for drilling at the key Ishpingo oilfield near Ecuador's Yasuni National Park has been awarded to China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), energy minister Juan Carlos Bermeo told Reuters on Wednesday. The South American country, which is pushing legal reforms to win private investment through tax and job incentives, has also... Continue Reading →
Partners Frontera Energy and CGX Energy plan to spend up to $130 million on their second exploration well on the Corentyne block offshore Guyana following positive results from the first well, Kawa-1. Frontera Energy is the majority shareholder of CGX and joint venture partner of CGX in the Petroleum Prospecting License for the Corentyne block.... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Ecuador's privately held heavy crude pipeline burst on Friday and technical staff are at the scene working to contain the damage, crude transport company OCP Ecuador said. The incident happened in the so-called Piedra Fina zone, an area in Ecuador's Amazon where regressive erosion caused the OCP pipeline and the state-owned SOTE pipeline... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Ecuador's oil output has almost fully recovered after pipeline maintenance to repair erosion in the Andean country's Amazon region caused production to dwindle to less than 100,000 barrels per day (bpd), the energy ministry said. The erosion, a naturally occurring phenomenon along the Coca River, forced a halt to pumping in the SOTE... Continue Reading →
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