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Aug, 20 (oilprice.com) Anadarko Peru, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) is moving ahead with plans to drill its first exploration well offshore northern Peru in 2027, advancing a project that could help unlock a major new source of domestic oil and gas. The company, operator of offshore Blocks Z-61, Z-62 and Z-63 in the... Continue Reading →
Aug 18 (Reuters) - Guyana is now entitled to 39.8% of crude production from a large ExxonMobil-led offshore project, the country's President Irfaan Ali said on Tuesday. The change - expected to greatly increase the country's oil revenue - comes after the Exxon-led consortium, the only one producing oil and gas in Guyana, recovered the... Continue Reading →
Aug 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. diesel crack, a key measure of refining profitability, hit an all-time high of $102.20 a barrel on Monday as global supply disruptions from the wars in Iran and Ukraine run into peak agricultural consumption season. Measured as the premium of U.S. diesel futures over U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures , the... Continue Reading →
Aug. 17 (OE) As the market moves toward the end of the summer season in the northern hemisphere, several offshore support vessels are expected to roll off their contracts over the coming months. Shipowners are thus already positioning tonnage for the winter and next summer season. The CSOV market has remained tight over the past... Continue Reading →
Aug 17 (Reuters) - Palantir chair and co-founder Peter Thiel has bought a 1% stake in Argentina's Vista, one of the largest oil companies operating in the country's Vaca Muerta shale formation, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The filing, published on Friday, comes four months after the tech billionaire met with... Continue Reading →
Aug. 14 (oilnow.gy) Guyana’s oil production fell in May and again in June, according to government data. ExxonMobil leads a consortium that has invested more than US$50 billion to explore and develop the resource offshore. Production averaged 869,000 barrels per day (b/d) in June. This was down from 895,000 b/d in May and 902,000 b/d... Continue Reading →
Aug 13 (Reuters) - Argentina LNG on Thursday submitted an application to participate in the country's investment scheme to develop its integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) project with a total investment of $51 billion, state oil firm YPF said in a statement. The project is backed by YPF along with energy firms Eni and XRG,... Continue Reading →
Aug. 13 - The government also signed significant decrees for the energy industry. The first regulates the implementation of the National Low-Carbon Hydrogen Policy. The decree puts into practice mechanisms for governance, certification, tax incentives, and investment promotion, laying the groundwork for the National Hydrogen Program (PNH2) and the Low-Carbon Hydrogen Development Program (PHBC). It... Continue Reading →
Aug. 13 (Estadao) Seatrium, a marine engineering multinational expanding its global offshore wind operations, sees Brazil as a market ripe for development and hopes to leverage its local infrastructure to manufacture substations and vessels dedicated to the sector. However, the company is making any planning contingent on the maturation of the legal framework. It has... Continue Reading →
Aug. 13 (oilprice.com) Over the past couple of years, Colombia’s clean energy transition has shifted into overdrive under President Gustavo Petro’s "Just Energy Transition" agenda, with the country pivoting away from fossil fuels towards wind and solar energy. Petro, Colombia’s first ever left-wing president, instituted a strict ban on signing new oil, gas and coal exploration contracts... Continue Reading →
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