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Oct 30 (Reuters) - Shell and TotalEnergies posted quarterly profit falls of 10% and 2%, respectively, on Thursday, dragged down by lower oil prices, though Shell beat expectations helped by better trading results in its huge gas division. While Shell, the world's largest liquefied natural gas trader, is keeping its $3.5 billion buyback pace, No. 2 LNG... Continue Reading →
Oct. 29 (Reuters) Grupo Carso is reviewing the feasibility of the Lakach deepwater natural gas project in collaboration with state energy company Pemex and conducting new analyses to determine how to proceed, a company official said Tuesday. The company signed an agreement last year to partner with Pemex to develop the project in the Gulf... Continue Reading →
Oct. 27 (Reuters) Venezuela's oil ministry will ask the presidency to suspend a wide cooperation agreement with Trinidad and Tobago for energy development, including joint gas projects in negotiation, the South American country's oil minister said. Trinidad's previous government had been planning numerous joint gas projects with Venezuela, including the 4.2 trillion cubic feet Dragon... Continue Reading →
Oct. 23 (OE) Golar LNG has informed that all conditions for the 20-year charter of its 3.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) MK II Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) unit to Southern Energy S.A. (SESA) in Argentina have been satisfied. The announcement confirms $8 billion in EBITDA backlog before commodity exposure and inflationary adjustments. The... Continue Reading →
Oct 16 (Reuters) - Guyana's Vice President said on Thursday the country will not take any possible gas development off the negotiation table, including Exxon Mobil's future offshore projects. Exxon's eighth project, Longtail, is expected to be the first to develop non-associated gas in Guyana, and two more discoveries, Haimara and Pluma, could follow. An Exxon... Continue Reading →
Oct 16 (Reuters) - Colombia's Sirius project, developed off its Caribbean coast by state oil firm Ecopetrol and Brazil's Petrobras, has completed nearly half of consultations with local communities that could affected by the development, Petrobras' Colombia chief Alcindo Moritz said on Thursday. The companies said last December they had confirmed Colombia's largest ever gas discovery... Continue Reading →
Oct. 9 (Reuters) The U.S. government has granted an authorization for energy major Shell and Trinidad and Tobago to develop an offshore gas field in Venezuela close to the maritime border, Trinidad's attorney general said on Thursday. The prominent project, aimed to supply Trinidad with Venezuelan gas, has progressed slowly in recent years amid frequent... Continue Reading →
Oct 7 (Reuters) - Drilling and fracking activity in Argentina's Vaca Muerta, the world's fourth-largest unconventional oil reserve, is plateauing due to lower oil prices and rising costs, a slowdown that could complicate the political agenda of libertarian President Javier Milei. The huge Vaca Muerta formation in western Argentina accounts for 64% of the country's... Continue Reading →
Oct 6 (Reuters) - Colombian state-run oil company Ecopetrol is set to launch the bidding process later this month for a regasification project at its Covenas maritime terminal in the north of the country, CEO Ricardo Roa said on Monday. Ecopetrol will begin accepting binding bids for the project on October 14, with a winner expected... Continue Reading →
Oct 6 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petrobras has made its first import of non-conventional natural gas from Argentina's Vaca Muerta reserve in the Neuquen basin, the company said on Monday. In a statement, the firm noted the natural gas was transported on Friday via pipelines from Argentina to Bolivia, and from there to Brazil,... Continue Reading →
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