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Nov 7 (Reuters) - Argentine state-controlled energy company YPF (YPFDm.BA), opens new tab swung to a net loss of $198 million in the third quarter, the company said on Friday, saying the loss reflected a deferred tax charge. The company's adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), a key measure of industry profitability, stood at... Continue Reading →
Nov. 5 (Reuters) Two consortia led separately by Malaysia's Petronas and U.S. Chevron have signed production-sharing contracts with Suriname's Staatsolie to explore and develop two offshore areas in the South American country, the state company said on Wednesday. Under the 30-year contracts, Staatsolie will conduct a competitive process to select foreign companies to explore and produce oil and... Continue Reading →
Nov 3 (Reuters) - Peruvian oil firm Upland Oil and Gas said on Monday it would ask the South American nation's regulator to review its application to operate in Block 192, once Peru's largest Amazon oilfield, after it was disqualified days earlier. State agency Perupetro disqualified Upland, which operates other reserves in the country's Amazon... Continue Reading →
Oct 27 (Reuters) - Mexican state energy company Pemex reported a 61.25 billion peso ($3.34 billion) third-quarter net loss on Monday, according to a filing with the Mexican stock exchange. Revenues for one of the country's biggest companies during the July-to-September period totaled 378.9 billion pesos. Pemex reported that it pumped with partners an average... Continue Reading →
Oct. 27 (OE) Offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling has secured contract extensions for three of its premium jack-up rigs from Mexico’s national oil company Pemex. The rigs Galar and Gersemi have each been awarded two-year firm contract extensions that will commence in direct continuation of their existing contracts in Mexico. The extensions also include two... 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. 10 (Reuters) Equinor has scrapped plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by connecting several offshore platforms to Norway's onshore power grid, the company told the government on Friday, citing soaring costs. The oil and gas sector is Norway's largest source of climate emissions, accounting for about a quarter of the total. Around 80% of industry emissions... 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 →
Sept 30 (Reuters) - The construction of a flagship pipeline to transport oil output from Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale region to the coast is 35% complete, the country's head of energy, Daniel Gonzalez, said at a conference on Tuesday. The 437-kilometer Vaca Muerta South pipeline by a holding company led by state-controlled YPF will connect Argentina's most important... Continue Reading →
Sept. 30 (oilprice) Billionaire Carlos Slim’s Grupo Carso SAB has signed a $1.99 billion contract with state oil company Pemex to drill 32 wells at the Ixachi natural gas field in Veracruz over the next three years. The Ixachi field, one of Mexico’s most important onshore deposits, currently produces about 93,000 barrels of oil and... Continue Reading →
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