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Aug 5 (Reuters) - Mexico's government on Tuesday said it aimed to cease funding Pemex by 2027 when the highly-indebted state energy company should become financially self-sufficient, helped by a series of measures to bring down debt and stabilize production. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, flanked by her energy and finance ministers and the chief executive... Continue Reading →
July 29, 2025 - Petrobras average production of oil, NGL and natural gas was 2.91 MMboed in 2Q25, 5.0% higher than 1Q25. This performance was mainly due to the ramp-up of FPSOs Almirante Tamandaré, in Búzios field, Maria Quitéria, in Jubarte field, Anita Garibaldi and Anna Nery, in Marlim and Voador fields, to Marechal Duque... Continue Reading →
July 28 (Reuters) - Mexican state energy company Pemex on Monday reported a net profit of 59.52 billion pesos ($3.17 billion) for the second quarter of this year, helped largely by a more favorable exchange rate. Like most of its Latin American peers, Pemex is essentially a dollar-denominated state company, including for the vast majority... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - The U.S. government sided with Argentina's effort to put on temporary hold a court order that it turn over its 51% stake in oil and gas company YPF to partially satisfy a $16.1 billion judgment won by two investors. In a filing late Thursday night, the government told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court... Continue Reading →
(OE) Texas-based oilfield services provider Expro has secured a three-year contract by Woodside Energy to provide tubular running services (TRS) and cementing services for the Trion project, Mexico’s first deepwater oil production facility. Woodside and Expro have a long-standing partnership, with Expro supporting well construction activities in Mexico during the exploration phase. As part of... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Argentina's VMOS signed a $2 billion loan to finance construction of the Vaca Muerta South pipeline project, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Vaca Muerta, a vast unconventional oil reserve, is pivotal for Argentina to cut costly imports and bolster its economy. VMOS S.A., a partnership formed by state-run oil company... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Colombian state oil firm Ecopetrol said on Monday it has purchased a wind power project in the northern province of La Guajira from Enel for $50 million. The Windpeshi project will have a capacity of 205 megawatts (MW), which will be added to Ecopetrol Group's self-consumption energy portfolio, the company said in a statement. "We have... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday ordered Argentina to give up its 51% stake in oil and gas company YPF to partially satisfy a $16.1 billion court judgment, handing a defeat to the cash-strapped country. U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan said Argentina must transfer its YPF shares within 14 days to BNY Mellon,... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Argentina on Monday urged London's High Court to pause enforcement of a $16 billion-plus United States court judgment over the expropriation of oil and gas company YPF, pending an appeal by the Argentinian government in the U.S. The South American republic was ordered in 2023 to pay minority shareholders around $16 billion resulting from its... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Suriname's state energy company Staatsolie and an affiliate of Malaysia's oil firm Petronas on Tuesday signed a production-sharing contract for exploring and developing an offshore oil and gas block, Staatsolie said in a release. Suriname is on track to inaugurate offshore crude and natural gas output soon after foreign companies including TotalEnergies, APA and Petronas have... Continue Reading →
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