Jan. 6 (oilnow.gy) A consortium led by TotalEnergies plans to begin a US$25 million 3D seismic survey at Guyana’s offshore Block S4 in August 2026, a project summary from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said. The proposed campaign will cover about 2,000 square kilometers in shallow waters roughly 40 km offshore, at depths of 20 to... Continue Reading →
‘No disruption’ to Guyana’s offshore operations amid Venezuela tension
Jan. 6 (oilnow.gy) Guyana’s Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat, has assured that offshore oil and gas exploration activities continue without a hitch. The assurance comes amid heightened geopolitical tensions in the region following the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. military forces over the weekend. Bharrat confirmed to OilNOW on January 4... Continue Reading →
PRIO – December 2025 Operational Data
January 5, 2026 - PRIO S.A. (“Company” or “PRIO”) (B3: PRIO3), following best practices incorporate governance and transparency, informs its preliminary and non-audited Operational Data for the month of December. Key: (1) The figures refers to PRIO’s 80% stake in Peregrino, considering production throughout the month. As the closing of the acquisition of the additional... Continue Reading →
Jereh Group Delivers Oil Separation Systems for Petrobras’ FPSO Units
Jan. 6 (OE) Chinese multinational oilfield equipment and services provider Jereh Group has delivered slop treatment units and oil purifiers to CIMC Raffles for Petrobras’ P84 and P85 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units, bound for deployment at the Atapu and Sépia fields, off Brazil. The equipment will support slop water and oil separation... Continue Reading →
Chevron Delivers First Oil from New Platform Offshore Angola
Jan. 6 (OE) Chevron has delivered first oil from its South N’dola platform offshore Angola, marking a major project milestone just over two years after construction began. Located in Block 0, which accounts for around 12% of Angola’s daily energy output, the new platform connects to existing infrastructure via a tieback to the Mafumeira facility,... Continue Reading →
High Costs, High Risk Cloud Trump’s Venezuela Oil Pitch
Jan. 6 (Reuters) U.S. President Donald Trump is giving U.S. energy companies the opportunity to revive Venezuela’s massive, derelict oil industry. It’s an offer they may want to refuse. After the U.S. military’s ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the weekend, representatives of the Trump administration plan to meet with oil executives later this... Continue Reading →
Trump administration has not consulted US oil majors about Venezuela, oil execs say
Jan 5 (Reuters) - The Trump administration did not consult with oil companies Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, or Chevron Corp about Venezuela before or after U.S. forces captured the South American country’s president Nicolas Maduro Jan. 3, according to four oil industry executives familiar with the matter. That contradicts President Donald Trump's assertion aboard Air Force One... Continue Reading →
What’s the status of international oil companies in Venezuela after Maduro’s capture?
Jan 5 (Reuters) - Here are key facts about international oil companies in Venezuela, a country with the world's largest oil reserves thrown into crisis by the capture of President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces. In the 2000s, former President Hugo Chávez expropriated assets from several foreign oil companies, strengthening state-owned PDVSA’s control over the country's oilfields. Today, foreign... Continue Reading →
ANP Releases Consolidated Oil and Gas Production Data for November 2025
Jan. 5 - In November 2025, Brazil produced 4.921 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) of oil and natural gas. The data was released today by the ANP in its Monthly Oil and Natural Gas Production Bulletin. Regarding oil, 3.773 million barrels per day (bbl/d) were extracted, a 6.4% decrease compared to the... Continue Reading →
Suriname’s Oil Dreams Collide With Geological Reality
Jan. 3 (oilprice.com) Suriname’s government, in the capital Paramaribo, has been hungrily eyeing neighboring Guyana’s massive world-class oil boom since before the 2020 pandemic. Both impoverished South American nations of less than one million share the Guyana Suriname Basin. The offshore basin is delivering an oil boom that is exceeding all expectations, making Guyana, based... Continue Reading →