LatAmOil - Latin America Oil & Gas

20 August 2020

Total launches third phase of Mero project offshore Brazil

18 August 2020

France’s Total said last week that the consortium set up to develop the offshore Libra block had opted to move ahead with the third phase of work at the Mero field.

Brazilian regulator gives majors more time for wildcatting

18 August 2020

ANP, Brazil’s hydrocarbon market regulator, has given major companies including Petrobras, Total and BP more time for wildcatting activity, owing to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and low oil prices.

Venezuela’s National Assembly demands info on oil spill

18 August 2020

Venezuela’s National Assembly has demanded information on an oil spill that has washed up on the country’s shores.

ExxonMobil awarded another block in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta

18 August 2020

The US supermajor ExxonMobil has won a 35-year concession for Los Toldos II Oeste, a block in the Vaca Muerta giant shale play, its main focus in Argentina.

YPF reports revenues, income, production down in Q2-2020

17 August 2020

Argentina’s national oil company (NOC) YPF has reported that its financial and operational performance deteriorated in the second quarter of 2020, largely as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

US ‘grabs Iranian fuel en route to Venezuela’

14 August 2020

Move disrupts growing strategic alliance of two sanctioned nations that Washington finds hard to swallow.