LatAmOil - Latin America Oil & Gas
Shell set to operate three deepwater blocks offshore Colombia
Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), has named a local subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands) as the operator of exploration and production contracts covering three new deepwater licence areas.
Energy minister: Retail gasoline price controls to be lifted by end-January
Franklin Khan, the energy minister of Trinidad and Tobago, said late last month that his country was on track to lift price controls on the domestic retail gasoline market by the end of January.
ExxonMobil spuds Bulletwood-1 well at Canje block
US-based ExxonMobil has reportedly begun drilling the Bulletwood-1 exploration well at the Canje block offshore Guyana.
Mexico agrees to extend talks on unitisation of Zama deposit
The government of Mexico recently gave the green light to an extension of talks between state-run oil company Pemex and a private consortium led by US-based Talos Energy over Zama, a huge oil deposit discovered in 2017.
A long, strange year: 2020 in review
NewsBase’s editors are marking the start of 2021 with a review of how each of the regions covered by our organisation was affected by the events of the past 12 months.
NRG: Energy markets edge cautiously into a new year
Concerns about energy demand and OPEC+ production quotas continue to exert pressure on oil prices, despite the debut of the COVID-19 vaccine
Petronas, ExxonMobil report discovery at Sloanea-1
Petronas (Malaysia) and ExxonMobil (US) have discovered hydrocarbons in the Sloanea section of Block 52 offshore Suriname.
Guyanese business associations call for maximising local content
Two private business associations in Guyana have said they hope the international oil companies (IOCs) that are working to explore and develop hydrocarbon deposits in the offshore zone will hire local firms as often as possible.
Karoon ships first cargo of Baúna crude
Australia’s Karoon Energy has shipped its first cargo of crude oil from the Baúna field, located offshore Brazil in the Santos basin.
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