The last year has been rough for Colombia’s economically vital petroleum industry. Toward the end of 2019 and at the start of 2020 government and industry bodies were expecting a Continue Reading
The FSO Nabarima listing in the Gulf of Paria on October 16 (Photo: Fishermen and Friends of the Sea) Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela has begun transferring crude Continue Reading
Tropical rains have washed away most outward traces of the oil spill that ravaged Rio Seco this fall. But the fishing village in the shadow of Venezuela’s main refining hub Continue Reading
The trials and tribulations for Ecuador’s deeply embattled petroleum industry continue. If crumbling infrastructure, refinery outages and pipeline ruptures were not enough, the Andean country’s state-controlled PetroEcuador finds itself embroiled Continue Reading
The growing oil boom in the offshore Guyana-Suriname Basin continues to gain pace . After making a series of spectacular discoveries in offshore Guyana energy supermajor ExxonMobil announced that with Continue Reading
ExxonMobil and its partner Petronas have discovered oil and gas offshore Suriname, which adds to Exxon’s numerous discoveries offshore Guyana in the same Guyana-Suriname basin, the U.S. supermajor said on Continue Reading
Turnout is predicted to be low as opposition supporters are urged to stay at home President Nicolás Maduro’s party and his allies have won in Venezuela’s legislative elections that were Continue Reading
Iran is sending its biggest fleet yet of tankers to Venezuela in defiance of U.S. sanctions to help the isolated nation weather a crippling fuel shortage, according to people with Continue Reading
The Panama Canal Authority may add additional reserved LNG transit slots in the future to address the increase in US exports via the shortest route from the Gulf Coast to Continue Reading
ExxonMobil could install as many as 10 floating production, storage and offloading vessels, or FPSOs, at the Stabroek block off the coast of Guyana, the company’s manager for deepwater projects Continue Reading
