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April 10, 2024
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said the oil and gas would be developed in Venezuelan fields near the Colombian province of Norte de Santander, while electricity would be provided from La Guajira province on Colombia’s Caribbean coast.
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May 23, 2024
Repsol recently signed a deal with state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA that adds jointly managed fields to its operations. In the next few months, the assets are expected to produce 20,000 bpd, doubling what the European major currently produces in one of its three ventures, Chief Executive Officer Josu Jon Imaz said in a call with investors in April.
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May 16, 2024
Oil firms that want to stay in Venezuela are flooding the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control with applications for permits after Washington reimposed sanctions last month, leaving officials struggling to clear the backlog.
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May 14, 2024
Venezuela’s armed forces have moved “substantial quantities” of personnel and equipment near the disputed, oil-rich Essequibo region that’s controlled by Guyana, a Washington-based think tank reports, potentially escalating tensions ahead of presidential elections.
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April 26, 2024
The new fields, Tomoporo and La Ceiba, contain more than 5 Bbbl of oil and are part of a venture in which Repsol holds a 40% stake and PDVSA holds the remainder.
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April 18, 2024
Venezuelan firm A&B Investments will partner with Petróleos de Venezuela to run heavy oil fields in the Orinoco Belt and an associated processing facility, according to people familiar with the negotiations who asked not to be named because discussions are ongoing.
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July 10, 2024
Cisneros, who is chairman of Cisneros Corporation, is entering a joint venture with PDVSA through Globalable Holding SL. The JV known as Petrocabimas is based in the western Zulia state and is projected to quadruple current production to 50,000 bpd by 2026, Cisneros said in a statement. PDVSA did not reply to a request for comment.
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April 14, 2024
The Whiptail project will cost $12.7 billion and produce about 250,000 bpd as soon as the end of 2027, Exxon said in a statement Friday. Guyana’s overall daily crude capacity will climb to 1.3 MMbbl just eight years after the advent of the country’s oil production.
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April 17, 2024
The U.S. plans to allow a Treasury Department license permitting oil and gas production to expire without renewal on Thursday, according to people familiar with the plan, who asked not to be identified without permission to speak publicly, if Venezuela fails to act.
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July 2024
During the past 12 months, Guyana and Suriname have started to become a fulcrum of energy development in the Americas. While they are both found in the same region, these two countries still have different oil and gas stories to tell. Major production growth is imminent in Guyana, while Suriname is still a few years away from first oil but with significant future potential from recent discoveries.
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May 21, 2024
From 2020 to 2023, Guyana's crude oil production grew by an average of 98,000 bpd annually, making it the third-fastest growing non-OPEC producer. This surge has driven substantial economic growth, with a 62.3% GDP increase in 2022, the highest globally, according to the IMF.
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March 18, 2024
The Bluefin well encountered approximately 197 ft (60 m) of hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone and was drilled in 4,244 ft (1,294 m) of water, Exxon said in a statement. Bluefin joins the more than 30 oil discoveries in the Stabroek block since 2015, Exxon added.
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September 02, 2024
The nation’s economy grew by 49.7% in the first half of 2024, with the oil sector accounting for 67% of that growth, Ali said Saturday on a live webcast. Guyana produced an estimated 113.5 MMbbl of oil from January to June, and the oil sector is projected to grow by 56.4% this year, he added.
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March 31, 2024
India — the third-largest crude importer and Moscow’s second largest buyer after China — is the latest market seeing an influx of U.S. oil. American shipments to India are set to jump in March to the highest in nearly a year, according to data from crude tracking firm Kpler.
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May 06, 2024
Located offshore Brazil in the Santos basin, Tupi is the country’s largest producing field, with an average volume of 850,000 bopd, accounting for 20% of the total produced in Brazil, according to Petrobras.
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September 03, 2024
bp has entered into an agreement with Perenco to divest its Immortelle, Flamboyant, Amherstia and Cashima offshore gas fields and associated production facilities, including undeveloped resources from the Parang field. The assets, except for Parang, are mature fields that have been in production from as early as 1993 and currently produce 30,000 boed.
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July 09, 2024
Manatee is slated to start production in 2027. Once online, Manatee is expected to reach peak production of approximately 104,000 boed.
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April 26, 2024
In the past two years, TotalEnergies, Shell Plc and Galp Energia SGPS SA have made finds off the southwest coast of Africa that turned sparsely populated Namibia into a hotspot for exploration. While no field has yet been given the green light for development, hopes are high in the country that an economic boom similar to that seen in Guyana could be on the cards.
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July 22, 2024
Recent discoveries in Namibia’s Orange basin suggest it could hold up to 3 Bbpe of oil and 8.7 Tcfg, and the country’s total oil reserves could be nearly equal to Guyana’s at around 11 Bbbl. Excitement around the newly discovered resources is high, and though oil and gas production still lie ahead, Namibia has become a leader in African oil and gas investment.
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August 01, 2024
The tale of the Guyana discovery isn’t about taking swashbuckling risks for a huge payoff. Exxon, it turns out, is as much a financial engineering company as an oil explorer. It hedged its bets, reduced its exposure and bought itself an option to make a fortune on an unlikely outcome.
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May 24, 2024
Colombia is targeting oil productiton of 1 MMbpd by pressuring drillers to step up activity in underused exploration blocs, according to the nation’s top energy official.
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May 10, 2024
Discussions of Guyana’s future as a regional—and global—powerhouse were at center stage in a discussion panel at OTC 2024. From the private sector to government involvement, the panel of speakers from ExxonMobil and the Guyanese government dove into the optic of Guyana’s “outsized role” to play in the global oil and gas industry, despite the country’s small geographic size.
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August 16, 2024
Autry Stephens, the petroleum engineer raised on a Texas peanut and watermelon farm who became the richest U.S. oilman, has died. He was 86.
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