Energy & Oil
Energy & OilArgentina/Brazil to jointly explore for South Atlantic oil
Brazil's Petrobras and Argentina' energy company, Enarsa will cooperate in offshore hydrocarbons exploration in the South Atlantic was announced Monday in Brasilia following the meeting in Brasilia of President Lula da Silva with visiting elected president Cristina Kirchner.
Desire Petroleum to complete survey in North Falkland Basin
Desire Petroleum plc announced that Wavefield InSeis ASA will return to the North Falkland Basin later this month to complete the site survey programme started earlier this year.
G 20 warns on risks to growth, inflation and energy prices
Leaders of the world's 20 largest economies stressed on Sunday warned of rising risks to economic development and inflation, and the need for new energy supplies as global economic growth continue to stumble over high oil prices.
Opec divided on US dollar but pledges reliable oil supply
Opec leaders meeting in Riyadh pledged to provide the world with reliable supplies of oil and fight global warming but the summit's final statement made no mention of calls by oil-consuming countries such as that from Washington to raise production to ease sky-high prices.
Magallanes extends oil licences to five global companies
Five international corporations have won bids for hydrocarbons exploration and production in nine out of ten blocks in the extreme south of Chile, --Magallanes Region--, was announced on Thursday by the country's Deputy Mining Minister Diego Vio in Punta Arenas.
Chavez warns US at Opec summit but is rebuked by Saudis
In his opening address at a rare Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) summit in the Saudi capital, Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has warned the US over rising oil prices.
Venezuela, like Iran to launch peaceful nuclear program
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez this week told a French TV channel that Venezuela, just like Iran, is launching a peaceful nuclear program.
“Weak US dollar” at the heart of the OPEC Riyadh summit
A blunder by OPEC on Friday exposed serious discrepancies between Saudi Arabia and Iran about whether the oil exporters' group should address the issue of the falling dollar at a rare summit of leaders this weekend in Riyadh.
OPEC: no output increase decision until December
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ruled out an output increase in the coming summit and said that the surge in global fuel prices can not be tracked to shortage of oil in the market and certainly not because of the fast-growing Indian and Chinese economies.
Plenty of oil for another century says Saudi Arabia
World oil reserves at current demand are sufficient for the next century and the global oil industry should aim to produce at least 3 trillion bbl from conventional recoverable resources in known fields and discoveries over the next several decades, according to the head of Saudi Aramco.
