Energy & Oil
Energy & OilPetrobras/Repsol strike gas in Santos basin shallow waters
The Consortium formed by Brazil's government managed oil and gas corporation Petrobras and Spain's Repsol announced the discovery of a “thick column of natural gas” in the offshore Santos basin, southeast of Brazil.
Exxon finds evidence of oil in Brazil's pre-salt basin
Exxon Mobil Corp., Hess Corp. and Petrobras found evidence of oil at an offshore block in Brazil's Santos Basin in an area close to the largest oil discovery in three decades in the American continent.
Argentina's crude output down for seventh year running
Argentina's oil production fell for the seventh consecutive year in 2008, declining 1.8% to 230 million barrels, according to a report from an economic consulting firm cited Wednesday in the Buenos Aires press.
Petrobras averaged 2.4 million bpd output during 2008
Brazilian government managed energy giant Petrobras produced an average of 2.4 million barrels per day of crude and natural gas at its operations inside and outside Brazil in 2008, an increase of 4.3%, or roughly 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, compared to 2007.
Venezuela supports OPEC production cuts of 2 to 4m bpd
Venezuela is ready to sponsor a new cut in crude production to protect the oil market, two to four million barrels per day, confirmed Rafael Ramirez, Energy Minister and President of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the country's government owned oil corporation.
Spain's Repsol announces oil discovery offshore Brazil
Spanish oil company Repsol anounced this week the discovery of “traces” of hydrocarbons at a deepwater well being drilled off the Brazilian coast. In an official statement Repsol said the well was completed in Block BM-S-48, located in the Santos Basin off the coast of the south-eastern state of Sao Paulo.
World oil demand forecasted to continue contracting
While oil prices ended this week's trading in the range of 35 US dollars the barrel, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has cut its estimates on world oil demand and for the first time since 1982-1983, expects two consecutive years of contracting demand for crude oil.
Dr. Colin Phipps, a visionary of the Falklands oil future
Dr Colin Phipps, long linked to the Falkland Islands and one of the driving forces behind the promising frontier oil industry passed away in London on January 10.
Chile-Peru consortium to invest in natural gas plant
A Chilean-Peruvian consortium plans to invest 650 million USD in a project to produce ammonium and ammonium nitrate from natural gas, Peruvian President Alan Garcia said Wednesday.
To comply with OPEC, Ecuador cuts private oil output
The Ecuadorian government has decided to suspend oil production by Italy's Agip and France's Perenco, both of which operate in the Amazon region, to comply with new OPEC cuts.
