Energy & Oil

• Wednesday, December 17th 2014 - 07:27 UTC

  YPF money helps Repsol by over Canadian Talisman

  

  The largest international deal by a Spanish company in the last five years, props up shares despite plummetting international oil prices.

• Saturday, December 13th 2014 - 04:37 UTC

  Brazil confident since pre-salt oil is profitable 'even at 60 dollars a barrel'

  

  The head of Brazil's National Petroleum Agency, Magda Chambriard said that the country's oil production projects remain 'robust' even as international prices for crude continue to tumble. She underlined that the pre-salt projects of Brazil along ist coast resist prices as low as 60 dollars a barrel.

• Friday, December 12th 2014 - 21:49 UTC

  Dutch oil platform leasing company cutting 11% of global workforce

  

  Dutch oil platform leasing company SBM Offshore is cutting 1,200 jobs, or slightly more than 11% of its global workforce, as part of a cost-saving program.

• Friday, December 12th 2014 - 06:16 UTC

  Financial aid from Brazilian government for scandal-hit Petrobras

  

  Brazil's government is wrapping up a financing plan for Petrobras aimed at ensuring the scandal-hit state-controlled oil giant can obtain the funding it needs for its massive investment program.

• Thursday, December 11th 2014 - 12:46 UTC

  Falling world oil prices shatter Argentine stocks for second day running

  

  Argentine stocks closed down 6.85% Wednesday, weighted down by falling oil prices for a second day of heavy losses. As oil prices sank to new five-year lows, the Merval stock index in Buenos Aires shed more than 600 points to 8,279.04, after losing 7.22% Tuesday.

• Thursday, December 11th 2014 - 12:04 UTC

  Malaysia's Petronas and YPF sign 550 million deal to develop shale deposits in Patagonia

  

  YPF SA and Petroliam Nasional Bhd, state-controlled companies from Argentina and Malaysia, signed a 550 million dollars deal to drill fields at the world’s fourth-largest shale oil deposit in Patagonia’s Vaca Muerta, south Argentina.

• Tuesday, December 9th 2014 - 07:38 UTC

  World's main oilfield services provider drastically reducing size of marine seismic fleet

  

  Schlumberger Ltd, the world's No.1 oilfield services provider, said it was reducing the size of its marine seismic fleet to lower costs as it expects customers to cut exploration spending.

• Friday, December 5th 2014 - 07:01 UTC

  Falklands interested in training oil industry manpower with support from Trinidad and Tobago

  

  Four senior oil industry business and training executives are in the Falkland Islands promoting Trinidad and Tobago’s oil industry training services. Preparing staff for the oil industry is crucial if benefits are to be injected to the local economy in the form of jobs and knowhow.

• Friday, December 5th 2014 - 06:50 UTC

  Could falling oil prices spark a financial crisis?

  

  The oil and gas boom in the United States was made possible by the extensive credit afforded to drillers. Not only has financing come from company shareholders and traditional banks, but hundreds of billions of dollars have also come from junk-bond investors looking for high returns.

• Thursday, December 4th 2014 - 05:51 UTC

  Falling oil prices comes as a blessing for dollar-short Argentina

  

  The slump in global oil prices will reduce Argentina's energy import bill by several billion dollars, a development that could ease pressure on the Central Bank’s strained foreign-currency reserves, according to Economy minister Axel Kicillof.