Energy & Oil

• Friday, May 16th 2014 - 09:25 UTC

  YPF defends Chevron partnership; court orders investigation into accord with the US oil giant

  

  Argentine state-controlled oil company YPF on Thursday defended the partnership deal it reached with one of the world's largest energy corporations, Chevron Corp., two days after a court ordered a probe into alleged irregularities associated with the pact.

• Thursday, May 15th 2014 - 00:31 UTC

  Falklands drilling will resume in second quarter of 2015, announced Premier Oil

  

  Exploration drilling in the waters off the Falkland Islands will resume in the second quarter of next year, according to Premier Oil. Negotiations are currently underway with rig contractors and joint venture partners, the company said in its interim management statement which was approved as the annual general meeting.

• Friday, May 9th 2014 - 07:01 UTC

  Repsol/YPF 'marriage' definitively over; Spanish company ends 15-year presence in Argentina

  

  Spanish oil major Repsol signed a definitive settlement agreement Thursday with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's administration, which transferred more than 5 billion dollars in bonds as compensation for the 2012 seizure of Repsol's controlling stake in energy firm YPF.

• Thursday, May 8th 2014 - 04:57 UTC

  Repsol sells YPF stake for 1.25bn dollars to Morgan Stanley; keeps 0.5% share

  

  Spain's Repsol oil and gas company says it has sold an 11.86% stake it owned in Argentina's YPF energy company to Morgan Stanley for 900 million Euros (1.25 billion dollars), effectively leaving it without a stake in a company it once controlled.

• Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 22:52 UTC

  Why hasn't the U.S. gone after Gazprom?

  

  By John C.K. Daly - Amidst the deepening war of words over Moscow's annexation of Crimea, U.S. President Barack Obama on April 28 added more Russian individuals and companies to a sanctions list that already included influential members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and Bank Rossiya, which has close ties to the Russian leadership.

• Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 07:44 UTC

  Time to end “war on drugs” and the “one-size-fits-all approach” says academic report

  

  Global efforts to thwart the drugs trade have failed and the time has come for a radical rethink, according to a group of Nobel-prize winning economists, a former US secretary of state, the deputy prime minister of Britain and others.

• Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 06:46 UTC

  Drought in Brazil hits hydropower and energy rationing is increasingly likely

  

  With less than 40 days remaining before the country takes center stage as host of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Brazilian hydropower power operators are facing a severe drought that makes energy rationing an increasing likelihood.

• Friday, May 2nd 2014 - 09:51 UTC

  Petrobras concessions in Argentine Patagonia extended for ten years

  

  The Argentine unit of Brazilian state-controlled oil giant Petrobras has signed an agreement with the Patagonian province of Rio Negro that extends its three concessions in that region for 10 years. The new deal was inked after the company renegotiated its contractual conditions with the provincial government.

• Monday, April 28th 2014 - 07:39 UTC

  Putin is losing Eastern European energy gamble

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin said he doesn't think the European community can do without the natural gas it gets from energy monopoly Gazprom. With a Russian economy starting to decline, however, it may be Gazprom that's too strongly interconnected to the European market to break free.

• Friday, April 25th 2014 - 06:04 UTC

  After a long debate, Argentine Congress approves Repsol/YPF agreement terms

  

  After a 16-hour debate, Argentina's Lower House passed the law to pay Spanish Repsol 5 billion dollars in bonds to compensate for the 2012 seizure of a majority stake in Argentina's energy company YPF.