Energy & Oil

• Thursday, June 25th 2009 - 10:06 UTC

  Canadian oil company begins exploration drilling in Patagonia’s San Jorge basin

  

  Canada’s Crown Point Ventures Ltd announced that in early to mid July it expects to be commencing the drilling of a three well exploration drilling program at El Valle in the San Jorge basin of Argentine Patagonia.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2009 - 08:36 UTC

  Falklands oil basin open to all companies including from Argentina

  

  The Falkland Islands would welcome more interaction with Argentine oil and gas companies as the search for what could be large offshore oil and gas reserves heats up, Falkland Islands director of minerals and agriculture Phyl Rendell told BNamericas.

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2009 - 11:54 UTC

  Itaipu dispute postpones Mercosur presidential summit in Paraguay

  

  The Mercosur presidential summit has been postponed for July 24 and 25 it was reported Monday from Asunción, Paraguay, the host of the event. Three of the four full members of the trade group, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, proposed the change from the original July 3 and 4 arguing political and electoral reasons.

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2009 - 11:31 UTC

  New legislation envisions Brazil as oil resources and technological giant

  

  The Brazilian Executive will present a bill aimed at increasing government control of offshore oil reserves to Congress in July before an annual legislative holiday. However the existing oil exploration rights which have been sold under the current auction system will not be changed with the new proposals.

• Friday, June 19th 2009 - 14:00 UTC

  Brazil drafting legislation to create new state-owned oil company

  

  Brazil’s government is considering changes to the country’s oil law that would open the way for the creation of a separate state owned company to manage development of the sub-salt and deep sea hydrocarbons resources.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2009 - 12:10 UTC

  Oil and gas exploration off Comodoro Rivadavia begins August

  

  Argentine oil and gas company Pan American Energy will invest 80 million US dollars in the first phase of an offshore exploration program in the San Jorge Gulf in Patagonia, next to Comodoro Rivadavia, the company said Tuesday in a statement.

• Monday, June 15th 2009 - 07:45 UTC

  Cuban Oil: Havana’s Potential Geo-Political Bombshell

  

  As the US President Barack Obama administration slowly inches towards normalizing its relations with Cuba, pressure is mounting on the new president to lift the decades-old, and universally acknowledged, anachronistic embargo.

• Thursday, June 11th 2009 - 09:05 UTC

  Latinamerica forecasted to contact 1.7% with mild recovery at end of 2009

  

  Latinamerica will experience this year a 1.7% contraction (negative growth), the first time since 2002, basically because of a severe fall in global trade and remittances according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latinamerica and the Caribbean, CEPAL.

• Thursday, June 11th 2009 - 06:21 UTC

  Low inventories push crude to 71 USD, highest in seven months

  

  Crude prices continued to surge on Wednesday, rallying on the news that US inventories fell more than expected and Chevron confirmed a fire at its Nigerian oil facility. Light, sweet crude for July delivery jumped 1.32 dollars, 1.9%, to settle at 71.33 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest close in seven months.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:44 UTC

  Repsol, Petrobras and BP to explore for oil next to Falklands’ waters

  

  A consortium led by Spanish oil firm Repsol YPF SA (REP) plans to explore for oil in international waters between Argentina and the Falkland Islands, officials from the company said Monday.