Energy & Oil

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 19:38 UTC

  Brazil and Paraguay cut down energy prices at Itaipu

  

  Authorities from Brazil and Paraguay have announced a reduction in the price of energy from the binational Itaipu power plant from US$ 22.60 to US$20.75 per kilowatt.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 07:59 UTC

  UK energy prices: record number of people stole electricity last year; another hefty rise in October

  

  The energy situation is hitting UK consumers and figures released by the Home Office show that a record number of people stole electricity in England and Wales last year.

• Monday, August 8th 2022 - 21:29 UTC

  Fuel deposit fire in Cuba reaches 4th day - one firefighter dies

  

  A gruesome fire in Cuba has reached its fourth day. A fuel deposit has been burning since Friday in Matanzas, in western Cuba, in what has already been described as the biggest industrial disaster in the country's history.

• Saturday, August 6th 2022 - 11:38 UTC

  Germany resurrecting nuclear, oil and coal powered plants to replace Russian gas

  

  With the Ukrainian war still raging and making arrangements ahead of next winter, Germany despite its original pledges and with a coalition that includes the Green party, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has admitted for the first time that the country could put off the retirement of its nuclear power grid.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 20:56 UTC

  Brazilian customers have bought over 100,000 electric vehicles

  

  The Brazilian market of battery-powered vehicles has crossed the psychologically relevant threshold of 100,000 units in circulation nationwide, as sales of this type of vehicle grew 47% yoy in the first semester of 2022, it was reported.

• Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Brazilian oil sales to China and India drop significantly as Russia moves in

  

  Brazil oil sales to India and China in the first half of 2022 have fallen considerably, amid the Ukraine war and a significant increase in crude exports from Russia to the two Asian countries.
  According to data from Brazil’s Foreign Trade Secretariat (Secex), in the first half of the year, Brazil exported 36% less oil to China than in the same period last year. Likewise exports to India fell 53.8%.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  Falklands extends oil licenses two years for farm-in Rockhopper/Navitas accord

  

  Positive news for Falklands' oil industry development. All regulatory consents for the transaction between Harbour Energy plc and Israel's Navitas Petroleum LP of its Falkland Islands offshore license interests have been approved by the Falkland Islands government and the United Kingdom minister of state.

• Tuesday, July 26th 2022 - 10:38 UTC

  Petrobras output down in second quarter Bolsonaro confident his friend Putin will supply him with diesel fuel

  

  Oil exports by Brazilian energy giant Petrobras fell by 28.5% in the second quarter of 2022, to 531,000 barrels per day (b/d), compared to the same period a year ago, the company said in its quarterly production and sales report. The news comes when the country is looking for cheaper opportunities to import diesel fuel from countries currently free of sanctions.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 22:49 UTC

  Falklands’ black gold rush might at last be a reality

  

  By Dominic O’Connell, The Times- Head north from the Falkland Islands, across the South Atlantic waves where albatross wheels and whales sound, and you pass over what could be a big new oil province — a significant source of hydrocarbons controlled not by sheiks or oligarchs, but by the United Kingdom.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Venezuelan gov't speaks of terrorist attack as oil pipe burns

  

  Venezuelan authorities were speaking of a “terrorist attack” Monday after a state-owned gas pipeline went up in smoke Sunday in the country's eastern region.