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 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.
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 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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
Brazil will temporarily shut down power plants fired by natural gas from Bolivia and will reduce imports of the Bolivian fuel through the end of April, announced Mines and Energy mister Edison Lobao.