Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras Thursday announced it would reduce the sale price of fuel to distributors from R$ 3.53 (US$ 0.67) to R$3.28 (US$ 0.63) per liter effective Friday.
A survey from Brazil's National Oil, Gas and Bio-fuels Agency, ANP, showed that the average price for a liter of gasoline in service stations across Brazil had dropped 2,77%, and this way the price is now R$ 5,25 this week, the lowest it has been since February 2021.
Argentina's state-run oil company YPF announced a mega port will be built in Río Negro to export oil from the Atlantic shore.
According to the latest report from Argentina's National Mining Secretariat, lithium is not far from taking over as the leading mining industry item, whereas gold and silver continue to lead.
Russia has become China's main oil supplier for the third month running during July, according to information from Hong Kong market analysts. Apparently independent refiners stepped up purchases of discounted supplies while cutting shipments from rival suppliers such as Angola and Brazil.
United Kingdom energy executives have warned the country faces the prospect of mass civil unrest as a result of people being unable to afford their heating and electricity bills this coming winter.
A corporate tribunal has ordered the Italian government to pay more than £210m to the UK/Falklands oil company Rockhopper as compensation for an offshore oil drilling ban. Rockhopper’s case was launched after the Italian government banned oil exploration and production within a 12 mile-limit off Italy’s coast in 2015, scotching the company’s planned Ombrina Mare oilfield.
An agreement between YPF and CAMYEN for lithium exploration in the province of Catamarca was signed Wednesday. The joint undertaking has been described as the first of its kind.
Argentina's state-run oil company increased the price of fuel at pumps by 7.5% on average Sunday but it remained well below figures in neighboring cities abroad. The accumulated devaluation since the last naphtha adjustment is 16%.
Uruguay's state-run oil company Ancap yielded profits of US$128 million for the first semester of 2022 despite adjusting prices below the import parity price (IPP), it was announced Friday in Montevideo.