Energy & Oil

• Monday, October 31st 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  Energy security or clean energy: Germany dismantles wind farm to expand lignite coal mine

  

  With winter around the corner and Europe giving priority to energy security over clean energy in German a wind farm is being dismantled to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine.

• Saturday, October 29th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Oil company to build solar farms in Argentine province of Mendoza

  

  A leading oil company has pledged U$S 100 million to build two solar farms in the Argentine province of Mendoza, it was reported this week.

• Thursday, October 27th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Colombia, Mexico, Trinidad Tobago, Uruguay teams, winners of IDB Development Initiative

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced the four winners of the fifth Superheroes of Development contest, which rewards creative and innovative solutions used in development projects financed by the IDB, IDB Invest and IDB Lab (IDB Group) in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Thursday, October 27th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Uruguayan customs to up smuggling controls

  

  Uruguayan Customs is to seize any package over 5 kilos to protect traders in border towns, who suffer the consequences of the depreciation of the Argentine peso which makes shopping across the border more convenient, it was announced.

• Wednesday, October 26th 2022 - 13:14 UTC

  Brazil oil and gas production in September above 4.000 MMboe

  

  Brazil's total oil and gas production during September reached 4.048 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, according to the country's market regulator, ANP.

• Friday, October 21st 2022 - 20:45 UTC

  “Lithium ABC countries” working on common pricing policies

  

  South America's “ABC” lithium-producing countries Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile are considering joint policies to set the sale price of the mineral, Télam reported Thursday.

• Friday, October 21st 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Falkland Islands lawmakers committed to enable oil production

  

  Members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly John Birmingham and Pete Biggs have both voiced personal distaste at the concept of oil production in the Falkland Islands, despite an overall commitment in the Islands Plan 2022 to “progress extractive industries in an environmentally conscious way.”

• Thursday, October 20th 2022 - 10:27 UTC

  BBC has emergency scripts in the event of blackouts Jan/Feb in the UK, Guardian reports

  

  The Guardian has reported that BBC has prepared a number of emergency scripts in the event of blackouts that could last up to two days this winter. One quote from the script reads, “The government has said it’s hoped power will be restored in the next 36 to 48 hours. Different parts of Britain will start to receive intermittent supplies before then.”

• Thursday, October 20th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Brazilian firm pledges US$ 100 to lithium project in Argentina

  

  Brazil's Unipar has pledged to invest over US$ 100 million in lithium and renewable energies over the next three years in Argentina, it was announced.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Gasoline at pumps in Brazil up again after 15 weeks

  

  Brazil's National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) said in its weekly report Monday that the price of gasoline at pumps nationwide had gone up 1.47% after 15 weeks of successive drops.