Energy & Oil

• Wednesday, October 13th 2021 - 22:08 UTC

  Petition for Piñera's impeachment filed at Chile's Lower House

  

  Chilean Deputies Wednesday filed for the impeachment of President Sebastián Piñera for his ivolvement in financial and entrepreneurial transactions disclosed earlier this month in the so-called Pandora Papers.

• Wednesday, October 13th 2021 - 15:16 UTC

  Double digit inflation in Brazil spiked by increasing fuel and food costs

  

  Brazilian market analysts raised their forecasts for inflation and the Selic key interest rate for 2022 as increasing fuel and food costs plus resurgent demand for services are spiking prices as the pandemic seems to be coming to an end.

• Sunday, October 10th 2021 - 19:41 UTC

  US will not release strategic reserve and Brent oil climbs to US$ 83 the barrel

  

  By Julianne Geiger for Oilprice.com - The Unite States Department of Energy is walking back previous comments that it was considering a release of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and a ban on crude oil exports, Bloomberg’s Javier Blas reported on Twitter.

• Thursday, October 7th 2021 - 09:37 UTC

  Uruguay eyes energy exports from sea wind farms

  

  The government of Uruguay is willing to promote the generation of energy for export, by installing wind farms with wind turbines on the maritime platform, it was reported Wednesday in Montevideo.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2021 - 05:15 UTC

  Argentina now sells gas to Chile and Brazil

  

  Argentina is now in a position to sell gas to neighbouring Chile and Brazil thanks to the Gas Plan and Vaca Muerta's potential, it was announced.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2021 - 05:09 UTC

  Tension between France, UK escalates over fishing licenses vs. electricity supply

  

  French authorities have warned they would cut power supply to the United Kingdom Tuesday in the latest episode of the English Channel fisheries saga, it was reported.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Falklands: Rockhopper targets lower costs for Sea Lion project and potential entry of Navitas Petroleum

  

  Rockhopper Exploration presented on the last day of September its half-year interim report, which follows on the shock announcement from Harbour Energy that it will seek to exit the Sea Lion Project in the North Falkland Basin.

• Saturday, October 2nd 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  British Army to launch “Operation Escalin” to avert petrol shortages

  

  The British Government finally decided to launch “Operation Escalin,” a deployment of Army staff to “start delivering fuel to pumps” in a move to avert shortages of petrol.

• Thursday, September 30th 2021 - 09:08 UTC

  Rockhopper hosting a retail investor meeting on Falklands' oil industry

  

  Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the oil and gas exploration and production company with key interests in the North Falkland Basin, confirms it will be hosting a retail investor meeting this Thursday, 30 September 2021.

• Thursday, September 30th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Can Argentina Finally Realize Its Oil Potential?

  

  By Matthew Smith for Oilprice.com – For a decade, successive Argentine governments in Buenos Aires have enacted a range of policies aimed at reducing energy imports and exploiting the Latin American country’s vast hydrocarbon potential.