Tag: Chevron

• Friday, August 31st 2012 - 04:08 UTC

  YPF tempting global oil industry heavyweights with ‘Vaca Muerta’ shale formation

  

  Exxon-Mobil Corp. and Apache Corp. will hold talks with Argentina's YPF next month to discuss further investments in the country's Vaca Muerta shale formation, said a YPF official briefed on the matter.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 03:36 UTC

  YPF trying to convince Chevron to help develop massive shale deposits in Neuquen

  

  Argentina’s nationalized oil and gas company YPF and the head of Latin American and African operations for Chevron Corp. are discussing a potential agreement to develop the massive Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas formation in the Patagonian province of Neuquén.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 07:58 UTC

  US oil companies interested in investing in YPF, but have their conditions…

  

  At least four leading US oil corporations are interested in investing in Argentina’s nationalized YPF but are demanding a law that guarantees investments, direct export of oil and remittance of benefits.

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 17:15 UTC

  Judge denies injunction to bar Chevron from operating in Brazil

  

  Brazilian judge denied an injunction seeking to bar oil company Chevron Corp and drill-rig operator Transocean Ltd from operating in Brazil after two offshore oil leaks, a federal court in Rio de Janeiro said this week.

• Sunday, April 1st 2012 - 07:58 UTC

  Oil leaks cast a shadow over the development of Brazil’s offshore huge reserves

  

  Brazilian authorities identified a small oil leak off the shores of Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, the latest in a series of spills that has raised safety concerns over the development of some of the world's largest petroleum reserves.

• Friday, March 30th 2012 - 07:05 UTC

  Brazil’s union files lawsuit against Chevron and Transocean over oil spill

  

  Brazil's largest oil workers union filed a lawsuit against US oil company Chevron and drilling firm Transocean that seeks to cancel their rights to operate in the country as the result of an offshore oil spill last November.

• Sunday, March 18th 2012 - 19:53 UTC

  Top executives from Chevron barred from leaving Brazil because of oil spills case

  

  A Brazilian court barred 17 executives from Chevron and Transocean from leaving Brazil, pending criminal charges related to a high-profile oil spill last November. A second oil spill detected last week further complicated the situation.

• Friday, January 27th 2012 - 11:25 UTC

  Petrobras admits oil leak off the coast of southern Brazil

  

  Transpetro, a subsidiary of Brazil's state-run energy giant Petrobras, said Thursday it had detected an oil leak off the coast of Rio Grande do Sul state but did not know how much had spilled.

• Saturday, January 14th 2012 - 06:13 UTC

  Chevron, Repsol and Statoil to drill offshore Newfoundland and Labrador

  

  Chevron Canada Ltd., a big player in Canada's offshore oil industry, has struck a deal with Norwegian and Spanish oil companies to carry out exploration off the coast of Atlantic Canada.

• Monday, December 26th 2011 - 11:23 UTC

  Brazil slaps another fine on Chevron for November oil spill off Rio do Janeiro

  

  Brazil's Environment Institute ordered US oil giant Chevron to pay another fine related to the early November oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.