Tag: hydrocarbons

• Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 21:54 UTC

  Bolivia to change Hydrocarbons Law to increase gas output

  

  Bolivia's Deputy Minister of Exploration and Exploitation Daniel Mayta Jiménez Tuesday said that following the discovery of the Margarita 10 well and in a move to foster investment and encourage production, the Hydrocarbons Law 3058 -enacted May 17, 2005- needed changing.

• Monday, May 17th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Hydrocarbons: Argentina going up as world goes down

  

  The University of Buenos Aires (UBA)'s Gas and Petroleum Institute Director Aníbal Mellano said in an interview published Sunday in the Ambito Financiero newspaper that his country was “in an ascending cycle, within a descending world cycle for hydrocarbons.”

• Wednesday, October 28th 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Huge volumes of discovered hydrocarbons remain 'stranded' in South Atlantic fields of Brazil, Angola and Falklands

  

  Huge volumes of discovered hydrocarbons worldwide are currently ‘stranded,’ according to a study by Westwood Global Energy Group. The consultant has identified 119 fields in this category that were found between 2008 and 2016 with collectively 11 Bbbl of oil and 36 Bboe of gas, but currently not progressing toward development, including Brazil, Angola, and the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic.

• Saturday, October 19th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentina awards hydrocarbons exploration licenses in the West Malvinas basin

  

  The Argentine government awarded ENI Argentina Exploración y Explotación; Tecpetrol, and MEMPLO, a subsidiary from Japan's Mitsui hydrocarbons licenses to explore an offshore area. MLO/124 in the so-called West Malvinas basin.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Bolivia delivering smaller volumes of gas to Argentina than set forth in the contract

  

  Bolivia's Hydrocarbons Minister Luis Alberto Sánchez Friday admitted that gas deliveries to Argentina are kept at an average of 10 million cubic metres per day (MMm3d), far below the 17.2 MMm3d agreed upon in the contract

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 10:44 UTC

  Brazil is the world's ninth largest producer of hydrocarbons

  

  Brazil has produced 3.3 million barrels per day (b/d) of petroleum and other liquids so far in 2017, according to data through August, up from 3.2 million b/d in 2016, making it the ninth-largest producer of petroleum and other liquids in the world. Production of crude oil in Brazil increased in recent years as producers targeted large, offshore, pre-salt oil deposits. Brazil’s pre-salt oil production in 2016 reached a record 1.02 million b/d, surpassing the 2015 production level by 33%.

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 08:02 UTC

  Falkland Oil and Gas Limited Press Release

  

  FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands announces further progress on its rig contract negotiations and certain changes to its licence arrangements.