Tag: Methanex Corporation

• Monday, February 1st 2016 - 05:48 UTC

  Chile to provide gas to Argentina in winter months; Enap and YPF will increase production in Magallanes

  

  The government of Chile will be selling energy-short Argentina 5.5 million cubic feet of natural gas a day starting in May, providing also 200 MW of electricity through the interconnection system between both countries. Chile also committed to invest 200 million dollars in the Incremental Project of the Magallanes Area to boost hydrocarbon production.

• Thursday, September 17th 2015 - 20:25 UTC

  Methanol production resumes in Magallanes with ENAP natural gas

  

  Chile's government petroleum company, ENAP, announced that based on the production success of its Arenal block in the extreme south of the country, it has reached a natural gas supply agreement with Methanex, the Canadian methanol plant next to Punta Arenas which is one of the region's leading industries.

• Monday, July 30th 2012 - 07:08 UTC

  Punta Arenas largest single industry leaves for Louisiana: insufficient gas supply

  

  The world’s largest supplier of methanol, Canadian-based Methanex, will invest 550 million dollars to relocate a methanol production plant from the extreme south of Chile to a 225-acre site in Geismar, Louisiana.

• Thursday, May 6th 2010 - 20:02 UTC

  New Natural Gas Discoveries in the Extreme South of Chile

  

  Argentine based GeoPark Holdings (LON:GPK) has reported the successful testing of two new wells on the Fell Block in southern Chile.