Tag: natural gas

• Monday, April 30th 2012 - 04:08 UTC

  “Brazil ready to live a natural gas golden era” with self sufficiency in five years

  

  Brazil which currently imports 35% of the natural gas it consumes from Bolivia has found sufficient reserves to ensure self-sufficiency in the coming five years announced Mines and Energy minister Edison Lobao.

• Thursday, December 8th 2011 - 22:28 UTC

  Mexico - Rising Natural Gas Superstate?

  

  Americans looking south of the Rio Grande tend to forget, if they ever knew, that Mexico is, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, now America's second largest source of imports.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2011 - 07:48 UTC

  China to increase oil and sales tax (5 to 10%) to reduce consumption

  

  China will expand a tax on oil and natural gas sales to the entire country as of November first to try and reduce consumption. The tax will be 5-10% of sales, the State Council said Monday.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 11:13 UTC

  Argentina en route to importing three times more natural gas than in 2010

  

  Argentina could import 66 liquefied natural gas cargoes in 2011 triple the amount it purchased last year, according to data from state energy company Enarsa.

• Saturday, August 6th 2011 - 08:29 UTC

  Soft loans for Brazilian suppliers of the oil and gas industry

  

  Brazil’s state-owned BNDES development bank said it planned to provide about 2.55 billion dollars in financing over the next four years to suppliers to the country’s oil and gas industry.

• Monday, July 18th 2011 - 10:28 UTC

  Hydrocarbons-rich province says Argentina has no need to import natural gas

  

  The governor of hydrocarbon-rich Neuquen Province wants to convince Argentina's government it can get all the natural gas it needs from Neuquen and doesn't need to spend billions to import the fuel from Qatar.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2011 - 06:37 UTC

  Brazil strikes natural gas onshore in the northeast of the country

  

  Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras discovered natural gas in an onshore field near an area where Brazil plans to auction exploration licenses later this year.

• Friday, June 10th 2011 - 15:32 UTC

  Petrobras double-strike: major discovery in US Gulf of Mexico and in Brazil

  

  Lucky week for Brazil’s Petrobras that announced major oil and gas discoveries in the US Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Spirito Santo in Brazil.

• Thursday, April 28th 2011 - 02:08 UTC

  France’s Total makes mega find that could boost Bolivia’s gas reserves by a third

  

  The French energy giant Total and its Argentine partner, Tecpetrol, announced the discovery of a major natural gas find in Aquio in southeast Bolivia.

• Monday, April 11th 2011 - 05:47 UTC

  Controversy in Bolivia about the true volume of proven natural gas reserves

  

  Bolivia has fallen from second to sixth place in the ranking of largest holder of proven natural gas reserves in South America, with Peru behind Venezuela as the two leading countries, admitted a Bolivian Hydrocarbons Association, or CBH, report.