Tag: oil discovery

• Thursday, December 6th 2018 - 08:24 UTC

  Guyana's tenth oil discovery makes her a future Latin American powerhouse

  

  Thanks to ExxonMobil’s run of success in oil exploration offshore Guyana, the country is on a path to becoming a Latin American powerhouse, Wood Mackenzie said. The super-major announced its tenth Guyana discovery this week, increasing the discovered recoverable resource in its Stabroek Block to more than five billion barrels.

• Friday, August 31st 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  Norway's Equinor plans to invest US$ 15bn in Brazil's oil, gas and renewables

  

  Norway's Equinor will invest up to US$ 15 billion in Brazil over the next 12 years to develop oil, gas and renewable energy sources, the company said. Coinciding with an expected drop in output from many aging oilfields off the cost of Norway, Brazil is expected to become a core region for Equinor as the firm takes advantage of the country’s opening in recent years to more foreign investment.

• Saturday, June 23rd 2018 - 10:27 UTC

  Exxon-Mobil made its eighth major oil discovery offshore Guyana

  

  ExxonMobil made its eighth oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Longtail-1 well in the Stabroek Block on June 20. The company encountered 256 feet of oil-bearing sandstone. The well was drilled to 18,057 feet depth in 6,365 feet of water.

• Tuesday, January 9th 2018 - 10:08 UTC

  Sixth major oil find offshore Guyana at the Stabroek block

  

  For the sixth time Exxon and partners at the Stabroek block offshore Guyana are celebrating another major find in northern South American waters. In effect, Ranger-1 exploration well, the sixth find since discovering Liza in 2015, hit approximately 70m of high-quality, oil-bearing carbonate reservoirs some 60mi northwest of the Liza development.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2013 - 02:14 UTC

  Uruguay announces on-shore oil “scientific confirmation” but with no commercial certainty

  

  The Uruguayan government announced the discovery of free hydrocarbons liquids in core samples next to source rocks in the northern county of Salto at a depth of 450 metres, which seems to be similar to another discovery two years ago.

• Wednesday, May 8th 2013 - 08:57 UTC

  Petrobras finds ‘good quality’ oil in the sub-salt area of the Santos Basin

  

  Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras found “good quality” oil in a sub-salt area of the offshore Santos Basin, one of the world's most promising oil frontiers, according to a securities filing by Petrobras on Tuesday.

• Friday, May 3rd 2013 - 03:29 UTC

  Falkland Islands as oil-producing country: boon or blight?

  

  For some, the prospect of the Falkland Islands becoming an oil-producing country creates exciting visions of opportunity, while for others it seems like a nightmare. What is certain is that oil, like sheep and fishing before it, will inevitably bring changes to both our wealth and our way of life.

• Tuesday, December 4th 2012 - 16:10 UTC

  Mexico strikes largest on land light oil deposit in a decade

  

  Mexico’s government oil and gas giant Pemex confirmed the discovery of a crude reserve which could hold over 500 million barrels, and described as the largest on land strike in the last decade.

• Thursday, November 29th 2012 - 06:42 UTC

  Argentina increases 44% wellhead natural gas prices to attract investment

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez announced on Wednesday that wellhead natural gas prices are to rise substantially from current levels, an estimated 44%, with the purpose of attracting more investments and increasing production.

• Friday, January 6th 2012 - 06:52 UTC

  YPF finds oil south of Mendoza; source estimated in 40 billion barrels

  

  Energy company YPF announced the finding of conventional oil at the Cuenca Neuquina, in the Chachahuén bloc, at the Southern area of Mendoza province, that is equivalent to 40 million barrels.