(Reuters) - Brazil’s state-owned oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA said on Wednesday it had begun suspending operations of 62 shallow water platforms in the Campos, Sergipe, Potiguar and Ceara basins.
Petrobras, as the company is known, had previously announced the...
Approval for ExxonMobil’s 3rd development project at the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana remains stalled due to what the country’s Department of Energy (DE) has described as recent ‘national and international events’.
The spread of the novel coronavirus and an election...
US crude oil stock builds hit a new weekly record in the week ending April 10 (week 15) as about 17.2 million barrels were sent into storage, Norway-based Rystad Energy estimates. It said this new record is forecast to...
The United States Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette has noted that if oil producing countries did not agree to cuts in an attempt to rebalance a low price market and to counter the heavy impact of COVID-19, there may not...
The vast oil fields which have been discovered off the coast of Guyana by ExxonMobil continue to boost the economic outlook of the country even in light of an imminent global recession and growing domestic challenges triggered by political...
Regional President of BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) Claire Fitzpatrick said even though her company has been forced to make changes to its operations due to COVID-19, there has been no disruption in its supply of natural gas.
According to...
(Bloomberg) The world may be falling into its worst recession in almost a century, but one tiny South American economy is still forecast to grow 53% this year.
Guyana will enjoy by far the world’s fastest expansion, and will be...
More than half of the world’s planned licensing rounds are likely to be cancelled this year due to the combined effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing oil price war, a Rystad Energy impact analysis forecasts. New licensed...
(Bloomberg) Global oil demand is being destroyed as the coronavirus forces people around the world to remain indoors and avoid all unnecessary travel.
Currently, between a third and a half of the world’s population are in lockdown, meaning few people...
In a report released this month on the impact of COVID-19 on the Caribbean region, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) said the pandemic coupled with low oil prices and Guyana’s elections conflict are expected to have deep implications for...