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(Reuters) - BHP Group Ltd has stepped up exploration drilling in deep water off Trinidad and Tobago hunting for gas which could supply the country's Atlantic LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant in the 2020s, a senior executive said. The company...

Training is underway for oil spill response managers in the wider Caribbean region at a course being held in St Kitts and Nevis during the period March 11-14. Participants from 15 countries, including Guyana, are attending the International Maritime Organisation...

Two storage tanks have exploded at the Petro San Felix heavy-crude upgrading project in eastern Venezuela, according to an oil industry source and a legislator, Reuters said in a report on Wednesday. According to the Reuters report, the tanks were...

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is applauding Guyana’s efforts to establish a Natural Resources Fund as the South American country prepares for first oil in 2020. Speaking recently at the Bank’s annual news conference in Bridgetown, Barbados, Director of Economics,...

(Reuters) - Venezuelan state-run oil firm PDVSA has been unable to resume crude exports at its primary port since last week’s blackout, according to people familiar with the matter, indicating that the country’s massive power outage is crippling the...

(S&P Global Platts) Surpassing Russia, Brazilian crude oil shipments for China's independent refineries topped the list in February at 2.17 million mt, S&P Global Platts monthly survey showed Tuesday. Total imports from Brazil were just 54,000 mt more than those...

(Bloomberg) There’s enough as-yet-unassigned oil under the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro to keep the entire world running for almost six months. So why is the crude just sitting there? A contract dispute between oil giant Petrobras...

The probability of finding oil offshore Jamaica improved to a one-in-five chance of success, based on an independent report utilising 3D data, the Jamaica Gleaner reported on Wednesday. The 2019 report also upsized the 2017 baseline estimates of the quantity...

(Bloomberg) Venezuela is running out of space to store its sanction-stained crude that few dare to buy, forcing it to reduce output at a time when the world is thirsty for heavy, sulfurous oil. Tankers holding 8.36 million barrels of...

(CNN) Vice President Mike Pence said the US will impose additional sanctions on Venezuelan leaders and pledged more aid to the region as he called on nations to do more to confront embattled President Nicolas Maduro's government. "To leaders around...