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March 06, 2025
Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has ordered a consortium seeking to take over the nation’s top oil asset to pay an entry fee of $1.5 billion by March 11, moving up the deadline by more than three weeks. Noboa has warned he will cancel the deal without the early payment.
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March 04, 2025
The U.S. Treasury followed through on President Trump’s pledge to stop Chevron's operations in Venezuela, delivering a major blow to Nicolas Maduro’s autocratic regime. Chevron has ramped up production in recent years to supply about 20% of Venezuela's overall output.
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March 03, 2025
EnerMech has been selected to carry out pre-commissioning work on the ONE GUYANA FPSO for Guyana Deepwater Operations, SBM Offshore’s subsidiary in Guyana. The FPSO is set to arrive in Guyanese waters this year.
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February 28, 2025
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro is expected to name Edwin Palma as the nation’s new energy minister. Palma, the former head of Colombia’s main oil workers union, will have to pursue Petro’s pledge to reduce the nation's dependence on fossil fuels.
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February 28, 2025
Equinor ASA has discussed selling stakes in Argentine shale oil assets to its joint venture partner, state-run oil company YPF SA. According to a person familiar with the matter, Equinor, Norway’s biggest oil company, has started a process to value and assess the assets.
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February 26, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to revoke an oil license to operate in Venezuela, citing the country’s failure to take back migrants to the U.S. as quickly as it promised. Under the terms of the license, Chevron would have to exit Venezuela by the end of July.
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February 26, 2025
TDI-Brooks has effectively and safely carried out a third-party geotechnical coring project for Geohidra. This operation was conducted from the Dragon Field to the Hibiscus platform off the coast of Venezuela and Trinidad, aboard the Dona Jose II (DJII).
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February 25, 2025
Brazilian regulators are cracking down on some offshore drilling by oil giants like Petrobras and Equinor ASA, complicating exploration and production projects at a key moment in the nation’s effort to boost crude output.
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February 24, 2025
Chevron's presence in Venezuela has helped lift the nation’s crude production back above 1 million bpd, in turn boosting the local economy. Now U.S. President Trump is poised to leverage this to get what he wants from Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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February 21, 2025
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced plans to establish a $1 billion oil service financing facility in Guyana. This initiative aims to enhance local participation in the country’s fast growing oil industry, in alignment with the government's local content policies.
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February 20, 2025
Ecopetrol SA sees “great potential” for E&P activity in Colombia alongside bets on U.S. fracing and offshore gas. Ecopetrol has full ownership of the CPO-09 block in Colombia's oil-rich eastern plains after completing its $452 million acquisition of Repsol SA’s 45% stake.
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February 20, 2025
Exxon Mobil Corp. outlined plans to increase natural gas production from Guyana and is considering export options, country manager Alistair Routledge said, citing pressure from the government to do more with the natural gas that’s found alongside its crude.
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February 19, 2025
SBM Offshore announced that its FPSO Almirante Tamandaré is formally on hire as of February 16, 2025 after achieving first oil and the completion of a 72-hour continuous production test leading to Final Acceptance.
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February 17, 2025
Petrobras began production from the FPSO Almirante Tamandaré (Búzios 7) on Feb. 15, 2025 in the Búzios field, located in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin. This is the first high-capacity unit to be installed in the field, with the potential to produce up to 225,000 bpd.
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February 13, 2025
Petrobras has requested authorization from Brazil’s environment protection agency to prepare a drilling rig for work at a disputed offshore exploration project, a sign that the state-controlled producer is optimistic about overcoming licensing hurdles.
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February 10, 2025
Petro-Victory Energy has signed a sales & purchase agreement (SPA) in 50/50 partnership with Azevedo & Travassos Petroleo (ATO) for 13 oil fields located in the Potiguar Basin, onshore Brazil, from seller Brava Energia.
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February 06, 2025
(Bloomberg) – Ecopetrol SA shares plunged after Colombian President Gustavo Petro called on the oil producer to sell its operations in the U.S., citing his government’s position against fracing, which he says is destructive to nature and humanity.
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February 03, 2025
Abyss Solutions has signed a research and development contract with Petrobras. The partnership focuses on the development of an innovative image contextualization and enrichment service capable of aggregate engineering and operational metadata.
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February 03, 2025
Baker Hughes has won a multi-year contract with ExxonMobil Guyana to provide all topsides, subsea, water injection and utility chemicals for the Errea Wittu and Jaguar FPSO vessels. The offshore developments feature combined 500,000 bpd capacity.
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January 30, 2025
Halliburton has been awarded a contract with Petrobras for integrated drilling services across several offshore fields in Brazil. The contract scope includes drilling services for development and exploration wells over a three-year period.
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January 23, 2025
(Bloomberg) – Argentina scored its widest annual energy trade surplus in nearly two decades in 2024 thanks to booming oil and gas production in the country’s Vaca Muerta shale patch. It’s forecast to do even better this year.
