Headlines September 2024

 

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TRINIDAD  :  Shell preferred for shallow water block :  …secures highly contested  block :  bp completes 5th critical  update :  ….Ocelot project upgrade :  Proman cadet to captain vesselsHeritage  $1.48b profit :  Study for low-carbon fuel distribution :  New frontiers :  Nutrien :  (Trinity Exploration) ALL SHARE OFFER : Touchstone production declines : … CASCADURA WELL TEST RESULTS AND  OPERATIONALh UPDATE :  Woodside Energy  :…. Calypso & Angostura updates : Young on seismic vessel :  Predator   interim results :  Clean Energy company reorganises :  Strategic Atlantic :….Difficult times to persist until 2027 : Trinity  results  30 June :  New energy streams :…Focus on T&T gas fields :  LNG transforms economy :  Receiver to seize Dragon payments :  3 named bidders shortlisted for refinery :..Regulator advised on sale of  refinery :  Methanex restarts Titan plantGulfstream for sale : …capsized barge polluted Tobago :  Strategic initiatives in gas processing :  PPGPL  : EV charging stations at Queen’s Hall :  Energy revenue down 51% for 2024 :  Clico repaid final $1B last year :  CDB denounces stalled projects :  NIF pays out $85.2 million :  Plipdeco contracts probe :

TRINIDAD 2  :  Budget 2025 – Belated epiphany :…. Key  announcements :  ….Colm’s mixed messages :….A fixed vision : ….cautions buyers on CLICO sale : ….Business hails VAT bonds : …T&T Chamber praises  outlook : ….& urges radical reforms : … No  wage hike for private sector : …& ‘Time to consider constitutional reform’ : …& Effective implementation  : ...Budget Top Ten Takeaways : …’Just the way it is’ –  Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie : …Little progress in diversifying : ….Energy Chamber  meets minister :

GUYANA 1  :  SBM Offshore FPSO prepares to sail :  the race for seventh Guyana FPSO :  TechnipFMC  $1.9 billion gas-to-energy project : Multifaceted energy transition for  ExxonMobil :  TechnipFMC vessels finish in-field operations for  gas-to-energy :  Another world first for  second FPSO :  Dash for gas  ExxonMobil link with US firmCNOOC to monetise gas Massy Gas commissions US$12m plant : Westar Industrial and Oil Field Supplies Inc. :  Exxon pipeline cost  :  Stabroek oil not used in operations :  gains from oil &  consortium tax queried : Rystaad Energy  upbeat  on energy sector : Navigating Guyana’s Surge :  Access to potable water President Addresses UN General Assembly  Constitution most advanced & democratic in the region :  USA committed to territorial integrity :  …&  commitment to regional security, democracy, stability :  Cutting food imports  British Business can capitalise on  growth & investment-friendly climate : … & UK’s biggest trading partner in the region :  Saipem launches Community Development :  Forest-saving deal with Norway :  New Canada high commissioner :  Star in the West Indies :

CARICOM  :  Four exploration wells in Suriname by 2027 :…TotalEnergies eyes potential Petrobras partnership :  TotalEnergies  FID two fields in Suriname : ….& renames $9 billion offshore Suriname field : …& Suriname to fund $1.8 billion investment in Block 58 : PetroChina joins exploration hotspot with new Staatsolie agreement : …&  signs PSCs :  The Suriname Seep Survey GeoPartners Limited   and TROIS GeoConsulting  Exxon recovering more money from Guyana’s oil yearly than investments :  T&T’s NEC progress in Guyana & Suriname :  UWI enrolment up for new academic year :  Key tax & corporate information for investors in Barbados :  New Permanent Representative of Barbados to OAS Bahamas signs loan with Saudi Fund :…&  Dominica signs multi-million dollar loan :  Guyana signs  multi-million dollar waste treatment plant :  IMF  Discussions with Curaçao and Sint Maarten : ….& Extended Fund Facility  for Suriname : St Vincent PM seeking facts on Maduro’s plane :  Caribbean Development Bank symposiumU.S. SOS  Antony Blinken addressed media in Paris, France :  Violence-torn Haiti still relies on UN  to fight gangs :

ISABELANA Petrobras confirms major gas discovery :….&Petrobras & Ecopetrol ordered to halt drilling gas well offshore Colombia :  Arrow Exploration updates well results in the Tapir BlockMelbana Energy announces approval of Block 9 Amistad field development :  Kevin Ramnarine ‘ Venezuela very difficult now’ : ….& Rowley neutral on Venezuela election : …& Maduro, as Venezuela’s President, ‘is in Guyana’s interest’ – Gonsalves : TT trade mission to Canada :  Deodat Maharaj, new Managing Director at the UN Technology Bank :  Venezuela’s VP, Delcy Rodriguez, gets energy ministry :…& UK statement on Urrutia’s decision to leave Venezuela :…& EU Parliament says he is Venezuela’s President-elect : Brazil still open to Venezuelan refugees :  Lacalle Pou tells UN to focus on VenezuelaHöegh LNG  focus on floating infrastructure for ammonia & hydrogen :  Empire of Oil– how hydrocarbons remade the world :  SLB reports sustainable lithium breakthrough :  IBC Guyana 2024 (conference) :  Efficiency and decarbonisation in ammonia production :

August Headlines …..and links to earlier months