Reuters- Guyana's cabinet has cleared a bid by Petronas, Qatar Petroleum and TotalEnergies for exploration block S4 in Guyana's shallow waters. Companies in talks with government for PSA #OTC reuters.com/markets/commod…

Reuters- Petrobras, Ecopetrol to begin drilling second planned well for this year off Colombia's coast reuters.com/business/energ…

INTERVIEW: Nigeria's Oando set to double #crude output with Eni deal 'imminent' | #OOTT #oil

🛢️Full story: okt.to/WIrhVK

📰 News Alert! Francisco J. Monaldi featured in Más Energía article “El rol de Vaca Muerta en la geopolítica energética global.” (Spanish only)

Read the article here: mase.lmneuquen.com/vaca-muerta/el…

Artículo sobre mi presentación.
El rol de Vaca Muerta en la geopolítica energética global mase.lmneuquen.com/c1111407 via LMNeuquén

On Venezuela's ultra-confusing presidential ballot - in which different parties can nominate the same candidate - Maduro's grinning mug appears 13 times. Meanwhile the main opposition candidate, Edmundo González, is barely noticeable.... he's somewhere there in the middle

An example of the electoral abuse in Venezuela. Eleven parties, including the three main opposition parties, were “intervened” by the SupremeTribunal to get them to either support Maduro or candidates coopted by the government. The democratic opposition unity candidate could only…

Para entender el grado de abuso electoral del gobierno chavista, una muestra, los partidos opositores que el Tribunal Supremo ha intervenido para que apoyen a Maduro o a candidatos afines al gobierno.

Venezuela is allowing a small startup to import fuels even as the country struggles to feed its owns refineries and the recent reimposition of US sanctions presses on its industry bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

Muy gratos recuerdos desde la primera versión hasta la última...

#Colombia : Ecopetrol Seeks US Waiver for Venezuelan Gas to Plug Shortfall
#Venezuela news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law…

El petróleo fantasma de Venezuela que casi cuesta la ruina a una enorme refinería europea eleconomista.es/mercados-cotiz…

'energy markets are ever-evolving, and there is no room for a political impasse in which ideology shakes the certainties that institutions and the rule of law must provide' -- Eduardo Prud'homme in latest Natural Gas Intel column naturalgasintel.com/mexicos-next-g…

🇦🇷 Exploration Alert! Equinor begins drilling Argerich-1, Argentina’s first ultra-deep water well in the Colorado Basin, targeting a 1 bnbbl prospect at 4,000m with partners YPF & Shell. Mirroring Namibia's Orange Basin, the area could attract global interest. #EnergyUpdate

India's Reliance renews bid for US license to import Venezuelan oil, sources say reuters.com/business/energ…

Latin Americans received ~$156 billion in remittances in 2023, more than what the World Bank Group lends every year and more than all the outstanding loans that the IMF has with almost 100 countries

I wrote about this financial revolution for Bloomberg Opinion
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

few know the oil industry in Latin America like Francisco J. Monaldi -- he says the Dos Bocas refinery in Mexico -- AMLO's major energy project -- 'will go down in the annals of the oil industry as one of the most disastrous investment decisions in history'

Escribe el analista petrolero @FMonaldi: La refinería Dos Bocas 'costó más de 14 veces más que Deer Park. A la valuación de Deer Park, con los $ 17 mil millones hundidos en Dos Bocas, PEMEX hubiera podido comprar casi toda la capacidad de refinación en el estado de Texas.' ¡Zas!

El proyecto de la refinería Dos Bocas (Olmeca) de PEMEX, va a pasar a los anales de la industria petrolera como una de las más desastrosas decisiones de inversión en la historia.
El costo ya asciende a $17 mil millones de dólares y todavía no se ha terminado.
PEMEX le compró a…