Courtesy of Upstream Online, a look at Angola’s Sonangol Group’s interest in investing in Ecuador’s Amazon region. As the report notes: “…Angola’s oil minister and Opec president, Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, will travel to Ecuador at the end of October to discuss Sonangol’s investment in Ecuador, Jaramillo said during a meeting with foreign journalists. [...]
Read more »Via Energy Daily, a report that China is close to inking a one-billion-dollar deal to receive Ecuadorian oil. As the article notes: “…China has offered us initial capital worth one billion dollars for infrastructure projects, we are going to pay little by little with our oil,” Correa said during a weekly television address. The deal [...]
Read more »Via Portfolio, an article extolling the investment opportunities in Africa and Ecuador. As the report notes: “…His big idea, as glossed this speech, is that poor resource-rich countries, such as a lot of African states, are largely immune from the global financial crisis since they were never really part of the global financial system to [...]
Read more »Via IPS News, an in-depth report on the growing influence of PDVSA in Central America, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and islands in the eastern Caribbean who are receiving more and more oil from Venezuela, while major refineries are planned in South America — at Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil, and at El Aromo, on Ecuador’s Pacific [...]
Read more »From Bloomberg, a report that State-owned energy company PetroEcuador and Ivanhoe Energy Inc., a Canadian oil and natural-gas producer, will sign an oil production deal in which Ivanhoe will invest about $4.5 billion over the 30-year lifetime of the agreement to extract crude from the Pungarayacu oil field in the Ecuadorean Amazon. According to the [...]
Read more »As detailed by Xinhua Financial News, Ecuador – South America’s fifth-largest oil producer with an average of 510,000 barrels of crude a day – will invest U.S. $2 billion in its oil industry this year in a bid to increase production by 11 percent. Some $1.7 billion will be used to increase production at state [...]
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