Erwin Cifuentes is a Contributing Editor for Southern Pulse Info where he focuses on politics, economics and security issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has worked as a writer for The Latin Americanist blog since 2005 and is the social media editor for the website's Twitter page. Erwin is also a graduate of Florida International University, and a member of the Association of Latino Professionals for America along with the Jackie Robinson Foundation Alumni Association.
Norwegian oil producer Statoil is hoping to expand its operations in Brazil by entering a second phase of exploration at the Peregrino offshore oilfield. As…
The extraction from U.S. shale oil and gas fields is expected to continue increasing in the upcoming years, but will fall in the short-term, according…
Saudi Arabia’s Capital Market Authority (CMA) on 18 August issued new rules allowing foreign investors to buy shares directly in initial public offerings (IPOs). The…
Researchers from Exxon Mobil and the Georgia Institute of Technology unveiled a new form of plastics making that could reduce manufacturing costs and emissions. The…
The Canadian province of Alberta has been hurt by the low price of oil that has fallen from at least US$105 per barrel in mid-2014…
An accident in July at the construction site of the first nuclear power plant in Belarus has recently been revealed, according to POWER magazine. Exact…
Russian providers dominate the amount of oil imported to the European Union (EU) and most imports are from “unstable countries”, according to data from a…
The demand for oil will likely increase for this year but dip in 2017, according to the latest “Short-Term Energy Outlook” released on Tuesday by the…
Kurdish authorities are reportedly holding up the final details of an oil agreement with Iran, according to PRESS TV. Citing information from Rudaw, a Kurdish…
A Nigerian rebel group splintered from the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) accused ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and nineteen other politicians of supporting separatist attacks in the…
A report published earlier this month by Haynes and Boone found that ninety gas and oil producers in the United States (US) and Canada have…
At least ten Angolan soldiers were killed during the last clash with the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) in the…
Mexico is about to reap at least US$3 billion this year based on its sovereign oil hedge after having received a record US$6.4 billion in…
EOG Resources planned fracking will revise its plans upward by 30 percent in 2016, despite the price of oil falling below the US$40 per barrel…
Revenue in the first six months of 2016 from Norway’s oil and gas fields to the state has fallen 29 percent compared to the first…
Phillips 66 and Plains All American Pipeline have united to form a limited liability company (LLC) for an oil pipeline in in the STACK area…
A report from Japanese auto manufacturer Nissan concluded that charging stations for electric autos will surpass fuel stations in the United Kingdom (UK) by August…
Attacks against oil infrastructure are all too common in areas like the Niger Delta of Nigeria or Iraq’s northern Kurdish region. But authorities in the…
Oil production among thirteen of the fourteen Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) member states fell by 80,000 barrels per day (bpd), according to a…
The Egyptian government is purportedly examining listing eight state-owned oil companies on the country’s stock exchange, according to Oil Minister Tarek El Molla on Tuesday.…