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Lina Bo Bardi and Giancarlo Palanti Through June 15. Gladstone Gallery, 130 East 64th Street, Manhattan; 212-753-2200, gladstone64.com. Some architects prefer their creations devoid of people -- it photographs better [...]

In an effort to defuse tensions over oil exploration in disputed waters, the foreign ministers of Venezuela and Guyana have pledged to take steps to define the two countries' maritime [...]

Peru's state licensing agency Perupetro has announced that it will hold a long-delayed licensing round for 36 oil and gas blocks at the end of November. The government had placed [...]

Spanish major Repsol has announced a significant gas find in southern Peru, providing a strong boost to the Andean country's hopes to build a major petrochemicals hub. Repsol said its [...]

Argentina's state-controlled producer YPF has announced what Chief Executive Miguel Galuccio describes as five important shale discoveries, including the first such finds made outside southern Argentina's large Vaca Muerta shale [...]

Mexican state oil firm Pemex has awarded a service contract for the production of oil from the offshore Arenque block to UK-based independent Petrofac. The award comes after the failure [...]

Argentina's state-controlled oil producer YPF has announced plans to explore seven frontier areas across the country as part of an effort to boost declining domestic oil and gas production. Chief [...]

Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras has announced yet another big oil find in the country's prolific subsalt play. However, the string of world-class discoveries, which began about six years ago, has not [...]

Argentine oil producer YPF--state-controlled since its April expropriation from Spain's Repsol--said its second-quarter earnings exceeded those for the same period of last year as increases in its oil production and [...]

A deluge of oil projects in Colombia has led to significant delays in the processing of licenses as overloaded bureaucrats are unable to cope with the sheer volume of applications. [...]

Peru and Ecuador are about to sign a deal that would see crude from remote Ecuadorean fields carried to market via Peru's pipeline system. Peru's state energy company Petroperu said [...]

Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled oil and gas company, announced a surprise second-quarter loss on Monday, which it blamed on a weakening of the Brazilian real against the dollar and steep one-time [...]

The head of Argentina's state-controlled oil and gas producer YPF has met with officials from China and Venezuela to discuss cooperation in exploration and production projects. Miguel Galuccio, YPF's chief [...]

A Brazilian court has issued an injunction demanding that Chevron and drilling contractor Transocean cease all activities related to the production or transportation of oil in Brazil within 30 days. [...]

The announcement that all oil and gas producers in Argentina must henceforth submit their investment programs for annual government approval makes clear that the government aims to take control of [...]

Chevron is preparing to resume production at its Frade oil field offshore Brazil after suspending output in March amid worries about recurring leaks. 'Chevron is actively preparing to restart the [...]

After a lengthy investigation, Brazil's oil industry regulator, the ANP, has concluded that a November leak at the Chevron-operated Frade offshore oil field occurred because Chevron failed to follow safety [...]

YPF, Argentina's state-controlled oil company, has said it will sharply cut its dividend payments to allocate more funds to boosting oil and gas production. The company approved the new policy [...]

Brazil's oil industry regulator, the ANP, soon will release the results of its investigation into the November oil leak at the Chevron-operated Frade field off the coast of Rio de [...]

Mexico's state-owned oil and gas producer Pemex has announced the discovery of what it calls a major new gas province in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The firm said the [...]

Presidential and congressional elections in Mexico on Sunday saw the PRI party returned to power after 12 years in opposition. However, its margin of victory was smaller than expected, thus [...]

OGX, an upstart Brazilian producer that declared first oil in January, has replaced Chief Executive Paulo Mendonca after previously announcing a sharp decrease in its production guidance. The company, part [...]

A group of plaintiffs seeking damages from Chevron for environmental damage in Ecuador's Amazon rain forest has filed a suit in Brazil in an effort to seize assets from the [...]

After a long battle with the government, Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras has received authorization to raise its domestic fuel prices to fund an ambitious, $236.5 billion investment plan announced earlier this [...]

Brazilian state-controlled producer Petrobras has announced a new five-year business plan that sharply lowers near-term oil and gas production goals--in essence a recognition that earlier production targets were overly optimistic. [...]

Argentina's state-controlled oil producer YPF has set out an ambitious plan to boost output and reserves after the company was renationalized last month. However, there are doubts about the attainability [...]

Argentina's government has moved quickly to cement its control over YPF, the country's largest oil producer, following the expropriation of a majority stake in the firm from Spain's Repsol last [...]

Mexico is likely to see significant changes to its energy laws after presidential elections later this year, with private investment finding a more welcoming environment, according to a Mexico City-based [...]

Equion Energia--a joint venture between Ecopetrol and Canada's Talisman--is preparing to explore for offshore gas in shallow waters off Colombia's Caribbean coast. Maria Victoria Riano, Equion's chief executive, told an [...]

Spain's Repsol has canceled all LNG sales to Argentina after the government there expropriated most of the firm's stake in YPF, Argentina's largest oil and gas producer, earlier this month. [...]

Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras put a positive spin on its most recent quarterly results during a Thursday conference call with analysts, despite a substantial decline in year-on-year net income and a [...]

Oil companies looking for new opportunities in Brazil will have to wait a while longer, as changes in senior management at state-controlled Petrobras compound the paralysis that has led to [...]

Officials in Argentina continue to meet with representatives of foreign oil and gas companies as the government seeks cooperation in its efforts to boost domestic energy output following its recent [...]

Peru's government plans to hold a long-delayed bid round for exploration blocks by the end of this year. It also wants to start auctioning off several producing blocks that are [...]

Bolivia, which has found it difficult to attract foreign investment in its gas fields since it largely nationalized the upstream sector in 2006, hopes to reverse that situation with a [...]

French major Total remains optimistic about its operations in Argentina, despite that country's plans to seize control of YPF, Argentina's largest oil producer, from Spain's Repsol YPF. Speaking at the [...]

Repsol YPF Chairman Antonio Brufau is in Buenos Aires this week to hold talks with high-ranking Argentinean officials over the future of the Spanish major's local affiliate, YPF. Brufau made [...]

Argentina's government has approved an application by local independent producer Pluspetrol to charge more than the usual capped price for gas that will be produced from a tight gas project [...]

Authorities in Argentina appear to be broadening a crackdown on oil companies that have not complied with government demands to boost their upstream investment. On Wednesday the province of Neuquen [...]

After months of negotiation, the consortium in charge of southern Peru's large Camisea gas field has agreed to reserve all output from one of the field's two blocks for domestic [...]

Uruguay's state energy firm Ancap has announced the results of the country's second offshore bidding round and hopes to sign exploration contracts with the winning firms for eight blocks by [...]

YPF--the Argentine affiliate of Spain's Repsol YPF--has sought to end a conflict with the government of Argentina by agreeing not to distribute almost 5.8 billion pesos ($1.33 billion) in cash [...]

Brazilian federal prosecutors have filed formal criminal charges against Chevron, Transocean and 17 of their employees--including the heads of both firms' Brazilian subsidiaries--over a November oil leak at Chevron's Frade [...]

Chevron is facing mounting pressure from authorities in Brazil over a relatively small offshore oil leak that began in November and which appears to have restarted recently despite earlier efforts [...]

Recent announcements by politicians at both the federal and provincial levels in Argentina highlight the fact that the country's energy policies are taking on an increasingly hard-nosed, populist slant. On [...]

Investors dumped the shares of YPF--the Argentine affiliate of Spain's Repsol YPF--on Wednesday on fears that the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner may be about to announce new [...]