U.S. Gulf Coast refiners are facing a tightening supply of heavy crude oil as Chevron’s operational role in Venezuela diminishes, a development driven by U.S. sanctions and geopolitical shifts. With Venezuelan crude exports to the […]
Incumbent Daniel Noboa won a campaign roiled by transnational gang violence and an energy crisis. Report Ecuador Sticks With Trump-Friendly President Incumbent Daniel Noboa won a campaign roiled by transnational gang violence and an […]
Cozying up to the U.S. president could be a blessing ahead of the country’s presidential runoff—or a liability. Analysis By Mie Hoejris Dahl, a Danish freelance journalist based in Mexico City. Foreign policy isn’t usually […]
The Ecuadorian government has inked hundred-million-dollar investment agreements (IAs) to support the development of two gold mining projects held by Canadian companies: Adventus Mining’s (TSXV: ADZN), Condor project and Atico Mining’s (TSXV: ATY) La Plata […]
Canada’s Lumina Gold (TSX-V: LUM) has commissioned Ausenco Engineering to lead the feasibility study for its Cangrejos gold-copper project in Ecuador, which the company said is among the world’s top 15 gold assets under […]
September 21, 2023 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics Hydropower has played a key and growing role in Ecuador’s electricity mix by displacing fossil fuels and helping meet higher domestic electricity demand. […]
NewsOil and Gas Authorities in the South American nation of Ecuador have confirmed that an oil spill released about 1,200 barrels into the Pacific, contaminating kilometres of oceanfront. Rafael Armendariz, transportation manager for the state-owned […]
Last fall, thousands of Amazon Watch supporters signed a petition demanding the protection of Ecuador’s last Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation in Yasuní National Park. And now we have excellent news to share! Our […]
Rivers running black through the waters of the Amazon; dying animals covered in petroleum; children whose heads and bodies ache from exposure to oil; explosives buried and forgotten in Indigenous territories. The Amazon jungle — the world’s largest rainforest […]
Ecuador’s top electoral court has opened up a route for a referendum to ban oil drilling in the Yasuni National Park, an environmental group said on Wednesday, a move which could disrupt government plans to […]
Copyright © 2025 | Sandstone Group