PDVSA’s Growing Influence in Central/South America
October 1st, 2008
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 »Argentina’s Energy Find
February 5th, 2008
From The Financial Times, news that Pan American Energy – the second largest oil and gas producer in Argentina – has announced the country’s biggest hydrocarbons discovery in recent years and a $1bn investment programme – music to the ears of a government grappling with serious energy and power shortages resulting from President Cristina Fernández […]
Read more »Argentina and Bolivia’s Northeast Argentine Pipeline; A Feeble Attempt to Balance Brazil’s Growing Might
January 28th, 2008
Stratfor (subscription required) recently reported that Argentine and Bolivian leaders kicked off the $1.8 billion Northeast Argentine Pipeline (GNEA) project in Buenos Aires on Jan. 25. While this has important ramifications for the South American hydrocarbon picture, Stratfor insightfully notes that this is just another harbinger that the geopolitical structure of South America is changing: […]
Read more »An OPEC for Natural Gas: Born in South America?
August 26th, 2007
As noted in Xinhua earlier this month, Bolivia, Argentina and Venezuela signed an accord to create the Organization of Gas Producing and Exporting Countries of South America (Opegasur), which is aimed at consolidating their energy alliance. “…The three presidents inked the commitment memorandum for the exploration and exploitation of fossil fuels in the Bolivian provinces […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.