Bolivia Authorizes State Oil Company To Tap Crypto for Fuel Trade
March 15th, 2025
Via MSN, a report on Bolivia’s authorization of its state oil company to use cryptocurrency for energy imports: Key Takeaways Bolivia’s state energy firm, YPFB, will use cryptocurrency for energy imports amid a worsening fuel crisis. The country is struggling with declining gas exports and a shortage of foreign currency reserves. Crypto adoption in Bolivia […]
Read more »Bolivia’s Slow-Motion Economic Crisis Is Accelerating
October 24th, 2024
Via The Economist, a report on Bolivia’s accelerating economic crisis: Pickup trucks hauling empty fuel drums are lined up outside a petrol station next to a field of soyabeans in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The attendant says the queue hasn’t budged in days: there is no diesel. It’s been this way, on and off, for two months. […]
Read more »Bolivia Stops Gas Sales To Argentina, Shifts Toward Brazil
October 6th, 2024
Via MercoPress, a report on Bolivia’s shift towards Brazil for gas sales: After terminating the supply to Argentina, Bolivia will up its gas pumping towards Brazil according to an agreement between YPFB and Petrobras. Buenos Aires announced it would no longer be needing Bolivian gas since Vaca Muerta, the second-largest reserve in the world and […]
Read more »Bolivia Discovers Vast New Natural Gas Reserves
July 21st, 2024
Via APNews, a report on a new gas find in Bolivia: Bolivia’s embattled president on Monday announced the discovery of vast natural gas reserves, describing it as the biggest find in nearly two decades that could help the cash-strapped country reverse its falling production. President Luis Arce called the trove just north of the capital […]
Read more »China Woos Argentina, Bolivia and Peru to Advance Belt and Road
May 2nd, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on Beijing’s efforts to advance BRI in South America: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has met with counterparts from Argentina, Peru and Bolivia in the past week, as Beijing intensifies efforts to court Latin American countries through its Belt and Road infrastructure-building initiative. Wang met with Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino […]
Read more »Argentina, Brazil In Talks To Reverse Bolivian Gas Pipeline Amid Shortage
April 7th, 2024
Via Offshore Technology, a report on a preliminary proposal to alter the pipeline’s direction has not found favour with Bolivia, exposing Brazil to fluctuating liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices: Energy companies from Argentina and Brazil have initiated discussions to reverse the flow of a Bolivian natural gas pipeline that links the three nations, reported Reuters. This […]
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