(Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Jan.2025) — LatAm NRG highlights, headlines and “heard on the street,” for the week ended 3 Jan. 2025.
—Argentina: Gov’t of president Javier Milei giving full support to Venezuela’s Edmundo González Urrutia as he prepares his return to Venezuela on 10 Jan. 2025 after a disputed presidential election on 28 Jul. 2024, which saw both González and incumbent president Nicolás Maduro Moro claiming victory.
—Chile: The gov’t of president Gabriel Boric spent an estimated $2.3bn in 2024 on 200+ projects related to improving the productivity of small and artisan mining.
—Mexico: Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo says her gov’t has yet to receive an invitation to the 20 Jan. 2025 inauguration of US president-elect Donald Trump.
—Mexico: Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo plans to attend the presidential inauguration ceremony on 10 Jan. 2025 in Venezuela.
—Mexico: Mexico’s gov’t says petrol prices have not risen in real terms.
—Trinidad and Tobago: Former Trinidad PM Keith Rowley will not run again for public office in 2025.
—Venezuela: Gov’t is flirting w/ restructuring and renaming the OPEC country’s energy ministry, once known as MENPET.
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—USA: Venture Global is reportedly eligible to kick off its roadshow early next wk. 2 add’l energy IPOs appear primed to launch soon include Flowco Holdings (NYSE: FLOC) and Infinity Natural Resources (NYSE: INR).
—USA: Arctic blast threatens to unleash blackouts again in the US energy state capital Texas.
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