PRESS DIGEST 30Sep2026: Shell GOM divestment; Golar LNG in ARG

CARACAS, VENEZUELA (By Energy Analytics Institute and Editores LatinPetroleum, 30.Sep.2026, Words: 355) — Company briefs spanning details on Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Wood Mackenzie, PEMEX, Shell, Gloar LNG, and Argentina LNG, among others.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 

ARGENTINA

— 7 floating LNG projects sanctioned since 2023, adding 18 MMTPA of new capacity across 6 countries, represent the mkt’s most direct response to an extended disruption to Gulf LNG supply. [WoodMac]

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MEXICO

— Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo highlighted the economically active population totaled 62.6 million people in Aug. 2026, representing 1.3 million more people than in Aug. 2025, according to the National Survey of Occupation and Employment (ENOE) of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). [Editores LatinPetroleum]

NORTH AMERICA

— voters “are showing a growing determination to repudiate the Donal Trump presidency,” Thomas Edsall writes. “Their most direct opportunity to express this determination is electing Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.” [New York Times]

— Shell completed divestment of interest in Gulf of America platform. [Editores LatinPetroleum]

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The briefs are compiled from varied media outlets across the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and beyond. Energy Analytics Institute (EAI) has not verified all of these stories and therefore does not vouch for their accuracy. 

By freelance editors and writers reporting for EAI from Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Caracas, Houston, Monterrey, Mexico City, and Bogota. 

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