(Petrobras, 21.Aug.2020) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), referring to the sale of all of its stakes in a set of five onshore field concessions, with integrated facilities,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Aug.2020) — Bolivia's Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) announced plans to suspend residential gas supplies to communities in Caranavi starting 21 August 2020. The Bolivian state entity...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Aug.2020) — Bolivia’s National Electricity Company, through its subsidiary ENDE Oruro S.A., reported 14 August 2020, at around 9 p.m., that groups of persons perpetrated a so-called...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Aug.2020) — Issues with fuel supply have reportedly emerged in La Paz and El Alto as seen by long lines of vehicles at various gas stations in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Aug.2020) — Bolivia’s state oil and gas entity Yacimientos Petrolifos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) will cease to receive some $223 million over three years after signing an eighth...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Jul.2020) — Ecuador ‘s transparency unit of the hydrocarbon ministry received a complaint that dates back and relates to the management of the former YPFB Refining general...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Jul.2020) — YPFB’s Corporate Occupational Safety and Health Directorate applied its decontamination protocol to two buildings located on Grigota Avenue in Santa Cruz: the National Vice Presidency...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Jun.2020) — Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) increased, as of 1 June, natural gas exports requested by Integración Energética Argentina S.A. (IEASA) to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Jun.2020) — Bolivia’s state oil and gas entity Yacimientos Petrolifos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) has boosted natural gas exports as of 1 June 2020 as requested by Integración...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Jun.2020) — YPFB Logística SA, a subsidiary of Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), categorically denies malicious intentions related to alleged irregularities in the...
(Argus, 6.Mar.2020) — Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras signed an agreement with its Bolivian counterpart YPFB to reduce its natural gas offtake to 20mn m³/d from 30mn m³/d, clearing the way for...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 17.Jan.2020) — Dialogue between authorities from Bolivia’s Hydrocarbon Ministry, state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) and local representatives from the autonomous Gran Chaco...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 14.Jan.2020) — Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) guaranteed residents in La Paz and interior portions of the land-locked country that there...
(Reuters, 10.Jan.2020) — The Brazilian government authorized Bolivian oil and gas company YPFB to use the Gasbol pipeline to sell gas to other companies in Brazil beyond state-run oil firm...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 30.Dec.2019) — Brazil’s state oil giant Petrobras inked a transition agreement under the natural gas supply agreement (GSA) with its Bolivian counterpart Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 20.Dec.2019) — Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) announced an investigation has been launched related to alleged transfers to MAS or the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 19.Dec.2019) — Bolivia’s interim President Jeanine Áñez and the country’s Energy Minister Rodrigo Guzmán announced an up to 50% reduction in electricity rates nationwide. The...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 17.Dec.2019) — A delegation accompanying US representative Bruce Williamson meet with Bolivia’s Hydrocarbon Minister Víctor Hugo Zamora to discuss possibilities that the two countries work...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 17.Dec.2019) — Bolivia’s Hydrocarbon Minister Víctor Hugo Zamora said the new team at state oil company YPFB will be fundamental in negotiations related to expansion...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 17.Dec.2019) — YPFB President Herland Javier Soliz Montenegro announced plans to provide an update on the status of company’s entire production chain within three months....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 17.Dec.2019) — Bolivia’s Hydrocarbon Minister Victor Hugo Zamora announced that the country’s state oil company YPFB was a healthy company. "YPFB is in good health,"...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 16.Dec.2019) — Petroleum engineer Herland Javier Soliz Montenegro was named the new president of Bolivia’s state oil company YPFB, replacing engineer José Luis Rivero. Soliz...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 10.Dec.2019) — Forestry Engineer Marcelo Ayala Torrez was named the new Vice President of Bolivia's Contract and Control Administration (VPACF by its Spanish acronym). Ayala...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 9.Dec.2019) — Bolivia plans to reduce electricity rates, retroactively from November 2019, in eight of the South American country’s nine departments. Users in the departments...
(Argus, Patricia Garip, 3.Dec.2019) — Bolivia's new interim government has revised down the figure for natural gas reserves, applying a more conservative interpretation of the certified data. Proven reserves are...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 28.Nov.2019) — Bolivia’s Energy Ministry ordered the Nuclear Electricity and Technology Authority (AETN) to reduce electrical rates in the domestic market in "some departments" where...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 27.Nov.2019) — Bolivia commenced operations to repair a 200-meter section of the Carrasco-Cochabamba Gas pipeline damaged by an explosion that left the industrial sector of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 23.Nov.2019) — Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos announced the dispatch of 1.8 million liters of gasoline and diesel and 10,119 bottles (cylinders)...
(Reuters, Daniel Ramos, 22.Nov.2019) — Bolivia's interim government filed a criminal complaint on Friday against former President Evo Morales for alleged sedition and terrorism, the interior minister said, as authorities...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 19.Nov.2019) — At least 140 industries – including large and medium sized ones in the Bolivian departments of La Paz, Cochabamba and Oruro – have...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 19.Nov.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to Bolivia’s National Hydrocarbon Agency (ANH) establishing maximum fuel prices and appointment by Bolivia’s Interim...
(Argus, Patricia Garip, 19.Nov.2019) — Bolivia's fragile interim government appointed Jose Luis Rivero Sandoval the new president of state-owned oil and gas company YPFB. Rivero, who replaces Oscar Barriga, is...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 18.Nov.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to Bolivia preparing emergency plan to import fuels, Evo Morales vows his return to Bolivia...
(Argus, 14.Nov.2019) — Brazil will increase LNG imports if pipeline natural gas supply from Bolivia is interrupted because of political unrest, according to Brazilian hydrocarbons agency ANP. Brazilian state-controlled Petrobras...
(Argus, 12.Nov.2019) — Bolivia's deepening political crisis is starting to take a toll on its vital hydrocarbons industry. YPFB, Bolivia's state-owned oil and natural gas company, warned Argentina it may...
(Reuters, Daniel Ramos and Vivian Sequera, 3.Nov.2019) — Bolivia's chief opposition leader on Sunday called for new elections to resolve the political crisis engulfing the nation since a disputed Oct....
(Bloomberg, Peter Millard, 14.Oct.2019) — For two years, Bolivia pushed to boost natural gas production, a longtime key to its prosperity, by drilling for new discoveries on its southeastern lowlands....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 10.Oct.2019) — Repsol’s President Antonio Brufau said during a visit to Bolivia that natural gas is the only transitional energy. “All the countries that are...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 28.Sep.2019) — LatAmNRG briefs related to Bolivia’s President Evo Morales' visit to Quantum Motors’ electric vehicle plant in Cochabamba and Bolivia signing a contract to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 24.Sep.2019) — Bolivia’s Siderúrgica del Mutún steel plant, located in the municipality of Puerto Suárez in the province of Germán Busch in Santa Cruz, will...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Sep.2019) — LatAmNRG briefs related to Bolivia’s President Evo Morales inaugurating a 480 megawatt plant in Cochabamba and Morales saying Bolivia to produce 3,370 megawatts...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 24.Aug.2019) — A report by Bolivia’s National Institute of Statistics (INE by its Spanish acronym) published in July 2019 shows that between January and May...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 23.Aug.2019) — LatAmNRG briefs related to Bolivia signing deals related to urea and household gas and Brazil’s ANP saying it expects Bolivian natural gas prices...
(Merco Press, 5.Aug.2019) — The Brazilian oil company Petrobras has announced that in the coming months it will reduce its imports of Bolivian natural gas, which it still considers to...
(NPR, 20.Jul.2019) — It sounded like such a good idea at the time. The year was 2005. Global oil prices were climbing dramatically. Countries in the Caribbean were facing major...
(Reuters, 11.Jul.2019) — Bolivia’s state energy firm has sealed a deal to supply gas to Russian fertilizer giant Acron’s plants in Brazil, the two sides said on Thursday, opening up...
(Reuters, 9.Jul.2019) — Bolivia's state-owned oil company YPFB plans to bid on a stake in a natural gas pipeline linking the country to Brazil to secure better terms for its...
(AP, Carlos Valdez, 1.Jul.2019) — Abraham Rodríguez's small shoe store grew into a factory that employed more than a dozen workers during an economic boom in Bolivia when prices for...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 1.Jul.2019) — LatAmNRG briefs related to Bolivia and government receiving 67.4% of all hydrocarbon revenues during 2006-2018, the country eying natural gas reserves reaching 15...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Ian Silverman, 25.Jun.2019) — Heard on the street related to the Latin America and Caribbean upstream, midstream, downstream and renewable energies sectors. ARGENTINA --...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 16.Jun.2019) — An agreement signed between Bolivia and Paraguay, to carry out a study aimed at building a binational gas pipeline, is important and the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 7.Jun.2019) — Bolivia’s generation capacity is expected to rise this year by 1,000 megawatts (MW) to 3,300 MW, representing an increase of 43.4% compared to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 7.Jun.2019) — Heard on the street related to the Bolivian upstream, midstream, downstream and renewable energy sectors including: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans to meet...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 5.Jun.2019) — A new addendum to an existing contract between Bolivia and Argentina will lead to a price increase for exports of natural gas from...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 30.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to Brazil’s Petrobras requesting lower natural gas volumes from Bolivia’s YPFB, investments to industrialize Bolivian...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 24.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to YPFB being the withholding agent for transport carriers in Chaco, and YPFB and Shell...
(VOA, Martin Arostegui, 21.May.2019) — Spain's Repsol, the last western oil giant with major operations in Venezuela, is leaving the embattled country, as pressure mounts from U.S. sanctions and continuing...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin and Ian Silverman, 9.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to the Sener and Pemex moving forward with the Dos Bocas Refinery...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Pietro D. Pitts, 7.May.2019) — YPFB and YPF Argentina signed strategic deals during discussions in Santa Cruz related to upstream and downstream activities in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 7.May.2019) — Bolivia sold a total 180,000 liters of its new gasoline -- which has as a special anhydrous additive alcohol -- through 35 petrol...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 1.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to Bolivia the land-locked country generating oil and gas revenues of estimated $37,484 million during...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman and Piero Stewart, 23.Apr.2019) — Bolivia’s production of natural gas reached 36 million cubic meters per day (MMcmd/) in March 2019, one of the lowest...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 22.Apr.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to Bolivia and rising production in 2019 from the Cochabamba ammonia-urea complex and the new...
(S&P Global Platts, 22.Apr.2019) — Bolivia is looking at exporting natural gas globally through liquefaction terminals to be built in Argentina, and to buy crude from its southern neighbor, Bolivian...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 22.Apr.2019) — Bolivia’s National Electricity Company (ENDE by its Spanish acronym) has been authorized to operate in Argentina, which opens the door to finish a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 14.Apr.2019) — Bolivia’s Tarija department is forecast to generate natural gas revenues of $2.7 billion through the end of 2025, Bolivia’s Information Agency (ABI) reported...
(Argus, 12.Apr.2019) — Bolivian hydrocarbons minister Luis Alberto Sanchez predicts a jump in natural gas reserves as the country's "year of exploration" gains momentum. "Results from the first quarter were...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 29.Apr.2019) — Siderúrgica del Mutún (ESM by its Spanish acronym) exported 20,000 tons of Bolivian iron to Argentina in the first quarter of 2019, announced...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 5.Apr.2019) — Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) President Oscar Barriga says the Incahuasi-5 well, located 250 kilometers southwest of Santa Cruz department, will have a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 3.Apr.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to Bolivia and the country still being highly dependent on its hydrocarbon sector and Moody’s...
(Financial Express, Huma Siddiqui, 1.Apr.2019) — With big plans to converting all its vehicles to an electric platform by 2030, India is reaching out to the `Lithium Triangle’ in South...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 27.Mar.2019) — Demand from Bolivia’s power sector is currently 1,511 megawatts (MW) compared to supply of 2,236 MW, resulting in a surplus of 725 MW,...
(Reuters, Marta Nogueira, 26.Mar.2019) — Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras has fined Bolivia’s state oil company YPFB after it failed to deliver liquefied natural gas (LNG) volumes secured under a...
(Argus,26.Mar.2019) — Brazilian state-controlled Petrobras expects to continue to receive natural gas from Bolivia for up to four more years after its supply contract with its Bolivian counterpart YPFB expires...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 25.Mar.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on YPFB expecting to incorporate 4 MMcm/d of gas production in 2019, Bolivia seeking to boost...
