HOUSTON, TEXAS (Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Jan.2025) — Argentina reported a commercial energy balance surplus of $5.668bn in 2024, the highest such surplus in 18 years, according to the country’s Energy Secretariat. In 2024, Argentina’s energy exports were $9.677bn, while its energy imports were $4.009bn, the Energy Secretariat […]
Tag: Javier Milei
LatAm NRG Heard: Mexico 2nd Energy Sector Laws, Drill Baby Drill’s Return
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Jan.2025) — LatAm and other NRG highlights, headlines and “heard on the street,” for the week ended 17 Jan. 2025. —Argentina: The gov’t of president Javier Milei is starting the privatization process for Argentina’s national highways and routes. —Ecuador: Ecuador’s EP PetroEcuador says […]
Some Parts of Milei’s Capital Buenos Aires Without Energy Amid Summer Heat
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Jan.2025) — Argentina’s President Javier Milei is going through a brutal heat wave, which has left many citizens, especially in the country’s capital Buenos Aires, without energy. The heat wave, early in Argentina’s summer, could force the country to eye emergency energy […]
The Milei Way: ¡Viva La Libertad, Carajo!, RIGI, Vaca Muerta and Argentine LNG Exports
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Jan.2025) — For energy investors pondering Argentina’s massive Vaca Muerta shale play potential and other opportunity sets, just brace yourself for president Javier Milei’s catchphrase: “¡Viva la libertad, carajo!” or “Long live freedom, damn it!” Oh yeah, then there’s a little adjustment […]
Argentina’s Hydrocarbon Sector Takes Baby Steps in 2024, Bigger Steps to Come in 2025
(Camilo Ciruzzi , Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Dec.2024) — Efforts by Argentina’s president Javier Milei have resulted in a more flexible regulatory framework and to the benefit of his South American country’s hydrocarbon sector as strategic projects continue to inch forward. No surprise, Argentina’s crude oil and natural gas sectors are […]
TotalEnergies CEO to Javier Milei: “We Want Our Money Back”
(Energy Analytics Institute, 31.Oct.2024) — TotalEnergies chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanné told analysts during the company’s third-quarter 2024 (3Q:24) webcast that the French company wants its money in Argentina. “Argentina is a specific country where you cannot repatriate dividends freely. So as long as it remains the same, as I […]
Diverging Paths: Argentina Versus Brazil’s Energy Policies
(Rystad, 29.Aug.2024) — Argentina and Brazil are the two largest economies on the South American continent, and both are places that foreign investors have been cautiously eyeing for some time now. For many years both countries pursued a similar path while sharing a similar government ideology in their respective capitals. Now, […]
Milei’s Impact on Argentina’s Energy Landscape Outlook
(Energy Workforce & Technology Council, 29.Feb.2024) — Promising drastic change to Argentina’s government and economy, President Javier Milei has run into political speed bumps impacting the oil and gas industry in one of the largest shale patches in the Western hemisphere. Energy Workforce’s Latin America Chapter is eager to engage […]
IMF Unlocks $4.7bn for Argentina Amid Economic Crisis
(Al Jazeera, 11.Jan.2024) — Argentina and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have finalised an agreement to release $4.7bn as part of a debt restructuring plan for the troubled South American nation. Latin America’s third-biggest economy is facing dire economic challenges after decades of debt and financial mismanagement, with inflation surpassing 160 percent […]
IMF Grants Argentina Access to $4.7bn
(IMF, 10.Jan.2024) — An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Luis Cubeddu, Deputy Director of the Western Hemisphere Department and Ashvin Ahuja, Mission Chief for Argentina, issued the following statement in Buenos Aires today following the conclusion of discussions on the seventh review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) […]
Argentina’s Milei to Prohibit Rehiring Public Workers
(Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Dec.2023) — Argentina’s president Javier Milei published a decree that prohibits the renewal of jobs of public workers hired in 2023. The decision is part of adjustments by Milei intended to reduce state spending, Venezuela’s daily El Universal reported 26 Dec. 2023 citing data from Argentina’s La […]
President Elect Milei to Shake up Argentina’s Oil Industry
(WooMac, 28.Nov.2023) — Addressing the election of Javier Milei as President of Argentina, Adrian Lara, principal analyst, said “Elected President Javier Milei and his advisors are signalling the importance the oil and gas sector has in their plans for the overall Argentinian economy, however, their success in deregulating the sector […]
Trump Tells President-elect Javier Milei he Plans to Visit Buenos Aires
(AP, 23.Nov.2023) — Former President Donald Trump has told Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei that he plans to travel to the South American country so the two can meet, Milei’s office said Thursday. The office did not give a date for when Trump intends to be in Buenos Aires. The inauguration of Milei, […]
Argentina’s Incoming Administration Faces Challenges
(S&P Global Ratings, 21.Nov.2023) — Economic imbalances in Argentina provide complex conditions for the Milei administration even before he takes office, S&P Global Ratings said in an article published today titled “Argentina’s Incoming Administration Faces Difficult Economic Policy Implementation.” Javier Milei, of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), won a historic and […]