(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Mar.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean regions Bolivia and Venezuela including Ambar executives seeking a deal for piped gas from Bolivia’s YPFB, PDVSA shutting its Cardón Refinery in Falcón state, and Venezuela reportedly shipping around 50% of its diesel production to Cuba. Ambar […]
Tag: Jeanine Anez
Bolivia Briefs: Elections, Responses From Abroad
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Oct.2020) — Bolivia brief related to general elections held 18 October 2020 as well as initial responses from abroad. Bolivia’s Arce Says His Election Has “Recovered Hope” Bolivian leader Luis Arce, from the Movement Towards Socialism or MAS party, has been announced the clear winner in the […]
Luis Acre Restores Bolivia To Socialist Party Rule
(Argus, 19.Oct.2020) — Gas-rich Bolivia’s socialist party swept yesterday’s elections and will return to power by year’s end, but with a more pragmatic leader at its helm. Former finance minister Luis Arce won more than 50pc of the vote in two exit polls, topping his nearest rival, former president Carlos […]
Bolivia’s Arce Emerges As Presidential Winner
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Oct.2020) — Bolivian presidential hopeful Luis Arce appears to have won the country’s general election. “We still don’t have an official count, but from the data we have, Mr. Arce and Mr. Choquehuanca have won the election,” Bolivia’s interim president Jeanine Añez Chavez announced 19 October 2020 […]
Bolivia’s Añez Says She Will Respect Election Results
(Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Oct.2020) — Bolivia’s interim president Jeanine Añez expressed her commitment to enforce the popular will expressed in the results of the general elections on 18 October 2020. “We have been committed from the beginning and we want to tell the entire population we’re going to enforce the […]
Bolivia’s 50% Reduction In Electricity Rates
(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 rates go into effect retroactively as of November 2019 and will benefit more than 1.8 million consumers nationwide, online media […]
YPFB Dispatches Fuel, LPG From Senkata Plant
(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) of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to the cities of La Paz and El Alto after suspension of a blockade at […]
Bolivia Gov’t Charges Morales With Terrorism
(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 began probes of his allies that they accuse of corruption and fomenting unrest. Interim President Jeanine Anez, a former senator […]
LatAmNRG Bolivia Briefs: Fuel Prices, New YPFB Head
(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 President Jeanine Añez of José Luis Rivero as the new president of the country’s state oil and gas company Yacimientos […]
Brazil To Import More LNG If Bolivia Supply Falters
(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 confirmed that it was notified by Bolivian state-owned YPFB on 11 November about possible fluctuations in gas supply. Under a […]