David Hill reports for The Guardian: Is Bolivia going to frack ‘Mother Earth’? First steps towards producing shale gas meet with increasing concern among Bolivian civil society. The momentum is building. Bolivia’s state oil and gas company YPFB announced in early 2013 it would begin studies to identify shale gas deposits, and in November that…
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Bolivia Natural Gas 101: what lies ahead?
Carlos Miranda writes in Pagina Siete: Our gas era and its periods In the economic history of our country, the economic eras of silver and tin are informally recorded. Now it’s up to natural gas. Our natural gas was started in May 1972 with the start of export to Argentina under a long term contract…
Current Bolivian gov managerial performance regarding our hydrocarbon industry!
Carlos Valverde Bravo for El Deber: And the story goes on On May 10th, President Morales was part of a show organized for the inauguration of the plant in Rio Grande, born with a suspected premium price of over $50 million dollars. Since the affair of S. Ramirez until the arrival of Carlos Villegas to…
Hydrocarbons 101: They see inefficient management of YPFB after six years of nationalization
The following article belongs to Hydrocarbons 101, as it assesses the performance of the most important and visible governmental economic policy action. I decided to include two cartoons related to YPFB in the body of the article, which do no interpret or refer to the article per se. They only share the subject: YPFB wanderings……
Bolivian Hydrocarbons 101: Natural gas “nationalization” was a failure, coincide experts
Important information produced by Pablo Peralta and published in Pagina Siete; a bit lengthy but it is the Bolivian Hydrocarbons 101, as a result of current government’s politics and policy: The graph to the right, shows the levels of oil and gas production (bars above); below the increasing levels of GLP and diesel imports: The…
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