Another sign of corruption or at least bad management or lack thereof, this time in the top state-owned hydrocarbon company: YPFB (the pride of current government’s nationalization policy). El Diario reports: It is in doubt the transparency of the procurement process to build the separator plants of liquids of Rio Grande and Gran Chaco, after…
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Insufficient natural gas to meet market demands
El Dia published on December 8, 2011 information about the Bolivian supply of natural gas being insufficient for projects like El Mutun (iron): [You can see the total supply in the colored ‘waves’, representing the gas fields. The line on top of all is the total demand and the down pointing red arrows represents the…
Campo Margarita royalties’ issue between Chuquisaca and Tarija
The natural gas in Campo Margarita is one of the most important fields in our decreasing hydrocarbon industry; nevertheless its royalties are an extremely important source for the departments where it is located. The map below shows how that reservoir is between three departments. On the left, the map with the red remarks where the…
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