Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers

Journal article

In the last five years, Latin America has re-emerged on the world stage of global upstream opportunities. Brazil has proved up its massive pre-salt trend boasting tens of billions of barrels of potential. Argentina, seen as a mature producer well past its prime only a few years ago, has a new lease of life in its world-class Vaca Muerta shale province. In August, Mexico completed far-reaching energy reform; many in the industry had long hoped for this, but it had seemed politically unthinkable even after President Enrique Peña Nieto had submitted his proposal to the legislature a year earlier.

Authors: Conway, T

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
• Journal: Oxford Energy Forum
• Issue: 98
• Pages: 6-9
• Publication date: 2015-01-12
• ISSN: 0959-7727
• Language: English
• Keywords: OIES