Matthew Smith is Oilprice.com's Latin-America correspondent. Matthew is a veteran investor and investment management professional. He obtained a Master of Law degree and is currently located in Latin America. Matthew writes on oil and gas, mining and infrastructure.
The Guyana-Suriname basin is gaining considerable attention from big oil despite the threat of peak oil demand and global push to significantly reduce carbon emissions.…
Negotiations for Venezuela’s November 2021 regional elections, which are being brokered by Norway, kicked off this week in Mexico. The talks between the authoritarian regime…
Post-FARC peace treaty violence is at an all-time high with 2021 on track to be the most violent year in Colombia in a decade. Massacres…
The aggressive push to decarbonize the world economy is forcing big oil to examine how the carbon emissions of its operations can be reduced with…
The pandemic, social unrest, and substantial fiscal pressures in Buenos Aires are all weighing heavily on Argentina’s petroleum industry and the burgeoning oil boom underway…
After being rocked by a harsh 2020 where the March 2020 oil price collapse and the coronavirus pandemic sharply impacted operations Colombia’s economically vital petroleum…
The threat of peak oil demand arriving sooner than predicted and the aggressive push to decarbonize the world economy in a post-Paris Agreement world is…
The strife-torn South American nation of Colombia was rocked by anti-government protests which commenced in late April 2021 and lasted for roughly two months. By…
Despite a near economic collapse, shattered petroleum industry infrastructure and empty government coffers, Venezuela’s oil minister Tareck El Aissami continues to talk-up the prospects of…
The global push to substantially reduce carbon and other fossil fuel emissions is expected to sharply impact demand for fossil fuels. It will eventually trigger…
Global oil supermajor ExxonMobil is investing heavily in South America seeing it become the driving force behind Guyana’s offshore oil boom. The integrated energy company…
By the 1990s, founding OPEC member Venezuela had become a true petroleum power pumping over two million barrels of crude oil per day. This saw…
While the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020’s oil price collapse hit Argentina’s hydrocarbon sector hard, leading to some analysts to claim that it may never fully…
The Arab Spring, which was a series of pro-democracy anti-government uprisings over a decade ago that swept across several largely Islamic states, triggered a substantial…
Fueled by copious sums of drug money, large cartels have taken control of large swathes of Mexico and for over a decade have been challenging…
After an exceptionally tough 2020 and poor start to 2021 for Colombia’s oil industry, the country’s energy ministry is betting on an offshore oil exploration…
Despite the intensifying fight against global warming and climate change, which is supported by some of the world’s largest energy companies, Colombia’s president Ivan Duque…
Even after surviving an extremely difficult 2020, marred by a constitutional crisis, violent protests, and the COVID-19 pandemic, there are signs of worse ahead for…
Latin America’s largest oil producer Brazil is one of the worst affected countries globally by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the World Health Organization, Brazil…
Venezuela’s Descent Into Anarchy Is Fueling Maduro’s DesperationDescription: Tags: After more than 15 years of U.S. sanctions which caused Venezuela’s one mighty petroleum industry to collapse,…