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.
For nearly two decades, South America’s largest economy Brazil has been reaping a tremendous economic windfall from a massive oil boom that kicked off with…
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After Exxon’s string of high-quality oil discoveries in offshore Guyana delivered more than 11 billion barrels of oil resources South America started garnering considerable attention…
Despite a long history of being Latin America’s best-managed national oil company Colombia’s Ecopetrol is swamped by uncertainty. For over a decade, the integrated energy…
Colombia’s economically crucial energy patch is facing a grave crisis due to its shortage of proven oil and natural gas reserves coupled with leftist President…
With more than 35 oil discoveries since 2015 the impoverished South American microstate of Guyana has emerged as the world’s hottest frontier drilling location. Global energy…
Colombia’s first-ever leftist president emerged victorious from the July 2022 election run-off after running a broad reform-based campaign with a focus on transitioning the Andean country…
Colombia has been locked in a vicious multiparty civil war for control of the country’s vast natural wealth, including fertile agricultural land, fossil fuels, and gold,…
The last year has been particularly turbulent for the former South American Dutch colony of Suriname. A rapidly deteriorating economy, violent anti-government protests, and rising…
The impoverished South American micro-state Guyana is in the midst of an epic oil boom which has seen the former British colony emerge as the…
Colombia’s beleaguered oil industry is facing a series of volatile headwinds as it struggles to return to a pre-pandemic tempo of operations. Petroleum output despite…
Latin America’s largest economy Brazil has experienced a massive oil boom over the last decade and a half that saw the country become the top…
It was a daunting moment last Thursday in Colombia, South America’s longest-running democracy, when retired Colonel John Marulanda, ex-president of the Andean country’s powerful Retired…
Washington views China’s attempts to aggressively expand its influence in Latin America with increasing alarm. Beijing is using its considerable economic clout as the world’s…
Latin America emerged over the last two decades as one of the world’s top oil-producing regions. This occurred because of Brazil’s immense offshore oil boom…
Argentina, which with a 2022 gross domestic product of $632 million is Latin America’s third-largest economy, is once again in the midst of a deep…
Latin America is a region not normally associated with the global energy industry and oil production. It has, however, been blessed with considerable natural resources…
A series of setbacks emerged during 2022 which derailed deeply impoverished Suriname’s nascent oil boom. The former Dutch colony of around 600,000 people, which shares…
In as little as eight years since ExxonMobil’s first offshore discovery in Guyana the impoverished former British colony has emerged as a major oil producer and exporter.…
Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Colombia’s economically crucial oil industry has struggled to recover. During 2022, Colombia only pumped an average of 754,199 barrels daily,…