Investments

• Wednesday, October 15th 2014 - 23:32 UTC

  Petrobras sets a new oil and gas production record during September

  

  Petrobras announced a new oil output record in Brazil, during September with an average of 2.23 million barrels of oil per day (bpd) production in the country, including in this total the fields operated by the state-owned company for its partners. The volume is 0.3% higher than breaks August record.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2014 - 20:00 UTC

  The ten biggest energy company bankruptcies

  

  Running a multi-billion dollar energy company isn't easy. Just ask the executives in the corner suites of some of the energy companies that have gone bust over the years. Some, like Enron, were brought down because of insider malfeasance.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2014 - 10:31 UTC

  Argentine delegation after trade and investors in India

  

  A numerous Argentine delegation will be attending this week trade and investment conferences in New Delhi as part of the country's efforts to increase exports to the growing Indian market and attract investors.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2014 - 08:36 UTC

  Latin America with a huge deficit in infrastructure investment, says Eclac

  

  Argentina should double its current investment in infrastructure and spend 6.2% of its Gross Domestic Product to satisfy its demands for the period 2012-2020, according to a report of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

• Tuesday, October 14th 2014 - 11:54 UTC

  First BMW rolls out from Brazilian plant; annual production goal: 30.000

  

  Germany's BMW Group celebrated last week the first car to be assembled in its new Brazilian automobile plant in Araquari, Santa Catarina State, where over the course of the next few years, more than 200 million Euros will be invested in the plant, resulting in a production capacity of more than 30,000 vehicles annually.

• Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 06:06 UTC

  Santos confirms he authorized FARC leader to attend peace talks in Cuba

  

  Colombian guerrilla leader Rodrigo Londoño has made secret government-authorized trips to Cuba several times in the last year to meet with his team of negotiators as part of peace talks to end 50 years of civil war, Colombian officials said.

• Thursday, October 9th 2014 - 10:36 UTC

  YPF goes overseas: signs agreement with Ecuador to recover mature fields

  

  Argentina's state-run energy company YPF closed on Wednesday an agreement with Ecuador's state-owned company Petroamazonas for the enhanced recovery of the mature field of El Campo Yuralpa which will demand an investment in the range of 170 million dollars.

• Tuesday, October 7th 2014 - 22:08 UTC

  Enhancing safe navigation in polar waters

  

  The Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO) and the International Association for Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO), in cooperation with Lindblad Expeditions, have found a way for cruise operators to share years of depth soundings from the Arctic and Antarctica.

• Tuesday, October 7th 2014 - 00:43 UTC

  Griesa orders Argentina to reinstate BoNY as trustee for bondholders' payments

  

  US Judge Thomas Griesa has ordered Argentina to reinstate the Bank of New York Mellon (BoNY) as trustee for bondholders payments and “reverse the steps taken” with the approval of the so-called Sovereign Payment law that replaced it with the country's Nacion Fideicomisos.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 07:33 UTC

  Italian holdouts, following on Paul Singer, present demand against Argentina

  

  Italian bondholders filed a complaint order to United States District Judge Thomas Griesa asking to be given the same benefits as Aurelius Management and NML Management, the “holdouts” that were authorized by Griesa to be paid the full debt Argentina has with them.