Investments

• Saturday, July 27th 2013 - 05:00 UTC

  Falklands set rules for oil and gas development, to the benefit of Islanders current and future generations

  

  Falkland Islands has set out the eight basic guidelines of its hydrocarbons development policy which are centred on robust regulation, supply chain support and long-term benefits for Islanders because the statement underlines its resources belong to the people of the Islands.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2013 - 14:54 UTC

  Mineral rich Australia may contain world's next major oil find

  

  By John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com - Australia's massive mineral exports allowed it to weather the global recession, which began in 2008, quite nicely.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2013 - 07:33 UTC

  China interested in developing agriculture in Venezuela’s 30 million hectares of land

  

  Venezuelan Vice-president Jorge Arreaza said that cooperation between China and Venezuela, which has been especially strong and beneficial in energy and technology, could be extended to include agriculture and land exploitation, an area of special interest for Beijing.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2013 - 07:16 UTC

  Green Coke with natural sweetener stevia launched in Argentina

  

  Coca Cola has used their familiar and distinctive curved script since 1887 and since the 1920s their famous logo has been placed on a red background on the company's classic cola. But the soda brand is now going green, at least in Argentina.

• Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 06:24 UTC

  Uruguay is “extremely expensive: construction costs are double those of Argentina”

  

  Uruguay is not expensive, ‘it has become extremely expensive” with construction costs that are double those of Argentina, claimed Eduardo Constantini, an Argentine business man with strong investments in Uruguay, the latest of which building 500 summer houses along the eastern coast.

• Saturday, July 20th 2013 - 05:07 UTC

  Lessons from India Jindal’s Bolivian investment failure

  

  Jindal’s integrated mining and steel project in Bolivia was the largest contract secured by an Indian company in Latin America. The project, which ultimately became a victim of the country's domestic politics, has lessons for Indian companies venturing into Latin America.

• Wednesday, July 17th 2013 - 20:04 UTC

  Successful fracking for tight gas in Tierra del Fuego, announces Chile’s ENAP

  

  Chile’s government oil and gas company, ENAP, confirmed a successful experiment with hydraulic fracturing to extract non conventional tight gas at the Arenal Block in Tierra del Fuego, where the company operates with no partners.

• Wednesday, July 17th 2013 - 07:37 UTC

  “Applause for Argentines who invested in US real estate, I prefer a house in Paris”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez kept her tongue firmly in cheek as she referred to the record number of property acquisitions by Argentines in the United States, especially in the Miami area.

• Tuesday, July 16th 2013 - 20:29 UTC

  Chernobyl at sea? Russia building Floating Nuclear Power Plants

  

  By John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com - So much for the lessons of Fukushima; never mind oil spills the Russian Federation is preparing an energy initiative that, if it has problems will inject nuclear material into the maritime environment.

• Tuesday, July 16th 2013 - 20:10 UTC

  Total plans to spud first exploratory well in Uruguay’s continental shelf in 2015

  

  The French oil and gas company Total confirmed that at the beginning of 2015 it will spud its first exploratory well in deep waters of the Uruguayan continental shelf, according to Juan Gomez, one of directors from the country’s fuel company Ancap.