Course Summary

This workshop introduces participants to the Latin American natural gas market and the countries with the most significant opportunities and operations. This course will also review the geopolitics, pipeline structures, supply LNG initiatives, and storage. In addition, the course will review the regulatory environment specific to the most significant suppliers in Latin America. The course will offer a special focus on natural gas operations, pipeline structures, reserves, supply, challenges, and opportunities in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile. The course addresses both independent (IOC) and national (NOC) Latin American natural gas producers.

Who Should Attend?

Global energy-related companies or other interested parties engaged in the due diligence process for partnership, joint venture or assessment opportunities in the Latin American natural gas sector. Any professional, in any discipline, seeking a better understanding of analyzing opportunities in the complex Latin American natural gas market would find this course of interest including bankers, lawyers, energy analysts and other professionals in the energy sector.

Course Contents

Day 1

Overview

• Bolivia home to the region's natural gas reserves
  
• Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile supply contracts
  
• Efforts at regional integration
  
• Natural gas reserves by country
  
• Natural gas production by country
  
• Regional supply and demand
  

Bolivia

• Regional heavy weight for natural gas reserves
  
• Role of government and regulatory environment
  
• Export contract to supply Argentina and Brazil
  
• Geopolitics of natural gas production
  
• Future for Bolivian natural gas and regional challenges
  

Argentina

• Natural gas reserves and production
  
• Transportadora del Norte (TGN) pipeline
  
• Transportadora del Sur (TGS) pipeline
  
• Role of Enarsa S.A. in natural gas and the GNEA pipeline
  
• Regulatory environment and role of government
  
• Argentine natural gas storage
  
• Bolivia natural gas supplier to Argentina
  
• Tariffs structure in the energy sector
  

Chile

• Natural gas reserves and production
  
• Importer of natural gas from Argentina via TGN's pipeline
  
• Southern Cone natural gas shortages
  
• Integration not yet a reality
  
• Natural gas supply interruptions from Argentina
  
• Energy independence: ENAP and the Quintero LNG project
  
• Regulatory framework and the Chilean business model
  
• Tariffs
  

Mexico

• Natural gas production and reserves
  
• Mexico as natural gas importer
  
• Regulatory environment
  
• Tariff structure
  
• Pipeline network
  

Day 2

Brazil

• Natural gas reserves and production
  
• Brazil as net exporter or importer
  
• Major Brazilian pipelines
  
• Bolivia to Brazil pipeline
  
• Regulatory environment
  
• Tariffs
  
• The future and role of LNG in Brazil
  

Colombia

• Ecopetrol natural gas production and reserves
  
• Ecopetrol pipeline structure
  
• Pacific Rubiales' pipeline
  
• Regulatory environment
  
• Progressive tariff structure
  

Venezuela

• PDVSA natural gas production and reserves
  
• PDVSA as importer / exporter of natural gas
  
• PDVSA major natural gas initiatives
  
• Regulatory environment
  
• Tariff structure
  
• Venezuelan pipeline network
  
• The role of LNG
  

Peru

• Camisea pipeline
  
• Regulation
  
• Natural gas Reserves and production
  
• Development of natural gas initiatives in Peru
  

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