“No Alternative” in Argentina’s Hydrocarbons Outlook: an interview with Francisco Olivera, La Nación

Summary: Despite sitting atop the world’s fourth largest shale oil and gas reserves, Argentina has failed to attached sufficient investment for exploration and production, leaving the country to import 20 percent of its energy needs. A recent compensation agreement with Repsol, and investment deals with Chevron and Dow Chemical may be signs of a reversing trend. Francisco Olivera, columnist at La Nación in Argentina, remains cautiously optimistic, particularly under a new government in 2015, seeing “no alternative” but to enact policy changes to avoid an energy crisis (in Spanish).