Private companies and Ecopetrol have poured money into pipeline construction projects in the last several years to increase capacity, improve distribution throughout the country and decrease transport by road. A mountainous geography and substandard road networks make shipping by truck an expensive and slow proposition. However, many oil companies working in Colombia...
Like the oil industry, electricity in Mexico has been dominated by a state-owned company for a number of years. The Federal Electricity Commission (Comisión Federal de Electricidad, CFE) is the sole provider of transmission and distribution services and also controls all output, producing 70% of electricity on its own and sub-contracting the...
There is no difference in geology between the Mexican and US sides of the Texas border, but there is a difference in activity. South Texas is the centre of the US shale revolution. Thousands of shale wells have been dug and their production has enriched the region. The Eagle Ford Formation (EFF), where most of Texas’s wells are located,...
There is no part of the Mexican energy industry that will not be changed by 2013’s reform. The reform will open the nationalised oil industry to foreign investment, allow for open competition in the electricity market, enable private companies to build natural gas pipelines with more freedom, and will give producers of clean energy better...
The stated ambitions to diversify Panama’s energy matrix have resulted in a range of regulatory reforms to encourage investment in renewables, and ground has been broken on the first projects in wind- and solar-driven generation facilities. After a decade of feasibility studies in cooperation with international development organisations such as...
Rapid economic growth in recent years has not left Panama’s energy sector unscathed. According to figures from Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica (ETESA), the national electricity transmission company, demand for power will grow at around 7.5% per year until 2016 while annual averages of 5.6% are expected in the 10 years after that. Managing the...
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