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New hydrocarbons terms take attractiveness "from bad to worse" - analyst

The new terms for Ecuador's hydrocarbons sector proposed in a bill drafted by the mines and oil ministry would take the country "from bad to worse" in terms of attracting private investment, Gianna Be...

• Ecuador

   Andec-Funasa open to possible strategic alliances

  Ecuadorian steelmaking consortium Andec-Funasa, which the state partly controls through the national...   more

• Venezuela

   Mibam making progress on Matesi reactivation

  Venezuela's basic industries and mining ministry (Mibam) is making progress on the machinery and equ...   more

• Mexico

   CNH to issue Chicontepec recommendation next month, says commissioner

  Mexico's upstream watchdog CNH will send its recommendation for the Chicontepec oil project in Puebl...   more

• Peru

   ProInversión launches tender for stretch 2 of IIRSA Centro highway

  Peru's private investment promotion agency ProInversión has launched a tender to concession a sectio...   more

• Mexico

   Winners of 1.7GHz spectrum won't pay concession rights for 2 years

  Mexico's congress approved on Thursday (Nov 5) a clause that entitles the winners of an upcoming auc...   more

• Colombia

   Smitco asks IFC for US$15.8mn to remodel Santa Marta container terminal

  Santa Marta International Terminal Company Smitco is requesting a US$15.8mn loan from the Internatio...   more

• Mexico

   Calderón opens remodeled Puerto Peñasco airport

  Mexican president Felipe Calderón on Thursday inaugurated the remodeled Mar de Cortés airport in Pue...   more

• Argentina

   Bactssa to start operating new gantry crane by end-Nov

  Argentine concessionaire Bactssa, which operates terminal 5 at Buenos Aires port, expects to start u...   more

• Brazil

   Authorities to define financing for US$574mn Santos port bridge by year-end

  Authorities will decide how to finance a 1bn-real (US$574mn) bridge project in Brazil's Santos port ...   more

• Brazil

   IRB's earnings continue to suffer, down 58.5% in January-August on higher claims

  Brazil's federally controlled reinsurer IRB-Brasil Re had 97.9mn reais (US$56.7mn) in profits in the...   more

• Ecuador

   Senagua monitors 474 water concessions

  Ecuador's water regulator Senagua has inspected 474 water concessions as part of a plan to update th...   more

• Regional

   Oil juniors to have access to capital in 2010 - analyst

  Chicago-based Brookshire Advisory and Research expects oil juniors that operate in Latin America to ...   more

• Chile

   Lower house to discuss bill to concession rural water, sanitation services

  Members of Chile's lower chamber of congress will discuss a bill to concession rural potable water a...   more

• Jamaica

   PCJ sees up to 1Bb in new blocks to be tendered

  The 19 offshore blocks that Jamaica's state-run firm Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) plans to...   more

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