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Latin America unconventional potential: where else than Argentina?
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Report summary
Latin America is home to unconventional plays that hold promising resources and Argentina has been an example to get the development off the ground. Elsewhere, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil are at different stages but with active discussions around the development of hydraulic fracturing. However, the common challenge among the three countries is how to onboard communities and public bodies. With declining reserves and urgency to replace declining production, Mexico and Colombia momentum resembles Argentina in the 2010s. In Brazil, the focus is on other more prolific areas, shaping unconventionals an even further target.
Table of contents
- Unconventional resources potential associated with declining gas supply
- Well-established regulatory framework against AMLO's fracking opposition
- Above-ground issues worsen the unripe supply chain
- Even improving the wells' economics, the timeline is uncertain
- A slow-moving regulatory framework against a mature oil and gas country
- Corporate appetite for the pilot wells programme
- Existing infrastructure makes unconventional development technically viable
- High development costs concern the unconventional developments' economic viability
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
- Mexico national dry gas supply: US imports increased by 18% yearly over the last decade
- Mexico's unconventional resources potential
- Type well annual production
- Type wells cumulative post-tax cashflow sensitivities
- Evolution of oil and gas reserves and related production curves
- Unconventional potential in VMM and Cesar-Ranchería basins
- Conventional active contracts in unconventional potential spots
- Type well annual production
- Type well cash post-tax cashflow sensitivities
- Tight oil comparative analysis across different plays
- Shale gas comparative analysis across different plays
- Mexico wells drilled with unconventional objectives
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