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www.thedialogue.org February 24-28, 2014 FEATURED Q&A BOARD OF ADVISORS What Would North American Energy Integration Look Like? Jeffrey Davidow Larry Pascal Senior Counselor, Partner, U.S. President Barack Obama to the world's third-largest oil reserves. The Cohen Group Haynes and Boone met with Mexican President Mexico has the world's sixth-largest shale Enrique Peña Nieto and gas reserves and is poised to initiate an Ramon Espinasa R. Kirk Sherr Consultant, President, Q Canadian Prime Minister energy resurgence of its own after sweep- Inter-American Clearview Strategy Stephen Harper last week for the North ing reforms passed last December. Add to Development Bank Group American Leaders' Summit to discuss those figures the fact that the United States opportunities for North American cooper- and Canada already form the world's Luis Giusti Charles Shapiro ation, including closer regional energy Senior Advisor, President, largest integrated energy market. But there Center for Strategic & Institute of the integration. Did the summit achieve much are additional opportunities for cross-bor- International Studies Americas in terms of the energy agenda? What der cooperation. Joint development of would or should regional North American unconventional energy resources and Jonathan Hamilton Garrett Soden energy policy look like specifically? greater electric integration would bring Partner, Executive Director, White & Case Etrion Corporation What benefits would a more ambitious economic, environmental and political vision for North American energy ties Continued on page 3 Raul Herrera Mark Thurber bring about, and what obstacles are Partner, Partner, standing in the way? Arnold & Porter Andrews Kurth Paul Isbell Jeremy Martin, director of the Fellow, Roger Tissot Johns Hopkins Independent Energy energy program at the Institute University-SAIS Economist of the Americas: "'There's not going to be any other region in James R. Jones Alexandra A Co-chair, Valderrama the foreseeable future that will enjoy Manatt Jones International Gov't cheaper energy than North America,' said Global Strategies Affairs Manager, Pemex's CEO, Emilio Lozoya, in an inter- Chevron Jorge Kamine view just before the North American Counsel, Andrew Vesey Leaders' Summit. Despite the absence of Repsol, YPF Sign $5 Billion Skadden Arps Executive VP and Chief any major energy pronouncements from Compensation Agreement Operating Officer, Toluca, Mr. Lozoya's view underscores that Spanish oil company Repsol, led by Craig A. Kelly The AES Corporation Director, Americas regional energy trade and trilateral coop- chairman and CEO Antonio Brufau, on Int'l Gov't Relations, Max Yzaguirre eration remain an important part of the Thursday signed a $5 billion compensa- Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Officer, relationship, particularly as North tion deal with Argentina's YPF for the Francesco Olivieri The Yzaguirre Group America burnishes its energy hub bona 2012 nationalization of its Argentine Washington Office fides. Indeed, the foundation is strong: the assets. See story on page 2. Head, Enel Green United States' energy revolution has cata- Photo: Repsol. Power North America pulted it to being the world's largest hydrocarbons producer. Canada is home Inside This Issue FEATURED Q&A: What Would North Cosan Plans to Acquire Brazil, Argentina Advancing Plans American Energy Integration Look Like? ...........1 Brazilian Rail Network for $3 Billion ...................2 for Binational Hydroelectric Dams......................3 Repsol, YPF Sign $5 Billion Bolivia to Invest $696 Million In Profile: Eleodoro Mayorga, Peru's Compensation Agreement ....................................2 in Gas Projects This Year .....................................3 Minister of Energy and Mines..............................4 Petrobras Reports Increase in Net Former Paraguayan Presidents Call Political and Economic News: Ecuador, Profit, Sets Daily Pre-Salt Record .......................2 for Argentine Contract Changes..........................3 Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago and More....4-5 Copyright © 2014, Inter-American Dialogue Page 1 of 6 Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Energy Advisor February 24-28, 2014 ENERGY SECTOR BRIEFS Oil & Gas News is very positive," YPF CEO Miguel Galuccio told reporters earlier this week in Cosan Plans to Acquire Brazilian Buenos Aires, according to Bloomberg Rail Network for $3 Billion Repsol, YPF Sign $5 Billion News. "Repsol still has a 12 percent stake in Brazilian sugar cane and ethanol Compensation Agreement the company, there should be a new giant Cosan plans to merge its dynamic now in the board. We should be Rumo transportation unit with one Spanish oil company Repsol signed a $5 able to leave this dispute in the past and of Latin America's biggest rail-ship- billion compensation deal Thursday with focus on a more constructive future," ping companies in a deal valued at Argentina's state-owned YPF for the 2012 Galuccio added. Brufau said this week that nationalization of Repsol's 51 percent Repsol is considering the sale of its $3 billion, The Wall Street Journal stake in YPF, the Buenos Aires Herald remaining stake in YPF. reported Monday. The purchase of reported. Argentine Economy Minister América Latina Logística would Axel Kicillof signed the agreement in Petrobras Reports Increase in Net bring Cosan's holdings to 36.5 per- Buenos Aires with Luis Suárez de Lezo Profit, Sets Daily Pre-Salt Record cent of the new company and help Mantilla, the general counsel and secretary Cosan streamline the transport of its Brazilian state oil company Petrobras said products to Brazil's main ports. in a statement Wednesday that its net CEO Marcos Lutz told investors on “ We should be able to leave this income in 2013 was up 11 percent com- a phone call that the deal will likely dispute in the past and focus on pared to a year earlier, to 23.37 billion reais add value to the company's Raízen ($9.97 billion). The company attributed joint energy venture with Royal a more constructive future. the increase partially to a rise in diesel and ” gasoline prices, of 20 percent and 11 per- Dutch Shell, Reuters reported. — Miguel Galuccio cent respectively, gains from asset sales, Pemex Posts $5.7 Billion Loss cost optimization and lower foreign in Q4 as Output, Sales Fall of Repsol, and the company's business exchange impact. The Rio de Janeiro- director, Nemesio Fernández-Cuesta. based company also reported that its earn- Mexican state oil company Pemex Under the deal, which still requires ings before interest, taxes, depreciation, said Thursday that it lost $5.7 bil- approval from the Argentine Congress and and amortization (EBITDA) was up 18 lion in the fourth quarter last year. It Repsol's shareholders, Argentina will pay percent year-on-year. On Tuesday, was the company's fifth consecutive Repsol with guaranteed, dollar-denomi- Petrobras said it had set a new daily output quarterly loss, Bloomberg News nated bonds with a market value of at least record for pre-salt production. Oil pro- reported. Pemex's daily crude pro- $4.67 billion, Reuters reported. "I think to duction in fields operated by Petrobras in duction slid 1.5 percent from the finally reach a friendly agreement on this the Santos and Campos Basin pre-salt same period a year ago to 2.52 mil- contentious issue that has taken two years accumulations rose to 407,000 barrels per lion barrels. Sales fell 2.6 percent, as is extremely positive," Repsol's CEO and day (bpd) last Thursday, a record daily well. Officials hope that a landmark chairman, Antonio Brufau, said Tuesday, output, the company said in a press energy overhaul passed last year will after the company's board approved the release. "It has taken eight years to achieve deal. As part of the deal, Repsol said it this level of output since initial discovery spur production. would drop all legal action stemming from in 2006," the company said, noting that Chile Increases Solar Capacity the nationalization, including lawsuits time frame is shorter than industry norms. to 102.6 Megawatts in January aimed at preventing other oil companies Pre-salt production takes place in ultra- such as Chevron from partnering with deep waters, making it a technical chal- Chile's grid-connected solar energy YPF, and international arbitration, and the lenge to extract. Petrobras achieved the capacity rose dramatically last companies also signed an agreement to record output from 21 production wells, a month, from 6.7 megawatts at the this effect on Thursday. Repsol had origi- relatively small number that Petrobras says end of December to 102.6 MW in nally demanded $10.5 billion as compen- indicates the high productivity of the January, according to Chile's Center sation for the loss of assets responsible for fields already discovered in the pre-salt for Renewable Energy, pv Magazine more than half of the company's oil and layer. During the period from 2015 to reported Feb. 20. Missouri-based gas production, but in the end decided to 2016, eight new platforms are scheduled to SunEdison partially connected its avoid a protracted legal battle and focus come on stream, with pre-salt output 100-megawatt Amanecer solar plant, instead on plans to boost international expected to surpass 1 million bpd in 2017. being built for mining and steel exploration and production elsewhere in Overall, Petrobras' oil production fell 2.2 the world. YPF's change in position, ana- percent last year to 2.5 million barrels per group CAP. ET Solar's 3-megawatt lysts say, was driven by a broader effort to day, as output from older oil fields has Los Puquios plant in the Tarapaca improve Argentina's relations with the declined, The Wall Street Journal reported region also connected to the grid. international financial community. "This Tuesday. Copyright © 2014, Inter-American Dialogue Page 2 of 6 Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Energy Advisor February 24-28, 2014 Bolivia to Invest $696 Million in Gas Projects This Year Featured Q&A Continued from page 1 Bolivia's national oil company, YPFB, benefits.