Latin America Energy

Latin America Energy Advisory Service helps you discover opportunities and mitigate risk to create winning strategies in the region. Our experts combine their cutting-edge knowledge of market forces and political developments, backed by hard data from our fundamentals analysis, to give you the latest, most accurate picture of the region's energy business. We help members understand the dynamic interplay of geopolitical, environmental, economic, regulatory, technological, and stakeholder-related issues that influence the supply, demand, and price of energy.

As a subscriber, you will be able to:

• Receive the latest on fundamentals:
  • Latin America Energy Watch
  • Country Profiles
• Receive our strategic reports on the Big Questions:
  • What opportunities and challenges will emerge from Latin America's financial crises?
  • Will the 'green' movement gain momentum in the region?
• Download key industrial statistics from our Data Center:
  • Continually updated and historical figures for price, supply, demand, production capacity, and many more
• Call our research staff to interpret complex data and find answers to uncommon questions

Benefits:

Latin America Energy
Advisory Service enables you to:

• Evaluate the regional political issues affecting regulatory and fiscal terms for existing assets in conventional resources, natural gas, and exotic liquids.
• Analyze the key market fundamentals for new investments in oil, natural gas, and power.
• Assess investment patterns and requirements for new energy infrastructure—including for power generation, refining, and natural gas and liquid fuel transportation.
• Anticipate key political and economic trends that could lead to the emergence of new investment opportunities and partnerships.

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Subscribers to Latin America Energy Advisory Service can choose the regional focus of their deliverables from one or more of the following:

• Andean Energy: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad
• Mexico Energy: Mexico
• Southern Cone Energy: Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay

For each area you choose, you receive the following:

Fundamentals Reports:

• Latin America Energy Watch:
  • Three times a year
  • Integrated view of Latin American energy, focusing alternately on natural gas, oil and power
  • Key developments 
  • Country-level five-year supply and demand outlooks for oil, gas and power
• Country Profiles:
  • Oil, Natural Gas and Power
  • Economic and political overview
  • Industry structure and players
  • Regulatory environment
  • Supply and demand analysis
  • Pricing

Strategic Reports: 

• Private Reports and Decision Briefs based on research driven by the IHS CERA Big Questions. Corporate leaders, investors, policymakers and energy users rely on our answers to these questions to guide decisions that shape the industry's strategic future.

Data center:

• Country level five-year price outlook
• Country level five-year supply and demand outlooks for oil, natural gas, and power

Event invitations:

• Exclusive client-IHS CERA expert gatherings
• Seats at IHS CERA spring and fall Executive Roundtables 
• CERAWeek, IHS CERA Executive Conference, held annually in Houston - for an additional fee

Subscriber receive Private Reports and Decision Briefs based on research driven by the IHS CERA Big Questions including:

• How will large exploration and development opportunities in the region evolve?
• How will market balance, fuel mix, and reliability issues develop over the next years?
• Will climate change concerns gain momentum in the region, fostering large investments?
• Regional Dynamics: What are the signposts for change?
• What will be the winning business models and strategies?
  

• Colombia's Energy Balance: Running Out of Gas?
  Colombia's National Gas Program may be literally "running out of gas," sparking speculation and uncertainty about whether supply can meet projected demand over the long term. Some are viewing the government's new regulations in response to this shortage as further government intervention in the commercial workings of the market. This IHS CERA Decision Brief analyzes the state of the Colombian natural gas industry, including the supply-demand balance and the focus of the Regulatory Commission's actions.
• Mexico's New Congress Will Struggle to Pass Major Energy Reforms Through 2012
  On September 1, 2009, Mexico's Congress began its new session following the July 5 midterm election. The election has created a very different outlook for the second half of President Felipe Calderón's Administration. The government's ability to advance its energy agenda will depend heavily on the political maneuvering among coalitions in the recently installed legislature. This raises major concerns regarding Mexico's energy future, the role of private players in the short to medium term, and the prospects for further reforms.
• Awakening the Presalt Giant: Toward Optimal Allocation of Risks and Rewards
  The potentially world-class discoveries in the Santos, Campos, and Espírito Santo Basins presalt areas could have a lasting impact on Brazil's long-term production capacity, its hydrocarbon industry, and government oil rents. These discoveries have raised questions about the current fiscal regime, the fair and optimal allocation of rents, the level of government participation, and the industry development model to use to maximize the multiple benefits from such developments. Decisions regarding fiscal regime and industry model will be crucial in defining the kind of industry that "the Southern Giant" will be able to build in the coming decades, the level of government rent it will generate, and the value of the industry to the domestic economy.
• Working With Brazil's New Natural Gas Framework
  Brazil's new regulatory natural gas framework meets a need in the gas industry by providing legal stability in the sector. Although the intent of the law is to encourage more investment as well as competition in the natural gas sector, especially in the midstream, there are several obstacles to taking advantage of the new opportunities. Some of these barriers stem from not addressing other parts of the value chain or potential new regulation in the upstream.