News Bolivia Imports: Exclusive-Argentina negotiating gas imports from Bolivia, Chile as heat wave stokes demand
Bolivia and Chile are in talks to restart gas exports to Argentina amid a surge in demand spurred by a summer heat wave, underscoring the challenge for the government in Buenos Aires as it looks to become energy self-sufficient. "We are in a negotiation with Argentina to create a spot contract," the chief of Bolivia's state-run energy firm YPFB, Armin Dorgathen Tapia, told Reuters on Friday by phone. Chilean authorities on Friday also said in a statement to Reuters that they expect to reach a new agreement with Argentina to supply the country's remote north.
News Bolivia Imports: Bolivia ceases imports to prioritize its national potato and onion production
The Bolivian horticultural product marketers' decision to cease importing agricultural products to prioritize their national production has generated concern among Peruvian farmers, mainly among ...
News Bolivia Imports: Bolivia begins oil imports amid production decline
Bolivia will import 1.6 million bbl of crude oil, to be delivered via eight vessels scheduled to arrive at the Arica terminal in Chile throughout the year, according to Yacimientos Petrolíferos ...
News Bolivia Imports: Bolivia turns to crypto for energy imports amid dollar, fuel shortages
Bolivia's state energy firm YPFB will use cryptocurrency to pay for energy imports amid a painful shortage of dollars and fuel in the landlocked South American nation, a company spokesperson and a government official told Reuters on Wednesday. The country is battling a dangerous slide in foreign currency reserves afters years of dwindling exports of natural gas, which has sparked off a fuel crisis in the country with regular long lines at gas stations and scattered protests. A spokesperson for state-run energy firm YPFB told Reuters that a system had been put in place to use cryptocurrency to purchase fuel imports after a government approval to use digital assets to help meet demand.
News Bolivia Imports: Bolivia orders state intervention as fuel shortage bites
The Bolivian government announced Wednesday that it had placed state oil company YPFB under temporary supervision, citing problems with fuel imports and ...
News Bolivia Imports: A freshwater giant is a boon to Bolivian fishers, but an unknown for native species
In the last 15 years, paiche ( Arapaima gigas ), also known as arapaima or pirarucu in other parts of the Amazon, has revolutionized the lives of communities living along the rivers that crisscross ...
News Bolivia Imports: Struggles loom as Bolivia prepares new plan to clean up its mercury problem
The biggest concern was that mining operations make free use of mercury — a chemical that separates gold particles from soil — despite the country having signed onto an international convention to ban ...
News Bolivia Imports: Bolivia begins historic export of electricity to Argentina
UCOM-MHE-03-14-2023.- Since yesterday, Bolivia began to export electricity to Argentina through the “Juana Azurduy de Padilla” Transmission Line at 132 kilovolts (kV), the Minister of Hydrocarbons ...
News Bolivia Imports: Gold becomes the main export of Bolivia in the eight months of 2021
Gold, bullion, and jewellery have become Bolivia's main export in the first eight months of this year totalling almost seven billion dollars, considerably higher than the US$ 4.213,4 of the same ...
