Alexis Arthur is energy policy associate at the Institute of the Americas, a think tank on Western Hemisphere Affairs based in La Jolla, Calif. She regularly writes and tweets on energy and natural resources policy in the U.S. and Latin America. On the side, Alexis writes about Australia-Latin America relations.
After delays, strikes, and cost overruns, the Panama Canal expansion is finally set to open in April 2016. But the global energy landscape has changed…
Oil majors have been present in the renewable energy space for years. But with momentum building around the Paris COP21 climate talks at the end…
In July 2015, Brazil’s pre-salt production topped 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. This is quite the milestone for a nation that is…
That low oil prices are squeezing out oil sands producers is not breaking news. But in spite of a grim oil price outlook, production out…
As Brazil officially enters recession it appears that the nation’s annus horribilis is far from over. Corruption investigations have reached deep into Brazil’s energy sector…
Italian oil group ENI is expected to begin production from the Goliat Field off Norway in a few short weeks. The project, which has cost…
Depending on one’s point of view, the statement that President Obama’s Clean Power Plan could make the U.S. power matrix look more like California’s could…
The debate over geothermal energy has generally been a quiet one. With just 13 gigawatts (GW) of global installed capacity, it is considered by some…
Global oil prices have returned to a state of flux. This is hardly news to any who follow the oil markets closely and yet prices…
To call natural gas ‘clean’ would be a misnomer. Natural gas is a fossil fuel that emits carbon dioxide when burned and is an important…
For a subject that more often than not draws blank stares at dinner parties, energy efficiency has an uncanny ability to provoke controversy among analysts…
Last month, an estimated 1,700 NATO troops undertook a military exercise to test a range of renewable and energy efficiency technologies that will hopefully reduce…
On June 22, Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) announced it would tender a new round of 24 energy infrastructure projects totaling $10 billion, including a…
This is not the first time rumors have surfaced around possible energy asset sales in Brazil. But the latest divestment could be the most significant,…
Mexico and Brazil, two of Latin America’s energy giants, are considering the possibility of joining forces. On May 27, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced that…
On May 21, the United States Senate approved fast-track legislation that has the potential to expedite several international trade negotiations, not least the Transatlantic Trade…
The controversy over the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan has become the latest chapter in the chronicle of President Obama’s so-called ‘war on coal’.…
As the Lax Kw’alaams community rejected a $1 billion offer from Pacific NorthWest LNG as compensation for a proposed natural gas project this week, the…
Major oil and gas discoveries are at a 20-year low and depressed oil prices have already translated into smaller exploration budgets. That will diminish the…
The United States is edging towards an historic agreement to swap crude oil with Mexico. The deal is important as it brings some relief to…