News of fuel

Argentina looks to purchase winter LNG imports in early March

19-02-2025 09:00 Argentina's state-owned gas importer ENARSA will start buying liquefied natural gas in early March, ahead of the start of the southern hemisphere winter.

SELf-SERVICE FUEL

Unions warn new self-service fuel pump rules will mean job losses

30-01-2025 16:55 President Javier Milei’s government issues decree allowing self-service fuel pumps at service stations across Argentina; Union warns as many as 70,000 jobs could be lost.

UNREST IN BOLIVIA

Growing discontent amid dollar, fuel shortages in resource-rich Bolivia

03-07-2024 10:58 Along with the fuel shortage in Bolivia, which tends to be chronic due to economic problems in imports, there is also a lack of dollars in the country and, consequently, an increase in the exchange rate in the parallel market.

US COURT CASE

Argentina sued in United States over unpaid fuel for presidential plane

14-03-2024 18:29 Associated Energy Group files lawsuit against Argentina for failing to make payments to cover fuel costs from the presidential plane during trips by former president Alberto Fernández and current head of state Javier Milei.

ENERGY & GAS

Javier Milei seeks free oil markets by law in shale-rich Argentina

29-12-2023 21:23 Milei wants to unshackle crude exports and leave local fuel prices at the whim of market forces.

PRICE HIKES

Fuel prices soar a further 37% after devaluation of peso

13-12-2023 17:46 Fuel prices will soar around 37% on average over the course of the week following Economy Minister Luis Caputo's devaluation of the peso.

FUEL TAX FREEZE

Massa says Argentina will freezes fuel levies until February 2024

01-11-2023 16:22 Deep into election campaign, Argentina's government postpones fuel tax hike to 2024 to avoid further price hikes.

Bloomberg

Sergio Massa threatens to cut fuel exports amid shortage

30-10-2023 08:21 “If the fuel supply is not resolved by midnight on Tuesday, companies will not be able to send out export ships starting on Wednesday,” Massa tells reporters in Tucumán Province.