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Emerging Markets Online now offers new publications in PDF and print to help you map out your strategy and focus on emerging opportunities in each region. A sample of reports and resources follows below:

Africa Reports and Newsletters in PDF & Print	Middle Eastern Reports and Newsletters in PDF & Print
Africa Oil & Gas Report - 54 Countries!	Middle East & North Africa Petroleum Bulletin
Africa OIl & Gas Bulletin	Middle East & North Africa
West African Oil & Gas	Oil & Gas Opportunities in Iraq
North Africa & Mediterranean Gas	Iranian OIl & Gas Report
Latin America Reports Now Available: Latin American Petroleum Sourcebook	Latin American Energy Strategies

Latin America's oil, gas and electric power

With the recent Duke Energy acquisition of Sao Paolo generator, and with the rise in crude oil prices and production, the market for oil, gas and electricity in Latin America is emerging again for year 2000.

Will this momentum keep up? This month, Emerging Markets Online presents some of the most significant stories from two of our premiere electronic data services for you to evaluate. If you are a developer seeking new opportunities, or a company managing existing projects, Emerging Markets Online has publications in PDF and print that can be useful to you:

Argentina cuts power rates
Latin American Power Watch - BUENOS AIRES - The Argentine government has reduced wholesale power prices for distributors by 20% as part of…(more)

Belize buys power from Mexico
Latin American Power Watch - MEXICO CITY - Mexico has increased sales of electricity to Belize, which currently are worth roughly $2 millio…(more)

Chilean drought takes major toll on power generators
Latin American Power Watch - SANTIAGO - Chile's hydroelectric generating industry, hit by a prolonged drought, turned in record first-half…(more)

CMS, Endesa plan spur off Gas Atacama pipeline
Latin American Power Watch - SANTIAGO - Chilean generator Endesa and U.S. firm CMS Energy, the partners in the northern Chile's Gas Atacama…(more)

Duke spends more than $1 billion to become Latin American player
Latin American Power Watch - LIMA, LA PAZ & BUENOS AIRES - U.S. company Duke Energy International will take over extensive assets in Latin…(more)

Luz del Sur partners wrestling with bid to up stake in firm
Latin American Power Watch - LIMA - The main foreign shareholders in Peru's Luz del Sur, which distributes electricity to Lima's southern a…(more)

Mexico may try to push through reforms despite opposition
Latin American Power Watch - MEXICO CITY - The government appears ready to ask Congress to consider its sweeping power reform plan when it…(more)

Nopel, Emel form new transmission company
Latin American Power Watch - SANTIAGO - A new transmission company, Empresa de Transmision Electrica (Transemel), set up by the Emel distri…(more)

Pan American may move into power in Brazil and Bolivia
Latin American Power Watch - BUENOS AIRES - Pan American Energy, the joint ventures between Argentina's Bridas and U.S. firm Amoco, is cons…(more)

Partners arrange financing for northern power plant
Latin American Power Watch - SANTIAGO - The partners in northern Chile's Electroandina generator have agreed to put up $68 million to finan…(more)

Perez Companc to spend $260 million to expand Genelba
Latin American Power Watch - BUENOS AIRES - Argentine conglomerate Perez Companc plans to spend $260 million to expand its 660MW Genelba pl…(more)

Peru begins work to resurrect buried hydro plant
Latin American Power Watch - LIMA - Egemsa, the state-owed Machu Picchu hydroelectric plant, on Aug. 6 began selling bid documents for a tu…(more)

Peru to halt sales of power companies for the rest of year
Latin American Power Watch - LIMA - The government will not privatize any electricity companies this year, according to Gustavo Caillaux, p…(more)

ory) Peru to sell power to Ecuador
Latin American Power Watch - LIMA - Agreements signed between Peru and Ecuador during Ecuadorian President Jamil Mahuad's three day visit t…(more)

Peru working to set natural gas prices for generators
Latin American Power Watch - LIMA - The government is expected to set price caps for natural gas sales to electricity generators in "the fi…(more)

Pichi Picun Leufu begins testing
Latin American Power Watch - BUENOS AIRES - Argentine firm Perez Companc has begun testing the Pichi Picun Leufu hydroelectric complex's…(more)

Ratings cuts reflect growing concerns about Colombia
Latin American Power Watch - BOGOTA - U.S. credit rating agency Standard & Poor's placed Colombia's Interconexion Electrica (ISA) local cur…(more)

Regulators hope to review Endesa's position in market
Latin American Power Watch - BUENOS AIRES - Government sources say the National Electricity Regulator (ENRE) will review the position of Sp…(more)

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Mexico To Resume IPP Tenders
Latin American Power Watch News Database
Mexican officials have decided to resume work on the government's program of tendering independent power projects (IPPs) and build-lease-transfer (BLT) project..In a tacit admission that the government's plan to privatize much of the state-owned power sector and allow foreign investment in the transmission and distribution and transmission sectors is facing huge obstacles. Officials say over the next year and a half, the government will issue new tenders to build more than 4,700MW of new generating capacity. The projects will be IPPs whenever possible, but there will be some BLT projects as well.

Enron's $2.5 Billion Mozambique Project
Africa Oil and Gas News
Enron has signed a $2.5 billion agreement with the government of Mozambique for a natural gas, iron and steel project. Enron and its co-sponsor, South Africa's Industrial Development, are now looking to raise funds from equity, multilaterial and commercial bank sources

India Short Lists Bidders for Trans-Eurasia Telecommunications Cable
India Telecom News
India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has set up a committee to evaluate bidders for VSNL’s regional hub project. The project proposes to link up a trans-Eurasia cable to south Asian countries. The bidders shortlisted for the project are British Telecom, Cable and Wireless, and Global One Consortium (Sprint International, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom).

New Features of Power Project Development in China for 1999
China Energy Database
Since 1990, 12 GW large and medium sized units have been added annually in the electric power industry. By the end of 1997, the total installed capacity had reached 250 GW, ranking the 2nd in the world. The shortage of power supply is
now history. The market has changed gradually from a seller’s to a buyer’s market. These historical changes will lead to several new features in power project development in China this year:

French Bank to Lead Refinery Privatisation in Ivory Coast
Africa OIl and Gas Bulletin
Ivory Coast has apointed Paris-based Credit Agricole Indosuez Bank as its consultant in the privatization of its oil refinery, the Societe Ivorienne de Faffinage (SIR). The state plans to offer a 37% strategic stake in the refinery. The government is looking or a strategic investorito increase the refinery's capacity, boost competitiveness and organize an eight to ten percent capital increase.

Argentine Energy Companies Returning To Debt Markets
Latin American Energy Alert News Database
YPF is considering a $200 million bond issue this quarter, which may be backed by the Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), said a source in the company. The bond would part of a recently filed $1 billion medium term note program arranged by Merrill Lynch. Natural gas pipeline company Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), after getting a $176 million credit line from a transaction backed by the Interamerican Development Bank, is also mulling a retail bond issue. The company also plans to roll over about $100 million in three-month debt in the United States and $70 million in six-month notes..

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