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Private Capital and Latin American Energy

Openness to private capital, contract models, mature fields and project financing in Latin American oil & gas and energy, compared jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

By Alexandro Rovirosa1 analysesInsights →

What this pillar covers

Licensing rounds, contracts and fiscal terms
Mature fields and private operators
National oil companies and their relationship with private capital
Project and infrastructure financing
Regional energy geopolitics

Analysis

— Executive Energy MemoPrivate capital no longer buys mature assets — it finances balance sheetsIn four days Apollo committed US$9bn to ONEOK in capped-return quasi-equity and Carlyle expanded a PDP securitization framework with Diversified to US$10bn. Neither bought a field. How the two structures work, what they cost, and why mature-field operators in Mexico and Latin America have no equivalent.September 8, 2026 · 9 min

Other pillars

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