Global Pacific & Partners Hosts its 20th Latin Oil Week / Upstream 2014 Conference From 1-3 September 2014 at the Copacabana Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 12, 2014 /CNW/ - This key annual event focuses on Latin America's oil, gas and energy landscapes and corporate/state upstream strategies, developments, investments and strategy perspectives now in play.

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Exploration ventures and corporate investors continue to seek position across Latin America, with major oil and gas opportunities and new acreage licensing in as Brazil, Colombia and Peru, energy reform in Mexico, huge unconventional resources, new frontiers plus further oil potential along the Transform Margins of French Guyane and Suriname, large and expanding pre-salt reserves in Atlantic basins.

Participating state players Include: Pre-Sal Petroleo SA, Rio de Janeiro, Pemex E&P, Mexico, PeruPetro, Lima, Gazprom do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Agencia Nacional do Petroleo, Gas Natural e Biocombustiveis-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, OLADE, Quito, Alberta Department of Energy, Alberta, FIRJAN, Rio de Janeiro, Ministerio de Energia y Minas, Guatemala, Staatsolie, Surina

This event will once again highlight significant opportunities for companies, state oil players, governments and investors, financiers and traders across the Latin American value chain, and features the annual Latin Board Awards at which Maria das Gracas Silva Foster, President of Petrobras will receive the Offshore/Deepwater Player Award on behalf of Petrobas.

Magda Chambriard, Director General of ANP, Brazil will officially open the Conference.

SOURCE: Global Pacific & Partners

Global Pacific & Partners, Babette van Gessel, [phone], [email protected]; Sponsor & Exhibition, Sonika Greyvenstein, [phone], [email protected]