Weekly Report - 18 July 2006

BOLIVIA | Regions demand share of gas price rise. Last week two gas-rich regions - the departments of Santa Cruz and Tarija - demanded a share in the gas price increase the government has negotiated with Argentina. The government had decided that the monies, an estimated US$150m a year, should go to strengthening the revived state oil company, YPFB, and particularly its plans to industrialise natural gas within the country. 

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