In this pre-release you will find insights from not only the country’s biggest petrochemical producers, including YPF and Dow Argentina, but also comparisons between Argentina and its largest competitors in Latin America, such as Mexico and Brazil.

We explore the potential for a shale revolution here akin to recent events in the United States, and discuss our nation’s goal of producing enough petrochemicals to satisfy both domestic and regional demand.

We also delve into Argentina’s anomalous chemical distribution environment, in which more than 120 companies operate, and the potential for M&A activity now the country has removed international import restrictions. Global EPC providers such as Techint and Odebrecht also provide us with their perspectives on the infrastructure challenges affecting the country’s oil and gas pipeline network which, once resolved, could lead to the next world-scale petrochemical plant in Argentina.