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Economía en América -Esta página se actualiza continuamente durante todo el día. Para ver la edición más actual, sírvase oprimir el botón de "Refresh" o "Refrescar" de su visualizador de Internet. Bolivian gov't denies head of state oil company resigned Domingo 17 de diciembre, 2006 [09:19:00] hora de Costa RicaLa Paz, Dec 17 (EFE).- The Bolivian government denied on Sunday that the head of state-owned oil company YPFB, Juan Carlos Ortiz, had resigned. The La Prensa newspaper reported on Saturday that Ortiz had stepped down due to lack of support from the government and even published a copy of the resignation letter. Energy Minister Carlos Villegas said in a press conference Saturday night that Ortiz "never presented his resignation" from the presidency of YPFB, the official Abi news agency reported. Villegas said Ortiz met with President Evo Morales and Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera late Saturday and denied that he ever submitted his resignation to the head of state. "This is because I lack sufficient support to move forward with urgent and indispensable measures" to finalize contracts with the multinational oil companies, the purported letter of resignation dated Dec. 13 and published by La Prensa said. Bolivia's top oil executive conducted the last phase of negotiations for new contracts with foreign companies that were signed on Oct. 28. Ortiz took over the YPFB post on Aug. 28, replacing Jorge Alvarado, who resigned after being accused of signing a contract that ignored the principles of the energy nationalization program that Morales decreed last May. Villegas told reporters that starting on Jan. 1, YPFB would hold the monopoly for marketing the Andean nation's energy resources under the terms of the nationalization initiative. The Hydrocarbons Administration will disappear, but a new agency will be created to "regulate and supervise" the industry, Villegas said. Eight companies, including the three that have made the biggest investments in Bolivia - Spain's Repsol YPF and two units of Brazil's Petrobras - signed new contracts on Oct. 29, a few minutes after the end of the 180-day period for doing so set by Morales in his May 1 nationalization decree. The other five include Argentina's Matpetrol and Pluspetrol, Repsol affiliate Andina, BG Group and Chaco, owned by British Petroleum. Two days earlier, French energy firm TotalFinaElf and U.S.-based Vintage Petroleum signed operating contracts with La Paz. Bolivia expects to receive an additional $4 billion annually, starting in 2010, under the new contracts. Morales's May 1 decree proclaimed the state's "absolute control" over Bolivia's huge reserves of natural gas and smaller ones of oil. EFE mb/hv
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