• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Ricardo Bedregal

S&P Global

Head Upstream LATAM / FNA

Ricardo Bedregal is head of the Latin America Upstream Content and Insight Team, in S&P GLOBAL Commodity Insights. Ricardo is a seasoned oil & gas geologist and executive with extensive technical, commercial, and business development experience in structuring sizeable projects in the Oil and Gas E&P industry. He has extensive exposure and knowledge of Latin America business environment and opportunities.

Prior to joining S&P GLÇOBAL, Ricardo played several roles in the E&P industry, from technical to managerial positions, and have worked in companies such as Petrobras, Brazilian Petroleum National Agency (ANP), PGT, and Vale Oil&Gas.

Ricardo holds an M.A. in Geology, a M.Sc. in Structural Geology, a PhD in Quantitative Basin Analysis, and MBAs in Oil&Gas Regulation and in Executive Management.

Sessions With Ricardo Bedregal

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 07:30am - 08:40am (CST) / -

    Latin American E&P: Increasing competitiveness
    Upstream Oil & Gas

    The Latin American upstream sector has some of the best subsurface opportunities available globally. Basins such as offshore Brazil, the Guyana Basin on the Equatorial Margin, and the onshore Neuquén Basin all illustrate the depth of potential investment interest in several other basins in the region. However, the aboveground offering must also be competitive. Shifting realities, risks, and policies toward investment all interact to the region’s detriment. Can policymakers in the region enhance competitiveness to capture a larger share of what promises to be suppressed global spending in E&P? Can gas market reforms and midstream liberalizations unlock the region’s upstream opportunities? How do companies and governments see the impact of the energy transition on Latin American E&P?