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Latin America, which for this purpose is defined as South America, Mexico and the Caribbean islands, includes ten significant oil producing countries. The region is dominated by Venezuela and Mexico, having the largest reserves of Regular Conventional Oil. Two of the countries also have substantial Non-Conventional deposits in the form of the deepwater oil and gas of Brasil and the heavy oils of Venezuela.
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© 2013 Colin J. Campbell and Alexander Wöstmann
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Campbell, C.J. (2013). Latin America Region. In: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3576-1_58
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