With the end of the 54-year U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, and Cuban government moves to encourage foreign investors, Cuba is a suddenly attractive venue that is sitting on an estimated 4.6 billion barrels of oil and promising tantalizingly low production costs that defy low oil prices. In December 2014, the U.S. lifted the trade embargo, and earlier that year—banking on an end to the embargo—Cuba began to lay the foundation for attracting foreign investment by offering corporate tax credits. It sounds great—but there has been no rush onto this playing field. Throughout last year, Cuba was busy trying to sell itself as the next up-and-coming venue. What it has to offer is total undiscovered technically recoverable reserves of 4.6 billion barrels of crude oil, 9.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 900 million barrels of natural gas liquids, based on 2004 estimates by the United States Geological […]