HOUSTON, TEXAS (Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Apr.2025, Words: 3,550) — Argentina’s state-owned YPF SA aims to add value in the Argentine upstream space through optimization of capital deployed to achieve certain levels of operational excellence. The company believes such actions could open new development opportunities to boost incorporation of unconventional projects where well construction efficiency is key.
YPF under its new talisman, CEO Horacio Marín, is on a mission to become a Vaca Muerta pure play by the end of 2026. This, as the company looks to shed the weight of its mature conventional fields with double-digit lifting cost in exchange for a $5/bbl unconventional Vaca Muerta lifting cost.
