(Argus, 16.Mar.2021) — YPF, the biggest oil producer in Argentina, said March 16 that it hiked diesel and gasoline pump prices by 7%, helping to […]
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Argentine President Targeted By Mob
(Bloomberg, 15.Mar.2021) — Argentine President Alberto Fernandez had to dodge protesters to get onto a minibus that was then pelted with stones as environmentalists battle […]
LatAmNRG Briefs: YPF Fuels, Colombian Fracking
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Mar.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean regions Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela including: Tenaris snatches up Baker Hughes Argentina, […]
Argentina Torn Between Shale Dream And Climate Goals
(Bloomberg, 10.Mar.2021) — President Alberto Fernandez took to a makeshift stage in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale deposit in October to announce the nation was doubling […]
YPF Comments On Rating Change By Fitch
(YPF, 19.Feb.2021) — In accordance with the requirements of the Argentine Securities Commission (CNV) Rules YPF informs that Fitch Ratings decided to raise the long-term […]
Argentina’s Shale Ambitions Hang In Balance
(Bloomberg, 18.Feb.2021) — YPF SA, Argentina’s state-run oil company, needs to come up with more than $1 billion to spur drilling in Patagonia, where it’s […]
Fitch Downgrades YPF’s IDRs To ‘RD’
(Fitch Ratings, 18.Feb.2021) — Fitch Ratings has downgraded YPF S.A.‘s Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to ‘RD’ from ‘C’, due to […]
Statement From Bondholder Group On Argentina
(The Ad Hoc Group of Argentina Exchange Bondholders, 17.Feb.2021) — The Ad Hoc Group of Argentina Exchange Bondholders today released the below statement containing its […]
YPF Reveals 4Q:20 Conference Call Date
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Feb.2021) — Argentina’s oil and gas giant YPF plans to announce results of operations for the fourth quarter 2020 and full year […]
Golden’s Chairman Updates On Paraguay, Argentina
(Golden Arrow Resources Corp., 9.Feb.2021) — The New Year is underway, as President, CEO and Chairman of Golden Arrow Resources Corporation, I [Joseph Grosso] would […]
YPF Sweetens $6.2 Bln Debt Deal Again After Offer Fails
(Reuters, 8.Feb.2021) — Argentine state energy giant YPF made a last-ditch improvement to its $6.2 billion debt restructuring offer to creditors late on Sunday and […]
YPF’s Fourth Amendment To Exchange Offers
(YPF, 7.Feb.2021) — YPF Sociedad Anónima announced its decision to amend the terms and conditions of its amended and restated Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation […]
Vaca Muerta Now Producing At Record Levels
(Rystad, 3.Feb.2021) — The oil production decline that the Covid-19 pandemic brought to Argentina’s Vaca Muerta formation now seems like a distant memory. The reserve’s […]
Letter Of Support For YPF Exchange Offer For 2021
(YPF, 2.Feb.2021) — On 7 January 2021, YPF S.A. launched exchange offers in respect of all seven series of its notes (collectively, the “Exchange Offer”). […]
Argentina’s Escobar Terminal To Reopen
(S&P Global Platts, 1.Feb.2021) — A federal judge in Argentina has lifted a more than three-month suspension of the country’s only floating storage and regasification […]
Argentine Finance Minister Seeks $44bn IMF Debt Deal
(Wall Street Journal, 30.Jan.2021) — With Argentina broke, Finance Minister Martín Guzmán is pushing for a deal by May with the International Monetary Fund to […]
Moody’s Assigns Caa3 Rating To YPF’s Proposed Notes
(Moody’s, 29.Jan.2021) — Moody’s Investors Service assigned a Caa3 rating to YPF Sociedad Anónima’s (YPF) proposed senior secured notes due 2026 and senior unsecured notes […]
YPF Bonds Rally After Sweetened Debt Offer
(Bloomberg, 26.Jan.2021) — Bonds of Argentine oil producer YPF SA climbed to a three-week high after the company improved a $6 billion restructuring offer. Stocks […]
YPF Amends Second Exchange Offers
(YPF, 25.Jan.2021) — YPF Sociedad Anónima (YPF) announced its decision to amend the terms and conditions of its Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitation initially described […]
Driller Stuns Creditors As Argentina’s Dollars Dwindle
(Bloomberg, 19.Jan.2021) — In the 99 years since it was founded to pump the oil fields of Patagonia, Argentine energy driller YPF SA has been whipsawed by […]
FMC Updates 4Q:20 Outlook, Highlights Brazil, Argentina
(FMC, 19.Jan.2021) — FMC Corporation it is reducing its fourth quarter 2020 outlook. The company is proceeding through its quarterly close, and based on preliminary […]
Crown Point And Centaurus Enter Into Term Sheet
(Crown Point, 7.Jan.2021) — Crown Point Energy Inc., a Calgary-based oil and gas company with Argentine upstream conventional oil and gas assets, and Centaurus Energy […]
YPFB And IEASA Ink Fifth Gas Addendum
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Jan.2020) — Bolivia’s state oil and gas entity Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Boliviano (YPFB) and Argentina’s IEASA signed onto a fifth addendum to […]
Argentina’s Plan Gas 4 To Provide Some Cash Flow Stability
(Ftich, 17.Dec.2020) — The contracts that the Argentine Ministry of Energy recently awarded to natural gas producers in the country under Plan Gas 4 (PG4) […]
YPF Updates On Plan Gas 4
(YPF, 16.Dec.2020) — In compliance with the provisions set forth in article 73 of Law 26,831, YPF S.A. hereby informs the Audit Committee report is […]
Biden White House Faces A Rising China
(Reuters, 14.Dec.2020) — Donald Trump was clear with Latin America during his four-year administration: don’t do business with China. The message failed to hit home. […]
Argentine And Bolivian Energy Ministers Discuss Gas
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Dec.2020) — Bolivia’s Hydrocarbons and Energy Minister Franklin Molina Ortiz held a virtual meeting with Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Darío Martínez to discuss […]
Trenes Argentinos And IEASA Ink Renewable Deal
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Dec.2020) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Dario Martinez and the country’s Transport Minister Mario Meoni signed a collaboration deal to stimulate investments in […]
Argentina Draws 16 Bids For Subsidized Gas Supply
(Argus, 3.Dec.2020) — Argentina received bids from 16 companies in a path-breaking auction to supply more than 70mn m3/d of natural gas at subsidized wellhead […]
YPF Acquires Own Shares
(Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Nov.2020) — Argentina’s state-controlled oil and gas entity YPF Sociedad Anónima (YPF) acquired its own shares in the market (articles 64 and […]
Envision Commissions Wind Farm In Argentina
(Envision, 18.Nov.2020) — Envision Energy, a leading green tech company today announced the commissioning of Vientos Del Secano, a 50-megawatt wind farm in the Buenos […]
Argentina Offers Profit Repatriation For Gas Investment
(Argus, 17.Nov.2020) — Argentina’s government is offering hard currency access to energy companies that sign up to a new program designed to stimulate natural gas […]
Pampa Energía Announces Quarterly Results
(Pampa Energía, 11.Nov.2020) — Pampa Energía S.A., the largest independent energy integrated company in Argentina, with active participation in the country’s electricity and gas value […]
YPF Reports $482mn Net Loss In 3Q:20
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Nov.2020) — Argentina’s state-controlled YPF announced operating and financial results for the third quarter of 2020. What follows is a summary of […]
YPF Faces Mountain Of Debt Payments
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Nov.2020) — Argentina’s state owned oil and gas entity YPF will face around $8.05bn in debt payments between the fourth quarter of […]
Argentina And Chile Briefs: IMF Debt, Pension Reform
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Nov.2020) — Briefs on Argentina and Chile related to IMF officials in Argentina to renegotiate around $44bn in debt and tensions rise […]
YPF To Boost Output In The Rincón del Mangrullo Block
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Nov.2020) — Argentina’s YPF plans to drill 24 wells in the Rincón del Mangrullo Block at two unconventional developments between now and […]
Argentina’s Gas Output At 125.5 MMcm/d Thru August
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Nov.2020) — Argentina’s production of natural gas averaged 125.5 million cubic meters per day (MMcm/d) or 4.43 billion cubic feet per day […]
Argentina’s Oil Output At 483,453 B/D Thru August
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Nov.2020) — Argentina’s production of crude oil averaged 483,453 barrels per day in the eight months between January and August of 2020, […]
YPF Fuels Wins Top TierTM Certification
(Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Nov.2020) — Fuels produced by Argentina’s YPF again won the Top TierTM international certification, which is promoted by the ten most important […]
Seeds Energy Inaugurates Biogas Plant
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Oct.2020) — Seeds Energy Group remotely inaugurated its biogas plant located in Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe where it plans investments of $12mn. […]
Neuquén Targets 80 Rigs By March 2021: Gutiérrez Says
(Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Oct.2020) — Argentina’s Neuquén Province Governor Omar Gutiérrez said joint work by companies and workers will allow the region to achieve a […]
Compañia Argentina de Comodoro Buys NGX’s Interests In Argentina
(NGX Energy, 20.Oct.2020) — NGX Energy International Corp. (formerly CruzSur Energy Corp.) accepted an offer from Compañia Argentina de Comodoro Rivadavia Explotacion de Petróleo S.A. […]
Exmar Inks $150mn Agreement With YPF
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Oct.2020) — Belgium-based Exmar reached a $150mn settlement with Argentina’s state-controlled YPF SA related to a dispute under the Tango FLNG agreements. […]
Córdoba Eyes Higher Biofuel Demand, Exports To Brazil
(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Oct.2020) — The Córdoba province government of Juan Schiaretti continues to advance varied measures that seek to benefit the region’s biofuels sector. […]
YPF Releases Audit Committee Report
(Energy Analytics Institute, 7.Oct.2020) — Pursuant to the regulations of the National Securities Commission or the Comisión Nacional de Valores and the terms of Article […]
Eleven Rigs Reactivated In The Vaca Muerta In Neuquén
(Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Oct.2020) — Argentina’s Neuquén Ministry of Energy data reveal 11 drilling rigs have been reactivated in the province, and all targeting the […]
YPF And Oil Unions Agree To 16.2% Salary Rise
Oil unions in Argentina reached an agreement with state oil and gas entity YPF for a salary increase of 16.2% over basic salaries as of March 2019 and which will be “non-remunerative” and payable from 1 September 2020.
Heard On The Street: Argentina’s Gas Dilemma
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2020) — If Argentina is unable to boost its natural gas production, piped gas imports from Bolivia as well as liquefied natural […]
Argentine Gas Imports Were 42.2 MMcm/d In July 2020
(Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Sep.2020) — Argentina’s imports of natural gas from liquefied natural gas (LNG) and piped gas from Bolivia reached 42.2 million cubic meters […]