(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 17.May.2017) – Argentina started importing natural gas from Chile, and will continue over an estimated three month period in order to cover increased demand during...
(Schlumberger, 12.Apr.2017) — Schlumberger President of Operations, Patrick Schorn, and YPF Chairman, Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez, signed an agreement to start a shale oil pilot project in Bandurria Sur Block in...
(Tecpetrol, 6.Apr.2017) — Tecpetrol S.A. sold its interest in GEA-GEO Energy Alternatives S.A. to Techint Inversiones S.A.I.F. for a reported $145,000 on April 6, 2017, announced by Tecpetrol in a...
(Reuters, Eliana Raszewski, 23.Mar.2017) — Argentina’s Tecpetrol, part of the Techint Group, said on Thursday it would invest $2.3 billion in the Vaca Muerta shale fields through 2019, the largest...
(World Fertilizer, Louise Mulhall, 22.Mar.2017) — Over the coming days, 500 special containers will be shipped to the ammonia and urea plant, which will be used to export granular urea...
(President Energy Plc, 15.Mar.2017) – President Energy Reports Audited Argentine Reserves Upgrade President Energy Group 2P Hydrocarbon Reserves now in excess of 20 MMBoe. Highlights: -- Argentine 1P Oil Reserves...
(President Energy Plc, 12.Mar.2017) – President Energy announced that the first workover of a previously producing well, DP12 at the Dos Puntitas field, has been completed on time and on...
(Moody's Investors Service, 7.Mar.2017) – Moody's Investors Service revised to positive from stable the outlook for several companies operating in Argentina, while all ratings were affirmed. The companies' outlook change...
(Eco-Stim Energy Solutions, Inc., 6.Mar.2017) – Eco-Stim Energy Solutions, Inc. announced that an affiliate of Fir Tree Partners (FTP) entered into a transaction with an affiliate of Albright Capital Management...
(Tecpetrol, 23.Feb.2017) — Buenos Aires-based Tecpetrol S.A. announced on February 22, 2017 acquisition of a 20% interest in Parque Eólico Pampa S.A. from GEA-GEO Energy Alternatives S.A. for $75,000. Tecpetrol...
(Energy Analytics Institute (EAI), Clifford Fingers III, 16.Feb.2017) – Andes Energía and YPF plan joint investments to boost hydrocarbon production in the Vaca Muerta in Argentina. “We have projects to...
(Moody's Investors Service, 6.Jan.2017) – Moody's Investors Service assigned a B3 Corporate Family Rating (CFR) to Pampa Energía S.A. At the same time, Moody's assigned a B3 rating to the...
(Eco-Stim Energy Solutions, Inc., 1.Dec.2016) – Eco-Stim Energy Solutions, Inc. finalized a $2 million secured loan from existing shareholders. The loan will have a one-year term with the proceeds used...
(Oilprice.com, Charles Kennedy, 15.Sep.2016) — The Permian Basin has become so hot that some oil companies are starting to stay away, instead looking at frontiers that are less picked over....
(CNN Money, 28.Jul.2016) – Argentina has exceptional hydrocarbon reserves, but politics has greatly affected its development. The economy in Argentina is best described as a "pendulum", going from loose economic...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 7.Jun.2016) – Argentina established a ceiling for subsidized gas invoices at 400 percent for private entities, and 500 percent for business entities. The prices will...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 6.Jun.2016) – Ricardo Darré will assume the position of CEO at YPF on July 1, 2016, taking over the helm from the interim CEO. Darré...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 3.Jun.2016) – U.S.-based ExxonMobil plans to invest $10 billion over the next 20 years in the Vaca Muerta area in Argentina. The announcement was made...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 3.Jun.2016) – YPF and Enap Sipetrol plan to invest $165 million to boost production in the Magallanes field offshore. The companies plan to increase natural...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 2.Jun.2016) – Moody's affirmed YPF Sociedad Anonima's B3 issuer rating. YPF's B3 BCA (Baseline Credit Assessment) and its Baa1.ar national scale rating remained unchanged. The...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 1.Jun.2016) – Union protests in Tierra del Fuego as well as climatic conditions have made it impossible to bring in LNG ships into the Buenos...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 31.May.2016) – The Argentine government launched its so-called National Renewable Energies Plan or RenovAr. The plan contemplates installing nearly 1,000 megawatts of energy from various...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 31.May.2016) – Energy company Saesa announced that at least 15 wind park projects are ready to be built in Argentina, which represents nearly 900 megawatts...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 23.May.2016) – A group of Argentina businessmen plan to buy the assets of Petrolera del Cono Sur, a subsidiary of PDVSA in Argentina. The assets...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 23.May.2016) – Argentina's state oil company Enarsa signed a contract to purchase natural gas from Chile at a price 53 percent higher than the LNG...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 19.May.2016) – Bolivian exports to Brazil reached 24 million cubic meters per day on May 12, 2016 compared to 30 million cubic meters per day...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.May.2016) — Chile shipped its first molecules of natural gas to Argentina on 17 May 2016, owing to an agreement between both governments and the French-Belgian company...
(Petrobras, 13.May.2016) – Petrobras announced that its Board of Directors approved the sale of its entire 67.19 percent interest in Petrobras Argentina (PESA), owned by Petrobras Participaciones S.L. (PPSL), to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 11.May.2016) – The government of Uruguay continues to move forward with agreements to secure markets for natural gas to come from its proposed regasification plant...
(Petrobras, 8.May.2016) – Petrobras, regarding the sale of its stake in Petrobras Argentina, as disclosed in the Material Fact on February 3, 2016, would like to announce that negotiations with...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 7.May.2016) – YPF plans to divest of as many as 20 areas in Argentina where the company has a partial interest or where the areas...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 5.May.2016) – The government of President Mauricio Macri will pay 72 million Argentine pesos to Miguel Galuccio as part of an offer to the executive...
(Moody's, 21.Apr.2016) – Moody's Investors Service upgraded ratings of several companies with operations in Argentina, with the outlook changed to stable from positive. The rating actions on the companies' global...
(Reuters, 15.Mar.2016) — Far from the soy and cattle that dominate its vast fertile pampas, Argentina harbors another valuable commodity that is rocketing in price and demand and luring newly...
(Moody's Investor Service, 9.Sep.2015) – Moody's Latin America Agente de Calificación de Riesgo has withdrawn the Aa1.ar National Local Currency rating for the Senior Unsecured Bank Credit Facility of Pan...
(Moody's Investor Service, 16.Jul.2015) – Economic stagnation, a difficult political environment and heightened volatility in financial markets with the approach of presidential elections will be elevating pressures on non-financial companies...
(Moody's, 20.May.2015) – Moody's Investors Service assigned an overall covenant quality score of 3.37 to YPF Sociedad Anónima's $1,500 million 8.500% Senior Notes due 2025. ***
(Moody's, 28.Apr.2015) – Moody's Latin America Agente de Calificación de Riesgo confirmed the Ba2/Aaa.ar global scale rating and national scale rating on Petrobras Argentina S.A.'s (Petrobras Argentina) $300 million in...
(Baker Hughes Incorporated, 21.Apr.2015) – Baker Hughes Incorporated announced results for the first quarter of 2015. Latin America revenue was $493 million for the 1Q:15, down $37 million, or 7%,...
(Petrobras, 31.Mar.2015) – The Board of Directors of Petrobras Argentina (PESA) approved the sale of all of its assets in the Austral Basin (province of Santa Cruz) to Compañia General...
(Chevron, 18.Mar.2015) — The Loma Campana project, operated by partner YPF S.A., is making impressive progress as the first development project in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta formation, one of the biggest...
(Global Credit Research, 4.Feb.2015) – Moody's Investors Service assigned a Caa1 global foreign currency rating to YPF Sociedad Anonima's (YPF)'s proposed $750 million in aggregate in addons to its outstanding...
(Apco Oil and Gas International Inc., 29.Jan.2015) – Apco Oil and Gas International Inc. completed its merger with Pluspetrol Black River Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pluspetrol Resources Corporation, in...
(WPX Energy Inc., 29.Jan.2015) – WPX Energy completed the disposition of its international interests upon the successful merger of Apco Oil and Gas International (APAGF) with a subsidiary of privately...
(Apco Oil and Gas International Inc., 26.Jan.2015) – Apco Oil and Gas International Inc. announced that its shareholders, at an extraordinary general meeting held on January 26, 2015, approved the...
(Apco Oil and Gas International Inc., 6.Jan.2015) – Apco Oil and Gas International Inc. announced that the Argentine province of Rio Negro has agreed to extend the concession term for...
(Chevron 10.Apr.2014) — Chevron Corporation confirmed that subsidiaries of the company have signed agreements with the Argentine oil company YPF S.A. to continue development of shale oil and gas resources...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 16.Jan.2014) – Argentina’s Vaca Muerta formation in the Neuquén Basin is best known for its shale oil and gas. The process related to the extraction...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2013) – Information in this section, provided by Energy Analytics Institute editors and reporters, is hearsay and thus should be treated as such. The names of our...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 13.Sep.2013) – The Argentine government announced production of oil is insufficient to supply the country's refineries. "We are lacking light oil to process," reported La...