(WoodMac, 24.Jun.2920) — Gas pricing and market regulation are again under discussion in Argentina. The coronavirus pandemic has weakened an already vulnerable economy, with the impact felt in the gas market. To maintain low gas prices for end-users, the new administration has imposed a tariff freeze until the end of […]
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Bolivia Boosts Gas Exports To Argentina
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Jun.2020) — Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) increased, as of 1 June, natural gas exports requested by Integración Energética Argentina S.A. (IEASA) to 18 million from 16 million cubic meters per day (MMcm/d). IEASA’s gas requirements, during May 2020, the month in which […]
Bolivia Eyes Ramp Up In Gas Exports To Brazil, Argentina
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Jun.2020) — Bolivia’s state oil and gas entity Yacimientos Petrolifos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) has boosted natural gas exports as of 1 June 2020 as requested by Integración Energética Argentina S.A. (IEASA) to 18 million cubic meters per day (MMcm/d) from 16 million cubic meters per day while […]
Echo Provides Update On Santa Cruz Sur Assets
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Jun.2020) — Echo Energy has a portfolio of five production concessions in the Austral Basin, Santa Cruz province. The company provided an update on its Santa Cruz Sur assets, which can be seen here. __________ By Aaron Simonsky. © Energy Analytics Institute (EAI). All Rights Reserved.
Shell Suspends Vaca Muerta Ops After Seismic Activity
(Reuters, 7.Jun.2020) — Oil company Royal Dutch Shell Plc said it has suspended operations at its Bajada de Añelo site in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta area after seismic activity in the region. “We are evaluating the information available and the evolution of the situation over the weekend to decide on Monday […]
Argentina Defaults On Bonds As Debt Talks Heat Up
(Reuters, 22.May.2020) — Argentina missed payments on around $500 million in already delayed bond coupons on Friday, creditors and a ratings agency said, marking the country’s ninth sovereign default amid ongoing restructuring talks with creditors. The default on three bonds came as negotiations to revamp around $65 billion in foreign […]
Argentina Props Up Oil Price At Cost To Producers
(Argus, 19.May.2020) — A new decree in Argentina that establishes above-market prices for domestic crude obliges oil companies to maintain production, payrolls and investment and prevents them from repatriating profits. The decree sets a minimum price of $45/bl for domestic sales of light sweet Medanito crude. Export taxes for crude […]
Korean Delegation Visits Vaca Muerta Formation
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.May.2020) — Korean Ambassador Jang Myung-soo visited the Loma Campana field, where production comes from the Vaca Muerta formation, together with personnel from state controlled YPF, as well as officials from the Ministry of Energy and the Secretary of State (COPADE). The officials toured different points of […]
Argentina Sets Oil At $45/bbl To Shield Domestic Sector
(Reuters, 19.May.2020) — Argentina’s government set the local crude oil reference price at $45 per barrel on Tuesday in a bid to protect the country’s hard-hit sector from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and low global prices. Reuters reported in April that Argentina was planning to set a higher […]
Argentina Set $45/bbl Reference Oil Price
(S&P Global Platts, 18.May.2020) — Argentina’s move to set a $45/b domestic crude oil reference price this week has brought cheer to some oil producers, but analysts say it may take a couple of years to rebuild production, following its plunge in April, as companies keep to the sidelines because […]
YPF Lays Out Debt Schedule
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 12.May.2020) — Argentina’s state controlled oil and gas producer YPF highlighted its principal debt amortization schedule from 2020 and beyond. Approximately 80% of the company’s debt and approximately 90% of its cash is in US dollars, the company announced in its first quarter 2020 investor […]
Pampa Energía Announces 1Q:20 Results
(Pampa, 12.May.2020) — Pampa Energía S.A., the largest independent energy integrated company in Argentina, with active participation in the country’s electricity and gas value chain, announces the results for the quarter ended on March 31, 2020. As from January 1, 2019, the Company adopted US$ as functional currency for the […]
YPF S.A. 1Q:20 Earnings Call Transcript
(Motley Fool, 12.May.2020) — Executives with Argentina’s state oil company YPF conducted a first quarter of 2020 conference call with analyst. A full transcript of the call follows. Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Welcome to the Q1 2020 Sociedad Anonima S.A. Earnings Conference Call. […]
Argentina: Unconventional Activity Update
(IHS, 12.May.2020) — The year 2020 has been filled with surprises as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads worldwide, leaving many homebound, resulting in a negative impact for many industries and ultimately leading to a decline in oil and gas demand across the globe. The pandemic paired with a supply surplus has […]
Pampa Energia To Host Video Conference
(Pampa, 12.May.2020) — Pampa Energía S.A. will host a videoconference to discuss its Q1 20 results on Wednesday May 13, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time / 11:00 a.m. Buenos Aires Time. The hosts will be Gustavo Mariani, CEO, Gabriel Cohen, CFO and Lida Wang, Investor Relations and Sustainability […]
Argentina To Restore Artificially High Oil Price
(Argus, 11.May.2020) — Argentina will restore artificially high domestic crude prices in an effort to jumpstart its stalled shale play following the March oil price crash and pandemic-driven demand collapse. The government, which is hurdling toward another default on its sovereign debt, plans to issue a decree that sets the […]
Argentina Considers $45/bbl Floor For Domestic Crude
(Bloomberg, 7.May.2020) — West Texas Intermediate has been gaining since its history-making crash in the U.S. last month, trading at around $25. Brent crude has been practically soaring, touching $30 in London. They can’t match the criollo barrel in Argentina, though — $45 guaranteed, no matter what. That dream price […]
YPF Names New CEO As Vaca Muerta Faces Setback
(Upstream, 1.May.2020) — Argentine oil company YPF has appointed industry veteran Sergio Affronti as chief executive, replacing Daniel Gonzalez, amid headwinds from the coronavirus pandemic and the collapse in oil prices. Affronti built his career in Argentine oilfields in the Mendoza and Neuquen provinces, and in the Gulf of San […]
TGS Files 2019 Annual Report On Form 20-F
(TGS, 29.Apr.2020) — Transportadora de Gas del Sur S.A. today it filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 (the “2019 Annual Report”) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The 2019 Annual Report can be accessed by visiting the Company’s […]
Argentina’s YPF SA Files Form 20-F
(YPF, 24.Apr.2020) — YPF SA announced that it has filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, including audited financial statements. The document is available on the YPF website at http://www.ypf.com in the Investor Relations section, […]
Argentina Plans Higher Local Oil Price
(Reuters, 23.Apr.2020) — Argentina plans to issue a decree setting a higher local oil barrel price to protect the domestic industry from being further decimated by a collapse in global prices and slumping fuel demand due to the coronavirus pandemic, two industry sources told Reuters on Thursday. The locally-set oil […]
Raizen Halts Crude Runs At Buenos Aires Refinery
(Argus, 19.Apr.2020) — Raizen has suspended operations at its 110,000 b/d Buenos Aires refinery in response to the plunge in oil demand caused by coronavirus restrictions. Raizen, a joint venture between Shell and Brazilian energy and logistics conglomerate Cosan, halted crude processing on 17 April after running out of storage. […]
Argentina Sets Stage for Debt Offer With $50Bn Filing
(Bloomberg, 15.Apr.2020) — Argentina registered to issue more than $50 billion in new debt as it prepares to make a painful restructuring offer to holders of its sovereign bonds. The filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission gives an inkling of how much in new securities the country anticipates […]
Echo Says Santa Cruz Sur Cash Outflows Reduced
(Echo Energy, 14.Apr.2020) — Echo Energy updated on its production and operations, and on progress in relation to cost reduction and cash management initiatives to ensure cash flow positive operations at Santa Cruz Sur and substantially reduce costs at the corporate level. Production and Operational Update Daily production and operations […]
Argentina’s Shale Boom On Hold As Oil Prices Collapse
(Oilprice.com, 10.Apr.2020) — Argentina’s state-held energy firm YPF slashed by 50 percent the oil production from its key development area in the vast Vaca Muerta shale play this week due to tumbling fuel demand in Argentina’s lockdown, local news outlet Rio Negro reports. Fuel demand in Argentina, under lockdown since […]
YPF Slashes Vaca Muerta Output: Rio Negro Reports
(Reuters, 9.Apr.2020) — Argentine state energy firm YPF has cut production by around half at its giant Vaca Muerta shale development Loma Campana due to a slump in demand amid the global coronavirus pandemic and a nationwide lockdown, local media reported on Thursday. Loma Campana is the most important development […]
Vista Announces Data For 1Q:20 Results Release
(Vista, 9.Apr.2020) — Vista Oil & Gas, S.A.B. de C.V. will release its interim consolidated financial statements for the first quarter of 2020 on Tuesday, 28 April 2020. The company will host a webcast to present the results onWednesday, 29 April 2020, at 8:00am CST (9:00am EST; 10:00am GMT-3). The […]
Galileo Sales VP Gabriel Lorenzi Interviewed By GBR
(Global Business Reports, 9.Apr.2020) — Twenty years ago it was impossible to think about an off-grid natural gas network. Today, Africa can build it with our innovative and efficient technologies, which work very well both in large producing countries and those looking at gas imports or monetizing small gas fields. […]
Collapsing Demand Sets Terms In OPEC+ Battle
(WoodMac, 9.Apr.2020) — Since OPEC+’s failure to agree on production restraint on 5-6 March, the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic have become far clearer, sparking a crisis in the oil market as prices fell and supply ramped up. The problem for these producers is the scale of the fall in […]
Brief Intro Remarks By OPEC Secretary General
(OPEC, 9.Apr.2020) — Delivered by HE Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, OPEC Secretary General, at the 9th (Extraordinary) OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting, 9 April 2020, via webinar. Excellencies, Over the course of the last few months, COVID-19 has pervaded almost every aspect of life. We see it in the lockdowns initiated […]
Argentina’s YPF cedes 50% interest offshore to Norway’s Equinor
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 7.Apr.2020) — Argentina’s government authorized state oil company YPF to move forward with a transfer of a 50% interest in an offshore exploration permit to the Norwegian oil giant Equinor. Details of the deal were confirmed by Argentina’s Energy Secretariat, led by Sergio Lanziani, through […]
Brazil’s MME Names Energy Secretariat
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 6.Apr.2020) — Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) named José Mauro Ferreira as the agency’s new Energy Secretariat, replacing Renata Isfer. Details of the appointment were published in the 6 April 2020 edition of Brazil’s Official Gazette (DOU), the MME said in an official […]
‘Dead Cow’ Oil Play Set To Be Next Permian Is Now Dead
(Bloomberg, 1.Apr.2020) — Just a bit more than 3 weeks ago, the head of Argentina’s state-run driller outlined an aggressive $1.8 billion spending plan for 2020 in the country’s Vaca Muerta shale region, based on $60-a-barrel crude. With global prices starting the year above $68, it wasn’t unrealistic. Now, all […]
Falling LatAam Fuel Demand Leaves Hurt US Refiners
(Reuters, 27.Mar.2020) — Demand for refined products in Latin America is quickly drying up as the coronavirus pandemic worsens, leaving U.S. refiners without their primary export destination as the virus spreads. The crisis has nearly shut down worldwide air travel and is destroying fuel demand, which could fall by 15% […]
YPF Inks Deals With Ministries For Truckers
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 25.Mar.2020) — YPF President Guillermo Nielsen signed an agreement with the representatives from Argentina’s ministries of Transportation, Security, Health, Interior and Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries; the National Commission for Transport Regulation; and the National Federation of Truck Workers, among other entities of the sector, to […]
YPF Head Warns Of Difficult Times
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 24.Mar.2020) — The effects of social, preventive and compulsory isolation are beginning to be reflected in the drop in energy consumption, announced YPF CEO Daniel González in a video shared with employees of the Argentine oil company, and in which he warned the company’s income […]
LatAm NRG Producers Sweat To Cover Costs
(Reuters, 24.Mar.2020) — A price war between the world’s oil powerhouses is leaving many producers in Latin American struggling to cover production costs, boosting chances of output cuts and investment delays in coming months. Global oil price benchmarks have had their steepest declines in decades in a perfect storm of […]
IMF Managing Dir. Kristalina Georgieva On Argentina
(IMF, 20.Mar.2020) — At the request of the Argentine authorities and reflecting close collaboration with them, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released today a technical note prepared by IMF staff on Argentina’s public debt sustainability. The technical note sets out staff’s views on a feasible macroeconomic framework and on Argentina’s […]
YPF Suspending Noncritical Activities
(Reuters, 20.Mar.2020) — Argentine state-run energy firm YPF said on Thursday it will gradually suspend activities not critical to its business, and will scale down staff to a minimum at essential operations to ensure energy supply amid the coronavirus outbreak. The company, which leads production activities in the Vaca Muerta […]
YPF Reports Record One Day Fractures
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 18.Mar.2020) — Argentina’s state oil company YPF announced positive results in regards its development of the country’s Vaca Muerta unconventional resources located in the Neuquén Basin. YPF carried out 12 fracture stages in one day, which constitutes a new milestone for the company’s unconventional operations […]
Pampa Reveals Conference Call Details
(Pampa Energía, 10.Mar.2020) — Pampa Energía S.A. announced it would hold a conference call to discuss its Q4 19 results on Wednesday 11 March 2020 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time / 11:00 a.m. Buenos Aires Time. The host will be Lida Wang, Investor Relations Manager at Pampa. For those […]
Argentina Blocks Oil Imports In Bow To Local Producers
(Argus, 10.Mar.2020) — The oil price collapse is prompting Argentina to revive state intervention to protect the domestic oil industry. The national government is putting the brakes on imports of crude, gasoline and diesel, a move that mainly benefits state-controlled YPF, Argentina’s top oil producer and refiner. In the new […]
Pampa Energía Announces Year-end Results
(Pampa Energía, 10.Mar.2020) — Pampa Energía S.A., the largest independent energy integrated company in Argentina, with active participation in the country’s electricity and gas value chain, announces the results for the fiscal year and quarter ended on December 31, 2019. The company adopted the US Dollar as functional currency (‘FC […]
Neuquén Provincial Govt Seeks Minimum $50/bbl Price
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 10.Mar.2020) — Officials from Argentina’s Neuquén Province has requested formal meetings be held with the Energy Secretariat of Argentina’s government and authorities of hydrocarbon-producing provinces of the South American country to discuss a possible floor oil price that would support hydrocarbon activities. “The price we […]
Echo Energy Extends Existing £1mn Loan
(Echo, 6.Mar.2020) — Echo Energy, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, provides an update on production and operations following the Company’s recent acquisition of a 70% non-operated working interest in the Santa Cruz Sur assets, onshore Argentina. The Company also announces a two-year extension to the Company’s […]
IMF Staff Statement On Argentina
(IMF, 19.Feb.2020) — An IMF team, led by Julie Kozack Deputy Director of the Western Hemisphere Department and Luis Cubeddu Mission chief for Argentina, visited Buenos Aires [1] from February 12 to 19, 2020 to discuss the recent macroeconomic developments and learn more about the Argentine authorities’ economic plans and […]
Argentina To Ease NatGas, Power Price Controls In June
(S&P Global Platts, 18.Feb.2020) — Argentina plans to lift controls on power and natural gas tariffs as soon as June, a senior government official said, in a move seen as key for reviving investment in gas production. “It is not a permanent freeze,” Production Minister Matías Kulfas, who oversees energy […]
YPF Signs Preliminary Deal With Equinor And Shell
(Reuters, 31.Jan.2020) — Oil firms Equinor and Shell have signed a preliminary agreement with Argentina state energy firm YPF to acquire an additional 11% participation in the Bandurria Sur region of the vast Vaca Muerte shale field, YPF said on Friday. Vaca Muerta, which covers an area about the size […]
Equinor Strengthens Presence In Vaca Muerta
(Equinor, 31.Jan.2020) — Equinor and its partner Shell have completed a joint acquisition of the 49% interest held by Schlumberger in the Bandurria Sur onshore block in Argentina’s Neuquén province. The consideration for each partner for their 24.5% interest is $177.5mn. The block covers around 56,000 gross acres in the […]
Schlumberger Completes Sale Of Bandurria Sur
(Schlumberger, 31.Jan.2020) — Schlumberger announced today that it has completed the sale of its 49% interest in the Bandurria Sur Block in Neuquén, Argentina to Shell Argentina S.A. and Equinor. YPF will continue as operator of the block. This divestment covers all of Schlumberger’s interest in the Bandurria Sur shale […]