(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 17.May.2019) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat awarded 18 areas corresponding to the first International Offshore Public Competition, the country’s Finance Ministry […]
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Argentina’s Economic Crisis Threatens To Stall Vaca Muerta
(Petroleum Economist, Charles Waine, 14.May.2019) — Argentina’s hope of fast-tracking production from its vast Vaca Muerta shale play, the world’s second largest by output, could […]
Madalena Starts Vaca Muerta Drilling On The Coiron Amargo Sur Este Block
(Madalena, 13.May.2019 ) — Madalena Energy Inc. has been informed by the operator of the Coiron Amargo Sur Este (CASE) block that a drilling rig […]
Tecpetrol Argentina Work Halted Until Security Issues Resolved
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 13.May.2019) — The block where Tecpetrol conducts activities in Argentina can’t initiate operations until necessary security measures are completed and […]
Argentina Eyes Possible Start Of Vaca Muerta-BahĂa Blanca Train Project In 2020
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 12.May.2019) — Two train projects planned to connect Vaca Muerta with BahĂa Blanca will most likely not start moving forward […]
YPF Transcript Of 1Q:19 Earnings Conference Call
(Thomson StreetEvents, 11.May.2019) — Edited Transcript of YPF SA earnings conference call or presentation Friday 10 May 2019. TEXT version of Transcript ============================== Corporate Participants […]
Pampa EnergĂa Announces 1Q:19 Financial Results
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 10.Apr.2019) — Pampa EnergĂa S.A. reported financial results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2019. Pampa EnergĂa S.A. is […]
Argentina’s Pampa EnergĂa 1Q:19 Conference Call Details
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 10.Apr.2019) — Argentina’s Pampa EnergĂa S.A. announced it will host a conference call to discuss its 1Q:19 results on Tuesday […]
Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Says La Amarga Chica Producing 13,000 B/D
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 9.May.2019) — Production of shale oil in La Amarga Chica area under the watch of YPF and partner Petronas reached […]
CSI Compressco Announces 1Q:19 Results, Affirms Full Year Financial Guidance
(CSI, 8.May.2019) — CSI Compressco LP today announced first quarter 2019 consolidated financial results and provided updated 2019 full year guidance. Consolidated revenues for the […]
Argentina And Uruguay To Invest $1,000 Million To Modernize Salto Grande Dam
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 8.May.2019) — The governments of Argentina and Uruguay announced plans to invest $1,000 million in the modernization of the Salto […]
LatAmNRG Argentina Briefs: Gutiérrez Shell Chat, Tecpetrol Accident
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 8.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to eight oil and gas sector deaths in the Neuquina […]
YPFB And YPF Argentina Ink Upstream And Downstream Deals
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Pietro D. Pitts, 7.May.2019) — YPFB and YPF Argentina signed strategic deals during discussions in Santa Cruz related to […]
YPF Luz Offers $75mn In Negotiable Obligations
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 7.May.2019) — YPF EnergĂa ElĂ©ctrica, also known as YPF Luz, offered $75 million in negotiable obligations on the Argentina stock […]
YPF Eyes Increasing Interest In Mega To 72% With Petrobras Acquisition
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 6.May.2019) — YPF announced it’s desire in acquiring Petrobras’ 34% interest in gas separator Mega, after the Brazilian company announced […]
Tecpetrol Reports Death Of Two Contractors At FortĂn De Piedra Project
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 6.May.2019) — Tecpetrol announced that an accident on 5 May 2019 at the CPF plant of its FortĂn de Piedra […]
Argentina To Inaugurate Loma Campana-Lago Pellegrini Oil Pipeline
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 3.May.2019) — Argentina is set to inaugurate the Loma Campana-Lago Pellegrini pipeline. The pipeline has an extension of 88 kilometers […]
Wintershall DEA Names Manfred Böckmann To Head Argentina Unit
(Wintershall, 2.May.2019) — Wintershall Dea announced a change of leadership at Wintershall EnergĂa (soon to be Wintershall Dea Argentina). Manfred Böckmann took over the position […]
LatAmNRG Bolivia Briefs: YPFB Investments 2019-2025; Gas Consumption Of 13 MMcm/d
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 1.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to Bolivia the land-locked country generating oil and gas revenues […]
BASF And LetterOne Finalize Merger Of Wintershall And DEA
(LetterOne, 1.May.2019) — LetterOne and BASF today announced the completion of the merger of their oil and gas businesses to create Wintershall Dea, the largest […]
Pampa EnergĂa Files Annual Report On Form 20-F For Year Ended Dec. 31, 2018
(Pampa, 30.Apr.2019) — Pampa EnergĂa S.A., the largest independent energy integrated company in Argentina, with participation in the electricity and gas value chain, announces today […]
Enel Américas Files 2018 Annual Report On Form 20-F
(Enel, 29.Apr.2019) — Enel AmĂ©ricas, announced today that its 2018 Annual Report on Form 20-F has been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange […]
Argentina Exported An Average 6 MMcm/d To Chile During 1Q:19
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 25.Apr.2019) — Argentina shipped an average of almost 6 million cubic meters per day (MMcmd/) of natural gas to Chile […]
TGS Files 2018 Annual Report With SEC On Form 20-F
(TGS, 25.Apr.2019) — Transportadora de Gas del Sur S.A. (TGS) filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018 […]
Debt Ghosts Rattle Argentina’s Push For Shale Greatness
(Bloomberg, Alix Steel and Jonathan Gilbert, 24.Apr.2019) — To replicate the kind of shale boom taking place in America’s Permian Basin, Argentina first needs to […]
Bolivia Gas Production: “Increasingly Smaller, Increasingly Expensive”
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman and Piero Stewart, 23.Apr.2019) — Bolivia’s production of natural gas reached 36 million cubic meters per day (MMcmd/) in March […]
Argentina’s Vaca Muerta Formation Produces 35% Of Country’s Natural Gas
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 23.Apr.2019) — Argentina’s Vaca Muerta formation currently accounts for close to 35% of Argentina’s natural gas production and 15% of […]
Phoenix Global Announces Departure Of CEO Anuj Sharma
(Phoenix, 23.Apr.2019) — Phoenix Global Resources plc announces that Mr. Sharma has served a notice on the company, which the company is treating as a […]
On South America’s Largest Solar Farm, Chinese Power Radiates
(Reuters, Cassandra Garrison, 23.Apr.2019) — In an arid, lunar-like landscape in the sunny highlands of northern Argentina, South America’s largest solar farm is rising, powered […]
Bolivia Eyes Exporting LNG Through Argentina, Importing Crude
(S&P Global Platts, 22.Apr.2019) — Bolivia is looking at exporting natural gas globally through liquefaction terminals to be built in Argentina, and to buy crude […]
Gazprom Eyeing Gas Project In Argentina
(TASS, 22.Apr.2019) — Gazprom considers the possibility of acquiring a stake in one of the key producing assets of Argentina’s YPF, the company said on […]
Why The Argentinian Shale Boom Isn’t Taking Off
(Oilprice.com Irina Slav, 22.Apr.2019) — The Vaca Muerta shale play in Argentina has been a hot spot in global oil and gas for the past […]
Shell Awards Contract To Halliburton For Offshore Project In Brazil
(Chron.com, Sergio Chapa, 17.Apr.2019) — Royal Dutch Shell has awarded a three-year contract to Houston oilfield service company Halliburton to explore and develop two projects […]
Wintershall Expands Portfolio In Argentina
(WorldOil, 17.Apr.2019) — Wintershall won the bidding process for two blocks in the promising Malvinas Basin off the coast of Tierra del Fuego as part […]
Majors Step Up To Bid On Argentina Offshore Acreage
(WorldOil, 17.Apr.2019) — Argentina’s first national offshore licensing round was held yesterday, April 16, 2019, in Buenos Aires. Of the 38 blocks offered in an […]
ExxonMobil Argentina Takes Three Blocks In Offshore Bid Round
(Exxon, 16.Apr.2019) — ExxonMobil has increased holdings in Argentina after its subsidiary ExxonMobil Argentina Offshore Investments B.V. and an affiliate of Qatar Petroleum won three […]
Exxon Mobil Wins Three Exploration Blocks Offshore Argentina
(Reuters, 16.Apr.2019) — U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp said on Tuesday its unit and an affiliate of Qatar Petroleum had won three exploration blocks […]
Argentina Awards YPF Exploration Permit For Offshore E-1 Area
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 16.Apr.2019) — Argentina awarded state oil and gas producer YPF with an exploration permit for the E-1 area spanning […]
Qatar Petroleum Wins Exploration Rights In 5 Offshore Blocks In Argentina
(Qatar Petroleum, 16.Apr.2019) — Qatar Petroleum has won exploration rights in five offshore blocks in the North Argentina, and Malvinas West basins in Argentina. The […]
LatAmNRG Argentina Briefs: TGS $330 Mln Investments, New IEASA President
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 15.Apr.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to TGS’ plans to invest $330 million in 2019 and […]
Vista Oil & Gas Releases Details Related To Shareholder’s Meeting
(Vista, 10.Apr.2019) — Vista Oil & Gas S.A.B. de C.V. announced details of the company’s Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting slated for 25 April 2019. Attached […]
Argentina Sees Steady Growth In Light Crude Exports From Vaca Muerta
(S&P Global Platts, 9.Apr.2019) — Argentina’s state-led YPF is preparing a shipment of light crude from Vaca Muerta, a trend the federal government expects to […]
Argentina’s Incumbent Political Party Wins Rio Negro Oil Province Election
(S&P Global Platts, 8.Apr.2019) — The incumbent political party in Rio Negro, an oil province in Argentina, won the re-election on Sunday; a result that […]
La Banderita Wind Farm Starts Operations In La Pampa
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 8.Apr.2019) — With entry into commercial operation of the La Banderita wind farm in La Pampa, there are currently already […]
Knowledge Exchange Spurs China-Argentina Infrastructure Projects
(Xinhua, 8.Apr.2019) — Knowledge exchange between Chinese and Argentine technicians spurs large-scale joint infrastructure projects within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), […]
Students Put Energy Efficient Cars To The Test At Shell Eco-marathon Americas
(Shell, 7.Apr.2019) — Make the Future Live California featuring Shell Eco-marathon Americas drew more than 1,000 students to Sonoma Raceway to compete for the title […]
Neuquén Holds 73% Of Argentina’s Recoverable Shale Gas
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 7.Apr.2019) — Argentina contains the second largest recoverable non-conventional natural gas resources in the world with 802.2 trillion cubic […]
SiderĂşrgica Del MutĂşn Eyes Exporting 150,000 Tons Of Iron To Mainly Argentina
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 29.Apr.2019) — SiderĂşrgica del MutĂşn (ESM by its Spanish acronym) exported 20,000 tons of Bolivian iron to Argentina in the […]
YPFB President Says Incahuasi-5 Well To Add 3.5 MMcm/d Of NatGas Output
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 5.Apr.2019) — Yacimientos PetrolĂferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) President Oscar Barriga says the Incahuasi-5 well, located 250 kilometers southwest of Santa […]
Argentina Energy 2019: Oil & Gas, Lithium and Energy Transition
(Institute of the Americas, 4.Apr.2019) — On March 27-28, the Institute of the Americas convened its annual Energy Roundtable in Buenos Aires with the participation […]