(Baker Institute, 17.Aug.2021) — Shale oil’s short-cycle production protects foreign investors from the risk of expropriation — government taking private property for public use — providing an opportunity for the […]
Tag: Mauricio Macri
LatAm Briefs: Argentina’s IMF Payments, Odebrecht Arrest Warrants
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Mar.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Argentina only paying the IMF around $3.1bn in interest and arrest warrants being issued for […]
Investors Pull Plug On Argentina’s Prized Shale Play
(Oilprice.com, 19.Sep.2020) — Much ink has been spilled about the downfall and dubious recovery of the United States shale oil sector. The West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude benchmark’s dramatic rock […]
The Threat Of Oil Nationalism In Argentina
(Oilprice.com, 6.Sep.2020) — Latin America has a long history of resource nationalism, particularly when it comes to petroleum. Since the end of World War Two, this has acted as a […]
Argentina Extends Diesel, Gasoline Frice Freeze
(Argus, 30.Jan.2020) — Argentina’s government said Thursday it has extended a freeze on diesel and gasoline prices until the end of February, as it tries to reel in one of […]
Vista, YPF Win Vaca Muerta Licenses
(S&P Global Platts, 3.Dec.2019) — Argentina’s Neuquen province awarded development licenses to Vista Oil & Gas and YPF in Vaca Muerta, a giant shale play that has seen investment and […]
Producers Delay Boosting Vaca Muerta Output
(S&P Global Platts, 20.Nov.2019) — Three leading oil companies in Argentina, buoyed by the quality of the shale resources, are ready to ramp up oil and natural gas production in […]
Maduro Pledges Funds For Shipyard In Argentina
(Reuters, Luc Cohen, 3.Nov.2019) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday pledged funds for a state-owned Argentine shipyard to finish building two long- overdue tankers for state oil company Petroleos […]
Argentina Reinforces Security Of Vaca Muerta
(Reuters, 16.Sep.2019) — The Argentine government will step up security in the Vaca Muerta oil fields by placing the shale formation under the jurisdiction of the military police, the Ministry […]
Argentina Pursues $5bn LNG Project Amid Political Havoc
(Bloomberg, Jonathan Gilbert, 4.Sep.2019) — Argentina’s state-run oil company, YPF SA, is pushing ahead with plans to build a $5 billion natural gas export terminal despite the political and financial […]
Argentina Seeks To Stabilize Peso As Oil Companies Fret About Price Freeze
(S&P Global Platts, 20.Aug.2019) — Argentina’s newly installed economy minister, Hernan Lacunza, said Tuesday he will focus on stabilizing the currency as the key to pulling the country’s economy out […]
Argentina Enforces Fuel Price Caps
(Argus, 16.Aug.2019) — The price cap takes effect immediately, according to a decree published in the Official Bulletin, the newspaper of record. The downstream sector must keep oil product prices […]
Argentina Caps Oil Prices By Decree
(Argus, 16.Aug.2019) — Argentina implemented a three-month freeze on fuel and crude prices through an emergency decree, eschewing an earlier plan to apply a decades-old law that was designed to […]
Argentina’s Opposition Primary Win May Put Energy Investment On Hold
(S&P Global Platts, 12.Aug.2019) — Argentina’s leading opposition coalition, a left-wing populist alliance that ruled the country from 2003-15, swept the national primaries Sunday, putting it in the running to […]
Argentina Gas Output At Highest Point In 11 years
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 29.Jul.2019) — Production of crude oil and natural gas in Argentina continues to rise, aided by growth in unconventional volumes from the Vaca Muerta formation. […]
YPF Nationalization Trial To Continue In The U.S.
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 24.Jun.2019) — The U.S. Supreme Court of Justice dealt another blow to the strategy of the government of Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri when it deactivated […]
June 9 Provincial Election In Chubut, Argentina’s No. 2 Petro-Province
(Baker Institute, Mark P. Jones, 30.May.2019) — Chubut will elect its governor and the members of its provincial legislature for four-year terms on June 9. The pragmatic centrist Peronist governor […]
Argentina’s Financial Crisis Creates An Opportunity For China
(Bloomberg, Jonathan Gilbert 21.May.2019) — A pair of dams going up in Patagonia is a testament to Beijing’s growing influence. Set on a remote steppe in Patagonia, where the winds […]
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 be delayed as the country […]
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 from its southern neighbor, Bolivian […]
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 could favor President Mauricio Macri’s […]
Tecpetrol Says Resolution 46 Covers Entire Fortin de Piedra Gas Project
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.Apr.2019) — Tecpetrol, the oil and gas affiliate of Techint, considers that a resolution emitted by Argentina’s Finance Ministry rejects the appeal presented for incorrect […]
Government’s Adjustment Plan For Vaca Muerta Puts Conflict On The Horizon
(Buenos Aires Times, Jairo Straccia, 2.Feb.2019) — Despite all the smiling photos taken in the past showing President Mauricio Macri and Techint CEO Paolo Rocca together (even at the height […]
Argentine Leader Sees Tough Road Ahead
(AP, 5.Dec.2018) — Argentina’s president is celebrating the successful hosting of the Group of 20 summit, but he said Monday that he is ready for tough times ahead as his […]
Argentina Awaits Hydrocarbon Investments Of Nearly $13 Billion in 2019
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 8.Nov.2018) — Argentine hydrocarbon investments are projected to increase in 2019 compared to 2018, announced the country’s Energy Secretary Javier Iguacel. “This year they invested […]
Argentina Aims To Cover 20% Of Energy Demand in 2025 With Renewables
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 8.Nov.2018) — Argentina’s shale boom taking place in the Vaca Muerta formation in Neuquen will not stop the country from pursuing goals related to renewable […]
Argentina Restarts Natural Gas Exports To Chile
(Reuters, Dave Sherwood, 30.Oct.2018) — Argentina has begun exporting natural gas to Chile after a 12 year interlude, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said on Tuesday, as the two South American […]
Trump Talks Tough On Venezuela, But Imports Ever More Venezuelan Oil
(Miami Herald, Andres Oppenheimer, 17.Oct.2018) — There is a major inconsistency in President Trump’s stand on Venezuela: He talks tough — and even makes veiled threats of a military intervention […]
Argentina’s Conventional Oil and Gas Attract Explorers
(Ft.com, Charles Newberry, 23.Sep.2019) — Fresh discovery indicates life beyond Vaca Muerta. A few years ago, when the giant shale play of Vaca Muerta was starting to lure oil majors […]
Argentine President Inaugurates Biogas-Fueled Electric Plant
(Efe, 14.Sep.2018) — President Mauricio Macri inaugurated on Friday a biogas-fueled electric plant in the Argentine province of Cordoba that he said will supply energy to 12,000 households and generate […]
Argentina Re-ignites Labor Deal to Spur Investment in Vaca Muerta
(Reuters, Eliana Raszewski, 28.Aug.2018) — Argentina relaunched a one-year-old agreement between the government, companies and workers on Tuesday to drive competition and spur development in the Vaca Muerta shale play, […]
Argentina Gas Auctions to Begin in August
(Reuters, 19.Jul.2018) – Argentina’s electricity generators will be able to begin bidding for their natural gas supply beginning in August, President Mauricio Macri said, as the country gradually moves away […]
Argentina Affirms Liberalization Of Fuels Market
(Institute of the Americas, Jeremy Martin, 11.Jul.2018) – Directly answering a question during an interview in a local media program about the issue of fuels market and pricing, newly-installed Energy […]
Free Oil Market to Reign in Argentina
(Bloomberg, 2.Jul.2018) – Argentina’s move to a free market for energy prices remains on track. A recent decision to cap crude oil prices and limit fuel price gains in order […]
Argentina to Free Retail Fuel Prices
(Reuters, Luc Cohen, 1.Jul.2018) – Argentina will allow fuel retailers to freely set pump prices starting in August, according to an Energy Ministry official familiar with the plan, a move […]
Tecpetrol to Invest $2.3 Bln in Vaca Muerta
(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 […]
ExxonMobil to Invest $10 Billion In Vaca Muerta
(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 […]
Argentina to Pay Galuccio $72 Mln Pesos to Leave YPF
(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 […]