(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Apr.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Argentina’s Labor Ministry issuing a mandatory conciliation between oil workers and companies, companies in Argentina...
(S&P Global, 12.Apr.2021) — Argentina's oil and natural gas output could begin to fall in the next few days if protesting health workers and truckers continue to block access to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Apr.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: halting the slide a Point Lisas in Trinidad and YPF inaugurating a new petrol station...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 31.Mar.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Argentine oil workers threaten to strike in Vaca Muerta over wages, and Argentine oil union...
(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 finance a $2.7 billion investment...
(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 down on fossil fuels. “Today...
(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 leading development of the biggest...
(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 extended the deadline after the...
(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 oil output has not only...
(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 unit (FSRU) after the government...
(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 also jumped. YPF’s $540 million...
(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 countless booms and busts. If...
(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 prices for power generation in...
(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 key data. MAIN HIGHLIGHTS OF...
(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 growth path that will allow...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Oct.2020) — Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández announced details of the country’s Gas Plan 4 during a visit to the Vaca Muerta formation. The gas plan aims to...
(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 Vaca Muerta formation. Of the...
(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...
(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...
(Argus, 4.Sep.2020) — Argentina's state-controlled YPF will resume drilling activity in the country's Vaca Muerta shale formation after an almost six-month pause resulting from pandemic restrictions. YPF will begin operating...
(S&P Global Platts, 28.Aug.2020) — Argentina's new energy secretary Dario Martinez plans to promote oil and natural gas production with a view to increasing exports as part of a strategy...
(Argus, 25.Aug.2020) — Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale patch will take 12-18 months to resume pre-Covid-19 activity because of lagging demand, according to Alejandro Monteiro, energy minister of Neuquen province. "We...
(Zacks Equity Research, 19.Aug.2020) — Exxon Mobil Corporation was recently granted concession by the Neuquen provincial government for exploratory activities in another block, Los Toldos II Oeste, in the prolific...
(Argus, 14.Aug.2020) — ExxonMobil has been awarded a 35-year concession for another block in Vaca Muerta, a massive shale play that has been driving the company's growth in oil and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Aug.2020) — Shell Argentina President Sean Rooney discussed his company’s operations in Argentina amid the Covid-19 pandemic, including commenting on continued and future development of the Vaca...
(FT.com, 19.Jul.2020) —Alberto Fernández, Argentina’s president, has made an impassioned appeal for the world to accept that — with an economy devastated by coronavirus — he cannot budge from his...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Jul.2020) — The Vaca Muerta gas pipeline, one of the most ambitious projects of the government of Argentina’s former President Mauricio Macri, was suspended indefinitely by Energy...
(Oilprice.com, 6.Jul.2020) — Throughout the 2010s Argentina’s shale deposits were universally listed alongside the US shale gale, denoting the many similarities Vaca Muerta shares with Eagle Ford in particular and...
(GlobalData, 29.Jun.2020) — Adrian Lara, Senior Oil & Gas Analyst at GlobalData, commented on announcements from Argentina’s government to implement a new plan for subsidizing oil and gas production in...
(S&P Global Platts, 26.Jun.2020) — Argentina has extended a 99-day-old economic lockdown for three more weeks to try to contain a surge in coronavirus cases, including by tightening restrictions on...
(Reuters, 26.Jun.2020) — Belgian shipping company Exmar has said that it had received a force majeure notice from Argentine oil company YPF SA under charter and services deals for the...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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")...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(Argus, 9.Mar.2020) — Latin America's bold plans to tap deepwater, unconventional and heavy oil reserves — already under pressure by coronavirus in key demand markets — face an even greater...
(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...
(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....
(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....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 31.Jan.2020) — The presidents of YPF, and European companies Equinor and Shell meet to discuss the scope of signed agreements and plans for the development...
(S&P Global Platts, 27.Jan.2020) — Equinor, Shell and Total vowed to press on with projects in Vaca Muerta, even as policy uncertainty and price controls make it harder to plan...
(S&P Global Platts, 13.Jan.2020) — Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez said he plans to encourage the development of conventional oil and natural gas reserves, not just the shale resources in the...
(Argus, 8.Jan.2020) — Argentina's shale fracturing hit a record in 2019 despite a deceleration sparked by political and economic uncertainty at the end of the year. A total of 6,425...
(Argus, 8.Jan.2020) — Argentina's shale fracturing hit a record in 2019 despite a deceleration sparked by political and economic uncertainty at the end of the year. A total of 6,425...
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 10.Dec.2019) — YPF, the Argentine state energy company, has drilled the longest horizontal oil well lateral, at 3,890 meters, or more than 12,700 feet, in the Vaca...
(Argus, 6.Dec.2019) — Chilean imports of liquefied natural gas have fallen to their lowest level in at least three years as the South American country imports more gas from neighboring...
(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...
(Seeking Alpha, Carl Surran, 20.Nov.2019) — Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell say they want to ramp up oil and natural gas production in Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale play but...
(EXMAR, 12.Nov.2019) — Exmar announced the first commercial LNG cargo has left Argentina for export. It was produced on board Exmar’s Tango FLNG and is now being transported by Excalibur,...
(Reuters, Jessica Jaganathan and Ekaterina Kravtsova, 8.Nov.2019) — Argentine oil company YPF SA has loaded its first commercial liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo for export from a new floating facility,...
(Project Syndicate, Mauricio Cárdenas, 5.Nov.2019) — Some regard Latin America as the world’s new oil frontier, and think that the region could potentially add three million barrels per day to...
(EXMAR, 30.Sep.2019) — The Tango FLNG has been receiving feed gas from YPF since 9 September 2019 and has been producing LNG to its full capacity since then. In the...
(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...
(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...
(Zacks Equity Research, 22.Aug.2019) — Equinor ASA recently announced the signing of a deal with the Argentine energy company, YPF Sociedad Anónima YPF, to jointly conduct exploration activities in the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 22.Aug.2019) — Argentina shipped an average 5.9 million cubic meters per day (MMcm/d) of natural gas to Chile, Brazil and Uruguay during the first half...
(Equinor, 21.Aug.2019) — Equinor’s executive vice president for Exploration, Tim Dodson, and YPF's CEO Daniel Gonzalez have signed an agreement to jointly explore the CAN 100 offshore block, located in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 21.Aug.2019) — Argentina and Chile signed an agreement for the export of natural gas from the former to the latter. The deal -- under the...
(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...
(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...
(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....
(Excelerate, 25.Jul.2019) — YPF announced that a preliminary agreement was reached with Excelerate Energy L.P. (Excelerate) for the charter of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, which will export LNG...
(Wintershall, 25.Jul.2019) — ConocoPhillips is a new partner in the Aguada Federal and Bandurria Norte blocks with Wintershall Dea. The two companies will advance the development of the significant Vaca...
