(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...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Sep.2019) — “The massive Vaca Muerta formation is geologically comparable to the best US oil basins, particularly the Permian Basin in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico,...
(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...
(McDermott, 19.Jul.2019) — McDermott International, Inc. has been awarded a sizeable* contract by Argentina-based YPF, S.A. to provide pre-front-end engineering design (Pre-FEED) services for a five million tonnes per annum...
(EIA, 12.Jul.2019) — Argentina’s domestic natural gas production has been rising steadily in the past three years, largely because of increasing production from the Neuquén Basin’s Vaca Muerta shale and...
(Reuters, 10.Jul.2019) — Argentina has opened the tender for a new $2 billion gas pipeline from the huge Vaca Muerta shale field, which according to the country's Energy Secretariat, should...
(Reuters, 2.Jul.2019) — Argentine oil and natural gas output hit a record high in May thanks to increased production from the country’s sprawling Vaca Muerta shale formation, the government said...
Please Share: (Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 27.Jun.2019) — Techint Group’s Argentine affiliate Tecpetrol plans to inaugurate a new office in Neuquén by April 2020. “We hope to inaugurate the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Ian Silverman, 25.Jun.2019) — Heard on the street related to the Latin America and Caribbean upstream, midstream, downstream and renewable energies sectors. ARGENTINA --...
(Bloomberg, Jonathan Gilbert, 25.Jun.2019) — Along the western edge of Argentina’s Patagonia, on an arid steppe nestled against the Andes mountains, lies a shale formation known as the Vaca Muerta....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 14.Jun.2019) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Gustavo Lopetegui highlighted investments announced by Exxon Mobil destined for the massive development the Bajo del Choique - La Invernada...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 14.Jun.2019) — The 6th Vaca Muerta Executive Board meeting took place 14 June in Neuquén in the presence of the Neuquén Governor Omar Gutiérrez and...
(Exxon, 13.Jun.2019) — ExxonMobil is proceeding with a long-term oil development in Argentina’s Bajo del Choique-La Invernada block. The project is expected to produce up to 55,000 oil-equivalent barrels per...
(ExxonMobil, 11.Jun.2019) — ExxonMobil said it is proceeding with a long-term oil development in Argentina’s Bajo del Choique-La Invernada block. The project is expected to produce up to 55,000 oil-equivalent...
(Platts, 11.Jun.2019) — On the vast, desolate plains of southern Patagonia, Compañía General de Negocios is stepping up drilling and exploration where few companies operate, an emerging trend of widening...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 8.Jun.2019) — As part of Energy Analytics Institute’s ongoing coverage of the Latin America and Caribbean energy sectors from conventionals, unconventionals to renewables, Calgary-based Consultant...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 7.Jun.2019) — UOCRA union leader Juan Carlos Levi was reportedly arrested in Argentina after a search of his home, online media Diariamente Neuquen reported. Levi...
(Reuters, 2.Jun.2019) — Argentine oil company YPF SA said on Sunday that it began loading the first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for export from Argentina. The shipment includes...
(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...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 27.May.2019) — Argentina’s Environmental Crimes prosecutor Maximiliano Breide Obeid anticipates more samples will be taken from Treater’s oil waste plant located in Añelo in Argentina....
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 23.May.2019) — The Argentine port of of Bahía Blanca is at present a principal location for consideration of construction of a LNG plant; however, the...
(Reuters, 20.May.2019) — Argentina is about to export its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo from a new floating facility, marking a milestone for its energy sector boosted by rising...
(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...
(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 was mobilized and commenced drilling...
(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 approved by Argentina’s Labor Sub-Secretary,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 12.May.2019) — Two train projects planned to connect Vaca Muerta with Bahía Blanca will most likely not start moving forward until 2020 due to a...
(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 Basin in 15 months, Neuquén...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 6.May.2019) — Tecpetrol announced that an accident on 5 May 2019 at the CPF plant of its Fortín de Piedra natural gas project in Argentina...
(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 during the first quarter of...
(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 convince investors it can avoid...
(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 2019, one of the lowest...
(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 the South American country’s crude...
(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 notice terminating his employment in...
(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...
(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 few years after exploration suggested...
(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 exploration blocks during Argentina’s first...
(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 offshore Argentina. The three blocks...
(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. Mr. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi. Source: Qatar...
(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 gain as production increases from...
(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...
(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 feet (Tcf), only trailing Asian...
(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 of over 100 representatives from...