(Phoenix, 4.Apr.2019) — Phoenix Global Resources plc has been granted an unconventional concession for its Puesto Rojas block in Mendoza province. The company has been notified by Mendoza Province that...
(Baker Institute, 2.Apr.2019) — On April 7 Argentina will hold its second provincial election of the 2019 election season in the province of Río Negro. With less than a week...
(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...
(Bloomberg, Jonathan Gilbert, 1.Apr.2019) — Sand shoveled out of an Argentina river used to transport soybeans may soon reappear 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) away in the country’s booming shale fields....
(Bloomberg, Jonathan Gilbert, 1.Apr.2019) — In South America, sand shoveled out of a river in Argentina that is used to transport soybeans may soon reappear 700 mi (1,100 km) away...
(Exmar, 28.Mar.2019) — Exmar announced its Tango FLNG will start its gas liquefaction operations in the second quarter of 2019, at which time a significant portion of the restricted cash...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 27.Mar.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs from Argentina on Neuquen hydrocarbon output reaching record levels in February, MicroSoft and YPF signing a...
(Oil & Gas Journal, Paula Dittrick, 25.Mar.2019) — Argentina plans to build natural gas pipelines and hopes to attract more oil and gas investment for the Vaca Muerta shale play...
(Wintershall, 21.Mar.2019) — Wintershall continued its growth course in Latin America in 2018, the company’s CEO Mario Mehren said during an nnual press conference in Kassel. During the meeting, the...
(IEEFA, 21.Mar.2019) — The Vaca Muerta oil and gas project, which promises to double oil and gas production over the next six years in Argentina, is facing such strong headwinds...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 19.Mar.2019) — U.S. Energy Secretariat Rick Perry will soon travel to Argentina with a delegation of oil field service companies seeking business opportunities in the...
(IHS Markit, Carla Selman, 19.Mar.2019) — In a statement on 18 March, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) allowed Argentina to allocate additional funds to social programs in the framework of...
(Reuters, 19.Mar.2019) — Oil workers in the Argentine provinces of Rio Negro, La Pampa and Neuquen, home to the sprawling Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas formation, said they will...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 15.Mar.2019) — Argentina’s Energy Secretariat Gustavo Lopetegui announced plans next week to meet with Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera, and Chile’s Energy Minister Susana Jiménez. The...
(Oil & Gas Journal, Paula Dittrick, 14.Mar.2019) — Argentina plans to build natural gas pipelines and hopes to attract more oil and gas investment for the Vaca Muerta shale play...
(IEA, 12.Mar.2019) — Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA’s Executive Director, met with Argentina’s Secretary of Energy Gustavo Lopetegui today at CERA Week in Houston. Following discussions on the IEA’s outlook...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 12.Mar.2019) — The breakeven cost for Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale play is currently inside $40/bbl compared to close to $60/bbl a couple of years ago,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 6.Mar.2019) — Argentina now has its own Vaca Muerta business chamber, composed of CAPESPE, ACIPAN and CEIPA. The chamber represents 200 small-to-medium sized enterprise working...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 28.Feb.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Shell Argentina’s Sean Rooney comments on the productivity of Vaca Muerta, YPFB Foundation training in...
(Baker Institute, Mark P. Jones, 27.Feb.2019) — On March 10 the Argentine province of Neuquén will hold gubernatorial and legislative elections. Neuquén is home to the Vaca Muerta, one of...
(Bloomberg, Jonathan Gilbert, 27.Feb.2019) — Vista Oil & Gas is breathing a new kind of life into Vaca Muerta, the vast shale play under development in Argentina. Eight years ago,...
(Spectrum, 20.Feb.2019) — Spectrum is commencing a new 20,000 km 2D survey in Colorado and Salado basin offshore Argentina. This new program ties with Spectrum’s existing 38,000 km survey that...
(Shale Support, 21.Feb.2019) — Shale Support, a provider of frac sand and logistical solutions to the oil and gas proppant market, has announced a strategic partnership with Fracht Group, an...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 14.Feb.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Bolivia and Argentina inking addendum to natgas PSA, irregular natgas demand in Brazil and Argentina...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 8.Feb.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Moody’s saying changes to Argentina’s gas subsidy could affect investments, Tecpetrol Argentina’s plans to cut...
(IEEFA, 8.Feb.2019) — The Argentine government’s plan to develop the massive Vaca Muerta oil and gas reserves in northern Patagonia has hit a major obstacle. The success of the plan...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 4.Feb.2019) — EXMAR’s Floating LNG Liquefaction Unit (FLNG), Tango FLNG, has reportedly arrived to the port at Bahia Blanca in Argentina, according to local media...
(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...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.Feb.2019) — YPF and Techint plan to review actual and future investment plans in Neuquén, claiming a recently announced reduction in Argentina's natural gas subsidy...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 28.Jan.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on India eyeing Argentina’s Vaca Muerta formation; Argentine Energy Secretariat delays publication of important resolution; gas...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsk, 26.Jan.2019) — Natural gas production in Neuquén at year end 2018 reached its highest market in a decade, topping out at 70 million cubic meters...
(ERES, 16.Jan.2019) — Energy Real Estate Solutions (ERES) opened its first international office in Neuquén, Argentina. The announcement marks a move by the company to provide boots-on-the-ground support to meet...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, Piero Stewart, and Jared Yamin, 31.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on complaints from oil executives in Argentina over constant changes at...
(S&P Global Platts, 28.Dec.2018) — Argentina has set a target of doubling its oil and natural gas production over the next five years but analysts and executives warned that it...
(EXMAR, 27.Dec.2018) — EXMAR announced its Floating LNG Liquefaction Unit (FLNG), to be renamed Tango FLNG, has left China to the destination of its liquefaction operations: Bahia Blanca, Argentina. Tango...
(S&P Global Platts, 27.Dec.2018) — Shell plans to start a full-scale development project in Vaca Muerta next year, betting on the shale play to ramp up oil and natural gas...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, Ian Silverman, and Piero Stewart, 26.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Shell Argentina’s Vaca Muerta plans; YPFB to double purchases of...
(AFP, 17.Dec.2018) — A major group of indigenous people living in Argentine Patagonia are taking some of the world's biggest oil and gas multinationals to court for “environmental contamination,” Greenpeace...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky and Piero Stewart, 6.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from up and coming shale producer Argentina, Chile, and tiny Guyana, which awaits...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart and Aaron Simonsky, 3.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from OPEC’s Venezuela and Southern Cone shale gas producer Argentina. Argentina Authorizes...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 28.Nov. 2018) — Argentina reported total petroleum production of 498 thousand barrels per day (Mb/d) in October 2018, up 1.8% year-over-year compared to 489 Mb/d...
(S&P Global Platts, 26.Nov. 2018) — Vista Oil & Gas plans to invest $157.4 million in its first pilot projects in Vaca Muerta, betting on the Argentinian shale play for...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart and Aaron Simonsky, 22.Nov. 2018) — Heard on the street and other LatAmNRG briefs from OPEC producer Venezuela, and neighboring Colombia, emerging shale gas producer...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 21.Nov. 2018) — Tecpetrol announced production at its Fortín de Piedra unconventional shale gas project increased 36% to 15 million cubic meters per day in...
(Exmar, 21.Nov.2018) — Belgium’s EXMAR NV and Argentina's YPF signed a firm, ten-year agreement to deploy EXMAR’s barge-based floating LNG liquefaction unit (FLNG), currently known as Caribbean FLNG, to produce...
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 21.Nov.2018) — Argentina will be joining the ranks of exporters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) next year when it stars exporting gas from its Vaca Muerta shale...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart and Pietro D. Pitts, 20.Nov.2018) — Argentina’s Vaca Muerta unconventional shale gas formation in Neuquén is at the center of an energy revolution taking place...
(S&P Global Platts, 15.Nov.2018) — Pan American Energy, the second-biggest oil producer and third for gas in Argentina, is working with BP on potentially exporting LNG out of Chile, a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 13.Nov.2018) — Argentina’s Energy Secretary Javier Iguacel participated in the annual Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPPA) meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana. “We have...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 12.Nov.2018) — YPF announced that combined equivalent production fell 4.3% in the third quarter of 2018. Total production fell to 529.1 Mboe/d in 3Q:18 compared...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 12.Nov.2018) — Officials from Argentina initiated a road show today in the U.S. aimed at attracting investments in the Vaca Muerta formation in Neuquen. Argentina’s...
(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...
(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...
(Tecpetrol, 1.Nov.2018) — Buenos Aires-based Tecpetrol S.A. announced the following investment commitments in the areas where it operates in Argentina’s Noroeste - San Jorge and Neuquina basins. Tecpetrol has a...
(Tecpetrol, 1.Nov.2018) — On December 28, 2017, the President promulgated Law No. 27.430; and on December 29, 2017, such Law was published in the Official Gazette. Among other topics, under...
(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...
(Reuters, Eliana Raszewski, Hugh Bronstein, 26.Oct.2018) — Argentina’s state-controlled oil company, YPF, will significantly boost oil and gas production, investing between $4 billion and $5 billion per year through 2022,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 20.Oct.2018) — Argentina will likely reduce its demand for Bolivian natural gas imports to a minimum, says an oil analyst. Argentina, which continues to boost...
(Bloomberg, Jonathan Gilbert, 17.Oct.2018) — Argentina plans to close a facility for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG), according to people with direct knowledge of the matter, after booming production from...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 16.Oct.2018) — With its own gas projects to develop, Argentina is seeking to reduce imports of natural gas and by 2020 it expects to stop...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 12.Oct.2018) — Bolivian natural gas is more competitive than liquefied natural gas (LNG) and gas from Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale formation, announced Bolivia’s Hydrocarbon Minister...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 10.Oct.2018) — Añelo is a small oil town located in the heart of Neuquen and the Vaca Muerta shale revolution. This small town with a...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 6.Oct.2018) — Investors could inject $7 billion into the Vaca Muerta in 2019, announced Neuquén Governor, Omar Gutiérrez. “In 2019, we will have 15 new...
(YPF, 1.Oct.2018) — Argentina’s unconventional oil & gas resources are among the world’s largest. YPF is working and investing to increase production with the aim of meeting the challenge of...
(Tecpetrol, 30.Sep.2018) — Buenos Aires-based Tecpetrol S.A., controlled by its Madrid-based parent company Tecpetrol Internacional S.L.U., which holds a 95.99% equity interest, announced results for the nine-month period ended on...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 27.Sep.2018) — Crude oil and natural gas production from the Neuquen Basin rose sequentially in August 2018. Oil production reached 120,551 barrels per day (b/d)...
(Financial Times, Benedict Mander, 23.Sep.2018) — Green energy groups say huge shale oil and gas reserve is leaking greenhouse gases. Jorge Daniel Taillant used a $100,000 infrared camera this year...
(Chevron, Clay Neff, 23.Sep.2018) — ‘A stable and predictable business environment is essential to draw the investment capital needed,’ says Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Company President...
(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...
(Excelerate Energy L.P., 10.Sep.2018) — Excelerate Energy L.P. and Transportadora de Gas del Sur S.A. announced the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly collaborate on the assessment of...
(Deloitte, 31.Aug.2018) — In the wake of a decade-long slump in Argentina’s oil and gas industry, the country is now well positioned to resurrect international investment and exploit its world-class...
(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,...
(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...
(Pampa Energía S.A., 10.Jul.2018) – Pampa Energía S.A. announced an Investment Agreement was executed with the Neuquén province, which will grant a new 35-year concession for unconventional hydrocarbon exploitation at...
(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...