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...
Moody’s Ends YPF Review
(Moody’s, 15.Nov.2019) — Moody's Investors Service completed a periodic review of the ratings of YPF Sociedad Anonima and other ratings that are associated with the same analytical unit. The review...
Exmar’s First LNG Shipment In Argentina
(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,...
Chubut Preparing For Cerro Negro Oil Auction
(S&P Global Platts, 12.Nov.2019) — Chubut is preparing to hold an auction of assets in Cerro Negro, a maturing conventional block in the southern Argentinian province, part of a wider...
YPF Loads 1st Commercial LNG Cargo
(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,...
Don’t Count On Oil To Reignite Latin America
(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...
Tango FLNG In Second Week Of Ops In Argentina
(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...
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...
Equinor Signs Deal With YPF
(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...
Equinor Inks Deal With YPF, Expands In Argentina
(Zacks, 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 CAN...
Equinor And YPF Ink Offshore Exploration Deal
(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...
McDermott Awarded Pre-FEED Contract For Vaca Muerta LNG In Argentina
(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...
YPF Launches YPF Ventures, Invests In Bird
(YPF, 8.Jul.2019) — YPF announced the launch of YPF Ventures, a corporate venture capital fund that will expand YPF's influence into emerging energy businesses. YPF is one of Latin America's...
U.S. Judge Sets Audience For 11 July 2019
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 25.Jun.2019) — Lawyers defending Argentina and Burford Capital faced off in the court of Judge Loretta Preska in the first official trail appointment related to...
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...
YPF Prepares First Shipment Of Liquefied Natural Gas From Argentina
(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...
LatAmNRG Argentina Briefs: YPF Gas Exports, Shell Dumping, Phoenix Global
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.May.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to the state entity YPF’s plans to ship natural gas to Chile through May 2020,...
YPF Targets Increasing Production At La Amarga Chica And Loma Campana
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 23.May.2019) — YPF plans to conduct two lateral drilling operations near 4,000 meters and carry out some 80 staged fractures in each operation. The first...
Argentina Awards 18 Exploration Areas Offshore For $724 Million
(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 announced May 17 in an...
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 ============================== * Diego Celaá YPF...
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 13,000 barrels per day on...
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 upstream and downstream activities in...
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 plans to divest its holding....
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...
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 Monday. "Gazprom Group is considering...
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 15,000 square kilometers offshore Argentina....
LatAmNRG Argentina Briefs: Tecpetrol, MicroSoft, YPF and Neuquen Output
(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...
South America Resists Electric Vehicles
(Reuters, Marcelo Rochabrun, 26.Mar.2019) — Meeting in Brazil this week, auto executives from Toyota to GM talked up traditional fuel sources like ethanol, natural gas and diesel, underlining how South...
IEEFA Report: Argentina’s Vaca Muerta Patagonia
(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...
In Argentina, Vaca Muerta Shale Workers To Strike Over Safety
(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...
GeoPark Limited Awarded Espejo And Perico Blocks In Ecuador
(SeekingAlpha, 18.Mar.2019) — On March 13, 2019, GeoPark Limitedentered the Ecuador upstream by winning the Espejo and Perico blocks in the Oriente Basin in the Intracampos Bid Round (Fig. 1)....
Vaca Muerta Breakeven Inside $40/bbl: Says YPF CEO
(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,...
LatAmNRG Argentina Briefs: Shell’s Rooney On Vaca Muerta, YPF Foundation
(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...
Argentina Can’t Afford To Pay Vaca Muerta Subsidies To Producers
(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...
Argentina Changes Unconventional Gas Subsidy Program
(Kallanish Energy, 6.Feb.2019) — Argentina’s government has decided to change the country’s subsidy program for unconventional gas development leaving projects in limbo, Kallanish Energy learns from local producers YPF and...
Changes To Argentina’s Gas Subsidy Program Raise Eyebrows
(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...
Argentina’s Energy Chief Quits Ahead Of 2019 Utility Price Hikes
(Reuters, 29.Dec.2018) — Argentina’s energy secretary resigned on Friday, the government said in a statement, less than 24 hours after news leaked that the administration of President Mauricio Macri plans...
EXMAR’s Tango FLNG Sets Sail For Bahia Blanca, Argentina
(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...
Shell To Launch Major Project In Argentina’s Vaca Muerta Shale Play In 2019
(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...
Bladex Acts As Joint Lead Arranger Of $75 Mln Loan for YPF Energía Eléctrica
(Bladex, 26.Dec.2018) — Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S.A. (Bladex) announced the recent closing of a $75 million, senior unsecured, amortizing 3-year term loan facility in favor of YPF Energía...
LatAmNRG Briefs: Shell Argentina, YPFB Polypropylene Project, Maduro Blames Colombia
(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...
Cartagena Refinery Techs Exchange Knowledge
(ARPEL, 13.Dec.2018) — The Workshop on “Best practices in the operation and maintenance of hydrocracker and diesel hydrotreating units” was held December 12-14 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. The meeting...
YPF And Petronas Partner On Argentina Oil And Gas Project
(The Chemical Engineer, Amanda Doyle, 6.Dec.2018) — Argentina’s state-owned energy company YPF has entered into a US$2.3bn joint venture with Malaysia’s Petronas to develop the Vaca Muerta oil and gas...
MSU Energy Raises $250 Million, Secures Financing For 300 MW Expansion
(MSU Energy, 3.Dec.2018) — MSU Energy, a growing power generator with operations located in Argentina, announced significant developments to secure the ongoing expansion and conversion to combined cycle of its...
YPF Involved In New Oil Spill In Santa Cruz
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 30.Nov.2018) — Argentina’s state oil company YPF has been involved in yet another oil spill. The most recent incident occurred at the Los Perales reservoir,...
Tecpetrol Reports Rise In Fortín de Piedra Shale Production
(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...
Argentina To Start First-Ever LNG Exports In 2019
(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...
Neuquén Gov’t Suspends YPF’s Environmental License At Two Pads
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 21.Nov.2018) — The Government of the Province of Neuquén has temporarily suspended YPF’s environmental license at two pads in Bandurria. The precautionary measure affects pads...
Economics Of Vaca Muerta’s Development Trumps Climate Concerns
(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...
BP, Pan American Eye Exporting Argentina Shale Gas As LNG Via Chile
(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...
YPF Says Combined Output Plummets 4.3% In 3Q:18
(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...
Argentina Initiates U.S. ‘Vaca Muerta’ Road Show
(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...
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...
YPF Reports New Incident At Work-Over Well In Loma La Lata
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 6.Nov.2018) — The incident involved an estimated 0.6 cubic meters of water, gas and mud, and occurred on Friday November 2, 2018 during conditioning activities...
YPF To Invest $5 Billion Per Year During 2019-2023
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 4.Nov.2018) — YPF expects to make investments of $5 billion per year during the 2019-2023 period as part of its initiative to be a leader...
YPF Injects $4 Million In Aerolíneas Argentinas, Jorge Newbery Airport
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 2.Nov.2018) — Argentina’s YPF announced it will make an investment of nearly $4 million in Aerolíneas Argentinas destined to renovate 9 supply units and for...
YPF Seeks To Generate 20% Of Energy from Renewable Sources By 2023
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 31.Oct.2018) — YPF announced it will continue with electric power generation projects through its affiliate YPF LUZ as part of its transformation as an energy...
YPF To Spend Billions To Boost Oil And Gas Output
(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,...
Añelo Population Growth Part Of Region’s Shale Boom
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 20.Oct.2018) — Añelo’s population is expected to reach 25,000 by 2023 compared to nearly 8,000 today and just 2,000 in 2011, reported the media outlet...
Environmental Emergency: 720,000 Lt. Oil Spill in Chile
(TeleSur, 19.Oct.2018) — The spill is the largest ever registered in the region of Tierra del Fuego. In the southernmost region of Tierra del Fuego in Chile, an oil spill...
YPF Personnel Try To Mitigate Gas Leak In Bandurria
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 19.Oct.2018) — YPF personnel conducted operations today to mitigate a gas leak located at the Bandurria deposit in Neuquén. No injuries were reported, and the...
Argentina Plans To Close LNG Importing Facility
(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...
YPF Inaugurates Phase I Of 99-MW Wind Park In Argentina
(Renewables Now, 17.Oct.2018) — Argentine state-run oil company YPF inaugurated on Wednesday a portion of a 99-MW wind park in Chubut province that will produce clean power for its deposits...
YPF In Talks To Sell Stake In Power Unit To Asian Fund
(Bloomberg, Pablo Rosendo Gonzalez, 11.Oct.2018) — YPF SA, Argentina’s state-run oil company, is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake in its power unit to an Asian fund, said...
Vaca Muerta Looks To Attract $7 Bln In Investments In 2019
(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 Updates On Oil Combustibles S.A. Bankruptcy Proceedings
(YPF, 3.Oct.2018) — YPF S.A. received notice of the decision adopted by the judge in charge of Oil Combustibles S.A.’s bankruptcy proceedings, which awarded the industrial assets of the bankrupt...
Argentina: The Energy Challenge
(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...
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...
Argentina Owes Bolivia $250 Million for Natural Gas Sales
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 14.Sep.2018) — Argentina owes Bolivia $250 million, which corresponds to two-months of natural gas sales. “Hopefully they can honor the debt,” reported the daily newspaper...
YPF Board Names María Luján Bianchi As Chief Compliance Officer
(YPF, 7.Sep.2018) — The Board of Directors YPF S.A. announced, at its meeting held on September 6, 2018, approval of appointment of María Luján Bianchi as Chief Compliance Officer. Luján...
Argentina: Exploration And Production Snapshots
(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...
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,...
PentaNova Energy Provides Financial, Ops Update
(PentaNova Energy Corp., 24.Aug.2018) — PentaNova Energy Corp. filed its financial and operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018. All dollar values in this news...
PDVSA Leaves Argentine Gas Station to Fend for Itself
(Reuters, Luc Cohen, 15.Aug.2018) – As Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA saw its finances devastated by low oil prices and mismanagement, it funneled millions of dollars to Petrolera del Conosur...
YPF to Sell Bonds Ending 2-Mth Debt Drought
(Bloomberg, Pablo Rosendo Gonzalez, 18.Jul.2018) – Argentine’s state-controlled oil company YPF SA has asked banks to submit proposals for a bond sale in the second half of the year to...