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YPF Suspending Noncritical Activities
(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 […]
YPF Reports Record One Day Fractures
(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 […]
Argentina Blocks Oil Imports In Bow To Local Producers
(Argus, 10.Mar.2020) — The oil price collapse is prompting Argentina to revive state intervention to protect the domestic oil industry. The national government is putting […]
Latin America Oil Plays Rocked By Oil Price Rout
(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 […]
YPF SA Q4 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
(Motley Fool, 6.Mar.2020) — YPF earnings call for the period ending December 31, 2019. Operator Good morning and welcome to the Fiscal Year End Fourth […]
YPF Signs Preliminary Deal With Equinor And Shell
(Reuters, 31.Jan.2020) — Oil firms Equinor and Shell have signed a preliminary agreement with Argentina state energy firm YPF to acquire an additional 11% participation […]
Equinor Strengthens Presence In Vaca Muerta
(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 […]
Schlumberger Completes Sale Of Bandurria Sur
(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 […]
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 […]
YPF Deepens Partnership With Equinor And Shell
(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 […]
Argentina President Sees Potential In Conventionals
(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 […]
Politics Driving Shale Fluctuations In Argentina
(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 […]
Politics Drives Shale Fluctuations In Argentina
(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 […]
Argentina’s Shale Boom Hits New Milestone
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]