Shale is gaining strength
DLS Archer Ships First of Two Houston-Based Rigs to Vaca Muerta for YPF Drilling Campaign
The Argentine drilling services company is reconditioning two rigs at its Texas base before deployment in Neuquén province; the move will lift its local fleet to 10 and feeds YPF's plan to expand its rig count to 19 by year-end
Within the framework of the 11th San Juan International Mining Exhibition
Argentina Launches Federal Mining Roundtable, Targets $20 Billion in Mining Exports by 2035
Non-Conventional Hydrocarbon Exploitation Concession
Río Negro Formalizes Continental Resources Entry Into PAE-Operated Loma Guadalosa Block
116,655 barrels per day (bbl/d)
Vista Energy Output Jumps 67% as La Amarga Chica Stake and New Wells Drive Vaca Muerta Scale-Up
Hormuz risk is priced into Brent
Hormuz Crisis Reframes Vaca Muerta's Distance as a Strategic Asset
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Harbour Energy Names Argentina a Core Country, Targets Late-2026 San Roque Shale Oil Pilot
Harbour's April Investor Meet, signed by CEO Linda Z. Cook, formalizes Argentina alongside Norway, the U.K., the U.S. and Mexico as one of five jurisdictions accounting for nearly 90% of a portfolio targeting 475,000 to 500,000 boe/d in 2026 after the $3.2 billion LLOG acquisition
A plan for 600 wells in 25 years
Pluspetrol $12 Billion RIGI at Bajo del Choique–La Invernada
Global energy markets
Argentina LNG: ENI Tells Investors Its Largest-Ever LNG Project Runs Through Vaca Muerta
The Italian major has flagged Argentina LNG as a top 2026 FID in both its SEC filing and Capital Markets Update, with YPF and ADNOC's XRG as partners. A 12 MTPA FLNG scheme in the Golfo San Matías is the entry point to a 30 MTPA ceiling, and potentially the largest private project finance loan in Argentine history.
The map is now complete
Six Global Majors on Seven Blocks: Uruguay Closes Offshore Map, Confirms First Well in a Decade
Upstream / Fiscal Policy
Santa Cruz Ties Royalty Cuts to Investment Pledge
The rise of artificial intelligence
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High-grade silver-zinc-copper-gold
Belararox TMT Polymetallic Project
The rise of Argentine mining
Argentina Projects a Sixfold Rise in Mining Exports by 2035 to $36.25 Billion, Led by Copper and Lithium
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MIDSTREAM
Compañía Mega Expands NGL Fractionation and Pipeline Capacity to Match Richer Vaca Muerta Feedstock
The shale gas arriving at the Loma La Lata plant now carries three times the ethane and propane and four times the natural gasoline of the conventional gas the company processed in 2001. Compañía Mega is responding with a $650 million expansion program and a separate $360 million phase filed under the RIGI.
E&P INVESTMENT
Neuquén Pulls Forward 15-Block Licensing Round to Match Duplicar Norte Startup and Continental's Ask
Gas y Petróleo del Neuquén will publish tender documents in May for 15 blocks selected from its reserved-area portfolio, with formal opening set for August 19. A request from Continental Resources at Bank of America's Argentina Week accelerated the original schedule by two years and aligns with the early startup of Oldelval's Duplicar Norte pipeline, which unlocks the northern hub.
LNG MARKETS
India Anchors Argentine Gas Play: Second MoU Targets 10 MTPA LNG as LPG Corridor Triples
Oil India (OIL), GAIL, and ONGC Videsh signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with YPF for up to 10 million tonnes per year of LNG — the second such agreement in two years. While the long-term contracts remain non-binding, LPG shipments to India in the first quarter of 2026 more than doubled the total volume sent in all of 2025.
Project Vault + FORGE
AmCham and US Chamber to Sign Critical Minerals Accord in Buenos Aires, Targeting the Operational Gap in the Quirno-Rubio Framework
Neil Herrington and Alejandro Díaz will sign the first corporate-sector document designed to put February's intergovernmental pact into commercial motion on Thursday, April 30. Argentina's Coordinating Secretary for Energy and Mining, Daniel González, will deliver the opening remarks.
MINING
Orvana Reports Early Porphyry Copper-Gold Signals at Taguas in San Juan
The TSX-listed miner drilled 1,326 metres at its TADD-278 hole by April 7; preliminary assays between 715 and 920 metres returned 0.25 g/t gold and 0.12% copper over a 205-metre core-length interval.
Oil & Gas
J&F's Fluxus seeks to send Vaca Muerta gas to its own Brazilian power plant in first cross-border vertical integration bid
The Brazilian conglomerate's upstream arm filed two applications with Argentina's Secretariat of Energy to export up to 1 million m³/day each from the Centenario field to Âmbar Energia's Uruguaiana thermal plant — the first time a single corporate group would own the molecule from wellhead to combustion across the Argentina-Brazil corridor
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