Pan American Energy filed to install 22 polymer injection plants with France's SNF. The plan adds 46 million barrels of oil and is the first conventional upstream project to seek entry into the regime.
Bajo del Choique-La Invernada, acquired from ExxonMobil in 2024, lifted oil output from 13,047 to 46,594 bbl/d in a year and already delivers 93% of its first-phase target. At $20 million per well, the plan costs more than the two shale oil developments already in the regime.
Chairman Marcelo Mindlin said during Argentina Week in Paris that gas-fired power for artificial intelligence infrastructure could be the next way to add value to Argentine gas, alongside NGL processing and the company's $2.7 billion urea plant.
The lateral beats the company's previous slim-well best, set in 2022, by 517 meters and was matched with three different rigs and contractors. YPF reports slim wells to U.S. securities regulators as the design most representative of its large-scale Vaca Muerta development
The Hafnia Galatea completed loading for Trafigura just over two months after the contract was signed. The volume equals almost 22 days of the output PECOM operates in Chubut province and heads to a market where nearly six in ten barrels of imported crude came from Argentina in 2025
IMPSA's president told the Shale24-Santander Mendoza Energy Summit that Mendoza holds a complete hydropower supply chain, and detailed the company's return to Venezuela, the nuclear components it already builds for the U.S. market and why Argentina is not building large dams again.
Vaca Muerta rose from 526,935 to 670,181 bbl/d between August 2025 and August 2026. Of the 143,246 bbl/d increase, 58,150 bbl/d came from Pluspetrol Cuenca Neuquina's Bajo del Choique–La Invernada and YPF's La Angostura Sur I. Ten areas account for 82% of the gain.
The move targets the Navitas-Rockhopper project and any new permits on the continental shelf. The islands' official register shows four groups holding 15 offshore licenses, all extended by the Falklands government a week before the announcement.
YPF, ADNOC and ENI will present the $51 billion project at the OECD a week after EXIM Bank offered up to $6 billion. The panel arrives with the trunk pipeline awarded, the corporate structure closed and FID committed for the second half of 2026.
The Executive Council approved the workstreams in March. The official timetable puts legislative passage in the second half of 2029 and commencement in 2030, two years after first oil. The royalty estimate is $2 billion. Consultation with Assembly members, the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the public opens in January 2027.
The President said Sea Lion is due to begin production "at some point in the coming months." The operator's latest market statement puts drilling in early 2027 and first oil from the initial phase in the first quarter of 2028.
Asian buyers took 20.7% of Argentine energy exports between January and July, up from 7.9% across all of 2025, according to Secretariat of Energy shipment records. Medanito crude accounts for nearly three-quarters of the flow, and the destination list has widened from four countries to seven
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The Israeli operator floated the idea at its investor round, having assigned the project a $5.16 billion present value net to its interest, above the $3.55 billion it attributes to its producing Gulf of Mexico asset. Any incoming shareholder falls under Argentina's Law 26,659
The Parma-based firm, with nearly 80 years of pipeline work across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, joins the consortium that won the 48-inch trunkline. Its gas history intertwines with ENI's and with Sicim's, the Italian firm awarded Southern Energy's parallel line.
YPF named two project companies in its presentation to Argentina's Chamber of Deputies. One was already known. The other appears for the first time in a public company presentation, and it defines how debt will be raised for the pipelines and the processing plants
The plan started in 2024 with the company coming out of a $1,277 million annual loss. Three of its four pillars now generate cash; the fourth, Argentina LNG, has yet to reach the balance sheet
