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A State Department official who led a joint mission with EXIM and the DFC said talks already cover larger amounts for infrastructure and critical sectors. The DFC is assessing some 20 projects, including a loan to Vista Energy and talks with Pampa Energía on TGS's NGL project.
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McEwen Copper has the purchase of the mine's drills, loading equipment and haul trucks in final evaluation, and each export credit agency finances what is built in its own country. Finland moved first, through Metso. EXIM Bank signed a framework of up to $7 billion with Argentina and allows terms of up to seven years for Argentine borrowers.
Operators will advance the funds against future royalties and recover them through royalty deductions or tolls. The works cover about 160 km of provincial routes 7, 8 and 51, in the corridor serving the fields around Anelo.
A founding partner of consultancy CBIE and a former superintendent at oil regulator ANP, Pires works alongside former minister Adolfo Sachsida and lawyer Alexandre Chequer. His agenda backs hydraulic fracturing and a review of the regulatory model around Petrobras.
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.
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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.
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.
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
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 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
The Pampa Energía-operated block averaged 9,336 thousand cubic meters per day in June, the highest reading in a public series that begins in 2006. The 63 wells already online a year earlier delivered 22.8% less