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Regional expansion
OLACDE ranks Argentina as Latin America's largest gas producer as Vaca Muerta Shale drives the lead
The country now accounts for 21% of regional output. Latin American and Caribbean gas production reached 28 billion m³ in January 2026, a 27% year-on-year increase.
Loma Jarillosa Este covers 6,054 acres
GeoPark, GyP File $1 Billion RIGI Plan to Scale Vaca Muerta Output Tenfold
Shale is gaining strength
DLS Archer Ships First of Two Houston-Based Rigs to Vaca Muerta for YPF Drilling Campaign
Within the framework of the 11th San Juan International Mining Exhibition
Argentina Launches Federal Mining Roundtable, Targets $20 Billion in Mining Exports by 2035
Mining hub in San Juan
Austral Gold Restarts Casposo Gold Mine in San Juan, Targets $60 Million in 2026 Exports
Vaca Muerta Shale Play
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Non-Conventional Hydrocarbon Exploitation Concession
Río Negro Formalizes Continental Resources Entry Into PAE-Operated Loma Guadalosa Block
E&P INVESTMENT
Chevron Plans $10 Billion-Plus RIGI Filing for El Trapial-Este
Argentine Economy Minister Luis Caputo confirmed the filing after meeting Chevron CFO Eimear Bonner and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Laura Lane. The ticket dwarfs the U.S. major's individual public commitments over its 13-year history in the country and ranks among the largest single applications under Argentina's Large Investment Incentive Regime
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
The Argentine independent's Q1 2026 oil production averaged 116,655 bbl/d, up 68% year-on-year, while net income climbed to $107.7 million from $82.8 million a year earlier
Hormuz risk is priced into Brent
Hormuz Crisis Reframes Vaca Muerta's Distance as a Strategic Asset
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 map is now complete
Six Global Majors on Seven Blocks: Uruguay Closes Offshore Map, Confirms First Well in a Decade
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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Drill, Baby, Drill
The White House Pushed the Majors to Drill. The Permian Did Not Move — U.S. Shale Has Stopped Responding to Price
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum convened a 45-minute call with the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Chevron, Occidental Petroleum and Continental Resources. The U.S. rig count has fallen to 543, the Permian is holding at 242, and independent producers plan flat 2026 capital expenditure. For Argentina, the read-through runs through capital: when price-drilling elasticity breaks in the dominant basin, rotation into Vaca Muerta stops being an optional bet.
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.
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