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Lifting cost, production on the line
Fitch Upgrades YPF to B- as Standalone Credit Profile Climbs a Full Notch
The agency lifted the producer one notch, but flagged a sharper move underneath: a standalone profile up to "b+" on a 44% drop in unit costs, with a base case built on 641,000 boe/d sustained through 2029
Top 3 worldwide in engineering and construction
Bechtel to Reopen Argentina Offices as RIGI-Backed Copper and LNG Pipeline Matures
Loma Jarillosa Este covers 6,054 acres
GeoPark, GyP File $1 Billion RIGI Plan to Scale Vaca Muerta Output Tenfold
US$6 billion annually in exports
YPF Submitted the US$25 Billion LLL Oil Project to RIGI: the Regime’s Largest Single Filing and an Integrated Cluster in Vaca Muerta
Shale is gaining strength
DLS Archer Ships First of Two Houston-Based Rigs to Vaca Muerta for YPF Drilling Campaign
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
YPF Closes Vista–Equinor Triangle, Lifts Stake in Bandurria Sur to 44.9% and Bajo del Toro to 65%
The state-controlled producer paid $163.175 million plus a $41 million closing adjustment to consolidate three Vaca Muerta blocks it already operated, completing the equity-side leg of the Plan 4x4 ahead of VMOS startup and the Argentina LNG final investment decision
Midstream
San Matías Pipeline Awards $1.3 Billion EPC Contracts for Argentina's First LNG Export Pipeline
A Sicim–Víctor Contreras joint venture won the 471-km Tratayén–Golfo San Matías line, while Neuquén-based OPS will build the intermediate compressor station for the Southern Energy LNG project
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
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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Within the framework of the 11th San Juan International Mining Exhibition
Argentina Launches Federal Mining Roundtable, Targets $20 Billion in Mining Exports by 2035
The new public-private body — modeled on existing frameworks for copper and lithium — was unveiled by Secretary General of the Presidency Karina Milei alongside six provincial governors at the San Juan Mining Expo
Mining hub in San Juan
Austral Gold Restarts Casposo Gold Mine in San Juan, Targets $60 Million in 2026 Exports
Eduardo Elsztain joined San Juan provincial authorities to reinaugurate the mine and processing center after a more-than-$15 million investment in exploration and plant overhaul
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.
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