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.
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.
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.
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 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
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 YPF-ENI-XRG venture handed the roughly $1.2 billion civil works for the 527-kilometer, 48-inch trunk line to a consortium of Pumpco, Bonatti, and Contreras Hermanos. The pipeline will move up to 100 million cubic meters per day (MMm³/d) of gas and remains tied to a final investment decision expected in the second half of 2026
The operator, formerly Petrolera Aconcagua Energía, will run three unconventional concessions on Vaca Muerta's eastern flank for 35 years, while Vista cedes half the shale economic rights to a jointly held company, URSA.
The commodities trader and Generadora Metropolitana have jointly acquired the 273-MW Los Guindos plant in Biobío, on a corridor already fed by Neuquén gas: a firm new consumer for the same molecule Trafigura finances upstream.
The Miguel Galuccio-led company averaged 139,469 bbl/d of crude in May, up 39.5% year-on-year, in its first full month consolidating Bandurria Sur and Bajo del Toro. Directly operated areas rose 2.8% from April.
In an interview, CEO Marian Milicic mapped the Rosario-based contractor — 2,500 employees, some 1,500 machines, a book split evenly between oil and copper — and described how it follows the sectors that pull investment. "We're the first to arrive," she said of the firm's role in Argentina's largest projects.
At the Shale24-Santander Energy Summit, CEO Rodolfo Freyre dated the start of construction on the 471-km dedicated pipeline and walked through the engineering still standing between the project and its first export cargo: a mooring system being built in Europe and anchored at 40 meters, a logistics base that does not yet exist at the Río Negro port, and a dedicated line that required project finance.
The Colombia-headquartered producer and Neuquén province's state oil and gas company will combine Loma Jarillosa Este and Puesto Silva Oeste under a single project vehicle, with a target of scaling output from 1,500 to 20,000 bbl/d in three years
YPF's plan calls for 1,152 wells in Vaca Muerta and a 240,000 bbl/d crude plateau by 2032, all routed for export via VMOS. It is the first integrated cluster structure filed under the regime, and the first major upstream submission presented without partners, signaling a new phase of YPF's Plan 4x4.
