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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.
Completion of the TK401 roof brings the consortium in line with the technical floor that the official schedule set for the first vessel to sail in December: two operational tanks at the terminal and one mooring buoy. With the pipeline more than 60% complete, what remains has a date.
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
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
The Italian major has flagged Argentina LNG as a top 2026 FID in both its SEC filing and Capital Markets Update, with YPF and ADNOC's XRG as partners. A 12 MTPA FLNG scheme in the Golfo San Matías is the entry point to a 30 MTPA ceiling, and potentially the largest private project finance loan in Argentine history.
The Brazilian conglomerate's upstream arm filed two applications with Argentina's Secretariat of Energy to export up to 1 million m³/day each from the Centenario field to Âmbar Energia's Uruguaiana thermal plant — the first time a single corporate group would own the molecule from wellhead to combustion across the Argentina-Brazil corridor
A $1.5 billion commitment to a single Vaca Muerta block and a new self-supply gas model have turned Argentina's largest power generator into an integrated oil producer — a transformation now documented in the company's annual SEC filing.
A U.S. official confirmed fresh strikes on the island Tuesday. Rystad Energy warns a direct hit on petroleum infrastructure could cut Iranian shipments by 80–90%, pushing Brent toward $135 within four months. Wood Mackenzie and Enverus flag further upside risk.
Since the United States and Israel struck Iran on Feb. 28, the Strait of Hormuz has entered an active crisis. Brent crude has risen above $100 a barrel for the first time in four years, the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market has been shaken, and fertilizer prices have already increased by as much as 35%. Argentina is playing on both sides of the field.
The announcement, made during Argentina Week in New York, includes the expansion of Tratayén, a 573-kilometer NGL pipeline and a maritime terminal in Bahía Blanca. The project could reach a final investment decision (FID) within 60 days, according to Shale24.
The transfer of Manantiales Behr to PECOM Servicios Energía S.A.U. has already been approved by the board and is pending before the provincial authorities. Even so, Horacio Marín announced in New York that the company is not closing the door on unconventional development in Chubut. The regulatory mechanism that would enable that already exists, and Pan American Energy activated it in Cerro Dragón.
The expansion of the incentive regime to hydrocarbon production not only added fiscal benefits to Pampa Energía’s project in Vaca Muerta, it also changed its scale. Previously outside the program’s scope, the company led by Marcelo Mindlin is now accelerating its development curve toward a plateau of 45,000 barrels per day by 2027.
María Eugenia Sampalione (Newmont Cerro Negro), Dolores Brizuela (Dow), Gabriela Aguilar (Argentina-Texas Chamber of Commerce and IAPG DEI Commission), Evangelina Cordero (IAPG Comahue) and Giselle Somale (ABB) analyze the progress made, the gap that persists, and what is at stake in two industries experiencing rapid growth.
This technical study, integrating for the first time the Josemaría deposit in San Juan, Argentina, and Filo del Sol on the Argentina-Chile border, not only confirms the viability of a world-class binational district but also projects $18 billion in investment over the project’s life.
