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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.
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
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.
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.
Pumpco is a subsidiary of MasTec, the infrastructure group run by the Mas brothers, owners of Inter Miami. It had never built in the country and arrives partnered with Bonatti and Contreras Hermanos to lay the largest-diameter gas pipeline in Argentine history.
The Group CEO of Pan American Energy closed the Democracia y Desarrollo forum alongside YPF's Horacio Marín. From the Hormuz shock to the petroleum coke now shipping to China, his read on Argentina's emerging export map
Tecnimont entered the Argentine radar by joining Sacde in the consortium pre-awarded the detailed engineering for Argentina LNG's first Neuquén gas separation plant. Behind the name sits the engineering arm of an Italian group with half a century building process plants, and the firm's biggest bet yet in Argentina
An income tax exemption written into the 2026 Budget Law unlocked the liquidation of the trusts that built the two combined-cycle units, which together total roughly 1,650 megawatts. The government targets $2 billion in privatization proceeds by year-end.
The Norwegian and Dutch specialists will transport, install, and connect the soft yoke (SSY) mooring systems for the Hilli Episeyo and MKII FLNG vessels in Argentina's Golfo San Matías in Río Negro province. Combined capacity of 5.95 MTPA is scheduled to reach the Atlantic market in 2027 and 2028.
Power transformers carry lead times of 12–24 months and have become the silent bottleneck of the energy transition — and Argentina's high-voltage grid has not added trunk capacity since 2017
The grid recorded 3,049.5 GWh of wind output in January–February, with PCR's Mataco 3 Picos topping the production ranking and Arauco's newly commissioned stages posting a 187.5% surge. Whether 2026 can break the 2025 annual record of 18,628 GWh will hinge on the May–August Patagonian wind season.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ballistic missiles and drones struck Al Jubail Industrial City on Monday, igniting fires at SABIC facilities as Brent crude traded near $110/barrel — up nearly 80% year-to-date. JPMorgan warns of direct fuel shortages across South and Southeast Asia. Approximately 50 Qatari LNG tankers remain idle in Asian ports.
The alliance on Sunday endorsed in principle the same quota increment as April, but Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, and Iraq cannot execute it while the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Brent touched a four-year high of $119.50 this week; JPMorgan warns prices could top $150 if the strait stays blocked through mid-May
The company will bring four to five additional drilling rigs online in staggered increments through 2026, timed to match first crude injection into the Vaca Muerta Oil Sur pipeline
With Neuquén crude output at 600,000 bbl/d and the Duplicar Plus system approaching saturation, Argentina's two main midstream operators are racing to build crude, gas, and NGL evacuation infrastructure — and manage the capacity gap in between
