A founding partner of consultancy CBIE and a former superintendent at oil regulator ANP, Pires works alongside former minister Adolfo Sachsida and lawyer Alexandre Chequer. His agenda backs hydraulic fracturing and a review of the regulatory model around Petrobras.
The Pampa Energía-operated block averaged 9,336 thousand cubic meters per day in June, the highest reading in a public series that begins in 2006. The 63 wells already online a year earlier delivered 22.8% less
The agreement spans crude, gas, LNG and LPG and awaits regulatory approval. Its Argentine weight comes from positions both partners already hold: Eni co-founded Argentina LNG, and Mercuria built the chain from Vaca Muerta to the Shell forecourt.
The Secretariat of Nuclear Affairs presented the 2026 Argentine Nuclear Policy Guidelines on the CNEA's 76th anniversary. The framework fixes criteria for ownership, exports and commercial validation across the sector — and arrived after the channel for private bids had already opened
Halliburton, SLB, Tenaris, Calfrac and SPI split the 9,714 stages completed between January and April. SPI, the in-house unit Pluspetrol built on Weatherford Argentina's former assets, debuted as the fifth player; YPF locked Halliburton in with an exclusive five-year electric fracturing contract.
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
The U.S.-based engineering and construction major — builder of BHP's Escondida expansion, Teck's Quebrada Blanca Phase 2 and Cheniere's Sabine Pass LNG terminal — confirmed the return after Chairman and CEO Brendan Bechtel met Argentine Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno in Buenos Aires
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.
The Feasibility Study projects average annual output of 148,000 tonnes over 22 years, with a $5.4 billion NPV and 27.8% after-tax IRR at the study's $5.45/lb sensitivity price — making Los Azules the first copper project in Argentina under RIGI
The EU purchased $73.7 billion in U.S. energy in 2025, down from 2024 and less than a third of the $250 billion annual commitment made at Turnberry. Physical infrastructure constraints make the target unreachable — with direct implications for Vaca Muerta LNG's race to sign European offtake contracts.
The five-year, four-unit deal covers Halliburton's high-intensity electric fracturing fleet and the OCTIV Auto Frac digital platform — the first international deployment of Zeus beyond North American basins
A consortium of Mubadala Capital, SIA Capital, and Neuss Capital has confirmed a binding offer for Argentina's largest metropolitan gas distributor. The distribution license extension to 2047 is the regulatory variable that determines asset value.
Speaking at the Semafor World Economy Forum and the Atlantic Council during IMF/World Bank week, the Integra Capital chairman argued that logistics and domestic processing capacity — not capital — are the constraints his own investments face
Horacio Marín worked the margins of the event in New York with bilateral meetings aimed at structuring what several banks already position as the largest project finance deal in Latin America. JPMorgan Chase is acting as adviser and has already begun outreach to more than 200 financial institutions worldwide. The final investment decision (FID) is targeted for the second half of 2026.
The joint venture between Shell and Cosan is hours away from closing a debt restructuring with creditors who demanded a capital injection of up to $4.874 billion. The Argentine business — profitable, with sales still growing — is being sold anyway. The Dock Sud Refinery and nearly 900 Shell service stations did not fail. They simply happen to be where the money can be raised fastest.
