One week after the award, COO Shannon Slocum sized the deal for investors and confirmed the equipment is being relocated from a U.S. market where premium dual-fuel and electric frac capacity is structurally tight
The board appointed the Argentine engineer, who joined the Campana mill in 1995 and had served as COO since 2023. Rocca keeps strategic control as chairman of the company and president of the Techint Group. The transition was announced on the same day Q1 2026 results showed sales of $3.1 billion and a $3.8 billion net cash position.
Economy Minister Luis Caputo outlined the tax framework from Casa Rosada a day after President Javier Milei announced the bill from the presidential plane. What is known, what is missing, and the energy and mining sectors that would fall under the new regime.
Argentine Economy Minister Luis Caputo confirmed the filing after meeting Chevron CFO Eimear Bonner and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Laura Lane. The ticket dwarfs the U.S. major's individual public commitments over its 13-year history in the country and ranks among the largest single applications under Argentina's Large Investment Incentive Regime
Harbour's April Investor Meet, signed by CEO Linda Z. Cook, formalizes Argentina alongside Norway, the U.K., the U.S. and Mexico as one of five jurisdictions accounting for nearly 90% of a portfolio targeting 475,000 to 500,000 boe/d in 2026 after the $3.2 billion LLOG acquisition
The German utility that signed the first long-term offtake contract for Argentine LNG has asked Berlin to approve a capital increase of as much as €2 billion — the first formal step in an ownership dilution mandated by the European Commission
The Argentine family-controlled company closed the quarter by commissioning a solar plant supplying Stellantis's Ferreyra facility, part of a $100 million joint investment. The milestone caps an expansion cycle that took installed capacity from 119 MW in 2023 to 267 MW in 2025, with annual generation rising from roughly 246 GWh to about 555 GWh — driven by the 122 MW La Rioja Solar Complex, one of the country's largest under the MATER regime.
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.
Neil Herrington and Alejandro Díaz will sign the first corporate-sector document designed to put February's intergovernmental pact into commercial motion on Thursday, April 30. Argentina's Coordinating Secretary for Energy and Mining, Daniel González, will deliver the opening remarks.
QatarEnergy and Chevron's entry into Shell-operated blocks completed full consortium coverage of Uruguay's offshore platform for the first time. With $233 million in committed work programs, a 3D seismic campaign 22% complete, and APA Corporation's exploration well confirmed for 2026, the country's offshore push is locked in.
The Techint Group's E&P subsidiary increased the cap on its local bond program as it pursues a $2.4 billion plan to scale Los Toldos II Este from 20,000 to 70,000 bbl/d within 18 months. Part of the new ceiling is already committed to outstanding instruments.
Across 4 exploratory campaigns, YPF will have invested close to $280 million in the Austral Basin formation without producing a single commercial barrel — on the same day 14 provincial operators signed a 10-year, 5% royalty program for unconventional production
After 21 hours of negotiations in Pakistan collapsed without agreement on Iran's nuclear program or the Strait, Trump posted on Truth Social that the Navy would immediately blockade all vessels entering or exiting the waterway. Brent, around $95 before the announcement, surged more than 8% on Monday to above $103.
WTI's sharp intraday loss resets the oil market to $94 a barrel, but three unresolved variables — the April 10 Islamabad negotiations, Israel's Lebanon operation, and the unaccepted terms of Iran's 10-point proposal — keep both the April 21 deadline and the price in play
Bahía Blanca shipped more LPG to India in the first three months of 2026 than in all of 2025. Vortexa data show 78% of those cargoes sailed before the conflict disrupted Strait of Hormuz transit
