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
The 12-year instrument, placed in international markets at a coupon below the 8% threshold, anchors annual capital expenditure of $1.5–$1.6 billion through 2028, positioning Vista as the second Argentine upstream company to tap international debt markets this year
Morten Wierod laid out three structural drivers of accelerating electricity demand at CERAWeek — and called on industry to act before grid infrastructure falls behind
Roch Proyectos will take three mature San Jorge Gulf Basin blocks ceded by YPF to Santa Cruz province, targeting secondary and tertiary recovery in fields that leave more than 70% of original oil in place
The Italian major's CEO argued that speed of monetization — not capital retrenchment — is the right response to energy market volatility; Argentina, where ENI is committed to a $20 billion LNG project and a new deepwater block off Uruguay, is among his clearest test cases
With a 30% stake in QatarEnergy LNG and direct exposure through the damaged Pearl GTL complex, Shell has declared force majeure on an estimated 6.8 MTPA of contracted volumes — and its CEO outlined a sequential supply shock already moving through Asia and tracking toward Europe
The Techint Group chairman argued that artificial intelligence applied to fracture design and reservoir management could add more than 3 billion barrels to Vaca Muerta's recoverable resource base — a figure Shale24 estimates at roughly $230 billion in potential subsurface value
With partner Sultan Al Jaber joining virtually from Abu Dhabi — after Iranian strikes hit ADNOC infrastructure — the YPF CEO cast the Hormuz closure as a structural commercial advantage for Argentina's Atlantic LNG routes; FID remains on track for October 2026
The world's largest energy conference opened Monday under the shadow of the biggest supply disruption in history. These are the voices that defined Day One
The conference built around artificial intelligence became an energy crisis summit overnight. S&P Global's Daniel Yergin opened the 44th edition with an unambiguous verdict — then laid out ten strategic takeaways for a market with no clear exit in sight
In less than 24 hours, Iran struck Ras Laffan twice — the world’s largest liquefied natural gas export complex before the conflict — and hit refineries in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The benchmark crude price is trading at levels not seen since 2022. For Argentina, the equation has two sides, and neither is neutral.
In January, he halted drilling in North Dakota for the first time in 30 years. Weeks later, he traveled to New York to deepen his position in Argentina’s Neuquén Basin. “The rock doesn’t know which country it’s in,” said the businessman and adviser to Donald Trump.
