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			<title>U.S. Signals Argentina Financing Could Exceed EXIM&#039;s $7 Billion Ceiling</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/us-signals-argentina-financing-could-exceed-exims-7-billion-ceiling-n1836</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/10/6ace55f87025b.webp" /><p>A State Department official who led a joint mission with EXIM and the DFC said talks already cover larger amounts for infrastructure and critical sectors. The DFC is assessing some 20 projects, including a loan to Vista Energy and talks with Pampa Energía on TGS's NGL project.</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:50:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Schneider Electric Launches Digital Medium-Voltage Switchgear in Argentina</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/power/schneider-electric-launches-digital-medium-voltage-switchgear-in-argentina-n1839</link>
            <category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/10/6ace43b62c7f6.jpg" /><p>The MCSeT line, rated up to 24 kV and paired with the EvoPacT HVX vacuum circuit breaker, adds real-time asset monitoring and does away with SF₆ insulating gas</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:22:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Los Azules Mining Fleet Tender Tests EXIM Bank&#039;s Path Into $2.4 Billion Debt Package</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/mining/los-azules-mining-fleet-tender-tests-exim-banks-path-into-24-billion-debt-package-n1828</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/08/6a862c49941ff.jpg" /><p>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.</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:54:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Neuquen Ratifies $177.6 Million Road Deal With 15 Vaca Muerta Operators</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/neuquen-ratifies-1776-million-road-deal-with-15-vaca-muerta-operators-n1829</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/10/6ac804de7550e.webp" /><p> Operators will advance the funds against future royalties and recover them through royalty deductions or tolls. The works cover about 160 km of provincial routes 7, 8 and 51, in the corridor serving the fields around Anelo.</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:37:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Adriano Pires Steers Flavio Bolsonaro&#039;s Energy Agenda Ahead of Brazil Runoff</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/power/adriano-pires-steers-flavio-bolsonaros-energy-agenda-ahead-of-brazil-runoff-n1830</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/10/6ac537b90d9ff.jpg" /><p>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.</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:35:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Pluspetrol Wins RIGI Approval for $12.4 Billion Vaca Muerta Development</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/pluspetrol-wins-rigi-approval-for-124-billion-vaca-muerta-development-n1781</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/06/6a3d1e9faaca9.webp" /><p> Bajo del Choique-La Invernada, acquired from ExxonMobil in 2024, lifted oil output from 13,047 to 46,594 bbl/d in a year and already delivers 93% of its first-phase target. At $20 million per well, the plan costs more than the two shale oil developments already in the regime.</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:59:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Pampa Energía Offers 800 MW to Power a Vaca Muerta Data Center</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/pampa-energia-offers-800-mw-to-power-vaca-muerta-data-center-n1782</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/10/6abfb5bec7f47.jpeg" /><p>Chairman Marcelo Mindlin said during Argentina Week in Paris that gas-fired power for artificial intelligence infrastructure could be the next way to add value to Argentine gas, alongside NGL processing and the company's $2.7 billion urea plant.</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:38:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Argentina LNG adds a second corporate vehicle as MIDCO takes over midstream financing</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/argentina-lng-adds-second-corporate-vehicle-as-midco-takes-over-midstream-financing-n1523</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/07/6a4d010d7abeb.png" /><p>YPF named two project companies in its presentation to Argentina's Chamber of Deputies. One was already known. The other appears for the first time in a public company presentation, and it defines how debt will be raised for the pipelines and the processing plants</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:11:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>PAE Seeks RIGI Status for $1.2 Billion Polymer Flood at Cerro Dragon</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/pae-seeks-rigi-status-for-12-billion-polymer-flood-at-cerro-dragon-n1780</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2025/12/693c4c6287141.jpg" /><p>Pan American Energy filed to install 22 polymer injection plants with France's SNF. The plan adds 46 million barrels of oil and is the first conventional upstream project to seek entry into the regime.</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:25:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Argentina Launches UNCLOS Arbitration Against UK Over Sea Lion, Eyes 15 Falklands Offshore Licenses</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/argentina-launches-unclos-arbitration-against-uk-over-sea-lion-eyes-15-falklands-offshore-licenses-n1761</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/09/6abba95975438.webp" /><p>The move targets the Navitas-Rockhopper project and any new permits on the continental shelf. The islands' official register shows four groups holding 15 offshore licenses, all extended by the Falklands government a week before the announcement.</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:29:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>YPF Drills 4,770-Meter Slim-Well Lateral, Repeats the Mark on Three Wells in 10 Days</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/ypf-drills-4770-meter-slim-well-lateral-repeats-the-mark-on-three-wells-in-10-days-n1767</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/09/6abc61c3ab585.webp" /><p>The lateral beats the company's previous slim-well best, set in 2022, by 517 meters and was matched with three different rigs and contractors. YPF reports slim wells to U.S. securities regulators as the design most representative of its large-scale Vaca Muerta development</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:34:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>PECOM Ships First Self-Marketed Crude Cargo: 714,000 Barrels of Escalante to Hawaii</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/pecom-ships-first-self-marketed-crude-cargo-714000-barrels-of-escalante-to-hawaii-n1768</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/09/6abbaaa362e0a.jpg" /><p>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</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:03:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>IMPSA Plans 1,500 Jobs at Tocoma and Targets the U.S. Small Modular Reactor Supply Chain</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-gas/impsa-plans-1500-jobs-at-tocoma-and-targets-the-us-small-modular-reactor-supply-chain-n1759</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/09/6ab90bdb61a64.png" /><p>IMPSA's president told the Shale24-Santander Mendoza Energy Summit that Mendoza holds a complete hydropower supply chain, and detailed the company's return to Venezuela, the nuclear components it already builds for the U.S. market and why Argentina is not building large dams again.</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:49:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Two Blocks Drive 40% of Vaca Muerta&#039;s Annual Oil Growth as Pluspetrol and YPF Ramp Up</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/two-blocks-drive-40-of-vaca-muertas-annual-oil-growth-as-pluspetrol-and-ypf-ramp-up-n1760</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/06/6a26cd8a69163.jpeg" /><p>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.</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:35:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Argentina LNG Takes Its FID Countdown to Paris as Marín, Al Jaber and Descalzi Court European Capital</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/argentina-lng-takes-its-fid-countdown-to-paris-as-marin-jaber-and-descalzi-court-european-capital-n1762</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/09/6abba0464aada.webp" /><p>YPF, ADNOC and ENI will present the $51 billion project at the OECD a week after EXIM Bank offered up to $6 billion. The panel arrives with the trunk pipeline awarded, the corporate structure closed and FID committed for the second half of 2026.</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:23:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Falkland Islands Government Backs Oil Royalty Sovereign Wealth Fund Due in 2030</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-gas/falkland-islands-government-backs-oil-royalty-sovereign-wealth-fund-due-in-2030-n1681</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/09/6a99606baea03.jpg" /><p>The Executive Council approved the workstreams in March. The official timetable puts legislative passage in the second half of 2029 and commencement in 2030, two years after first oil. The royalty estimate is $2 billion. Consultation with Assembly members, the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the public opens in January 2027.</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:05:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Milei Extends Falklands Sanctions Threat to Sea Lion&#039;s Suppliers and Shareholders</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/milei-extends-falklands-sanctions-threat-to-sea-lions-suppliers-and-shareholders-n1682</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/09/6a9a15f592021.jpg" /><p>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.</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:57:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title> Asia Now Buys One in Five Dollars of Argentina&#039;s Energy Exports </title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/asia-now-buys-one-in-five-dollars-of-argentinas-energy-exports-n1668</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/07/6a510943242c0.jpg" /><p>Asian buyers took 20.7% of Argentine energy exports between January and July, up from 7.9% across all of 2025, according to Secretariat of Energy shipment records. Medanito crude accounts for nearly three-quarters of the flow, and the destination list has widened from four countries to seven</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:13:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Navitas Seeks Strategic Partner for 77-Well Sea Lion Development</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/navitas-seeks-strategic-partner-for-77-well-sea-lion-development-n1669</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/06/6a1ec25285b54.webp" /><p>The Israeli operator floated the idea at its investor round, having assigned the project a $5.16 billion present value net to its interest, above the $3.55 billion it attributes to its producing Gulf of Mexico asset. Any incoming shareholder falls under Argentina's Law 26,659</p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:45:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Ten numbers behind YPF&#039;s record quarter under Marin&#039;s 4X4 plan</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-gas/ten-numbers-behind-ypfs-record-quarter-under-marins-4x4-plan-n1596</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/06/6a31c1ca6b069.jpeg" /><p>The plan started in 2024 with the company coming out of a $1,277 million annual loss. Three of its four pillars now generate cash; the fourth, Argentina LNG, has yet to reach the balance sheet </p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0300</pubDate>
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			<title>Sierra Chata Sets Gas Production Record as Nine New Wells Cover a Declining Base</title>
			<link>https://www.shale24.com/en/oil-and-gas/sierra-chata-sets-gas-production-record-as-nine-new-wells-cover-declining-base-n1678</link>
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	            <![CDATA[<img src="https://statics.shale24.com/2026/07/6a6a4f3d714b1.jpg" /><p>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 </p>]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:54:00 -0300</pubDate>
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