The Italian major has flagged Argentina LNG as a top 2026 FID in both its SEC filing and Capital Markets Update, with YPF and ADNOC's XRG as partners. A 12 MTPA FLNG scheme in the Golfo San Matías is the entry point to a 30 MTPA ceiling, and potentially the largest private project finance loan in Argentine history.
Oil India (OIL), GAIL, and ONGC Videsh signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with YPF for up to 10 million tonnes per year of LNG — the second such agreement in two years. While the long-term contracts remain non-binding, LPG shipments to India in the first quarter of 2026 more than doubled the total volume sent in all of 2025.
The province formalized Pluspetrol's 50% cession to YPF in three feeder blocks. The third pillar — a provincial LNG law with a differentiated methane royalty — remains open.
After returning $1 billion in U.S. offshore wind licenses to redirect capital to oil and gas, TotalEnergies is evaluating entry into the South Atlantic deepwater block where YPF and ENI are betting on a Namibia-style pre-salt play — and no company reads that geology with more authority
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 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
Argentina accelerated its geopolitical energy and mining agenda this week, signing a U.S. partnership on critical minerals and a complementary deal with Abu Dhabi and Italy’s state energy company. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno defended the Washington agreements at the Munich Security Conference.
The swap with Pluspetrol could act as a catalyst to unlock the project, where key players have already begun positioning themselves. By consolidating control over high-density gas areas, YPF is building the stable, large-scale supply base needed to make a megaproject like Argentina LNG financially viable.
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The government of President Javier Milei is rolling out a multidimensional strategy to turn energy, mining amake itnd hydrocarbons into the new growth engines of an Argentina that aspires to global power status. The new Incentive Regime for Large Investments, known as RIGI, the privatization agenda and market-based pricing are the main tools being used to achieve that goal.
It became one of the first 35 facilities, out of the Swiss multinational’s 170 worldwide, to obtain the certification.
ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Halliburton are among the U.S. companies with outstanding payments stemming from ICSID rulings against Venezuela. Other firms from the United States and Canada, as well as from the European Union, are also involved.
In his previous address, Milei emphasized economic freedom and tax reforms as tools to fight poverty, casting the state as a problematic actor. This time, the Argentine president will focus on deregulation of the energy sector and Argentina’s role as an LNG supplier from the Vaca Muerta shale.
Horacio Marín told Shale24 that the U.S. giant will lead the project finance for the priority 12-MTPA phase once the binding agreement with ADNOC is signed. The FID would be taken in mid-2026, and exports would begin in 2030–31.
In an interview with Shale24, Horacio Marín said that XRG could finally sign a binding agreement before the end of the year. The potential impact for Argentina in numbers.
