The YPF-ENI-XRG venture handed the roughly $1.2 billion civil works for the 527-kilometer, 48-inch trunk line to a consortium of Pumpco, Bonatti, and Contreras Hermanos. The pipeline will move up to 100 million cubic meters per day (MMm³/d) of gas and remains tied to a final investment decision expected in the second half of 2026
The operator, formerly Petrolera Aconcagua Energía, will run three unconventional concessions on Vaca Muerta's eastern flank for 35 years, while Vista cedes half the shale economic rights to a jointly held company, URSA.
The Group CEO of Pan American Energy closed the Democracia y Desarrollo forum alongside YPF's Horacio Marín. From the Hormuz shock to the petroleum coke now shipping to China, his read on Argentina's emerging export map
Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno confirmed the accession for the June 25–26 summit in Washington. The initiative runs from critical minerals to energy before reaching semiconductors — and that is where Argentina's place is defined. The test shifts from the signature to financing and supply contracts.
At the Shale24-Santander Energy Summit, CEO Rodolfo Freyre dated the start of construction on the 471-km dedicated pipeline and walked through the engineering still standing between the project and its first export cargo: a mooring system being built in Europe and anchored at 40 meters, a logistics base that does not yet exist at the Río Negro port, and a dedicated line that required project finance.
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
The Colombia-headquartered producer and Neuquén province's state oil and gas company will combine Loma Jarillosa Este and Puesto Silva Oeste under a single project vehicle, with a target of scaling output from 1,500 to 20,000 bbl/d in three years
YPF's plan calls for 1,152 wells in Vaca Muerta and a 240,000 bbl/d crude plateau by 2032, all routed for export via VMOS. It is the first integrated cluster structure filed under the regime, and the first major upstream submission presented without partners, signaling a new phase of YPF's Plan 4x4.
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.
The new public-private body — modeled on existing frameworks for copper and lithium — was unveiled by Secretary General of the Presidency Karina Milei alongside six provincial governors at the San Juan Mining Expo
The state-controlled producer paid $163.175 million plus a $41 million closing adjustment to consolidate three Vaca Muerta blocks it already operated, completing the equity-side leg of the Plan 4x4 ahead of VMOS startup and the Argentina LNG final investment decision
A Sicim–Víctor Contreras joint venture won the 471-km Tratayén–Golfo San Matías line, while Neuquén-based OPS will build the intermediate compressor station for the Southern Energy LNG project
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 600-well, 25-year development at the former ExxonMobil block is now the largest upstream commitment filed under Argentina's investment incentive regime.
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.
