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.
Official May 2026 data from Argentina's Secretariat of Energy mark a turning point: national crude output rose at an unprecedented pace, with Neuquén production up 35.8% year-on-year and reshaping the country's hydrocarbon map in real time
Halliburton, SLB, Tenaris, Calfrac and SPI split the 9,714 stages completed between January and April. SPI, the in-house unit Pluspetrol built on Weatherford Argentina's former assets, debuted as the fifth player; YPF locked Halliburton in with an exclusive five-year electric fracturing contract.
The country now accounts for 21% of regional output. Latin American and Caribbean gas production reached 28 billion m³ in January 2026, a 27% year-on-year increase.
The Argentine drilling services company is reconditioning two rigs at its Texas base before deployment in Neuquén province; the move will lift its local fleet to 10 and feeds YPF's plan to expand its rig count to 19 by year-end
Decree 447/26 authorizes Pan American Energy to transfer 13% of its working interest to Continental Resources Argentina S.A.U. The final structure leaves PAE with 52% as operator, Continental with 13%, and Tango Energy with 35%. It is the first formal closing of the January framework, ahead of pending approvals on three Neuquén blocks.
The 600-well, 25-year development at the former ExxonMobil block is now the largest upstream commitment filed under Argentina's investment incentive regime.
The Norwegian and Dutch specialists will transport, install, and connect the soft yoke (SSY) mooring systems for the Hilli Episeyo and MKII FLNG vessels in Argentina's Golfo San Matías in Río Negro province. Combined capacity of 5.95 MTPA is scheduled to reach the Atlantic market in 2027 and 2028.
A $1.5 billion commitment to a single Vaca Muerta block and a new self-supply gas model have turned Argentina's largest power generator into an integrated oil producer — a transformation now documented in the company's annual SEC filing.
The five-year, four-unit deal covers Halliburton's high-intensity electric fracturing fleet and the OCTIV Auto Frac digital platform — the first international deployment of Zeus beyond North American basins
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
February output held at 874,000 bbl/d — a 15.8% year-on-year gain — confirming the new floor rather than a seasonal spike. Neuquén drove nearly seven in ten barrels, but a 126,000 bbl/d gap to the 1 million bbl/d target and unresolved transport constraints mean geology is no longer the binding variable
From floating LNG to crude export pipelines and NGL fractionation, a concurrent buildout across Vaca Muerta's full value chain represents the largest private investment cycle in Argentina's energy sector this century
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
The Latin American E&P company has launched a drilling campaign at its Loma Jarillosa Este block in Neuquén with $80–100 million budgeted for 2026, targeting a ramp from 1,500 bbl/d to 5,000–6,000 bbl/d by December — and 20,000 bbl/d by end-2028
