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
The Siemens Argentina CEO and new AHK Argentina president sees the country at a turning point across mining, Vaca Muerta technology, and an investor climate loaded with expectation — but warns that without skilled-trades training, the industrial boom has a ceiling
One week after the award, COO Shannon Slocum sized the deal for investors and confirmed the equipment is being relocated from a U.S. market where premium dual-fuel and electric frac capacity is structurally tight
The board appointed the Argentine engineer, who joined the Campana mill in 1995 and had served as COO since 2023. Rocca keeps strategic control as chairman of the company and president of the Techint Group. The transition was announced on the same day Q1 2026 results showed sales of $3.1 billion and a $3.8 billion net cash position.
Completion of the TK401 roof brings the consortium in line with the technical floor that the official schedule set for the first vessel to sail in December: two operational tanks at the terminal and one mooring buoy. With the pipeline more than 60% complete, what remains has a date.
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
Argentine Economy Minister Luis Caputo confirmed the filing after meeting Chevron CFO Eimear Bonner and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Laura Lane. The ticket dwarfs the U.S. major's individual public commitments over its 13-year history in the country and ranks among the largest single applications under Argentina's Large Investment Incentive Regime
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 Argentine independent's Q1 2026 oil production averaged 116,655 bbl/d, up 68% year-on-year, while net income climbed to $107.7 million from $82.8 million a year earlier
The Middle East war has put chokepoint geography back at the center of oil pricing, and Argentina's Atlantic export route, historically a logistical penalty, now sits outside the embedded risk premium
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.
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.
The German utility that signed the first long-term offtake contract for Argentine LNG has asked Berlin to approve a capital increase of as much as €2 billion — the first formal step in an ownership dilution mandated by the European Commission
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.
