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Senate leader announces Argentina will also seize YPF natural-gas branch

Thursday, April 19th 2012 - 05:53 UTC
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Argentina will seize natural-gas producer YPF Gas SA as part of plans to boost control of its natural resources and increase production, two days after seizing oil producer YPF SA. Read full article

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  • GreekYoghurt

    ... and the 'telecommunications wing' of YPF, another separate company called Telefonica?

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 07:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    Seize it, seize it!
    What else have you got, GreekYoghurt, what, what, what??

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 08:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • TipsyThink

    ( 1 )....( 2 )

    Don't talk about you know nothing.....

    These are strategic--dirty power games in reality not oil-business game.

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 08:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @3 Shut it, Argtard. Stop putting random words on the page with no obvious link.

    @2 Whatever is after Telefonica has to have a) lots of dollars b) be Spanish. So let's have a look to see what's next. Hmm..

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 08:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • TipsyThink

    ( 4 )
    come here ...come here....dont' be afraid...just asking 3 simple questions

    There were the some negotiations between Argentina Government and Repsol on What about ...???....in the years between 1993...1996
    and both sides' negotiators names please... ???....why broken out ..??

    Free to look around YouTube...Wikipedia..and Internet Archives....

    Dont forget to give the answers me if you found them ... Ok !

    If you don't know ...don't lick the pot of the country you know nothing about it..... then The Amazon Jungle will be more fair enough for you parrot.

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • MistyThink

    ( 4 )

    I apologize to you if I scolded you...

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 10:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • TipsyThink

    ( 5 )

    Forget it the comment's last two sentences
    but not others .....!

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 10:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @ 5 thru 7. I'll rewrite your questions for clarity.

    Q.Between 1993 and 1996, what were the negotiations between Argsoc and Repsol about?
    A. There were no negotiations between Repsol and Argsoc in the period 1993 and 1996. YPF was privatised in 1991, with KFCs support, and in the period discussed the Company was run by José Estenssoro who died in a plane crash.
    Q. Who were the negotiators for both sides?
    A. No negotiations happened. Repsol didn't buy it's 50+% stake in the company until 1999. Regulators wouldn't have been involved in discussions until they had a significant share.
    Q. Why were negotiations needed?
    A. There were no negotiations needed in that time period. Outside this period in 1999 Repsol needed to buy shares from the provinces and central government in order to amass its majority ownership.

    Suitable answers to some very silly questions about Argtardia.

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 11:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    Is there no end to what this woman will steal / try to steal?

    This is really, really bad. And yes, when all is said and done, it is stealing. KFC has assured her place in history not as a hero, but as a crackpot, meglomaniac who tried to steal the country from her countrymen.

    mad b*tch!!

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • PirateLove

    Im guessing a friendly game of Monopoly with Argenvina the fatherland would not be a sporting experience.

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Room101

    Today YPF; tomorrow, zer Verld!

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    11 Room101

    For you English pigdog!! ze War is over!!

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    You have to laugh at this 'Senator' (oxymoron?) who did not even understand the structure of YPF / Repsol!!!

    I wonder what else he and the homo commie will find as they stumble through the 'glorious act for the fatherland'.

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 12:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • willi1

    This totally crazy government blames commercial companies not to invest much enough and steal them in a coup but, they themselves waste money for 25 % increasement of salaries countrywide and 20 % inflation. THIS is it what damages the country.

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    Senator Anibal 'Omegatard' Fernandez: “On the tard-o-meter, I'm a 10.7”

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Room101

    2: Hello, old boy.
    If it isn't actual war, it is still a belligerent subject- hence you poor use of the English language. Spleen is defective, I imagine.

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Cestrian

    Unbelievable that these absolutely useless fuckers would take over a company and not even know the structure of it. they must be rubbing their hands at finding out that it has even more money than they first thought. Imagine how much will be “expropriated” now into their overflowing bank accounts?

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • TipsyThink

    ( 8 )

    For three bottles vodka sake ...!

    Thats more easy to say -- I dont know -- than fitting the cephalopod...not shameful..

    You looked to Internet pages and found them to write here...

    Poor YouTube,Wikipedia,Internet addictive brains...like drug addiction you can never left them up if you addict them once...

    Laughter......Laughter......WTPS

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    Is their gas subsidiary the economic equivalent of South Georgia?

    Throw the name in as a job lot and hope that nobody notices!?!?

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 01:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @18 Pissed as usual!

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 02:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brit Bob

    Seize, cheat, fail to honour agreements, make spurious claims of ownership of the South Atlantic - it's the Argentine way.

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • xbarilox

    The anger of this posters is so funny, they wish but they can do nothing, specially when the British invades countries and kill as much people as they can to take control over the natural resouces of those countries. I can't stop laughing at your desperation hahaha You're hopeless.

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @22 no one is angry. It's like no one is angry about one of those home movie TV shows were someone predictably walks into a door or poors a bottle of bleach onto his face for $200 and everyone laughs.

    Watching Argtardia implode is more of an amusement, with chuckles.

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • xbarilox

    @ 23 You're so angry, it's bloody funny, don't tell me it's not, because you know it is. How are your veins? hahaha

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    22 xbarilox

    Why would the British be angered about the Argentines stealing a company from the Spanish????

    The more that gets stoked up the less we'll have to cover our ears to protect us from the Falklands whining.

    You seem to mistaking amusement for anger.

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brit Bob

    @ 24

    Not angry just sad for the average Argentine in the street who will feel the pinch when CFK and her politburo make Argentina into another Cuba.
    Please wake up...

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 02:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • TipsyThink

    For 5 bottles redwine sake...

    I love YoghurtGarlic a lot ...hhmmmm ..what delicious when putting on the olive oil fried vegs with spaghetti in Sicilian style...

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • xbarilox

    @ 25 Don't be sad, smile and the world will smile with you :)

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Simon68

    Fascinating, now it appears that the proceedings of the Argentine Government over the expropriation of YPF are anti constitutional:

    1) To expropriate a private company there must be a JUDICIAL order not a decree of necessity and urgency.
    2) The Constitution demands that the Government pays the price of the company BEFORE taking it over.

    I think that the Senate leader should check up on the legallity of what they are disacussing before going any further.

    Just a thought!!!

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @29 There was a comment in La Nacion saying the same thing, but KFC was saying to brush legalities aside because she was the president. Something to this effect. It's a dictatorship, and that's a fact.

    I would laugh so hard if she was impeached.

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • manchesterlad

    Exactly right, as I mentioned on another article it's not a bad idea to protect one's natural resources, look at what China is doing in Africa for example. But there is a legal way as you pointed out & it avoids all this souring of international relations.

    CFK really had her nose put out of joint at the OAS in Colombia so it seems she is on a personal vendetta against Repsol to show S. America, the U.S. & the E.U. that she means business ...... but what a way to do it !

    At least she has some gonads which is more than I can say for Senator Fernandez who is better off looking after his mafiosa activities at Quilmes F.C. ...... didn't CFK put him out to pasture last year ???

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Max

    | 31 |

    No thanks...my favorites are Nottinghamlads...

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • KFC de Pollo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfLD-7bCtME

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • BenC30

    @31. I think her plastic surgeon dealt with her “gonads” a while ago, just before the facelifts began.

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    She has a whole list of foreign companies she is going to steal
    And you argie bloggers think it’s a laugh,

    Wait till jaffa steams towards you,
    We will see who runs out of juice lol.

    .

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troneas

    don't worry malvinistas. when you get to be part of Argentina, Rockpepper will also be nationalized. And you'll get your share of 49% =)

    Apr 19th, 2012 - 09:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • xbarilox

    @ 35 yes, and you can't stop her hahaha

    Apr 20th, 2012 - 12:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    @36Troneas,
    You're dreaming again, amigo.

    Apr 20th, 2012 - 10:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    argies dreamimng of that illusive empire again .
    poor fools .

    Apr 20th, 2012 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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