Argentina

Wednesday, June 8th 2011 - 16:41 UTC
Argentina gas earmarked for domestic consumption, not export, says minister

Argentina won't become a natural gas exporter under the current government even if potentially massive deposits of unconventional gas turn out to more than enough to supply the domestic market, announced Planning minister Julio De Vido.
Wednesday, June 8th 2011 - 06:37 UTC
Air traffic in Buenos Aires and Montevideo returns to normal as ash cloud disperses

Argentina’s Civil Aviation agency (ANAC) and the Secretariat of Transport announced that the Ezeiza and Aeroparque airports are “now open and operating normally” as the ash cloud spewed by Chile’s Puyehue volcano late Tuesday seemed to be moving away from the Buenos Aires City and part of the River Plate area.
Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 14:33 UTC
Ash cloud reaches Buenos Aires city at 5.000 metres height; all flights cancelled

The Chilean volcano Puyehue ash cloud has reached the Argentine capital after moving across the Greater Buenos Aires, but the due effects of the cloud are seen to be minimal. Meanwhile local airlines confirmed cancelled all flights until further notice at the international airport of Ezeiza and at the domestic-flights metropolitan Aeroparque.
Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 06:07 UTC
Argentina hosts first meeting of Unasur Economy and Finance Council

Argentina will be hosting on Thursday the first meeting of the South American Economy and Finance Council that will bring together Economy ministers and Central bank governors from members of Unasur, Union of South American Nations.
Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 03:54 UTC
“Day after” election jitters surface in Argentina’s capital and money markets

Argentina’s capital flight is forecasted to reach 17 billion US dollars in 2011, above the 11.4 billion of last year because of electoral year uncertainties, and in spite of a larger trade surplus.
Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 03:48 UTC
The volcanic ash cloud could reach Buenos Aires city on Tuesday

The ash cloud hovering above Argentine Northern Patagonia since Saturday after the eruption of the Puyehue volcano in the Chilean Andes may reach the city of Buenos Aires on Tuesday, experts assured.
Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 03:10 UTC
NASA and Argentina launching satellite to measure salt levels at ocean surface

Scientists are launching an international mission to measure salt levels at the surface of the ocean. A rocket carrying an Argentine-built spacecraft is set to lift off Thursday from the Vandenberg Air Force Base along the central California coast.
Monday, June 6th 2011 - 06:56 UTC
On Monday Customs delayed back-log of Argentina made-cars should be in Brazil

Argentina and Brazil seem to be again on the path of normalizing bilateral trade following the mid May spat that triggered a round of technical exchanges in Buenos Aires and a final meeting at ministerial level in Brasilia. On Monday, allegedly all the Argentine cars delayed in the border will have been cleared into Brazil.
Monday, June 6th 2011 - 06:34 UTC
Major Indian oil company interested in shale gas assets in Argentina

State run India OIL Ltd has drawn up a war chest of over 1 billion US dollars, for acquiring a producing oilfield abroad and the company is trawling major oil-producing geographies, among which shale gas assets in Argentina, chairman N M Borah said last week.
Monday, June 6th 2011 - 05:57 UTC
YPF ready to take control of Argentina’s main gas distributor

Argentina’s oil corporation YPF signed a purchase option for 54.67% of the British Gas controlled GASA group that is the country’s largest distributor of gas. The purchase option expires August 31.