Tag: Neuquen

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 19:50 UTC

  Former President Julio Argentino Roca not good enough for a Neuquén school's name

  

  School No. 103 in the Argentine city of Neuquén Tuesday changed its name from that of two-time President “Julio Argentino Roca” to “Rosa Alaniz,” who was one of the first teachers of the institution.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 21:55 UTC

  Argentina eyes reopening Norpatagónico railroad to boost Vaca Muerta

  

  Argentina will seek 780 million US dollars to recover the Norpatagónico freight railroad to link the Vaca Muerta hydrocarbon facilities to the port of Bahía Blanca, in the province of Buenos Aires, through Neuquén, La Pampa and RioNegro, President Mauricio Macri's administration announced Wednesday.

• Saturday, April 22nd 2017 - 09:15 UTC

  ExxonMobil betting heavily in developing Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale gas

  

  ExxonMobil is planning to speed up investment plans for shale gas drilling in Argentina’s prized Vaca Muerta formation in the Neuquen province. Exxon will start drilling Vaca Muerta in May, by drilling horizontal wells with laterals of 2,500-3,000 meters, Neuquen province governor Omar Gutierrez said this week.

• Wednesday, January 11th 2017 - 08:29 UTC

  Macri announces program to boost development of Vaca Muerta shale formation

  

  Argentina's government has agreed to extend a natural gas wellhead price subsidy until 2020 and reduce labor costs in a bid to jumpstart investment in the Vaca Muerta shale formation. The agreement, reached between the national government, the provincial government of Neuquen, industry and labor unions, comes at a time of lackluster upstream activity, reflecting an uncertain price environment and cost concerns.

• Thursday, April 28th 2016 - 12:05 UTC

  China plans to track moon spacecrafts from its station in Argentine Patagonia

  

  In March next year, China's space and satellite tracking station in Quintuco, Argentine Patagonia will become operational, according to members from China's Space Agency, CLTC, who advanced that in June scientists will be mounting the station's antenna to explore outer space.

• Monday, June 8th 2015 - 08:32 UTC

  YPF strikes shale gas in Vaca Muerta; initial production 43.000 m3day

  

  Argentina's government managed energy company YPF said on Sunday that it turned up a new promising shale gas deposit in its giant Vaca Muerta field in the south of the country.The find, in the Patagonian province of Neuquen, suggests there is likely much more gas in the vast but barely tapped Vaca Muerta field, YPF said.

• Thursday, December 11th 2014 - 12:04 UTC

  Malaysia's Petronas and YPF sign 550 million deal to develop shale deposits in Patagonia

  

  YPF SA and Petroliam Nasional Bhd, state-controlled companies from Argentina and Malaysia, signed a 550 million dollars deal to drill fields at the world’s fourth-largest shale oil deposit in Patagonia’s Vaca Muerta, south Argentina.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 01:43 UTC

  China constructing a satellite tracking station in Argentine Patagonia

  

  A space tracking station for lunar exploration being built in Argentine Patagonia by China, as part of the strategic relation and accords between the two countries, has caused concern in the Argentine congress because of the secrecy surrounding the terms of the deal.

• Friday, August 29th 2014 - 07:32 UTC

  Malaysia Petronas joins YPF to develop shale-oil reserves in Argentina

  

  Argentine government controlled energy company YPF said on Thursday it signed a 550 million dollars agreement with Malaysia's Petronas to develop shale-oil reserves in the massive Vaca Muerta formation.

• Thursday, July 17th 2014 - 05:39 UTC

  “K” economist claims holdout hedge funds are after Argentina’s shale resources

  

  The holdout speculative funds or “vulture funds” are going after Argentina’s resource-rich Vaca Muerta region and are seeking to threaten the government with a “technical default” scenario, economist Agustín D’Atellis.