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Montevideo, January 6th 2026 - 13:50 UTC

Tag: Vaca Muerta

  • Tuesday, January 6th 2026 - 10:07 UTC

    Strategic partnership concerning Vaca Muerta announced

    Hamm held a high-level meeting with President Milei in September 2025

    Pan American Energy (PAE) and the US shale giant Continental Resources announced Monday a strategic partnership to accelerate the development of four key blocks in the Vaca Muerta formation.

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  • Friday, December 19th 2025 - 09:02 UTC

    Argentine gas brings relief to electricity generation in Uruguay

    The activation of this supply line ends a 20-year period during which Uruguay paid maintenance costs for a largely idle pipeline infrastructure

    Uruguay's state-owned electricity company UTE (technically the Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisiones Eléctricas) announced this week that importing gas from neighboring Argentina has resulted in savings of around US$3 million in the first seven days.

  • Friday, December 5th 2025 - 09:14 UTC

    Chile's ENAP to get oil supply from Vaca Muerta through Trans-Andean pipeline

    Any crude not processed by Chilean refineries can be re-exported via Enap's Pacific Ocean facilities

    Chile's State-owned oil company, Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (Enap), has finalized a colossal import deal worth US$12 billion with major Argentine energy producers, securing a critical long-term supply from the Vaca Muerta unconventional field.

  • Wednesday, October 15th 2025 - 20:35 UTC

    Colombia's GeoPark announces investment in Vaca Muerta

    The company has been granted a 35-year concession

    Colombian oil company GeoPark announced this week its plans to make a significant investment and operational agreement for the Vaca Muerta unconventional hydrocarbon reserve in Argentine Patagonia.

  • Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - 19:53 UTC

    Argentina starts pumping gas to Brazil through Bolivia

    Dorgathen said the gas no longer exported to Argentina will go to Brazil, where prices are “more competitive” and in greater demand

    Argentina began exporting natural gas to Brazil for the first time through the infrastructure of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), it was reported Tuesday.

  • Tuesday, March 11th 2025 - 19:00 UTC

    Two more partners join Vaca Muerta Sur project

    “The Vaca Muerta Sur pipeline is the key for us,” Marín explained

    Shell Argentina and Chevron Argentina joined the Vaca Muerta Sur (VMOS) project as shareholders in the major oil transport infrastructure initiative led by a consortium including the state-owned YPF, Pan American Energy (PAE), Pampa Energía, Vista Energy, and Pluspetrol. “It is the most important oil transport infrastructure project of the last decades,” the consortium said in a statement.

  • Thursday, November 28th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Bolivia highlights gas pumping deal as a source of hard currency

    “We are estimating more than 10 million dollars per month,” Montenegro said

    Bolivia will be collecting some US$ 120 million yearly for allowing Argentine gas from Vaca Muerta through to Brazil, Economy Minister Marcelo Montenegro explained Wednesday during a press conference in which he highlighted the importance of Tuesday's agreement to bringing fresh foreign currency into the country's coffers in addition to its strategic nature in a regional context riddled with energy challenges.

  • Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 11:52 UTC

    Argentina clinches deal to sell Vaca Muerta gas to Brazil

    Caputo (L) and Silveira met on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio

    Argentina's Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo and his Brazilian Energy Counterpart Alexandre Silveira signed Monday on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro an agreement whereby gas from Vaca Muerta will be pumped starting next year, reaching 30 million cubic meters per day as from 2030, which is the same volume that South America's largest country used to buy from Bolivia.

  • Wednesday, October 9th 2024 - 09:13 UTC

    YPF to relocate Vaca Muerta HQs to Buenos Aires

    Decisions are no longer made based on the work of the Company Man at the foot of the well, Marín insisted

    Argentina's state-run oil company YPF announced Tuesday that it would be opening an operations center in its tower in the exclusive Puerto Madero district in Buenos Aires to run Vaca Muerta. The move is expected to cut costs by 30% and save up to US$ 1.5 billion a year.

  • Monday, September 30th 2024 - 09:47 UTC

    Bolivia stops gas sales to Argentina, shifts toward Brazil

    The western Brazilian market is a Bolivian gas market, Dorgathen explained

    After terminating the supply to Argentina, Bolivia will up its gas pumping towards Brazil according to an agreement between YPFB and Petrobras. Buenos Aires announced it would no longer be needing Bolivian gas since Vaca Muerta, the second-largest reserve in the world and the fourth-largest oil reserve, guarantees the supply for its domestic market.

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