Tag: Vaca Muerta

• Friday, August 31st 2012 - 04:08 UTC

  YPF tempting global oil industry heavyweights with ‘Vaca Muerta’ shale formation

  

  Exxon-Mobil Corp. and Apache Corp. will hold talks with Argentina's YPF next month to discuss further investments in the country's Vaca Muerta shale formation, said a YPF official briefed on the matter.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 03:36 UTC

  YPF trying to convince Chevron to help develop massive shale deposits in Neuquen

  

  Argentina’s nationalized oil and gas company YPF and the head of Latin American and African operations for Chevron Corp. are discussing a potential agreement to develop the massive Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas formation in the Patagonian province of Neuquén.

• Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 07:31 UTC

  YPF after Chinese cooperation for development of Vaca Muerta shale deposits

  

  Federal Planning Minister Julio de Vido announced that several members of the Argentine Government would be flying to China in September in order to close several cooperation agreements between Chinese oil companies and YPF, intended to deepen the bilateral relations.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2012 - 03:17 UTC

  Repsol’s only purpose was “to milk dry” YPF of resources and reserves

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez made the historic decision to nationalize oil and gas company YPF at “the right moment” because Repsol was “milking dry” YPF resources and reserves, said Planning Minister Julio De Vido and Deputy Economy minister Axel Kicillof at a press conference at the Economy ministry in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, May 11th 2012 - 21:15 UTC

  IAE warns Argentina YPF seizure could scare away international oil companies

  

  Argentina's seizure of 51% of the shares of Spanish oil group Repsol's YPF unit could scare away international firms from investing in the, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 08:21 UTC

  Argentine Vice President, in Washington, invited US oil companies to invest in YPF

  

  Argentine Vice President Amado Boudou on Tuesday urged US companies to invest in YPF, the nationalized oil company that Argentina recently expropriated from Spain's Repsol.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2012 - 01:58 UTC

  Respsol warns its peers with legal actions if they team up with nationalized YPF

  

  Spain-based energy group Repsol has sent letters to oil majors including Exxon-Mobil, Chevron and Conoco-Phillips warning it would sue them if they try to invest in YPF or its assets, reports the British newspaper The Financial Times.

• Sunday, April 1st 2012 - 08:49 UTC

  Argentina has decided to take control of YPF, says pro-government newspaper

  

  The Argentine government has made the decision to take control of leading energy company YPF and is discussing whether to renationalize it or intervene in its administration, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

• Friday, March 30th 2012 - 07:31 UTC

  YPF announces discovery of huge unconventional shale oil deposits in Mendoza

  

  Argentina's biggest energy company YPF, has found unconventional shale oil and natural gas in Mendoza province, confirming the extension of the massive Vaca Muerta area, officials said on Thursday.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 08:46 UTC

  Rush to explore and develop shale oil and natural gas in Argentina’s Neuquen basin

  

  Exxon Mobil Corp, the largest US oil company, will spend as much as 76.3 million dollars to explore and develop shale oil and natural gas in Argentina with Americas Petrogas Inc.