Tag Archives: Argentina

Argentina’s state-run energy firm YPF expects to take together with its foreign partners the final investment decision for the $20-billion Argentina LNG project in the middle of 2026, YPF’s chief executive Horacio Marin told Reuters on Thursday. YPF, Italy’s Eni, and XRG, the new energy investment company of Abu Dhabi’s …

Argentina’s prized shale basin Vaca Muerta, once hailed as the key to transforming the country into a global energy exporter, is now facing a period of stagnation and uncertainty. Lower oil prices, rising costs, and policy constraints have slowed drilling and fracking, raising questions about whether the formation can deliver …

French supermajor TotalEnergies announced on Friday the start of natural gas production from the Fenix gas field offshore in southern Argentina. The Fenix field has been developed to have a production capacity of 10 million cubic meters per day, or 70,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, (boe/d). The field, …

Argentina could be a step closer to start exporting LNG and monetizing its huge resource in the Vaca Muerta shale play after maritime LNG infrastructure firm Golar LNG signed a 20-year deal with Pan American Energy (PAE) for the deployment of a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) vessel in Argentina. …

Argentina and Brazil are discussing the idea to export natural gas from Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale play to Brazil via pipelines in Bolivia, by potentially reversing the flow northbound to Brazil. Energy companies from the three South American countries have started talks, but progress has been slow and there are …

An unusually warm winter in the southern hemisphere is threatening to saddle Argentina with a glut of liquefied natural gas. Argentina is spending about $1.8 billion to import 44 LNG cargoes this year, with 20 already delivered and the remainder scheduled to arrive in the coming months. The mild weather …

West Texas Intermediate has been gaining since its history-making crash in the U.S. last month, trading at around $25. Brent crude has been practically soaring, touching $30 in London.

Under the agreement, Wärtsilä will provide its technology, software and service expertise.

The FLNG unit will be redeployed as Tango FLNG to produce and export LNG from Vaca Muerta. one of the few shale gas plays in production outside the U.S.

In 2016 and 2017. Chile exported excess electricity to Argentina through the single power line that currently connects the two countries.