Argentina has clinched a deal with labor unions and energy companies aimed at luring investors to the Vaca Muerta formation in Patagonia, one of the largest shale reserves in the Continue Reading
Argentine officials on Friday said they would grant more contracts to build renewable power generators, bringing the total investment committed to such projects to $4 billion. The government plans to Continue Reading
Argentina’s national government is in the preparatory stages for equipping an aging railway and laying new train tracks to service the Vaca Muerta shale play. Jorge Ocampos, a legislator in Continue Reading
Argentine state-controlled energy company YPF ( YPFD.BA ) said on Wednesday it plans to continue a pilot shale oil project with Malaysia’s Petronas ( PGAS.KL ), announcing an additional $192.5 Continue Reading
It’s been a tough week for the U.S. oil and gas industry, with the Department of Interior annulling 25 leases in Colorado’s Mancos shale (for environmental reasons), and then cancelling Continue Reading
I’ve been writing over the last several months about the world’s top natural gas play — the growing demand center of Argentina. And this week, things got even tighter in Continue Reading
Argentina’s government is making the push towards more renewables at an extremely fast rate. The country recently held an auction for long-term contracts totaling a potential 1,109 megawatts of power Continue Reading
Argentina is considering the construction of its first liquefaction terminal to increase natural gas deliveries from the southernmost Austral Basin domestically and eventually to overseas markets, a person close to Continue Reading
The Permian Basin has become so hot that some oil companies are starting to stay away, instead looking at frontiers that are less picked over. BP is one such company. Continue Reading
Vaca Muerta fields have ‘enormous potential,’ Dudley says Permian Basin shale assets too expensive for company right now BP Plc would rather invest in Argentina’s shale oil fields than in Continue Reading
