Articles tagged Vaca Muerta

Argentina’s 51% state-owned oil and gas company YPF SA, in partnership with Malaysian national oil company Petronas, has settled on the northern edge of Patagonia for their planned LNG export project.

Argentina’s 51% state-owned oil and gas company YPF SA, in partnership with Malaysian national oil company Petronas, have settled on the northern edge of Patagonia for their planned LNG export project.

Golar LNG Ltd. is teaming up with natural gas producer Pan American Energy S.L. (PAE) to begin exporting liquefied natural gas from Argentina for 20 years starting in 2027.

Argentina’s vast natural gas resources would only be fully developed with an LNG export facility, according to experts who spoke at a recent energy conference.

Argentina’s 51% state-owned oil and gas company YPF SA is aiming to sanction a large-scale LNG export project by mid-2025, with the first 1-2 million metric tons/year (mmty) of liquefaction capacity online by 2027, the firm’s new management said. 

Argentina’s natural gas pipeline offering additional takeaway capacity from the Vaca Muerta shale formation went into service earlier this month.

Argentina’s natural gas pipeline offering additional takeaway capacity from the Vaca Muerta shale formation went into service earlier this month.

Executives at Argentina’s state oil and gas firm YPF SA in an earnings call acknowledged the difficult economic environment in the country but said upstream plans remained unchanged.

Argentina’s natural gas segment has been transformed by the Vaca Muerta shale formation and the country might well again become a net energy exporter.

Not since the 1990s has Argentina’s natural gas segment seen so much infrastructure buildout.