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Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández unveiled Thursday an LNG project to export gas sourced from the prolific Vaca Muerta formation. The $10 billion project would be developed jointly by Argentine state oil firm YPF and Malaysian liquefied natural gas giant Petroliam Nasional Berhad, aka Petronas. “We have the energy that the world needs and will need…

Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández unveiled Thursday an LNG project to export gas sourced from the prolific Vaca Muerta formation. The $10 billion project would be developed jointly by Argentine state oil firm YPF and Malaysian liquefied natural gas giant Petroliam Nasional Berhad, aka Petronas. “We have the energy that the world needs and will need…

Argentine national oil company YPF SA has raised its capital expenditure (capex) forecast for full-year 2022, with a focus on developing the Vaca Muerta Shale formation. New CEO Pablo Iuliano and CFO Alejandro Lew hosted a conference call to discuss the 51% state-owned company’s second-quarter results. “Better-than-expected economic performance so far in 2022 enhanced our…

U.S. onshore producers may be limiting annual production growth to 5% or less, but don’t tell that to Argentina’s 51% state-owned YPF SA. The Vaca Muerta shale play in the Neuquén Basin drove a 16% year/year increase in oil and gas output to 506,000 boe/d during the first quarter for the integrated producer. On a…

Natural gas production in Argentina fell by 12.9% year/year in October to 121.9 million cubic meters/day (MMm3/d), or 4.3 Bcf/d, according to the latest report by the IAE Argentine Energy Institute. Production was down from 4.37 Bcf/d in September.  Analysts attributed the drop to restrictions in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. Argentina has had…

Executives at Argentina’s state energy firm Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales SA (YPF) said their oil and gas fields are starting to return to work after the complete shutdown in April that became “the worst” month in the company’s history. Argentina responded to the arrival of the coronavirus in March with strict lockdown measures that have only…

Belgium-based Exmar recently reached a settlement agreement with Argentina state oil and gas firm YPF SA over the Tango floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessel docked at the Bahía Blanca port. YPF issued a force majeure notice in June claiming it couldn’t meet the terms of its charter agreement for the Tango vessel because of…

Belgium-based Exmar has reached a settlement agreement with Argentina state oil and gas firm YPF SA over the Tango floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessel docked at the Bahía Blanca port. YPF issued a force majeure notice in June claiming it couldn’t meet the terms of its charter agreement for the Tango vessel because of…

A roundup of news and commentary from NGI’s LNG Insight Henry Hub settled at a 25-year low on Thursday at $1.482, down 7.2% day/day, while the front-end of the Nymex forward curve collapsed after a 120 Bcf injection into storage. U.S. futures extended their losses in early trading Friday, but the July contract rolled off…