Argentina

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November 09, 2018
The U.S. secretaries of state and defense met with their Chinese counterparts for an annual strategy session in Washington on Friday, with both sides highlighting deep differences on diplomacy and security weeks before Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping plan to meet at a summit in Argentina.
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October 26, 2018
YPF SA will produce more oil and gas than originally planned over the next five years as shale output from the Vaca Muerta formation picks up, according to the Argentine producer’s top two executives.
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October 26, 2018
President Energy, the upstream oil and gas company with a diverse portfolio of production and exploration assets focused primarily in Argentina, confirms that the PFE 1001 development well has now spudded at the Puesto Flores/Estancia Vieja Concession in Rio Negro Province, Argentina
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October 22, 2018
President Energy, the upstream oil and gas company with a diverse portfolio of production and exploration assets focused primarily in Argentina, has provided an update on its current drilling program at the Puesto Flores/Estancia Vieja Concession in Rio Negro Province, Argentina.
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October 17, 2018
Argentina plans to close a facility for importing LNG, after booming production in Vaca Muerta turned the country into a seasonal exporter.
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October 02, 2018
YPF SA, Argentina’s state-run energy producer, is closing the tap on some of its natural gas wells as the nation’s second recession in three years curbs demand, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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July 27, 2018
President Energy, the upstream oil and gas company with a diverse portfolio of production and exploration assets focused primarily in Argentina, provides an update in relation to its workover programme at the Puesto Flores/Estancia Vieja Concession (the Concession) in Rio Negro Province, Argentina.
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July 10, 2018
Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced the successful completion of drilling of the CSo-2001(d) well in which a notable gas column has been interpreted from the wireline logging suite.
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July 2018
Akofs Offshore has been awarded a contract for light well intervention services, using its 156-m vessel, Akofs Seafarer, for all Equinor-operated licenses, in the period 2020 to 2025.
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July 02, 2018
Argentina’s move to a free market for energy prices remains on track.
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June 22, 2018
Javier Iguacel has left the road for the oilfield, and that may mean a complete about-face on Argentine energy policies.
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June 21, 2018
Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced that a significant light oil column has been interpreted in its third well, onshore Argentina.
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June 18, 2018
President Energy, the upstream oil and gas company with a diverse portfolio of production and exploration assets focused primarily in Argentina, provides an update in relation to its workover program at Puesto Flores field in Rio Negro Province, Argentina.
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June 17, 2018
The U.S. government is getting in on a shale boom 5,000 mi (8,000 km) from home.
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June 11, 2018
GeoPark Limited, a leading independent Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator and consolidator with operations and growth platforms in Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, today announced further expansion in the Neuquen basin in Argentina with the acquisition of Los Parlamentos Block in partnership with YPF S.A. (YPF), the largest oil and gas producer in Argentina.
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June 11, 2018
Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, announces the succesful completion of the extended well test following the workover on well CSo-85 located in the mature Cañadon Salto field in the Company's Fracción D asset, in Joint Venture between Echo and its Argentine partner Compañía General de Combustibles S.A. (CGC).
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June 06, 2018
Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, announces the succesful completion of drilling of the ELA-1 exploration well at the Company's Laguna Los Capones Asset (surrounded by the Fracción C licence area), onshore Argentina.
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June 04, 2018
Qatar Petroleum has entered an agreement with ExxonMobil to become a 30% equity holder in two ExxonMobil affiliates in Argentina, which hold different interests in hydrocarbon licenses for seven blocks in the world-class Vaca Muerta play in the onshore Neuquén basin.
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May 18, 2018
Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced the successful completion of the ELM-1004 exploration well drilling at the Company's Fracción C asset, onshore Argentina, and a gas discovery for the first well in its four-well exploration campaign.
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May 2018
Despite the rise in crude prices, many Latin American countries are still grappling with considerable debt and declining production rates.
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May 09, 2018
Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced the commencement of drilling of the first exploration well in a four-well, back-to-back campaign in the Company's Fracción C asset, onshore Argentina.
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