Argentina
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September 2017
Feds, IOCs breathe new life into ‘Dead Cow’
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September 11, 2017
BP today announced that it has agreed with Bridas Corporation to form a new integrated energy company by combining their interests in the oil and gas producer Pan American Energy (PAE) and the refiner and marketer Axion Energy in a cash-free transaction.
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August 28, 2017
Ricardo Darre, CEO of YPF SA, has resigned as Argentina’s largest oil producer prepares to sell at least $1 billion in assets and focus on developing the world’s second-biggest reserve of shale gas.
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August 25, 2017
The recovery in the global land drilling market, led by North America, is being sustained, according to first half figures from Westwood Global Energy Group, energy market research consultancy firm. The drive, both in the U.S. and internationally, for drilling wells with longer laterals and on multi-well pads, is creating demand for high-horsepower, modern rigs that can minimize time between each well.
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August 25, 2017
Statoil and Argentina’s leading energy company YPF have entered into an agreement to jointly explore hydrocarbons in the Bajo del Toro block in the Neuquén basin onshore Argentina.
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August 11, 2017
GeoPark Limited and Wintershall Energía S.A., a subsidiary of the BASF group, the fourth-largest gas producer in Argentina with over 15 blocks, have announced the discovery of a new oil field in the CN-V block (GeoPark 50% WI, Wintershall 50% WI) in the Neuquen basin, Mendoza Province of Argentina.
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August 2017
Notwithstanding Latin America’s limited economic growth, exploration investments are the common denominator in the region’s major oil and gas plays.
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July 18, 2017
Argentina's state-run oil firm YPF SA, France's Total SA, Wintershall Energía SA and BP unit Pan American Energy LLC announced a $1.15-billion joint investment on Tuesday to increase shale gas production.
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June 14, 2017
President Energy, the upstream oil and gas company provides an update on its work-over program at its Puesto Guardian Concession, Argentina.
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May 12, 2017
Wintershall has launched its second operated shale oil pilot project in Argentina (100% working interest). The company has spud the first of three horizontal pilot wells in the Bandurria Norte block, which is located in the western Argentinean province of Neuquén.
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May 2017
Latin America schleps forward on its quest for recovery
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May 09, 2017
Production from the seven most advanced developments in the Vaca Muerta play (covering only 8% of play acreage), is expected to increase by 43% in 2017 to 77,000 boed, and to double 2016 levels by 2018 to 113,000 boed, according to the new Vaca Muerta Development Study by Wood Mackenzie.
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April 27, 2017
Total SA will spend $500 million over three to four years to develop a shale-gas field in Argentina as the country’s government lures investors by pledging a minimum price.
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April 25, 2017
Argentina’s Vaca Muerta, one of the largest shale formations outside of North America, offers tons of promise for the country’s energy future. Just don’t hold your breath waiting for it.
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April 14, 2017
Schlumberger President of Operations, Patrick Schorn, and YPF Chairman, Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez, have signed an agreement to start a shale oil pilot project in Bandurria Sur Block in Vaca Muerta, Neuquén.
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April 03, 2017
Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. recently worked with Compañía General de Combustibles (CGC) to complete a 10-stage StackFRAC HD multi-stage system, the first well completed with ball-activated technology in southern Argentina's Santa Cruz province.
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March 29, 2017
Further to the Company’s announcement on March 10, 2017, President Energy has announced that the second workover of a previously producing well, DP1001, at Dos Puntitas field, has achieved successful production substantially ahead of rates prior to it being shut-in.
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March 20, 2017
Madalena Energy Inc. has announced the commencement of the first horizontal multi-frac re-entry in the Vaca Muerta shale formation at Coiron Amargo Sur Este (CASE).
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March 10, 2017
Further to the Company’s announcement on Feb. 20, 2017, President Energy has announced that the first workover of a previously producing well, DP12 at Dos Puntitas field in Argentina, has been completed on time and on budget.
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February 24, 2017
Shell Argentina Country Chairman Teófilo Lacroze and YPF Chairman Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez have signed preliminary terms and conditions of an agreement to develop a shale gas pilot project in Vaca Muerta, Neuquén. Shell estimates an investment of $300 million, which would take place in two phases.
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February 20, 2017
Further to the Company’s announcement on Jan. 11, 2017, President Energy has announced that the workover rig has been mobilized to the first well location, and that operations have already commenced.
