Vaca Muerta
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Oct 30, 2026
Luis Alves de LimaGUEST
Well, guess what? In Latin America, you have a region of the world which is even better than the U.S.
Luis Alves de LimaGUEST
shale, which is known as the Vaca Muerta in Argentina, which is something we're very excited about.
Luis Alves de LimaGUEST
And we have investments over there and it's giving us quite healthy returns.
Luis Alves de LimaGUEST
Finally, the investment cycle throughout LATAM I think is something that one has to look at.
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Gonzalez had played a central role in cutting domestic energy subsidies and administering the large investment incentive regime known as RIGI.
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The departure comes at a crucial moment for Vaca Muerta, the massive shale formation in Patagonia.
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that accounts for over 90% of the country's natural gas extraction.
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Industry analysts expressed concern that Gonzalez's absence would delay the evaluation of complex investment applications totaling nearly $70 billion, although Gonzalez insisted that his technical team will remain in place to prevent administrative bottlenecks.
Patrick RuttyHOST
And there were always Spanish phrases written all over the whiteboard.
Patrick RuttyHOST
And the reason is, as it turns out, Bajada del Palo, which now, as you guys will know, is one of Vista's core of Vaca Muerta blocks.
Patrick RuttyHOST
There's a clue as to what this podcast is about.
Patrick RuttyHOST
Actually began as a Williams asset.
Patrick RuttyHOST
But APCO had been in Argentina since the late 1960s and they held like 40% of the Andre Lomas concessions in Neocaine alongside at the time Petrobras.
Patrick RuttyHOST
And then when Williams spun off its E&P business, as you probably know, can remember as WPX at the end of 2011, APCO went with it.
Patrick RuttyHOST
They'd already flowed oil from Vaca Muerta, from vertical wells, but the conclusion was, and probably rightly so at the time, that it would take horizontal wells.
Patrick RuttyHOST
And, you know, this was 2011, a friendlier Argentina to probably unlock it.
Felipe Monteiro DiasGUEST
Good example, Argentina, you know, before Millet, nobody was touching there.
Felipe Monteiro DiasGUEST
When Millet changed the field, structural things, everybody back to Vaca Muerta.
Felipe Monteiro DiasGUEST
Venezuela is the same right now with some political change going on there.
Felipe Monteiro DiasGUEST
Brazil is going to a political election going on in two weeks from now.
Francisco AldayaHOST
And another bright spot, exports topped $10 billion in September, the first time that's ever happened in a single month.
Francisco AldayaHOST
Fuels and energy were up about 90%, which shows just how much of a trade balance transformation Vaca Muerta is generating.
Francisco AldayaHOST
On top of that, the government cleared Transportadora de Gas del Sur's investment for the RIGI benefit scheme.
Francisco AldayaHOST
That's a project worth more than $3 billion, where TGS will process and export natural gas liquids from Vaca Muerta.
Francisco AldayaHOST
That's the week.
Francisco AldayaHOST
Don't forget to follow us on the Argentina Brief on X for the full thread with all of the details.
Diego EsquivelGUEST
I mean, financially at zero.
Simon HamptonCORRESPONDENT
We met Diego Esquival on a rainy day in Añelo, in Argentina's Vaca Muerta region, more than 600 miles from Buenos Aires, where he'd been working in health insurance and first heard about the opportunities taking shape in the rural
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township.
Diego EsquivelGUEST
I didn't know what it was about until I started researching on YouTube.
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Simon HamptonCORRESPONDENT
For much of its history, Argentina has relied heavily on agriculture to bring in the money it needs.
Simon HamptonCORRESPONDENT
Now, energy is emerging as a major engine of growth.
Simon HamptonCORRESPONDENT
Ricardo Marcos is CEO of Tech Patrol, one of the energy companies at the center of that shift in Vaca Muerta.
Simon HamptonCORRESPONDENT
So the energy sector in Argentina
Fabricio DuarteHOST
Y si hay un país que puede modificar significativamente este mapa durante los próximos años, es Argentina.
Fabricio DuarteHOST
Vaca Muerta está aumentando la disponibilidad de gas lí-- gases y líquidos.
Fabricio DuarteHOST
Eh, hay grandes inversiones en infraestructura, quizás igualmente importante.
Fabricio DuarteHOST
Se está construyendo un marco regulatorio pensado en atraer capital y dar previsibilidad a inversiones a largo plazo.
Adrián CalcaneoHOST
¿Qué, qué hizo que se des-- que llegáramos de ese, de ese potencial a esta realidad que estamos viviendo ahora?
Pedro CascalesGUEST
Bueno, básicamente, eh, como decimos acá, se alinearon los planetas, ¿no? Sí fue una, una combinación de factores, no fue un solo elemento el que, el que se dio para que esto suceda.
Pedro CascalesGUEST
Por, por su-- por supuesto está la geología, porque como ustedes saben Vaca Muerta es el segundo reservorio más grande del mundo de gas no convencional, o sea, el gas y el cuarto de petróleo.
Pedro CascalesGUEST
Pero además de la geología, eh, que se conoce hace muchos años, por, por cierto, no, no es algo nuevo este descubrimiento.
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Argentina's energy surplus surpasses 9.4 billion American dollars.
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As Vaca Muerta expands,
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Argentina has recorded an energy trade surplus exceeding 9.4 billion American dollars during the first nine months of 2026, supported by expanding oil and gas production from Vaca Muerta.
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Official figures show energy exports strengthening the country's external finances, with the sector accounting for approximately 44% of Argentina's overall goods trade surplus.
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The improvement reflects growing domestic production and export capacity, alongside the influence of international energy prices.
Dylan BreauxHOST
Vaca Muerta holds 8.7 billion barrels of economic oil and 109 TCF of gas.
Raphael SallesGUEST
It's just record after record after record.
Raphael SallesGUEST
The largest energy well.
Dylan BreauxHOST
What we're really going to talk about is this is our first international episode.
Dylan BreauxHOST
We've got a couple of new faces on the pod.
Dylan BreauxHOST
It's no secret that there's a lot of activity down there in the Vaca Muerta.
Dylan BreauxHOST
And so we brought in our two international combo curvians to talk through what's going on down there.
Dylan BreauxHOST
And so I think some intros are in order.
Antonio CasilliGUEST
And if water is lacking, other sources of energy are available, like solar energy, photovoltaic energy, or in the case, for instance, of Argentina, where Javier Millet invited people.
Antonio CasilliGUEST
big data centres to go in a place called Vaca Muerta, it's in the south in Patagonia.
Antonio CasilliGUEST
Well, basically, there is fracking that helps a lot.
Antonio CasilliGUEST
So these are not reassuring trends, let's put it like this, because these kind of big infrastructures are moving to basically the global south to extract even more resources, natural resources from those countries.
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