Argentina

Latin American oil and gas manufacturer GeoPark said on Thursday it had sent a binding offer to get a nonoperated working interest in unconventional blocks in the Neuquen Basin in Argentina from an unnamed seller. The company stated the seller has actually accepted its offer of around $ 200 million and an additional $110 million to $120 million over a 2 year period for certain exploration activities. GeoPark stated the 2 business were working on an exclusive basis on the deal, which is expected to close in the 3rd quarter and right away contribute more than 5,000 net barrels of...

Energy companies from Argentina and Brazil have actually begun talks on reversing the southerly flow of a Bolivian natural gas pipeline network that connects the 3 countries as a regional gas deficit might require Brazil to pay up for alternative supplies of the fuel. An initial proposition on the pipeline shift has failed to gain traction with Bolivia, according to executives and sources, leaving Brazil increasingly exposed to unpredictable costs of melted natural gas (LNG). Brazil has made clear in recent months that gas from Argentina, which has the world's second biggest shale gas reserves, will be required to stabilize...

Argentina is in a very. bad political circumstance, however is on the ideal course to motivate. energy financial investment and eliminate its financial imbalances if a bundle. of reforms proposed by President Javier Milei passes the. Congress, CEO of manufacturer Tecpetrol stated on Tuesday. Argentina this year has begun cutting prepared imports of. liquefied natural gas (LNG), a relocation viewed as a first step to. lower the nation's fiscal deficit, Tecpetrol CEO Ricardo. Markous said at the CERAWeek by S&P conference in Houston. Structure out required facilities for exporting some of. Argentina's gas as LNG need to be the long-term...

Argentina's state oil company YPF on Friday stated its $5 billion spending plan for 2024 need to press its free capital into unfavorable territory comparable to that tape-recorded last year, while its financial obligation ratio need to fall below 2023 levels. YPF recorded an unfavorable cash circulation of $740 million in 2023, and financing chief Federico Barroetavena informed analysts in a. teleconference that heavy investing particularly in its shale. jobs ought to bring this year's figure to comparable levels. The company's net utilize ratio ought to similarly land in the. variety of in 2015's ratio of 1.7 times, he added....

Argentina's state oil company YPF returned to the black in the very first quarter, almost doubling its net benefit from a year previously to $657 million on the back of higher production and recovering costs, it stated on Thursday. Revenues inched up 2% to $4.31 billion, just above expectations, backed by higher domestic fuel rates measured in dollars and higher unrefined exports to Chile. Total oil and gas production rose 3%, with crude output up 7%. Shale oil production increased 21%, the business said. YPF, one of Argentina's leading fuel suppliers, had actually landed web losses in the prior two...

The federal government of Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei said on Monday a. threat by oilrich province Chubut to cut off gas and oil. materials amounted to extortion amid a developing fight over tax. dispensations to the Patagonian area. The dispute started late recently when the central. government kept back the transfer of some 13.5 billion pesos. ( about $16 million) to Chubut, the nation's second-largest oil. area and third-largest for gas, pointing out debt the region owed to. the Argentine state. Chubut Governor Ignacio Torres, part of the main. conservative bloc that has backed Milei, reacted that the. province...

The Greekflagged bulker Sea Champion got here in the southern Yemeni port of Aden on Tuesday after being attacked in the Red Sea in what appeared to have actually been a mistaken rocket strike by the Houthi militia, sources stated. Shipping dangers are intensifying due to duplicated drone and rocket strikes in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait by the Iran-aligned Houthis given that November. U.S. and British forces Have responded with numerous attacks on Houthi facilities have actually up until now stopped working to stop the attacks. The Sea Champ, which was taking grain from Argentina to Aden,...

Heavy rainfall that battered Argentina at the start of this month ought to relieve up in the coming weeks, the Rosario Stock Exchange said on Friday, which might help crops recuperate and farmers collect their plants as soil starts to dry. The short-term forecasts are motivating, the report stated, stating absence of rain projection up until a minimum of next Wednesday would offer a window of chance for farming activities before the most likely separated and intermittent showers anticipated over south-western parts of the country's farming heartlands. Argentina is one of the world's 2 largest exporters of soybean oil and...

A record soybean harvest in Brazil's southernmost state should balance out losses in the droughthit center west, keeping a lid on costs in the world's biggest manufacturer and exporter and slowing the pace of sales, according to local farmers and cooperatives. Rio Grande do Sul will produce 68% more soybeans this season than last, according to quotes from national crop company Conab, which stated Thursday the state would regain the post of Brazil's No. 2 manufacturer after Mato Grosso. Another state crop company Emater projects a record crop of 22.25 million metric lots, up 71.5% from a year back. That...

India will send 2 delegations next month to Chile to search for lithium and copper resources, a federal government source stated, as quick economic growth and New Delhi's efforts to accelerate the energy shift stoke demand for vital minerals. Chile is an essential target as it is the world's most significant provider of copper and the second-biggest manufacturer of lithium, which are essential for electric lorry batteries and renewable resource systems in the push away from fossil fuels. As part of India's drive to check out overseas for mineral assets, state companies National Aluminium Company, Hindustan Copper and unlisted Mineral...

Deaths caused by the mosquitoborne dengue illness have more than tripled in Peru so far this year, according to data from the South American nation's government, which is enhancing efforts to consist of an epidemic that has actually struck poor locations the hardest. The government of President Dina Boluarte today said it had authorized an emergency situation decree permitting extraordinary economic procedures to bolster the plan to counter the break out, which professionals say is exacerbated by climate modification. Mild symptoms consist of queasiness, rashes and body pains, while a. rarer extreme kind, more threatening for infants and pregnant. women,...

Damages to Argentina's. corn fields stemming from an extreme leafhopper insect break out. have actually currently caused $2.045 billion in losses, with export losses. seen at $1.6 billion, the Rosario grains exchange (BCR) stated on. Friday. In a report, the BCR added that shipments of the key grain. are now anticipated to total 31.5 million metric tons during the. current 2023/24 gathering season. That level of corn exports would come in substantially below. the yearly average over the past five seasons of some 35 million. metric heaps, according to the BCR. Earlier today, the exchange cut its corn harvest. projection...