Argentina Approves Funding for YPF’s Vaca Muerta Pipeline
(Reuters) — Argentina has allowed state oil firm YPF to join a stimulus program unlocking government funds for a pipeline project from the massive Vaca Muerta shale formation to a port in the Patagonian province of Rio Negro, Economy Minister Luis Caputo said on Friday.
The project is estimated to cost nearly $3 billion. Once it is up and running, it should pump more than $15 billion in oil exports a year, Caputo said in a post on X.
YPF is developing the project along with partners such as Shell, Chevron, Vista and Pan American Energy. The group applied for the government stimulus - part of a program by President Javier Milei to attract large investments in the country and turn around the flagging economy - last year.
Argentina hopes to cement its status as a net energy exporter through Vaca Muerta, the world's second largest shale gas reserve and fourth largest for shale oil.
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