Argentina

A drive down a gravel road in the Loma Campana follows the steep early learning curve in the Vaca Muerta.

It is easy to fixate on what it will take to extract huge volumes of oil and gas from the nearly impermeable rock within the Vaca Muerta.

As part of a comprehensive water-management strategy, this paper describes different process and operational considerations that are the result of 109 years of production in Argentina’s oldest basin.

The boom in organic shale plays has revealed the critical need to size hydraulic-facture treatments correctly to achieve commercial success.

Shale explorers in Argentina are reporting that improving performance and activity is set to rise this year to boost the country’s gas production.

Argentina President Mauricio Macri visited with oil and gas companies in Houston to emphasize that his country’s reforms are making it increasingly attractive for upstream investing.

Shell has reaffirmed its commitment to the shale business and views it as a growth opportunity moving into the 2020s

With the easy conventional oil in Argentina having been produced, one remaining way to find new oil in existing fields is to convert fields from primary or secondary production to secondary or tertiary production, respectively.

The Loma Alta Sur (LAS) field is a multilayer fluvial sandstone reservoir in the Neuquén basin of Argentina. Colloidal-dispersion-gel injection was considered a viable strategy to improve oil recovery in the field after early water breakthrough.

One of the most promising targets for resource-rock stimulation in South America is the Vaca Muerta (VM) shale in western Argentina.