A flagship pipeline project championed by Javier Milei’s administration chose a foreign supplier over a local giant run by one of Argentina’s richest men in a test of the president’s free-market vision to open up a protectionist economy.
Pipes are stacked for a pipeline while under construction on the Vaca Muerta shale deposit. Photographer: Sarah Pabst/Bloomberg
A flagship pipeline project championed by Javier Milei’s administration chose a foreign supplier over a local giant run by one Argentina’s richest men in a test of the president’s free-market vision to open up a protectionist economy.
Pipes are stacked for a pipeline while under construction on the Vaca Muerta shale deposit. Photographer: Sarah Pabst/Bloomberg
MidOcean Energy LLC, a liquefied natural gas company founded by EIG, is in talks to join Argentina’s signature LNG venture, according to people familiar with the matter.
A group of banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. are in talks to lend natural gas producers in Argentina roughly $1 billion to build a cross-country pipeline, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Worker at the Vaca Muerta Sur pipeline construction site in Neuquen, Argentina, on Thursday, March 13, 2025. Oil exports are ramping up from the Vaca Muerta shale deposit in Patagonia after years of false starts.
Billionaire Harold Hamm’s Continental Resources reached an agreement to buy assets in Argentina from Pan American Energy, expanding its push into the Vaca Muerta shale basin.
An oil drilling rig at Vaca Muerta Shale oil reservoir in Neuquen province.
Global luxury conglomerate LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE and one of the world’s biggest private equity firms, Carlyle Group Inc., hold stakes in train operators facing scrutiny after a fatal crash on a railway that ferries tourists to Machu Picchu.
One of the two trains involved in a head-on collision connecting Machu Picchu with Ollantaytambo in Pampacahua, Cusco Department, Peru, on Dec. 30. Photographer: Carolina Paucar/AFP/Getty Images
Grassi SA, one of Argentina’s top grain brokerages, cleared what could be the last hurdle to take over distressed exporter Vicentin SAIC, whose assets include a significant stake in the world’s biggest soybean crushing plant.
The San Lorenzo port area by Rosario, Argentina, where Vicentin has a soy crush-export facility, in June.
A Swiss-backed venture seeking to build the first large copper mine in an Argentine province better known for winemaking is considering financing offers in a key test case for the fledgling industry.
A base of the mining project as seen from San Jorge Hill in Uspallata, Argentina on Dec. 6.
China is buying its first cargo of Argentine wheat in decades at a time when farmers on the Pampas are harvesting a record crop and President Javier Milei is trimming tariffs on shipments in a bid to boost exports.
A farmer in a wheat field near Rosario, Argentina, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. President Javier Milei temporarily scrapped export tariffs on all of Argentina's crop cargoes in a bid to bring dollars into the country to shore up a market sell-off before a crucial midterm election.
Two major banks in Argentina are seeking to open up more credit for farmers as President Javier Milei tears down economic barriers, including chopping export tariffs for growers.
A farmer prepares a field for planting in Serodino, Santa Fe province, Argentina, in 2023. Photographer: Sebastian Lopez Brach/Bloomberg
Two major banks in Argentina are seeking to open up more credit for farmers as President Javier Milei tears down economic barriers, including chopping export tariffs for growers.
A farmer prepares a field for planting in Serodino, Santa Fe province, Argentina, in 2023. Photographer: Sebastian Lopez Brach/Bloomberg
President Javier Milei’s government reduced tariffs on exports of soybeans, corn and wheat as he seeks to make good on a repeated promise to do away with the levies, which have held back Argentina’s farmers for years.
Trucks carrying grain for export from wheat fields near Rosario, Argentina. Photographer: Sebastian Lopez Brach/Bloomberg
President Javier Milei’s government reduced tariffs on exports of soybeans, corn and wheat as he seeks to make good on a repeated promise to do away with the levies, which have held back Argentina’s farmers for years.
Trucks carrying grain for export from wheat fields near Rosario, Argentina. Photographer: Sebastian Lopez Brach/Bloomberg
President Javier Milei’s government reduced tariffs on exports of soybeans, corn and wheat as he seeks to make good on a repeated promise to do away with the levies, which have held back Argentina’s farmers for years.
Trucks carrying grain for export from wheat fields near Rosario, Argentina. Photographer: Sebastian Lopez Brach/Bloomberg
A record wheat crop in Argentina is spurring a logistics frenzy to get harvests to grain terminals and helping to keep global prices at around multi-year lows.
The wheat harvest is underway in Firmat, Santa Fe, Argentina. Expectations for Argentina's 2025/26 wheat campaign are for a record harvest, with an estimate of around 23-24.5 million metric tons, driven by abundant rainfall, expanded planted area, and high yields. (Photo by via Getty Images)
Energy trading giants Mercuria Energy Group and Vitol Group are among finalists for a refinery and hundreds of gas stations in Argentina being sold by Raizen SA, according to people familiar with the matter.
Aerial view of the Raizen refinery next to the Rio de la Plata river and backgrounded by Buenos Aires city in Dock Sud, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires province, taken on February 6, 2025. (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP) (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images)
The fracking pioneer’s push into Patagonian shale may open doors for others.
View of oil drilling rigs at Vaca Muerta Shale oil reservoir in Loma Campana, in the Patagonian province of Neuquen, some 1180 Km south-west of Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 4, 2014. YPF has an agreement with US Chevron to exploit Vaca Muerta, the world's second largest reserve of shale gas and fourth largest reserve of oil, estimated to contain the equivalent of 27 billion barrels. AFP PHOTO / JUAN MABROMATA (Photo by Juan MABROMATA / AFP) (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images) Photographer: JUAN MABROMATA/AFP
Investors seeking to capitalize on Javier Milei’s next round of market reforms are gearing up to bid in a tender to privatize Argentina’s beleaguered freight railways, part of the president’s effort to unleash vast agriculture and mining exports.
A freight train in the foothills of the Andes mountains in the Salta Province, Argentina. Photographer: Marica van der Meer/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
Investors seeking to capitalize on Javier Milei’s next round of market reforms are gearing up to bid in a tender to privatize Argentina’s beleaguered freight railways, part of the president’s effort to unleash vast agriculture and mining exports.
A freight train in the foothills of the Andes mountains in the Salta Province, Argentina. Photographer: Marica van der Meer/Universal Images Group/Getty Images