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22 Jul 2026

Vaca Muerta and RIGI: How Argentina Engineered a Shale Export Boom

In July 2024 Argentina enacted RIGI, a 30 year incentive regime that guarantees tax, customs and foreign exchange stability for investments above 200 million US dollars. Two years on it has become the policy engine behind the Vaca Muerta shale play, financing new export pipelines, the country's first liquefied natural gas contracts and a record energy trade surplus. This dossier traces the causes, the present build out and the risks that hang over one of the most important non OPEC growth stories in oil and gas.

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