This was challenging due to the hardnessabrasiveness of the vaca muerta shale, which caused conventional blades to overheat and snap. Moreover, the cuts had to be dry given the watersensitivity of the shale. The vaca muerta shale formation has technically recoverable resources of 308 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 16 billion barrels of oil and condensate within 8. Financial risks cloud development of argentinas vaca. Vaca muerta ebook alejandro bercovich descargar libro pdf. Nicolas ricotta ciencias administrativas ano 4 n 7 enero junio 2016 issn 2314 3738. According to ypfs unconventional resource estimates for the vaca muerta shale, the target could hold anywhere from 900 to 22. There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Solo en loma campana ypf perforo casi 300 pozos en tres anos. The first was having a portfolio of assets diversified in all fluid windows but with the focus in the gas window. Geology and development of vaca muerta formation in loma campana field, neuquen basin, argentina. Dry gas prospect vaca muerta basin neuquen province, argentina. The vaca muerta shale has long been known as a major petroleum source rock for other formations in the neuquen basin, which has had oil production since 1918.
Descargar vaca muerta alejandro bercovich en pdf libros. It is well known as the host rock for major deposits of shale oil and shale gas the large oil discovery in the vaca muerta formation was made in 2010 by the former repsolypf, which. The aim of this paper is to present the stage of knowledge about these units based on published. Financial risks cloud development of argentinas vaca muerta oil and gas reserves executive summary the government of argentina and a network of regional and global oil and gas companies have combined to develop the countrys large fossil fuel reserves in an area of northern patagonia known as vaca muerta dead cow. Vaca muerta occupies an area of 36,000 km2, somewhat smaller than the territory of switzerland or the netherlands. Only 4% of vaca muerta s acreage has entered the development phase so far. Located in the neuquen basin, it was originally discovered in 1927, but only achieving its great potential in 2011. The ypf position vaca muerta play vaca muerta is present in an area of 30.
The vaca muerta formation is the primary source for hydrocarbons in conventional reservoirs and is in the oil window across approximately 60% of the basin. Vaca muerta shale basic properties, specimen preparation. Segun nuestras estimaciones, en todo vaca muerta habria 105. The vaca muerta formation was deposited between the tithonian agea late jurassic transgressionand the berriasian stage of the early cretaceous epoch. Growth in argentinas vaca muerta shale and tight gas. Gran tierra energy vaca muerta 2017 development area map. Vaca muerta is the main nonconventional hydrocarbon formation in argentina.