Map of Argentina's possible gas and oil-bearing shales, copied from a presentation by Tecpetrol*.
Last week, I did some reporting from a conference called Argentina Shale Oil and Tight Gas. No, they didn’t officially let me in (American Business Conferences apparently has good taste) but I managed to listen in on a few sessions and corner several oil executives too polite to tell me to go away. I’ll have a lot more details coming out in an article or two in the next month (elsewhere — guy’s gotta eat), but for now, let me tell you the basic conclusion for South America: few people here know what’s about to hit them.
