74 supplier niches, sized in USD and ordered by where they sit in the chain
Each row is a market with a name, an estimated annual size and a province. The 63 with their own page open the full entry map: who is already there, which certification it takes and when the window opens.
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Well core9 · well services, downhole and frac inputs
| What they buy | Province | USD M/year | Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drilling rigs and frac spreads (services) | Neuquén | 2,500 estim 2025 | sustained |
| Frac sand (proppant) and its logistics | Neuquén | 825 estim 2026 | sustained |
| Steel tubes (OCTG) and line pipe | Neuquén | 650 estim 2025 | sustained |
| Well intervention: workover and pulling | Neuquén | 300 estim 2025 | emerging |
| Drilling and fracturing chemicals | Neuquén | 300 estim 2026 | sustained |
| HSE, well control and safety | Neuquén | 260 estim 2026 | sustained |
| Locally sourced barite and bentonite for drilling muds | Neuquén | 34 estim Aug 31, 2026 | sustained |
| Well cementing and abandonment | Neuquén | 25 estim 2026 | emerging |
| Workover, pulling and reactivation of Catriel's conventional fields | Río Negro | 20 estim 2026-2028 | sustained |
Gas and midstream4 · treatment, compression and evacuation
| What they buy | Province | USD M/year | Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gas treatment and compression + flaring capture | Neuquén | 280 estim 2026 | emerging |
| Midstream, storage and GyP channel services | Neuquén | 172 estim 2025-2026 | urgent |
| Maritime and offshore services of the Golfo San Matías | Río Negro | 41 estim 2026-2028 | emerging |
| Port logistics and project cargo transport (Puerto San Antonio Este) | Río Negro | 13 estim 2026-2028 | urgent |
Surface and environment12 · physical infrastructure, water, pipelines and energy
Support and professional services18 · engineering, compliance, digitalization, real estate and talent
Mine core7 · drilling, blasting and extraction
| What they buy | Province | USD M/year | Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exploration drilling and core-drilling services (San Juan) | San Juan | 60 estim Jul 19, 2026 | sustained |
| Blasting, explosives and blasthole drilling (San Juan) | San Juan | 25 estim Jul 19, 2026 | emerging |
| Shared processing capacity: ore toll milling in San Juan | San Juan | 17 estim Jun 4, 2025 | emerging |
| High-altitude drilling, brine wells and hydrogeology in the Salta puna | Salta | 12 estim Aug 3, 2026 | urgent |
| Lithium pond geosynthetics: certified installation, seam CQC and harvesting without damaging the liner (Catamarca) | Catamarca | 6 estim Jul 25, 2026 | urgent |
| Brine and water well drilling (Catamarca) | Catamarca | 4 estim Jul 25, 2026 | sustained |
| Metallurgical lime, agglomeration cement and leaching process reagents | San Juan | 4 estim Aug 31, 2026 | sustained |
High-altitude infrastructure8 · mountain roads, power and transmission
Services and camp9 · camp, catering, transport and lab
| What they buy | Province | USD M/year | Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catering and remote high-altitude site hospitality (San Juan) | San Juan | 90 estim Jul 19, 2026 | sustained |
| Mining camps and modular housing (San Juan) | San Juan | 55 estim Jul 19, 2026 | urgent |
| Camps, catering and the community joint venture of the Salta puna | Salta | 51 estim Aug 2, 2026 | urgent |
| Camps, catering and high-altitude living services in the Catamarca puna | Catamarca | 20 estim Aug 30, 2026 | urgent |
| Mining personnel transport and people-to-mine logistics (San Juan) | San Juan | 18 estim Jul 19, 2026 | sustained |
| Geochemical laboratory and sample preparation in San Juan | San Juan | 8 estim Jul 19, 2026 | emerging |
| High-altitude occupational health: fitness, medical surveillance and medical transfer in the Salta puna | Salta | 4 estim Aug 3, 2026 | urgent |
| High-altitude health, rescue and aeromedical evacuation as a shared service (Catamarca) | Catamarca | 3 estim Jul 25, 2026 | urgent |
| Brine laboratory and sample preparation (Catamarca) | Catamarca | 2 estim Jul 25, 2026 | sustained |
Induced economy7 · what the town consumes once the project hires: housing, retail, health, education and services
| What they buy | Province | USD M/year | Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retail, supermarkets and mass-consumption commerce (induced economy) | Neuquén | 920 estim 2026 | |
| City residential/commercial construction + building-materials retail (induced economy) | Neuquén | 450 thesis 2026 | |
| Personal and professional consumer services (induced economy) | Neuquén | 380 estim 2026 | |
| City restaurants and hotels (induced economy) | Neuquén | 250 thesis 2026 | |
| Family housing and mortgage credit (induced economy) | Neuquén | 220 thesis 2026 | |
| Private healthcare for the population (clinics, diagnostics, pharmacies, prepaid plans) | Neuquén | 210 thesis 2026 | |
| Private education for families (schools, early childhood, languages) | Neuquén | 55 thesis 2026 |
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Analyze my companyThe mining sector, measured: exporting more, employing less
The two official series from the Secretaría de Minería, point by point since November 2023. Read together they say something neither says alone: the sector is growing without hiring — the growth is bought abroad, not contracted at home. For a supplier that is not bad news: it is the definition of their market.
Every point came from opening its own edition of the monthly report and reading the sentence. ⚠ The employment series is missing 14 months that do not exist in the source — checked against the official index for all three years — and they are not interpolated; it also crosses a change of method the Secretariat itself declares from April 2026, so the 2026 points are not strictly comparable with 2023-2025.
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