Pampa Energía - Rincón de Aranda
The RIGI's first oil upstream project. Adhesion on 25-Jun-2026 (Acta 23 of the Comité Evaluador) and approval by Resolución 1025/2026 of the Ministerio de Economía (Official Gazette 21-Jul-2026), PEELP category —Long-Term Strategic Export Project, the RIGI tier for staged investments of USD 1 billion, with benefits brought forward—: the act approves USD 4,521 M in computable assets across three stages through 2041, with 259 wells (50 + 70 + 139). Employment splits in two and the difference matters: 715 direct and 500 indirect jobs in CONSTRUCTION, and 62 direct and 456 indirect in OPERATION. Target plateau ~45,000 bbl/d by the end of 2027; in Q2-2026 the block produced 22.2 kbbl/d from 43 wells, without confirmation that this output belongs to the approved project. The capex jump —from the USD 376 M midstream application of Jul-2025 to the entire project— was enabled by Decreto 105/2026, which brought onshore production into the RIGI with a USD 600 M floor: it was a change of SCOPE, not the securing of evacuation capacity.
How to supply it
what we have for a supplier, and how to request it
What we have on this project for a supplier
Who decides the purchase, who you invoice and where a new supplier registers.
Which lines each phase buys and when the window opens for each one.
Which they are, why it will need them and who could provide them.
Who they are, what each one does and how to sell to them.
All of this is surveyed and verified against its source. Crossed with what you sell —which of them your products suit, how to reach it and when— it is in your company report. Request the report
We cross what you manufacture or do against the 3 phases of this project and tell you which ones you fit into and when each one buys. Two pages, with the evidence behind them.
Where my company can get inThe project
what it is, the route, the owners, the works and the contractors
Who owns it
Pampa Energía verif Apr 9, 2026 ↗
The works, milestone by milestone
Resolucion 1025/2026 approving the accession is published: USD 4,521 M in computable assets, long-term strategic export category, 259 wells in three stages through 2041
The presidential press office announces the approval and publishes the employment breakdown: 715 + 500 in construction, 62 + 456 in operation
The RIGI Project Evaluating Committee meets and recommends approval (Acta N 23); it is also the legal accession date
Pampa files its SECOND application, the one covering the whole field: the Sucursal Dedicada Proyecto RDA applies to opt into the RIGI as a long-term strategic export project for ~259 new wells plus their associated infrastructure —including oil and gas pipelines— for ~USD 4,500 M
Decreto 105/2026 brings onshore hydrocarbon exploration and production into the RIGI with a USD 600 M floor, and extends the accession deadline by one year
Pampa files its USD 376 M midstream application with the RIGI, through the Sucursal Dedicada Midstream RDA, for a processing plant
The block's development plan starts, with a drilling campaign and facilities
What it leaves in Neuquén
jobs, works, taxes, promises and the outlook
How many jobs it creates
715 direct jobs and 500 indirect ones verif Jun 30, 2026 ↗
62 direct jobs and 456 indirect ones verif Jun 30, 2026 ↗
The works that stay behind
The infrastructure that stays standing once the works end, with its size and its source.
12-inch oil pipeline from Rincón de Aranda to YPF's Non-Conventional Pumping Head at La Amarga Chica
Productivethe block itself; the delivery point is a YPF facility, not a Pampa one
Verbatim from the provincial environmental filing: «laying of a 12" diameter, 36.5 km oil pipeline to transport oil production from the Rincón de Aranda area to YPF's Non-Conventional Pumping Head (CABO NOC) located in the La Amarga Chica area» verif. Rincón de Aranda's crude does not reach export through its own infrastructure: it enters YPF facilities 36.5 km away thesis.
8-inch gas pipeline from Rincón de Aranda to the EEC11 Electric Compressor Station at Borde Montuoso
Powerthe block itself; the delivery point is a third party's facility at Bajada del Palo Oeste
Verbatim from the provincial environmental filing: «from the Rincón de Aranda area to the facilities of the EEC11 Electric Compressor Station at Borde Montuoso in Bajada del Palo Oeste», through an 8", 28.5 km gas pipeline verif. The associated gas does not leave through its own facility either: it enters another operator's plant thesis.
Three storage ponds for fracturing water
Waterm³ across three 100,000 m³ modules, on a 193,875 m² site
the block for the whole concession; it is the facility that stores the area's fracturing water
Three ponds of 100,000 m³ each (300,000 m³ in total) on a 193,875 m² site, with their own Environmental Impact Study published by the provincial environmental authority verif. It is the facility that sets how much fracturing water the area can store thesis.
What it already pays in taxes and royalties
Item by item, with the rule that sets it. A rate is not the same as what is collected, nor what is received the same as what is projected.
Hydrocarbon royalty verif Jul 31, 2023 ↗+
18 %Hydrocarbon royalty - top rate from 20 Jul 2027 verif Jul 20, 2027 ↗+
Area Extension Bonus verif Jul 31, 2023 ↗+
Corporate Social Responsibility Contribution verif Jul 31, 2023 ↗+
Corporate Social Responsibility contribution: municipal works with a published act verif Oct 1, 2024 ↗+
Who promised what
We have not surveyed the public promises about this project. A dated, verifiable commitment with its source closes them.
What could stall it
risks and how to track them
- What could stall it — We have not documented this project’s risks. An identifiable vector with its source closes them.
- How to tell whether it is advancing — We have not defined this project’s indicators: what observable fact marks its progress still has to be identified.
How we verified this
the act, the gaps and the sources
The RIGI act, in detail
EX-2026-24259120- -APN-SCEYM#MEC verif Jul 21, 2026 ↗
Jun 25, 2026 verif Jul 21, 2026 ↗
Jul 20, 2026 verif Jul 20, 2026 ↗
Jul 21, 2026 verif Jul 21, 2026 ↗
The act’s articles, in detail
8 facts on the commitment
2.000 verif Jul 21, 2026 ↗
1.099 verif Jul 21, 2026 ↗
2031-07-01 verif Jul 21, 2026 ↗
4.521 verif Jul 21, 2026 ↗
Pampa Energía S.A. - Sucursal Dedicada Proyecto RDA, tax ID 30-71901911-7, registered at Maipú N° 1, Buenos Aires City. verif Jul 21, 2026 ↗
Jun 25, 2026 verif Jun 25, 2026 ↗
Energy Secretariat verif Jul 21, 2026 ↗
What we could not confirm
There are 6 in this project. Each says why it could not be confirmed and what it would take to close it.
H-01How many pesos a Tax Unit is worth in Añelo — and without that, what a supplier actually pays+
The Ordenanza Tarifaria 2026 was downloaded in full (90 pages, 71 MB) and read end to end, including its 57 scanned pages: it sets EVERYTHING in Tax Units and ends at article 138 without ever saying what one is worth. It refers to the Municipal Tax Code (Ordenanza 129), but that 2012 ordinance does not say it either: it was read in full in an archived copy of the municipal site and does not mention the Tax Unit even once. The value has to be in another municipal act.
H-02Where the rest of the USD 5,518,000 Corporate Social Responsibility contribution was applied+
There are three destinations with a published act (Las Coloradas, Los Miches and Coyuco-Cochico, about ARS 182 million in total) and they are recorded above, but they add up to a small share of the contribution. The official Vista Alegre press release of 27 May 2025 mentions the contribution in a single sentence, with no amount.
H-03Which consultancy signs the project's Environmental Impact Studies+
It would be the only environmental-engineering link in the whole block with a name attached. Both the provincial authority's Environmental Impact Study listing and the filing for the treatment plant were opened: they publish the proponent (Pampa Energía S.A.), the file number (EX-2024-01757139-NEU-SADM#SAMB) and the date, and name neither the consultancy nor the responsible professional. The listing, moreover, only shows the study currently in public hearing, not a history.
H-04How many pesos a servitude «well-equivalent» is worth — it would be the dataset's first quantified servitude cost and it applies across Neuquén+
⭐ THE RESOLUTION HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED — its official text was opened and read on 2026-08-31 — and with that half of this gap falls: the latest one updating the amounts of Decreto 861/96 is RESOLUCIÓN CONJUNTA 2/2026 of the Energy and the Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries secretariats (RESFC-2026-2-APN-SAGYP#MEC, Boletín Oficial No. 35847 of 06-Feb-2026), which raises dry-land compensation as of 1-Aug-2025 by 60.71% in Zone A, 90.36% in Zone B, 54.29% in Zone C and 54.40% in Zone D, and in turn updates Conjunta 1 of 27-Dec-2024. ⛔ BUT THERE IS STILL NO PESO FIGURE, AND THE REASON IS STRUCTURAL, NOT A SEARCH FAILURE: the whole chain since 1996 updates BY PERCENTAGE over the previous resolution, and the tables of Annexes I to VI of Decreto 861/96 are not reproduced in the official text online — it was read in full on InfoLEG and the articles cite them as «escalas» without transcribing a single figure.
H-05Official production by block (Chapter IV sworn statements) — the only indicator that would isolate this block without relying on private surveys+
The host `datos.energia.gob.ar` resolves through DNS (168.101.26.134) but REFUSES THE CONNECTION on ports 80 and 443. The datos.gob.ar catalogue does answer 200 and lists more than fifty resources from the dataset, but ALL of them point at that dead host, and the datastore API does not mirror them (404). Eleven attempts accumulated across three passes, over two hosts and two protocols. ⚠️ This is a host outage, not a missing document: the data exists and the State publishes it.
H-06The list of goods the project may import duty-free (file IF-2026-58124279)+
Read the other way round, it is the map of what this project will NOT buy from Argentine industry. The Official Gazette notice references it and does not reproduce it. Resolution 60/2026 of 30 July 2026 was suspected of having replaced it: that notice was opened BY DATE and it did NOT — that resolution comes from the Mining Secretariat and replaces the list of the «Proyecto Rincón» lithium development of Rincón Mining PTY LTD, a different company and a different project. The only overlap was the name.
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