Vaca Muerta Oleoducto Sur (VMOS)
437-kilometer, 30-inch export pipeline between Allen and Punta Colorada, with a marine terminal of six tanks and two monobuoys some seven kilometers offshore, in the San Matías Gulf. It takes Vaca Muerta crude out through the Atlantic, without going through Buenos Aires or Chile. The resolution that approved it under the RIGI recognizes a base capacity of 377,400 barrels per day; the consortium tells the market it starts at around 180,000 and reaches 550,000 in the second half of 2027. Works were 80% complete in July 2026 and the first export is expected in early 2027.
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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.
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what it is, the route, the owners, the works and the contractors
What it is and why it exists
A 437-kilometer pipeline carrying Vaca Muerta crude from Allen to the sea at Punta Colorada, and a terminal where vessels load between six and nine kilometers offshore. It was built by the nine oil companies that will then use it: they put up the money, signed the transport commitment and created a company, VMOS S.A., which owns the pipeline and does not produce oil.
Vaca Muerta produces more crude than it can move out. The existing pipelines run to Bahía Blanca and to Chile, and they hit their ceiling. Without a new outlet to the Atlantic, production stalls even with wells drilled: the surplus cannot be sold. That is why the producers themselves are paying for the pipeline, and why they committed 490,000 barrels a day firm before the pipe existed — they pay for the capacity whether they use it or not, and that commitment is what allowed VMOS to secure a USD 2,000 million loan.
Where it runs and how much it can move
437 kilometers between Allen and Punta Colorada, both ends within Río Negro. Vaca Muerta crude reaches Allen through other pipelines that are not part of this project verif verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
30 inches verif May 26, 2025 ↗
Punta Colorada, near Sierra Grande, on the Golfo San Matías. Vessels are loaded at two single-point buoys offshore, not at a pier: the national resolution places them six kilometers off the coast verif and the descriptive memorandum of the agreement with the province at 7.5 and 9 kilometers verif. verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
441 kilometers is the figure Río Negro uses to assess the environmental levy, while the descriptive memorandum of that same agreement says 437. Both figures coexist inside the same instrument. verif May 26, 2025 ↗
3,774,000 barrels according to the national resolution, expandable to 6,290,000. The agreement with the province describes the tank farm as built: six tanks of 120,000 m³ at Punta Colorada and three of 50,000 m³ at Allen verif May 26, 2025 ↗
Potential of 700,000 barrels per day across the two single-point moorings verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
The pumping stations plug into the Comahue public grid, not into their own generation. The national regulator published two new demands: 11.34 MVA for the Allen head station and 8.10 MVA for the Chelforó pumping station, with two new 132/6.6 kV transformer stations — 24 MVA at Allen and 10 MVA at Chelforó — and just 600 meters of high-voltage line to connect them. They are operated by Transcomahue, the provincial transmission company prob Jul 22, 2025 ↗
Groundwater from two private wells, Olivar 2 and Olivar 6, with a maximum authorized flow of 25 m³ per hour between them. The permit covers only «construction and commissioning», lapses if the use changes and expires after four years verif Jun 11, 2025 ↗
Surface water from the Alto Valle Main Irrigation Canal, 42.5 m³ per hour, for the fire-fighting network and industrial uses during construction. It carries a seasonal restriction written into the permit itself: during the shutdown period the canal runs dry verif Sep 19, 2025 ↗
28 block valves along the route, according to the descriptive memorandum of the agreement with the province. Pumping starts with the Allen head station and one intermediate station; the design provides for adding stations as throughput grows. verif May 26, 2025 ↗
What reserves back it
At the close of 2025, 490,000 barrels a day had been committed firm by the initial shippers, before the pipeline existed: YPF 120,000, Vista 50,000 and Pampa 50,000; the remaining 270,000 are split among the other partners, which do not report their volume. Those transport contracts are assigned as security for the USD 2,000 million loan verif. In April 2026 the VMOS shareholders' meeting expanded the capacity of YPF and Chevron verif; we did not find the new committed total published. verif Dec 31, 2025 ↗
The pipeline has no reserves of its own: it transports those of its shippers. The Neuquén unconventional basin held 1,546 million barrels of proved oil reserves as of 31 December 2023, according to the «fin de vida útil» (end of useful life) sheet of the most recent official record published. The largest blocks behind that figure are Loma Campana with 302 (247 of them in the Loma Campana-LLL field), La Amarga Chica with 250, Bajada del Palo Oeste with 194 and Bandurria Sur with 143 million barrels. verif Dec 31, 2023 ↗
Who owns it
VMOS S.A., CUIT 30-71871335-4 verif. It is a company created for this work by the same oil companies that will use the pipeline verif. verif Dec 31, 2025 ↗
Nine groups, eleven entities: Chevron and Shell each come in through two companies verif. Gas y Petróleo del Neuquén is the only Class B shareholder; the rest are Class A. verif Dec 31, 2025 ↗
24.49% as of 31 December 2025 verif and 29.82% as of 30 June 2026 verif: the shareholders' meeting of 23 April 2026 expanded the transport capacity of YPF and Chevron verif, and YPF subscribed the new shares. verif Jun 30, 2026 ↗
10.20% as of 31 December 2025. verif Dec 31, 2025 ↗
10.20% at the close of 2025 verif and 9.09% as of 30 June 2026 verif. In April 2026 the VMOS shareholders' meeting expanded the capacity of YPF and Chevron, and YPF went from 24.49% to 29.82% verif: Pampa's drop is the other side of that expansion thesis. verif Jun 30, 2026 ↗
Pan American Sur, Pluspetrol, Tecpetrol, Gas y Petróleo del Neuquén and the local companies of Chevron and Shell do not report their stake in any of the reports reviewed. Tecpetrol came in as a Class A shareholder in June 2025. prob Dec 31, 2025 ↗
No shareholder controls the company, but YPF runs it: Gustavo María Gallino, YPF's Vice President of Infrastructure, is a director and chairman of the board of VMOS. The CEO is Gustavo Chaab prob Dec 31, 2025 ↗
USD 301 million at the close of 2025, with a net loss of USD 51.4 million for the year. As of 30 June 2026 Pampa's financial statements report for VMOS equity of 863,402 million pesos and a profit of 48,757 million pesos for the half-year, before the pipeline starts transporting verif. verif Dec 31, 2025 ↗
What other projects it links to
What this project enables or needs outside the province, and through what mechanism.
NeuquénThe project ends in Río Negro but its reason for existing is in Neuquén: it carries crude from Vaca Muerta verif Aug 10, 2026 ↗+
The effect runs both ways — without this outlet to the Atlantic, Neuquén's production stalls even with wells drilled, and without that production the pipe does not fill.
NeuquénAnother RIGI project shares this pipeline's right-of-way and is assessing reusing its construction camps: the San Matías Dedicated Pipeline, of San Matías Pipeline S.A., which supplies the floating LNG project in the Golfo San Matías verif Feb 2026 ↗+
The works, milestone by milestone
During the winter of 2026 the anchors and chains that will hold the two single-point moorings to the floor of the Golfo San Matías are laid off Punta Colorada: in August the work had begun, in September it was still under way prob and on 5 October the Government of Río Negro reports it as done.
The two single-point mooring buoys arrive at the Puerto de San Antonio Este from the United Arab Emirates. They are CALM-type buoys, 272 tonnes and 15.3 meters in diameter each, and will be installed off Punta Colorada, about seven kilometers from the coast, to load VLCC tankers that, according to VMOS, carry up to two million barrels per voyage. By then the anchors and chains were already on the seabed, 721 pipes for the subsea pipeline had arrived, and the pipe was being welded and laid from the vessel Seminole
VMOS taps the local market for the first time with a 48-month Class 1 corporate bond: the subscription notice offers up to USD 100 million, expandable to USD 300 million. According to the trade press, it placed USD 233.6 million at 6.25% a year.
The connection to YPF's infrastructure in Allen was scheduled for December 15, 2026, and the target for full operating capacity was brought forward to July-September 2027; the 2028 window was left for an expansion up to 700,000 barrels per day
The offshore stretch begins: the pipes for the submarine pipeline arrive at Puerto de San Antonio Este, the platform that supports the offshore work is set in place off Punta Colorada, and the two single-point moorings, 272 tonnes and 15.3 meters in diameter each, cross the Strait of Hormuz. They arrive at Puerto de San Antonio Este in early October verif, to be installed off Punta Colorada. These are the pieces that allow crude to be loaded straight onto VLCC tankers.
The works reach 80% and the operator confirms to the market that the first export shipment is due in early 2027
The pipeline crosses the Río Negro beneath the riverbed, 25 meters deep, in the Chelforó area. The province had announced it for December 2025 prob and the drilling finished on 20 March 2026: a three-month slippage, recorded in two official statements.
Final automatic weld of the pipeline at the entrance to the Punta Colorada terminal. In October the Techint-SACDE joint venture had set a record of 175 joints and more than four kilometers in a single day
VMOS signs an international syndicated loan of USD 2,000 million over five years, secured by the transport contracts and by the partners' Class A shares
The Río Negro legislature ratifies through Ley 5782 the agreement with VMOS: a one-off bond of USD 60 million and a community contribution of USD 40 million a year for thirteen years
Resolución 302/2025 is published, approving accession to the RIGI as a Long-Term Strategic Export Project
RIGI accession date set by article 2 of the resolution. The thirty years of stability hang from this date verif
The board of VMOS S.A. unanimously approved the construction of the pipeline. The same day the four founding partners signed the shareholders' agreement and the first firm transport contracts verif
What it leaves in Río Negro
jobs, works, taxes, promises and the outlook
How many jobs it creates
Around 2,000 people at peak construction, according to the pipeline contractor itself. The official RIGI register assigns the project 3,108 jobs, without distinguishing construction from operation or direct from indirect verif prob 2026 ↗
The works that stay behind
The infrastructure that stays standing once the works end, with its size and its source.
Provincial Route 9, stretch from Route 3 to the Punta Colorada pier
Roadsof gravel road between Route 3 and the pier
Sierra Grande and Punta Colorada
Funded by the VMOS Bond. It is gravel, not asphalt: grading, embankments, culverts, metal guardrails and signage along the 28 kilometers between Ruta 3 and Punta Colorada prob. Bids were opened on 7 April 2026 with five offers prob, and by September 2026 the works were already under way, with the site camp set up and 7% progress.
Expansion of School 60 in Sierra Grande
Socialm² sports hall
Sierra Grande
A 640 m² multipurpose hall designed as a gym, with toilets for both sexes plus an accessible one, kitchen and lobby with independent entrance, funded by the VMOS Bond. It was tendered with an official budget of $1,410,543,073 and a twelve-month term prob; the contract was signed in December 2025 for $1,310,670,038 with Agro Vial Sur S.A., and the works began in March 2026. It stays open to the public for sports and social activities.
Refurbishment of the Sierra Grande Hospital, stage 2
Socialofficial budget
Sierra Grande
Roofing, ceilings, storm and sewage drainage and vehicle access at the Dr. Osvaldo P. Bianchi Hospital, with the works delegated to the municipality and a term of 150 calendar days from the start certificate. The decree approves and funds the works: as of 30 July 2026 the agreement was still «to be signed» and there was no start certificate
Transfer to the Municipality of Sierra Grande
Othertransferred to the municipality
Sierra Grande
This is the 5% of the Bond that Ley 5782 reserves for the municipality verif: more than $3,780 million according to the agreement signed in August 2025. Stated purpose: road machinery, one thousand LED streetlights and 14,590 m² of paving. The mayor submits the projects and the province has to approve them before the money is transferred, and the transfer goes project by project: by September 2025 the province had paid $483 million for road equipment and $89 million for the streetlights prob.
Hospitals in Sierra Colorada and Barda del Medio
Socialbetween the two: 10 in Sierra Colorada and 7 in Barda del Medio
Río Negro (not the corridor)
Two new hospitals funded by the VMOS Bond: Sierra Colorada, some USD 10 million, and Barda del Medio, some USD 7 million prob. The Bond also pays for schools in El Bolsón, Cipolletti, General Roca, Fernández Oro, Luis Beltrán and Villa Manzano prob. Sierra Grande, the municipality that hosts the terminal, receives 5% of the Bond by law verif. That the works the pipeline leaves behind are mainly provincial rather than local is our reading 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.
5/95%Territorial Development Contribution (the «VMOS Bond») verif May 26, 2025 ↗+
USD 40,000,000Community Contribution verif May 26, 2025 ↗+
USD 1,050,000Control and Oversight Fee verif May 26, 2025 ↗+
Environmental fee verif May 26, 2025 ↗+
Port public domain use fee estim May 26, 2025+
Who promised what
Who promised what, with a date and with how to check it. We record them whatever the political colour.
not startedVMOS S.A. and its shareholders · First crude export in early 2027, with commercial start-up at the close of the fourth quarter of 2026 verif Aug 10, 2026 ↗+
not startedVMOS S.A. · Completing the minimum investment amount in computable assets before 31 December 2028, with a 20% milestone in the first two years from notification verif Dec 31, 2028 ↗+
partly keptVMOS S.A. · Paying Río Negro USD 40 million a year for thirteen years as a Community Contribution, on top of the initial USD 60 million bond prob Feb 2026 ↗+
partly keptGovernment of Río Negro · That energy development leaves Río Negro suppliers behind: awarded companies went from 14 to 48 between the first quarter of 2025 and that of 2026, with 70% provincial participation prob Mar 31, 2026 ↗+
What changes in Río Negro if the project works
The first vessel loads in early 2027 and by the second half of that year the system moves around 550,000 barrels a day. That is the headline, and it is not what matters most here.
What changes in Río Negro is that the province gains an oil export terminal where before there was a beach and a town living off the memory of a closed mine. Sierra Grande stops being a place you drive through: Ley 5.594 requires 80% of the project's workers and suppliers to be based in the province, and that share also reaches contractors and subcontractors, which is where the buying actually happens. In the first quarter of 2026 the project bought $15,902 million from Río Negro suppliers, and the largest category was not engineering: it was staff transport, at $5,164 million, followed by catering at $4,059 million.
And there is a second shift almost nobody is watching. Construction ends, but the system starts: a marine terminal operating around the clock needs maintenance, tugs, diving, pipeline inspection, spill response and environmental monitoring for decades. That market does not exist on the Río Negro coast today and it has no owner yet.
Outlook to 2027, built on the verified data of this page and our analytical framework. We also publish what would invalidate it.
What could stall it
risks and how to track them
What could stall it
Each risk, with who or what could trigger it.
tecnicoThat the committed crude does not show up in the firm volumeShippers committed 490,000 barrels a day firm, but part of that backing sits in blocks that are not reserves yet. As of 31 December 2023 Rincón de Aranda, the block on which Pampa bases its 50,000 barrels, was filed with the Secretaría de Energía with zero proved reserves and 11 million barrels of contingent resources; through all of 2025 it produced around 9,400 barrels a day. verif Mar 9, 2026 ↗+
logisticoThe offshore front is the critical stretch and it has no slackAccording to the trade press, the first export requires at least two tanks and one single-point mooring in operation. The tanks need fourteen days of hydrostatic testing each and can only be tested once roofed; the moorings are manufactured abroad and installed by a vessel campaign with a narrow window. All of that happens between September and December 2026. prob Mar 3, 2026 ↗+
ambientalEnvironmental and social in the Golfo San MatíasThe terminal operates in a gulf with protected coastal-marine areas, and the environmental approval is in YPF's name and not VMOS's. The permit conditions —marine monitoring, guarantees, spill contingency plan— are not published in the provincial Boletín Oficial, so they cannot even be audited from outside. verif Sep 29, 2022 ↗+
socialPressure on Sierra GrandeA town of fewer than 9,000 people takes in works that at their peak moved thousands. The governor himself acknowledged a significant rise in rents, and the only available description of the local hospital dates from 2009. 22.3% of the department's population lives in rented housing. unconf 2022+
regulatorioClash between the provincial local-content rule and the national regimeRío Negro requires by law 80% of workers and suppliers established in the province; the RIGI guarantees projects that join it that they will not face rules forcing them to buy local on worse-than-market terms, and its own floor is 20%. We did not find a public act that settles which one governs VMOS. verif Sep 29, 2022 ↗+
The permits the works need, and where each one stands.
Resolución 380/2024 of Río Negro's Secretaría de Ambiente y Cambio Climático approved the pipeline's environmental impact study, filed by YPF S.A., not by VMOS verif. The agreement with the province provides for those permits to be assigned to VMOS and obliges the province to approve the assignment within thirty days verif. We did not find published the act approving it unconf. verif 2024 ↗
It was held on 17 August 2023 at the Vuta Mahuida gymnasium in Sierra Grande and 51 people spoke. It ran all day: it opened at 8 and closed at 19:50. The official statement declares neither approval nor rejection. verif Aug 17, 2023 ↗
The certificate from the National Registry of Hydrocarbon Carriers, Operator category No. 58, is what allows VMOS to build the pipeline. It was granted on 6 February 2025 with expiry in July of that same year. We did not find its renewal published unconf. verif Feb 6, 2025 ↗
Two permits from the Departamento Provincial de Aguas: Resolución 513/2025, for four years, for the construction and start-up of the terminal and the coastal pipeline verif; and Resolución 768/2025, for ten years, for the fire-fighting network of the Allen head station and other industrial uses of the works verif. verif Sep 19, 2025 ↗
How to tell whether it is advancing
Observable facts that show whether the project is advancing, and where to look for each.
trimestralConstruction progress and first crude date+
eventoInstallation of the first single-point mooring+
eventoRenewal of the carrier certificate+
eventoWater permit for the operation+
trimestralPurchases from Río Negro suppliers+
eventoAccounting for the Community Contribution+
How we verified this
the act, the gaps and the sources
The RIGI act, in detail
EX-2024-126061655- -APN-SCEYM#MEC verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
Mar 6, 2025 verif Mar 6, 2025 ↗
Mar 20, 2025 verif Mar 20, 2025 ↗
Mar 21, 2025 (notice No. 17090/25, First Section) verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
The act’s articles, in detail
7 facts on the commitment
20 % of the minimum investment amount, to be evidenced during the first and second year from notification of the resolution verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
The 20% is calculated on the minimum investment amount the regulation sets for a Long-Term Strategic Export Project, not on VMOS's own investment. That minimum is USD 2,000 million, so the two-year milestone is around USD 400 million. It should not be read as an advantage: VMOS's subsector — oil and gas transport and storage — has a minimum of USD 300 million under the ordinary regime, where the required share is 40%, that is USD 120 million. Entering as a strategic project raises the bar for those two years, it does not lower it. estim Mar 21, 2025
31 December 2028 to complete the minimum investment amount. VMOS declared a plan that front-loads almost all of it: USD 1,318 million in the first year and USD 1,123 million in the second. verif Dec 31, 2028 ↗
Between USD 2,900 and USD 3,200 million USD million (declared by the applicant) verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
2.486 USD million recognized as computable assets under the RIGI verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
VMOS S.A., tax ID (CUIT) 30-71871335-4, registered at Ingeniero Enrique Butty 235, Ground Floor, Office 1, Buenos Aires City. It was created as a single-shareholder company (VMOS S.A.U.) and converted into a corporation on 13 December 2024, recorded with the IGJ (corporate registry) on 24 January 2025 verif. There is a second entity worth not confusing: operations under the regime run through RIGI - VMOS S.A., tax ID 30-71890264-5 verif, the separate tax identification that article 10 of the resolution ordered ARCA to create. verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
The national Energy Secretariat, as assigned by article 8 of the resolution verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
How much it commits to invest, and how it pays for it
6 facts on the investment
1.333 USD million verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
1.153 USD million verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
1.318 USD million verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
1.123 USD million verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
An international syndicated loan of USD 2,000 million signed on 8 July 2025, five-year term at SOFR plus 5.50%, covers around 70% of the project's capital; the remaining 30% comes from the shareholders verif. As of 31 December 2025 the banks had disbursed USD 820 million verif Dec 31, 2025 ↗
Four properties for USD 2.28 million in total, within the 15% cap set by law. That is 0.09% of the computable investment verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
What the regime gives in return
4 benefits of the regime
Long-Term Strategic Export Project (PEELP), Oil and Gas sector, transport and storage of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
Thirty years of tax, customs, foreign exchange and regulatory stability counted from the date of adherence, that is from 6 March 2025 verif verif Mar 6, 2025 ↗
VMOS did not request the free availability of export proceeds, and so it does not have it: article 11 of the resolution expressly excludes it. verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
The regime requires filing a local supplier development plan with a floor of 20% of the amount earmarked to pay suppliers of goods and works, sustained through construction and operation verif. VMOS filed one, but the plan is not public: the resolution mentions it once and without a single figure of its own. The law adds an escape clause worth knowing before complaining: the commitment applies «provided that local supply is available and on market terms as to price and quality» verif verif Mar 21, 2025 ↗
What we could not confirm
There are 11 in this project. Each says why it could not be confirmed and what it would take to close it.
H-01The conditions attached to the environmental permit+
Río Negro's Secretaría de Ambiente y Cambio Climático does not publish its environmental impact resolutions in the Boletín Oficial. We know the act's number —Resolución 380/2024— because a later decree cites it, but not its exact date, nor its text, nor its scope, nor a single one of its conditions: marine monitoring, guarantees, spill contingency plan, reporting obligations.
H-02How many people stay on once construction ends+
No source publishes the system's permanent operating headcount. Every figure in circulation is a construction figure: 2,000 at peak according to the contractor, more than 5,000 according to the province, 10,000 from the governor. The official RIGI register declares 3,108 jobs without distinguishing the stage.
H-03What VMOS committed to in its supplier development plan+
The plan exists and is identified as document RE-2024-126056639-APN-SCEYM#MEC, but it is not public: the resolution mentions it once and without a single figure of its own, and the official RIGI portal only publishes aggregates. We do not know whether it committed to more than the legal floor of 20%, nor with what breakdown, nor on what base amount.
H-04The names of the Río Negro companies under contract+
The province publishes the aggregate —48 companies awarded in the sector, 70% from Río Negro, $15,902 million purchased in one quarter— but not the list. The provincial register does not expose a searchable roll and the chambers have not released it either. We have a single Río Negro company with a contract confirmed by name.
H-05What was left out of the computable assets+
Between the declared total investment and what the State recognizes as computable there is a gap of between USD 414 and 714 million, and the breakdown is not published. Resolución 302/2025 has no annex: it is eight pages ending at the foot of the notice.
H-06How much water the project consumes+
The permits are there, with their source and their maximum authorized flow, but there is no published figure for actual consumption: neither for construction nor for operation. And operating consumption is a structural gap, not a search failure: the permits in force cover construction only.
H-07Whether Río Negro actually collected the USD 60 million bond and the first annual instalment+
The commitment is in point 5.2 of the Acta Acuerdo ratified by Ley 5782 —USD 60 million initial bond plus USD 40 million a year for thirteen years, falling due before 28 February each year—. On the bond, the province reported in July 2025 that the USD 60 million had come in, but what exists is the provincial statement, not an act evidencing the receipt. For the first annual instalment we did not find an official report of collection.
H-08What the USD 60 million of the bond was spent on+
What exists are announcements in the future tense, not an accounting of executed spending. No administrative act allocates the bond line by line, and in the province's 2025 Investment Account there is not a single traceable line by name: zero mentions of VMOS, of the bond or of the pipeline across 111 pages.
H-09How the Punta Colorada Terminal is powered+
The regulator's act covers the Allen and Chelforó pump stations, not the terminal. For the terminal there is no power rating, no voltage, no substation, no supplier, no transmission line works. And the electrical filing is in YPF's name, not VMOS's, so searching by the project's name does not find it.
H-10The capacity of the Sierra Grande hospital+
The only description of staffing that exists dates from 2009 and sits in the explanatory notes of a bill that was never passed. Beds in service, emergency cover and shifts: no data at any date. It is the corridor's most concrete local pressure and the least measured.
H-11Rental prices in the corridor+
There is no published series with a dated source and a method for Sierra Grande, Playas Doradas or Las Grutas. The increase is stated by the governor himself, but without a single figure. What does stand as a durable baseline is the tenure structure: 22.3% of the department's households rent, according to the 2022 census.
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Frequently asked questions
Does VMOS start in Neuquén?Noverif+
How much money does VMOS leave in Río Negro?A one-off bond of USD 60 million, plus USD 40 million a year for thirteen years, plus a control fee of USD 1.05 million a year, plus the port fee once the concession of the coastal area is granted and the environmental fee once the system operatesverif+
5% of the bond goes to the municipality of Sierra Grande. ↗
How much do I have to buy from Río Negro suppliers if I work on the project?Ley provincial 5.594 requires no less than 80% of workers and suppliers established in Río Negro, unless a cause is substantiated, and it also reaches contractors and subcontractorsverif+
Ley 5805 also sets a floor of 60% of contracting with Río Negro suppliers verif. The RIGI, for its part, asks for a local supplier plan of at least 20%, provided local supply is available on market terms verif. We did not find a public act that settles which one prevails over a project that has joined unconf. ↗
When does the first vessel sail?In early 2027, according to what YPF told the market in August 2026 verifverif+
Who owns VMOS?Nine oil groupsverif+
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