Vaca Muerta: A Growth Engine Built for the Next Decade

See where Vaca Muerta’s growth is supported by inventory, productivity and economics, and where infrastructure, market access, costs and above-ground risk could set the pace.

Vaca Muerta has the resource depth to remain a source of oil and gas growth for more than a decade. Enverus Intelligence® Research estimates the play holds 8.7 Bbbl and 109 Tcf of oil and gas resource below $55 WTI and $3 Henry Hub breakevens, respectively. Oil productivity degradation has stabilized, while gas-weighted windows continue to outperform comparable North American plays.

Resource quality, however, is only part of the outlook. The next phase of development will depend on pipeline and export capacity, LNG economics, cost improvements, M&A activity, fiscal stability and the ability of oilfield services companies to support rising activity.

Join Andrew McConn, Steve Diederichs, Dani von Bassenheim and Vishnu Gopakumar from the Enverus Intelligence® Research team for a one-hour discussion based on Enverus analysis of Vaca Muerta’s inventory, productivity, spacing, economics, infrastructure, transactions and oilfield services activity.

What We’ll Cover

• How new delineation and licensing have expanded the play’s commercially viable area
• Why oil productivity is expected to remain near 110 bbl/ft
• How gas productivity of approximately 2.3 Bcf/1,000 feet compares with North American plays
• Where core scale and infrastructure create economic advantages
• How pipeline capacity and LNG economics could shape future production growth
• What recent and rumored M&A activity suggests about asset valuations
• What rig, fracturing and sand-supply data indicate about service capacity and costs
• Why fiscal stability remains an important consideration despite recent RIGI activity