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Argentina Doubles Vaca Muerta Recoverable Oil Estimate to More Than Thirty Billion Barrels

Official technical data puts recoverable crude reserves in the Vaca Muerta shale formation at thirty billion one hundred seventy million barrels, sharply increasing the estimated value of Argentina’s resources and strengthening Neuquén’s position as a major global hydrocarbon province.
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