Argentina Hopes for A Big Payoff in Its Shale Oil Field Discovery

摘要

Just east of Argentina's Andean foothills,an oil field called the Vaca Muerta,'dead cow' in English,has finally come to life.In May,the Argentine oil company YPF announced that it had found 150 million barrels of oil in the Patagonian field,and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner rushed onto national television to praise the discovery as