ExxonMobil launches tender to build oil pipeline in Argentina to boost Vaca Muerta output

摘要

ExxonMobil has launched a tender for a $75 million project to build a pipeline in Argentina, as the US-based company seeks to increase oil production in the Vaca Muerta shale play, a company spokesman said Nov. 8. The winner of the tender will design and build the Bajo del Choique Nordeste pipeline with between 8,000 b/d and 12,000 b/d of capacity, with the possibility of increasing capacity to up to 60,000 b/d, the spokesman said. The line will run for 43 km from Bajo del Choique-La Invernada, the company’s biggest development in Vaca Muerta, to a connection with a backbone system for moving crude to the Atlantic.