For a decade, Argentina’s governments have viewed the 7.5-million-acre Vaca Muerta, or Dead Cow, shale formation as an economic silver bullet.Since President Cristina de Kirchner nationalized ...

A drone view shows a shale gas flare in the Vaca Muerta formation, outside the Patagonian oil and gas town Anelo, Argentina, October 22, 2024.

Natural gas production is booming in Argentina’s vast Vaca Muerta shale lands, but full pipelines and the government's free-market approach to paying for new ones may prevent the country from ...