2025 was a prosperous year for Argentina’s energy sector, all thanks to its biggest star: the huge shale oil and gas field Vaca Muerta, in northern Patagonia. Energy surplusThis huge production has led to the second record broken this year: the largest nominal positive energy trade balance in history. In the first eleven months of 2025, the energy trade balance had a surplus of US$6.9 billion dollars, according to the Energy Department. That’s nominally higher than the previous record from 2006, when the energy surplus reached US$ 6.1 billion. Pillar of Milei’s governmentArgentina’s energy surplus is one of the main pillars of President Javier Milei’s economic program, which aims to maintain a “zero deficit” — ie.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald December 26, 2025 21:25 UTC