Vaca Meruta

Crude Oil

Vaca Meruta Ushers in Oil & Gas Supply, Argentina Soon to Become Largest Exporter of Energy

Alongside the western border of Argentina’s Patagonia, on a dry plain nestled against the Andes mountains, lies a shale deposit referred to as Vaca Muerta. And ever since engineers approved what an American geologist doubted a century ago — that the Vaca Muerta or dead cow contains huge amounts of oil and gas — the push to replicate the U.S.…