Chubut Province Governor Ignacio Torres flew to Buenos Aires this week to get something he has wanted for some time: the elimination of export duties for conventional oil production. The Patagonian province he leads is where oil was discovered in Argentina in the early 1900s, but over the last decade, the terrain has been shadowed by the massive development of unconventional production (a.k.a. fracking) at the Vaca Muerta shale formation, which is mostly in Neuquén.
Torres, a member of former president Mauricio Macri’s PRO party, was one of the governors who was hoping to build a national profile that could eventually lead him to run for president in 2027 under an opposition banner.
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