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Milei’s Expanded Incentive Plan Set to Draw Shale Oil Investors

A worker walks through the treatment plant at a Vista Energy oil and gas field in Neuquen, Argentina. — A worker walks through the treatment plant at a Vista Energy oil and gas field in Neuquen, Argentina.Photographer: Sarah Pabst/Bloomberg

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By Jonathan Gilbert

March 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM UTC

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President Javier Milei’s marquee program for luring investment into Argentina is poised to attract a new round of applications from crude producers after his administration broadened it to include shale oil wells.