BP’s fracking secrets Pan-American Energy and Argentina’s shale mega-project November 2017 This report was researched and written by Anna Markova (Platform) with input from Hernán Scandizzo BP does not carry out and Diego Di Risio (OPSur). Thanks also to Ariana Ortega and Martín Alvarez (OPSur), Mika Minio- Paluello and Sarah Shoraka (Platform) and Paul fracking in its home Horsman (Greenpeace). This work is licensed under the Creative Commons country, the UK, Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) licence. You are free to share and adapt this work for non-commercial purposes, on the condition because “it would that you attribute the source. License terms: https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ attract the wrong kind of attention” Platform is a London-based organisation that conducts research, education, and campaigns towards a just future beyond fossil fuels. UK company limited by guarantee no. 2658515, registered charity no. 1044485.
[email protected] +44 (0)20 7749 1109 Contents Summary 3 Observatorio Petrolero Sur conducts research, 1 BP and Pan-American Energy 4 communications, and intervenes in public policy for a just transition towards a sustainable society 2 What is Vaca Muerta? 8 and energy system.
[email protected] +54 (011) 4373-6304 – Buenos Aires 3 Who is BP? 10 +54 (0299) 15 586-4313 – Neuquén 4 Pan-American Energy’s dossier 12 5 The bet on extreme gas 14 Addendum Pan-American Energy in other countries 18 This publication has been produced with the financial Endnotes 19 assistance of the European Union.