According to local reports in May 2019, state company YPF has suspended awaiting testing its Lajas Este 1RH horizontal new-field wildcat (NFW) well at the total depth (TD) of 4.905 m (16,093 ft) on its 100%-held Loma La Lata-Sierra Barrosa block as of mid-March 2019. The well was spudded earlier in the same month with objective in the Vaca Muerta Formation shale.  Loma La Lata-Sierra Barrosa block covers 1,661 sq km of land in the Neuquen Embayment and Huincul Uplift parts of Neuquen Basin.  Background Information    Loma La Lata field was the best producing conventional field in Argentina in 2018 with average production rate of 28.9 Mbo/d and 352 Mmscfg/d. The block is situated directly next to YPF and Chevronâs Loma Campana block, where the best Vaca Muerta oil producer field of the same name is located with average producing rate of 10 Mbo/d in 2018.
YPF has suspended awaiting testing its Lajas Este 1RH horizontal new-field wildcat (NFW) well at the total depth (TD) of 4.905 m (16,093 ft) on its 100%-held Loma La Lata-Sierra Barrosa block 