Oil company bids to build $2.5bn ‘dead cow’ crude pipeline to boost tanker exports

State-owned Argentinian oil company YPF is stepping up its big new $2.5bn crude pipeline project that will boost tanker exports of Vaca Muerta (Dead Cow) shale oil.

The company has received environmental authorisation for the Vaca Muerta Sur line and is now seeking bids from contractors to build it, Max Westen, YPF’s head of strategy and business development, told an earnings call.