Argentina gets bid for new pipeline project as it seeks to widen gas exports

Argentina is pressing ahead on a $2.3 billion project to build a natural gas pipeline, a key for increasing production from the Vaca Muerta shale play to reduce costlier gas and diesel imports and widen exports IEASA, a state-owned company that handles the nation’s gas imports, received a sole bid in a March 31 auction to supply 656 km of…