Argentina's RIGI regime requires approved projects to source 20% of their investment locally. VacaMuertaXP makes that requirement executable — ARCA-verified suppliers, RIGI adhesion, and a 60-day path for Texas companies to operate legally in Argentina.
RIGI was created by Law 27.742 and expanded for onshore oil & gas by Decree 105/2026, which set a USD 600M minimum for new onshore hydrocarbon developments and extended the adhesion deadline to July 8, 2027. Ten projects worth over USD 25 billion are already approved, with the pipeline above USD 63 billion. Every approved project carries a 20% local-content obligation — and a hard deadline. That is the market VacaMuertaXP serves.
VacaMuertaXP was founded by Pedro Rivera, Founder & CEO. Born in Neuquén — the heart of Vaca Muerta — and based in the United States for over 25 years, Pedro built the platform as the bridge he had been crossing his whole career: Texas capital and operators on one side, the Argentine energy supply chain and its regulators on the other. The hard part of this corridor was never the geology; it was language, fiscal verification, and legal entry done right, on both sides. That is what VacaMuertaXP automates.
Company entity: NQN Energy LLC, Austin, Texas.
Andrés Neyra — Technical Advisor. 40+ years of seismic and well-data leadership in the Neuquén Basin. All advisor contact is routed institutionally through VacaMuertaXP.
VacaMuertaXP is live. The platform runs on a production stack — supplier directory, ARCA fiscal verification pipeline, Basin Pulse seismic/ESG intelligence, and Stripe-billed plans. A founding cohort of suppliers is onboarding across drilling, OCTG, logistics and services, and we are in active conversation with operators already executing in Vaca Muerta.