尽管产量和盈利能力强劲，壳牌可能在战略重心调整下退出阿根廷的Vaca Muerta页岩业务。 Shell may exit Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale play amid strategic refocus, despite strong production and profitability.

据报道, Shell正考虑出售或退出阿根廷的Vaca Muerta页岩游戏, 这是世界上最大的页岩构造之一, Shell is reportedly considering selling or exiting its operations in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale play, one of the world’s largest shale formations, according to Reuters citing unnamed sources. 作为CEO Wael Sawan在能源过渡努力中面临挑战的情况下重新关注核心资产战略的一部分,这项举动可能导致重大撤资。 The move, part of CEO Wael Sawan’s strategy to refocus on core assets amid challenges in energy transition efforts, could lead to a major divestment. 壳牌公司自2012年以来一直在运作,拥有大部分股份的四个区块,在2024年从该区域生产了1 560万桶石油和天然气,有些资产盈利,每桶50美元。 Shell, active since 2012 and operating four blocks with a majority stake, produced 15.6 million barrels of oil and gas from the region in 2024, with some assets profitable at $50 per barrel. Vaca Muerta持有160亿桶可回收石油和308万亿立方英尺天然气,帮助阿根廷在2025年达到创纪录的每天816 000桶石油产量,使其成为拉丁美洲第四大石油生产国。 Vaca Muerta, holding 16 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 308 trillion cubic feet of gas, helped Argentina reach a record 816,000 barrels per day in oil output in 2025, making it the fourth-largest oil producer in Latin America.