Your gateway to Vaca Muerta
We're here to power the industry.
Building community in the Vaca Muerta industry
We organized in 2021 to legally and politically represent companies seeking to enter the productive context of Vaca Muerta, Northern Patagonia, and the Green Hydrogen scenario emerging on the Río Negro coast. We understand that developing this industry requires political stability, reasonable costs, and competitive human capital — and we work to secure these three pillars.
The three pillars we secure
Political stability
Clear, predictable rules to invest and operate.
Reasonable costs
Competitiveness to sustain the value chain.
Competitive human capital
Skilled local talent for the industry.
A world-class hydrocarbon formation
Over 150 years of consumption and secured gas supply for Argentina.
Mission
To consolidate an ecosystem of labor relations, business, and projects built on predictability and trust, strengthening national capabilities in Vaca Muerta and the chemical and petrochemical value chain under the principles of competitiveness, complementarity, and best practices.
Vision
To be the gateway and reference point for the chemical and petrochemical industry in Vaca Muerta and Northern Patagonia, driving value addition, human capital development, and sustainable growth that benefits Argentina and future generations.
Values
To grow in Vaca Muerta, you need support
Legal security
A framework of legal security to operate within Vaca Muerta and the North Patagonian energy industry.
Political support
Representation of the sector's interests before the State, operators, and institutions.
Collective bargaining
Your interests represented by the Chamber in Collective Bargaining Agreements.
Community & networking
A network of companies directly and indirectly involved in the region's chemical and petrochemical processes.
Training & R&D
Human capital development and applied R&D along the Vaca Muerta learning curve.
Social responsibility
Citizen and corporate engagement programs committed to the Neuquén community.
Capabilities across the value chain
Oilfield services & energy
Chemicals & supplies
Engineering & construction
Logistics & transport
Integrity & certification
Health, safety & emergencies
A trade corridor to the world
Neuquén's geostrategic location makes a trade corridor viable both to Europe, via Bahía Blanca, and to Asia-Pacific, via Chile.
Companies already on board
Operators, suppliers, and service providers that make up the chemical and petrochemical value chain of Vaca Muerta.
The Chemical and Petrochemical Chamber of Neuquén has everything necessary to guarantee strategic conditions in Vaca Muerta.
To consolidate an ecosystem of labor relations, business, and projects with predictability, trust, and rapid entry into the regional market — creating synergy between the local and the regional, national, and international, and promoting the confluence of national capabilities in Vaca Muerta.
We promote applied R&D along the learning and production curve developed in the Vaca Muerta formation with the expertise of the Operators, capitalizing on local experience and the know-how transferred by the technologies implemented.
We understand the Chemical and Petrochemical Industry as the evolution of the Neuquén industry that extracts oil and gas for subsequent value addition in a chain with export potential. Neuquén's geostrategic location makes the trade corridor viable both to Europe via Bahía Blanca and to Asia-Pacific via Chile.
To promote the production of capital goods and the supply of services to the standards the industry requires — among the Chamber's members and among the members of homologous chambers and associations at the national and international level.
To strengthen the supplier ecosystem in the value chain of the Vaca Muerta chemical and petrochemical industry, under the principles of competitiveness, complementarity, and good practices of the national industry.
To increase opportunities for human capital development through training in all its forms, merging local knowledge with the techniques of the institutions involved and the technology transfer of regional and multinational companies.
To promote solidarity between members and society at large, understanding that the person, the family, and their environment are the foundations of a healthy and strong society — incorporating citizen and corporate engagement programs under CSR, committed to the Neuquén community.
To drive the commitment to sustainable development of the industry and its companies, caring for the environment, generating the least possible impact, and thinking of future generations.
These are our objectives and the focus that move us along this path, on which it is a pride to be able to count on all of you.
QPQ is the support your company needs
Join the Chamber and become part of the Vaca Muerta value chain.
- Institutional representation & support
- Networking with the value chain
- Training & development