Sector register · RIGI · Argentina

Twenty-one projects approved, and the official site reports sixteen

This is the register of projects admitted to Argentina's Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI), built by reading, one by one, the Official Gazette resolutions that approve them. Each row carries the amount committed in computable assets, the schedule the resolution sets, and the article 176 deadline. There is no official dataset: the Ministry of Economy's page publishes totals and a map, with nothing to download.

Updated August 6, 2026 Go to the register ↓ Deadlines ↓ What the figure measures ↓ Limits ↓

The register

Who committed how much, and by when

Twenty-one Ministry of Economy resolutions approved a RIGI admission between January 2025 and July 2026. They add up to USD 29,485 M in computable assets across twenty rows: the twenty-first resolution declares the project's total investment but never separates out how much of it counts toward the regime.

Amount = investment committed in computable assets, the figure the regime actually counts. Deadline = the article 176 cutoff. A dash means the resolution does not separate it from total investment.
Resolution	Project	Vehicle	Sector	Province	Committed	Deadline
1/2025	Parque Solar El Quemado y Anexos	Luz del Campo SA	Power	Mendoza	USD 212 M	2027-01-30
302/2025	Vaca Muerta Oleoducto Sur	VMOS S.A.	Oil & gas	Río Negro	USD 2,486 M	2028-12-31
559/2025	Proyecto de Licuefacción de Gas Natural	Southern Energy S.A.	Oil & gas	Río Negro	USD 2,825 M	2035-12-31
735/2025	Proyecto Rincón	Rincón Mining PTY LTD. Sucursal Argentina	Mining	Salta	USD 2,299 M	2029-06-30
1028/2025	Proyecto Siderúrgico Argentino Sidersa	Sidersa Acería S.D.E.	Steel	Buenos Aires	USD 286 M	2026-10-31
1254/2025	P.E. Olavarría	Generación Eléctrica Argentina Renovable I S.A. Sucursal Dedicada PEO	Power	Buenos Aires	USD 255 M	2027-11-30
1271/2025	Hombre Muerto Oeste (HMW)	Galán SDE	Mining	Catamarca	USD 217 M	2029-12-31
1553/2025	Proyecto Los Azules	Andes Corporación Minera SA	Mining	San Juan	USD 2,354 M	2027-12-31
1842/2025	Proyecto Terminal Multipropósito Timbúes	Terminal Timbúes S.A.	Infrastructure	Santa Fe	USD 277 M	2027-04-01
6/2026	Carbonatos Profundos (DCP)	Minas Argentinas SA Sucursal Dedicada RIGI I - Nuevo Gualcamayo	Mining	San Juan	USD 520 M	2028-12-31
413/2026	Ampliación Fases 8 y 9 del Sistema de Lixiviación en Valle de Mina Veladero	Minera Andina del Sol S.R.L. Sucursal Dedicada 1	Mining	San Juan	USD 380 M	2028-12-31
431/2026	Expansión Fase 1B	Minera del Altiplano S.A. Sucursal Dedicada	Mining	Catamarca	USD 251 M	2026-12-01
562/2026	Diablillos	Pacific Rim Mining Corporation Argentina S.A.	Mining	Salta y Catamarca	USD 482 M	2027-11-30
676/2026	Ampliación del Tramo I del Gasoducto Perito Francisco Pascasio Moreno	Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA Sucursal Dedicada 1	Oil & gas	Neuquén y Buenos Aires	USD 513 M	2026-12-31
801/2026	PSJ Cobre Mendocino	Minera San Jorge SA	Mining	Mendoza	USD 613 M	2028-09-01
825/2026	Ampliación Cauchari Olaroz	Minera Exar Sucursal Dedicada	Mining	Jujuy	USD 1,167 M	2030-07-01
873/2026	Gasoducto dedicado para la Exportación de Gas Natural	San Matías Pipeline SA	Oil & gas	Neuquén y Río Negro	not separated	2027-05-31
1025/2026	Proyecto Rincón de Aranda	Pampa Energía SA - Sucursal Dedicada Proyecto RDA	Oil & gas	Neuquén	USD 4,521 M	2031-07-01
1153/2026	Proyecto de la Sucursal Dedicada de Liex S.A.	Liex S.A. Sucursal Dedicada	Mining	Catamarca	USD 594 M	2027-11-30
1154/2026	Vicuña	Vicuña Argentina SA	Mining	San Juan	USD 9,025 M	2028-12
1157/2026	Sal de Oro II	Posco Argentina SAU SDE	Mining	Salta y Catamarca	USD 208 M	2029-07-31
21 approved projects · USD 29,485 M in computable assets

The amount column is investment in computable assets, not the project's total investment. Five resolutions declare both separately, and the gap runs as high as USD 712 M.

Reconciliation

The official count froze on June 5

As of August 5, 2026, argentina.gob.ar/economia/rigi reports sixteen approved projects worth USD 29,892 M. The Official Gazette holds twenty-one worth USD 29,485 M.

The count gap has an exact date. Approvals published through June 5, 2026 number sixteen, precisely the figure on the official page; the remaining five were published later, between June 26 and July 31. That same pair of numbers, sixteen projects and USD 29,892 M, was already circulating in the press in early June.

The amount gap runs the other way: this register adds up less money across more projects. Two reasons, both deliberate. It leaves out the row that never declares computable assets, and it takes the regime's figure rather than the headline investment. Adding the declared totals where they exist would give USD 32,493 M.

What the figure measures

The regime's number is not the number in the announcement

RIGI does not count a project's total investment. It counts computable assets, a narrower definition with rules of its own. That subset is what the article 172 minimum, the 40% required in the first two years under article 173, and the article 176 deadline all run against. It is the figure that binds.

For VMOS the two are USD 514 M apart: resolution 302/2025 declares USD 3,000 M in total investment and USD 2,486 M in computable assets. The figure that reached the press was the second one, presented as though it were the first. For Vicuña the gap is USD 712 M, the widest in the register.

One resolution never separates them. Resolution 873/2026, approving San Matías Pipeline's dedicated gas pipeline, declares USD 1,300 M in total investment and opens the two-year window at USD 454 M and USD 501 M, without saying how much of the total counts. That row is left with a blank committed amount and does not feed the register's total, rather than being counted at its total investment, which would be counting something else.

Commitment and deadline

Three deadlines fall before the end of 2026

Every resolution fixes the date by which the project vehicle committed to having reached the minimum investment. It is the hardest commitment in the regime and the easiest to check against a calendar.

October 31, 2026, Sidersa Acería, USD 286 M. The shortest deadline in the register.
December 1, 2026, Minera del Altiplano, Phase 1B expansion, USD 251 M.
December 31, 2026, TGS, expansion of section I of the Perito Moreno pipeline, USD 513 M. The resolution loads 77% of the capex into year one, the most front-loaded profile of the twenty-one.

At the other end, Southern Energy has until December 31, 2035 for its liquefaction plant, ten years beyond the register's median, and commits USD 459 M in the first two years against USD 2,825 M overall.

Taken together, the twenty-one schedules commit USD 18,549 M in each project's first two years, 63% of everything approved. That is well above the 40% article 173 requires, and the margin is the applicant's own: nobody forced them to front-load it.

No project in the register is shown as in breach. The missing piece is not the deadline, which is published, but the execution: there is no public progress reporting of invested capital by project vehicle. Until there is, the compliance column reads "no data".

The demand this opens

Twelve resolutions declare how much capex goes to local suppliers

Article 47(l) of the decree 749/2024 annex requires a supplier development plan and a commitment of at least 20% of the investment to local suppliers. Twelve of the twenty-one resolutions publish that percentage, and the range is wide: Galán declares 95.34% at Hombre Muerto Oeste, Terminal Timbúes 87%, and three projects sit exactly on the 20% floor.

Two resolutions give dollars instead of a percentage: Vicuña commits USD 2,009 M to local suppliers and the El Quemado solar farm USD 118 M. Seven publish neither.

Crossed with the schedule, that percentage says which year and which province the demand opens in. Catamarca holds five projects, San Juan four, and Río Negro, Salta, Buenos Aires and Neuquén three each.

Incentives invoked

What each project asked for, with no price attached

All twenty-one projects draw on the tax incentives of chapter IV and the foreign exchange incentives of chapter V. Beyond that baseline, eleven resolutions enable the article 190 import waiver, ten invoke the article 198 incentives, five enter as Long-Term Strategic Export Projects, and three are expansions of pre-existing projects that were never admitted to the regime.

This register publishes the inventory, not the forgone revenue. Estimating that would require the list of goods imported under article 190, which the resolutions mention but do not publish, and each vehicle's counterfactual tax position, which is not public. Putting a number on it anyway would be presenting an assumption as a measurement.

What did not go through

The only documented withdrawal surfaced by accident

The Official Gazette has not published a single rejection since the regime came into being. It does not publish withdrawals either: the Project Evaluation Committee recommends approval or rejection, and only approval ends in a published rule.

The one failed application this register can document appears inside the recitals of another. Resolution 1157/2026, which approves Posco's "Sal de Oro II", recounts that the same parent filed "Sal de Oro" on October 30, 2024 and withdrew it on November 17, 2025. It is known because the company came back; had it not, there would be no trace.

Against the twenty-five projects under evaluation the Ministry reports, the register cannot say how many applications were filed in total or how many fell away.

Row by row

The twenty-one resolutions, with file number and schedule

Each record opens with the vehicle, its tax ID and the resolution that approved it. The amounts come from the text of the resolution; the schedule is the one it sets.

Parque Solar El Quemado y AnexosPower

Resolución 1/2025 del Ministerio de Economía, published January 8, 2025.

Vehicle: Luz del Campo SA
Tax ID: 30-71765521-0
Sector: Power
Province: Mendoza
Capacity: 305 MW de capacidad instalada
Committed: USD 212 M
Schedule: años 1 y 2: USD 205 M
Article 176 deadline: January 30, 2027
Local suppliers: USD 118 M
Incentives invoked: cap-iv · cap-v
File: EX-2024-117037596
Committee minutes: 3

Primera adhesión aprobada del régimen. La resolución no abre el cronograma por año: declara el total de los dos primeros y lo contrasta contra el 40% del mínimo del sector.