Incentive Regime for Large Investments (RIGI - CCUS 2024)

The 2024 Incentive Regime for Large Investments (RIGI, Law 27.742) offers 30-year tax, customs and foreign-exchange stability for projects above $200M, with CCUS explicitly eligible in energy — covering capture, transport and storage around the Vaca Muerta shale basin and blue-hydrogen production. Subsoil sits with the provinces (Neuquén Resolution 21/2025 folding CCUS into hydrocarbon mitigation programmes; Mendoza parallel moves), while the national carbon-markets strategy (ENUMeC) develops the crediting side. Liability design is pending, assumed state-centric on hydrocarbon patterns. The bet is investment-led: fiscal stability substitutes for dedicated CCS regulation while provinces build the storage track record project by project.