Repsol year. Electricity supply points in Spain kept steady with 2012 levels, at 3,772,000. Electricity effectively supplied decreased 3% from 2012 to 2013, to 32,766 GWh, mainly because of more clement weather conditions. In May 2012, the Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, proposed the expropriation of 51% of Repsol’s shares in YPF. The Republic of Argentina's Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Act that was passed that summer made officially possible the expropriation of Repsol's shares. Repsol went to various international bodies to pursue legal action directly after losing its shares of YPF. The expropriation was an attempt by the Argentine government to
Repsol of the massive Vaca Muerta shale-gas field. The board of the Repsol firm unanimously rejected this offer, as it would have caused them to drop a $10.5 billion lawsuit that was in progress against the Argentine government. Repsol at the time owned 6.4% of the YPF oil-and-gas company. On 25 February 2014 the Repsol board announced it had accepted a settlement offer from the Argentine government of an issue of Argentine bonds valued at $5 billion. The deal concluded after 3 months of negotiations in Buenos Aires was subject to shareholder approval. The agreement ended two years of legal wrangling