During the act in Campana, the loading of the first 4 trucks with 36 and 30 inch tubeswhich will be used in the Mercedes-Cardales gas pipeline and in the NEUBA II loop, complementary works of the Presidente Néstor Kirchner Gas Pipeline, according to the company Energía Argentina.
The 7,444 pipes correspond to extensions of trunk gas pipelines, paralyzed during 2015 and 2019. The company stated that “They were abandoned in both Campana and Ensenada” but after passing various quality and integrity tests, it was decided to use them.
In addition to those transferred this Tuesday, the work will require some 48,000 pipes of 36 inches in diameter and 12 meters long. These pipes “are about to begin manufacturing,” they specified.
The manufacturing will take place in the company plant Tenaris-Siatfrom which a truck loaded with every seven minutesin a logistics operation of 24 hours a day.
The gas pipeline, whose first section will be completed in June 2023, will have an extension of 573 kilometers, and will connect the Neuquén town of Treatyén to Salliqueló in the province of Buenos Aires, crossing Río Negro and La Pampa.
Savings of US$2.92 billion
“When we finish Plan Gas 4 and Plan Gas 5 to fill the gas pipeline, we are going to face next winter saving more than 2,920 million dollars in taxes from Argentines. We aspire that those dollars that we use today to import energy, we begin to use them for intermediate goods to sustain production and work, and that allow us to be self-sufficient and sell energy to the world, ”said Massa during his speech.
At the same time, he considered that the current challenge is that the energy development matrix “becomes State policy in Argentina and we definitively change the economic matrix” with the aim of achieving a GDP nourished by exports of energy, minerals, the economy of the knowledge and agribusiness, which he considered as “the four pillars of growth for the next 10 years in Argentina”.
For Geréz, the construction of the gas pipeline “is a work of transformation for Argentina” that will allow “access to energy at competitive prices, generate jobs, substitute imports and generate foreign exchange.”
Source: Ambito
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