In addition, the company projects a new wind farm with a generation capacity of 42 MW to supply the consumption needs of Río Gallegos.
The president of YPF, Pablo Gonzalez, ratified investments for more than US$ 500 million during 2023, the most important in the last six years in the province of Santa Cruz, and advanced in an agreement for the construction of a new wind farm.
González, upon being received by Governor Alicia Kirchner, at the provincial Government House, highlighted “Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s brave decision to recover YPF” and pointed out that “Based on the results obtained last year, one can continue to think that this was a huge decision to uphold the country’s energy sovereignty.”
The governor recognized the role of YPF as a flagship company and the “need to continue thinking about the future of Santa Cruz from the construction of this present” and noted the importance of the agreements signed that “They are going to allow us to advance with works to improve the quality of life for the people of Santa Cruz.”
During the meeting, they signed an agreement for the creation of a work team made up of YPF Luz, Public Services and the Santa Cruz Energy Institute with the aim of materializing the construction of a new wind farm with a generation capacity of 42 MW to supply the consumption needs of Río Gallegos.
The president of YPF highlighted the enormous productive potential of Palermo Aike: “According to the EIA, we have 6.6 billion barrels and 130 trillion cubic feet of gas in that formation and we are thinking about the best way to develop this field together with the oil unions with a vision Of future “.
Within the framework of the agreement signed between the province and YPF in 2022, which made it possible to resolve a debt that the company had in concept of training, as a consequence of the decrease in investments in the period between 2016 and 2019, the company transferred the sum of 530 million pesos.
Source: Ambito
