The president of the company Energía Argentina (Enarsa), Agustín Gerez, estimated this Friday that the President Néstor Kirchner Gas Pipeline (GPNK) will generate import savings of US$2.2 billion in the second half of the year, doubling that figure in 2024 .
The president of the company Argentine Energy (Enarsa), Agustín Gerez, estimated this Friday that the President Néstor Kirchner Gas Pipeline (GPNK) will generate import savings of US$2.2 billion in the second half of the yeardoubling that figure in 2024, while confirming that It will start operating on June 20..
“This year, only with six months of operation(the GPNK) will generate savings in fuel imports and energy and gas imports for US$2.2 billion,” Gerez said in statements made to AM 990 radio.
Meanwhile, he indicated that “next year, which will be operational for 12 months, will generate savings of US$4.4 billion“, in reference to the “impact on the substitution (of imports), on the savings of these currencies and on the potential export pole that can be generated from the sale of gas to neighboring countries.”
The country “you will be able to have energy at more affordable prices“, given that “today the State is covering the difference in prices between international prices,” stressed the head of Enarsa.
“For example, last year we managed to import a million BTUs -energy measurement unit- at US$45 versus US$3 that we paid to local producers,” he graphed.
Likewise, Gerez stressed that “today the execution schedules are being metwith which the gas pipeline will be operational by June 20″.
The GPNK will allow Argentina supply yourself with your own energy and move forward with the process of “energy sovereignty”, feeding domestic and industry demand, “the engine of human and productive development of the Nation, linked to the production or local supply of all this energy,” he emphasized.
In conclusion, the head of Enarsa stressed: “The gas pipeline will allow us to develop all trade and industry around a much healthier energy matrix in economic termsand it will boost development and job creation and all the benefits that come with having a more accessible raw material.”
Source: Ambito
