The secretariat of Energy of the Nation, Flavia Royónhighlighted this Saturday the ending of the first stage of the President Nestor Kirchner gas pipeline (GPNK)and affirmed that it is a strategic work that generated “an impressive amount of work”, almost 50,000 jobs.
“That the first stage of the gas pipeline has been completed is a very good news“, said Royon this morning in dialogue with radio Miter, about the last welding carried out on Friday in the first stage of the gas pipeline that starts in Dead cow.
“Not only because of what it implies finish the pipelineand that it has been done in Record time on schedule -completed towards the end of June of this year-, but also because of what this represents in the national context, in the context of the development of Dead cowfor those who are in the sector it is a really strategic work“said the official.
He also stressed that the construction of this gas pipeline “has generated a impressive amount of work, nearly 50,000 jobs“.
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Royon remarked that this work will enable “a quantum leap in the development of Vaca Muerta”because the gas of Dead cow of this hydrocarbon block “not only implies for the Argentina reduction in the use of foreign currency import substitutionfurther development and more jobbut it is also about the energy security“.
In this sense, he affirmed that “it benefits not only our country but also the region, because the gas pipeline, the Argentine gas, will first be exported to all neighboring countries and then we are working on encouraging the projects of LNG; in fact with Chili We are already with a record of almost 365 days of uninterrupted exports“.
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Argentine News
The secretariat of Energy indicated that “this year, with the gas pipeline, savings are around US$1,700,000,000“, and that “saving is made up first of all dead cow gas. Is six times cheaper that he LNGthat is imported”, he affirmed.
“This year we still have the need to import part of the LNG because the gas pipeline will be operational practically towards July. Then it will already be started winter. Self-sufficiency is really going to see the full impact on the next year“. advancement.
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Omar Gutierrez
The construction of the President Nestor Kirchner Gas Pipeline (GPNK) reached Friday a pivotal milestone to the completion of the last pipeline welding in it kilometer 232 of the trace at the height of the province of The Pampafrom which the first tests for its commissioning, scheduled for the next June 20th.
The act was headed remotely by the president Alberto Fernandezfrom the olive farmtogether with the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massaand the secretary of Energy, Flavia Royónin it Treasury Palaceand the president of the state company Argentine Energy, Augustine Gerezfrom the welding front located near the town of Reformin The Pampa.
Source: Ambito
