The finance ministers, Sergio Massa, and Public Works, Gabriel Katopodis, and the Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof, five simultaneous works of the national government were inaugurated this Thursday in four provinces, among them, the sections of Mar del Plata and Balcarce del Coastal Gas Pipeline. The expansion of the network will allow gas to be brought to 13,000 new users.
The announcement was part of the set of strategic works for federal development that the government carried out from the Yrigoyen Park in San Martín, headed by Massa, Katopodis and kicillof together with the lieutenant governor Verónica Magario and the mayor of the town, Fernando Moreira.
Flavia Royon, Secretary of Energy, participated in the inauguration from the city of Mar del Plata, together with the director of ANSES, Fernanda Raverta, pre-candidate for mayor of the city; the Secretary of Knowledge Economy, Juan Manuel Cheppi, the Undersecretary of Energy of the province of Buenos Aires, Gastón Ghoni and the candidate for senator Gustavo Pulti.
There they inaugurated the extension of the Gasoducto de la Costa sections Balcarce and Mar del Plata that will allow adding 13,000 new users to the natural gas service. In that framework, Royon also announced the restart of the works corresponding to the Las Armas compression plant.
“Energy infrastructure works are not an expense, but an investment. Because they transform people’s lives. For this reason, the strategic decision and the instruction of Minister Massa was to resume and complete all pending works on the matter. And we face this task from the conviction that energy resources must be available to improve people’s quality of life,” he said. Royon on your visit to the city.
Massa, Unión por la Patria (UxP) presidential candidate, said that “these works synthesize the role that the State should have. Because although there are those who want to destroy everything, we are those of us who dream of building what is missing so that Argentina be a just country.”
Expansion of the Gas Pipeline of the Coast
With an investment of more than 700 million pesos for the set of expansion tasks, the works inaugurated consisted of the Laying of 21 km of 8” reinforcement gas pipeline between Balcarce and the already existing pipeline, to this are added another 12 km of 16” diameter interconnection gas pipeline from Mar del Plata between the two pressure regulating stations (La Invernada and El Tejado).
The new interconnection Mar del Plata will enable the entry of 10,000 new users of that town and its surroundings. In turn, thanks to the new Balcarce loop, another 3,000 new users will also be added.
The expansion work will be complemented by the assembly of a compression plant that will enhance the transportation capacity of the Coastal pipeline. For this, work is being done on the installation of 2 motor compressors of 1200 HP each and complementary elements.
After its stoppage in 2018, from the momentum of the current management to its financing, the works will be resumed for its execution and prompt start-up.
About, Royon added: “Energy at the service of the population is the guiding thread of our energy policy: the Gas Plan, the High Voltage lines, the Kirchner Gas Pipeline, are tools to consolidate productive and industrial development throughout the country.”
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the next stretch
In the case of the Gasoducto de la Costa, with the completion of the remaining works in the loop of tandil and the authorization of the plant Weapons, 84,364 users distributed in 45 localities will be the total beneficiaries of the expansion works.
Those localities are: Mar del Plata, Valeria del Mar, Mar Chiquita, Gral. Piran, Pinamar, Ayacucho, Lezama, Costa Azul, Villa Gesell, Sierra de los Padres, Vivoratá, Pila, Mar de Las Pampas, San Clemente, Camet, Gral. Lavalle, Balcarce, Col. Vidal, La Lucila, Costa del Este, Miramar, Santa Clara, Villa Robles, General Guido, San Bernardo, Maipú, Forobra, Labardén, Dolores, Mar del Tuyú, Punta Médanos, Costa Esmeralda, Chapalmadal, Batan, Costayres, Las Armas , Santa Teresita, Mar de Cobo, Aguas Verdes, Mar de Ajó, Castelli, Gral. Conesa, Madariaga, Las Toninas, Otamendi.
Together with the aforementioned national and provincial authorities, Juan Pablo de Jesús (Deputy Chief of Staff of the province of Buenos Aires), Jorge Paredi (mayor of Mar Chiquita) and Sebastián Ianantuony (mayor of General Alvarado) also participated in the event.
In addition, the event was attended by Osvaldo Pitrau (Enargas Controller), Ariel Ciano (Aerolíneas Argentinas), Roberto Bianchini (Camuzzi), Martín Bronstein, Guido Goñi, Jorge Ferrari, Gastón Dalla Cia, and representatives of ENARSA, from the unions from SMATA and UOCRA and municipal legislators from Mar del Plata, Balcarce, Mar Chiquita and Maipú.
Source: Ambito
