Flavia Royón met on Friday with the country’s main operators to resolve the situation that has worsened in recent days.
The oil companies They assured this Saturday that the supply “It will normalize in the coming days”. They expressed it through a release signed by the same four companies that met with the secretary of Energy of the Nation, Flavia Royón: YPF, Root, Trafigura and Axion.
This occurs within the framework of a situation that has worsened in recent days, when long queues of vehicles in the service stations from all over the country to load naphtha. In turn, it adds the field concern before the diesel shortagea necessary product for planting tasks that start at this time of year.
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Fuel supply: what do the operators say about the shortage?
In the statement titled “Refineries and the supply of the domestic market of fuels”, the companies explained that the supply problems are due to a series of events that They pushed the fuel system to the limit.
In this context, they also stated that “the production and supply infrastructure of fuels in Argentina is robust”. And they detailed that this is because Argentina produces crude oil and biofuels in large amount and has a refining park that enough to produce more than 80% of the demand domestic of gasoline and diesel.
They also maintained that “today the system works with record crude oil production and transportation, refineries to maximum load“. At the end of the statement they assured that “crude oil will continue flowing, refineries processing, imports entering the country and The logistics structure will be normalized for supplyconsidering the great geographical dispersion of the country”.
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Reasons that complicated the supply
- Extraordinary levels of demand: They assure that this occurred especially in the last 15 days due to the long weekendthe elections – situation in which a peak of mobility of people occurs – and the start of agricultural plantingamong others.
- A greater than usual dependence on imports: This, they explain in the statement, was due to scheduled stops in some refineries.
- A overdemand generated by a shortage expectation.
Source: Ambito
