The Ministry of Energy announced that it will leave regularizing the gas supply throughout the day. According to the entity, the unloading of the Petrobras ship was unblocked at 9 in the morning.
The announcement of the portfolio, managed by Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo, occurs in the midst of the request from the transporters and distributors of the interruption of the sale of natural gas to large and medium-sized industries and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) stations.
The problem began to be noticed in Córdoba and Santa Fe, but is currently spreading nationwide. This was confirmed by Oscar Olivero, vice president of the Chamber of Compressed Natural Gas Dispensers: “Today all CNG stations will close“.
Enarsa bought a 44 million m3 LNG vessel from Petrobras on Friday that should have started regasifying yesterday.
However, at the last minute company contested the letter of credit used as a payment method and did not authorize the unloading of LNG at the Escobar terminal. “The ship had been moored and connected to hoses since 4 p.m. on Tuesday,” they explain from Energía.
Thus, the Government recognizes that the gas supply to non-priority demand was cut off (industries, thermoelectric plants and CNG stations) to take care of priority users (hospitals, schools, homes and businesses).
“The objective is to be able to continue supplying the “priority demand and the residential homes“, they argue from the energy area.
However, they confirm that the situation “It will regularize throughout the day”, after the accreditation of the letter of credit issued by the BNA.
“The situation occurred due to a disagreement on the part of the supplier regarding the letter of credit issued last Friday the 24th, despite the fact that it was issued in the terms required by the supplier,” says Energía Argentina, the company in charge of the operation. commercialization and industrialization of hydrocarbons. It is a central actor in the evolution of GPNK and GN Reversion.
The Secretary of Energy himself justified the delay in supply in his account of
In turn, the official referred to exceptional situations that affected the outlook, such as the limitation on energy imports from Brazil. “It was necessary to incorporate LNG volumes, at market price, scheduled for later.e”, says Chirillo.
At the same time, he blamed the previous management for “having taken on, with debt, contractors with outdated prices since May 2023, with SIRAS underfoot and without entry to the free exchange market.”
All these reasons, according to the Secretary of Energy, prevented the work of the first section of the GPNK and the Treatyén and Salliqueló compressor plants. were completed by September of last year. In this context, the current management claims to have regularized payments of more than $30,000 and allocated $47,000 million in the completion phase.
Cecilia Garibotti, former Undersecretary of Energy Planning, responds to these statements: “It is impressive that after a campaign where they denied the existence of the gas pipeline, and even said that the inauguration was invented, now they say that we needed more public works.”
In turn, the Albertista administration official counters that in 2023, with drought -less hydroelectric generation-, without ATUCHA or GPNK, “We planned the import and built 573 km of gas pipeline in nine months”.
Source: Ambito
