The smell of liquefied petroleum gas or supergas will be different over the next few months in Uruguay, as reported by the National Administration of Fuel, Alcohol and Portland (Ancap)as a result of the maintenance tasks carried out at the refinery The Tile.
The maintenance stop at the refinery has all kinds of consequences: the expected ones, such as the need to import fuel to supply the domestic market while the maintenance lasts; the controversies, like everything that has to do with the union conflict around the Portland business – which has an impact on the forceful measures carried out by the union and which can extend operations in La Teja, as well as the expenses and losses —; and the curious ones.
In this last group is the fact that the smell of supergas It will be different than usual.
This is because the smell of the gas is created in the refinery thanks to imported energy sources. Ancap. There it goes through an odorization process where the perceptible aroma is attributed to it with the aim of being easily detected in case of leaks.
This process results in an odor different from the characteristic odor of supergas. However, as the process will be carried out in another space, the aroma will also be different while the maintenance stop in La Teja lasts, as warned. Ancap through a statement.
The measure covers all supergas that is produced by the state oil company and distributed by authorized companies in the country such as Acodike, Ducsa, Megal and Riogas.
The conflict with the union continues
Last week, after the representative assembly of Fancap, the union decided to extend – at least partially – the white flag in what is the conflict over the Portland business that has been going on for several months; and proposed to sit down again negotiation table with the precondition of lifting all measures from both parties: both those of force carried out by the union and the sanctions imposed by the board.
As a reply, Ancap issued a statement after a meeting with the National Labor Directorate (Dinatra), in which they point out that, first of all, the state company “did not receive communication” through the relevant channels about “provisions resolved at the general assembly” of Fancap; and that, on the other hand, “it is not acceptable” to accept the proposal to “suspend all the measures implemented by both parties for the duration of the negotiation period”, while the union “omits to describe what measures of Ancap it means”.
“The Administration has taken legitimate and founded resolutionsbased on criteria of good administration that are not appropriate to discuss in areas of negotiation with Fancap,” the statement says, adding that the public company understands that “the conditions are not in place to reopen the tripartite area abandoned by Fancap as long as they remain in place. atypical union measuressurprise stoppages, cutting of overtime, impossibility of organizing guards on a shift basis and any other distortion that affects the right to work.
Source: Ambito
