The president of the National Administration of Fuel, Alcohol and Portland (Ancap), Alejandro Stipanicic, This Tuesday he participated in the networking forum Meeting of protagonists organized by Todologística, which in this edition was organized under the title “Uruguay, business and economic development. There they met state leaders, executives from the private sector in the area of energy and academic specialists on the subject; and the head of the state oil company made announcements about future steps of the company in matters of renewable energy.
“We have been working for two years on a series of calls for tender to offer offshore blocks to produce green hydrogen, “We still have the authorization at the end of the Executive Branch that is in process,” Stipanicic said in dialogue with Ambit. “We have had a good reception in the business world because it is a project that proposes the implementation of initiatives in ten years. It is not imminent, but we are talking about a position of Uruguay very privileged with respect to what would be the capacity to use a technology that is still very incipient, but we are thinking about large scales of production”he added.
The leader also made other announcements within the framework of the specialized logistics event held at the Radisson Hotel this Tuesday.
“We are also talking about a project to produce sustainable aviation fuels at the refinery The Tile”, confirmed the president of Ancap, and maintained that the oil company “already has defined a project and a technology, and the technologist and basic engineering have been selected.” “We have the capacity to grind oilseeds and we have positions in that market through the production of biodiesel for so many years,” he explained.
“This project has an adequate size for Ancap and it is a typical and usual investment for a refinery, now not to produce petroleum products, but to produce fuels with fatty oils, beef fattening and used cooking oil,” Stipanicic added.
Public-private investments for renewable energies
Regarding how it will be implemented, the leader clarified that a call will be made for expressions of interest for the participation of private in that project.
“Our idea is to establish Uruguay a regional platform for the supply of sustainable aviation fuels, something that is critical for the air connectivity of the country because international regulations are requiring the addition of these fuels and Uruguay “You can’t stay behind with that,” he said.
“Ancap will lead the part that would correspond to the obligations of the country in the coming years, but we aspire to a much larger project with international operators that can also place products in other markets or that have the capacity to overcome the conflict of additional raw materials or the technological capacity they need to carry out larger projects. great, always taking care that the risk that runs Ancap “It is a risk completely appropriate to its competencies and the businesses it usually handles,” said Stipanicic.
“The refinery produces about 20 different products, this would be one more. With the market being so attractive and the demand, We have noticed that there is a lot of interest in expanding this project. Based on a project already defined by Ancap and with the clear message that Uruguay Whether or not you are going to export raw material or not only oilseed, Ancap take one more step,” the president of the oil company expressed enthusiastically.
Sipanicic’s last announcement was directly linked to logistics and involves other areas of the state, so it is still in the process of execution, with the idea that it can be finalized before the end of the current government’s term.
“We are thinking about a calling for positions of interest to use our logistics position in Eastern Terminalthe crude oil reception terminal, which is the entrance for all the oil that is processed in Uruguay, since there we have idle capacity with sufficient physical space,” he commented. Along these lines, the president of Ancap He added that it is a crude oil terminal “that we want to transform in the coming years into a terminal for renewable fuels and other types of fuels that are necessary in the region.”
Source: Ambito
