Due to the cold wave, natural gas consumption grew and around 200 service stations that offer Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) suspended the sale of the fuel. This is because the priority is to guarantee supply to residential and essential demand in the face of low temperatures.
“We are waiting for a response. At first there were about 100 service stations affected and today we are close to 200. We depend on the entry of the ships for the situation to be resolved,” they explained from the sector and reported that they hope that everything will be regularized in the next few years. next days.
The areas of the country most affected by CNG cuts are the province of Buenos Aires and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, where the largest number of stations that supply vehicles with gas equipment are located. In any case, complications were recorded in Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, La Pampa, Río Negro, Catamarca and La Rioja.
In this scenario, there is also concern among energy companies and the Government that are trying to avoid a lack of gas in the face of the new cold wave. For this reason, in the activated sector it is called the pre-emergency phase. This involves permanent monitoring and cutting off supply for those users with interruptible contracts, such as those with some industries and CNG stations.
At this point in May, gas consumption doubles that recorded for the same date in 2023, when temperatures were milder. For this reason, given the cold front announced for this autumn weekend, gas transporters and distributors from all over the country activated the cuts to interruptibles and kept their attention focused on the behavior of demand.
They admit that the cold was ahead of the official forecasts, so the Government went out this week to tender and buy liquid fuels (fuel oil and diesel) so that the electric generators “release” gas that they were using until now and allow a greater supply in what are expected to be peaks in demand.
Information Source: TN
