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Given the advance of the polar wave, the national government will move forward with natural gas cuts to industries in order to avoid supply problems amid a demand that has almost doubled.
Cammesa, the company in charge of energy dispatch, urgently put out to tender the purchase of 12 shipments of fuel oil and diesel to address the increase in gas consumption.
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The arrival of the cold in the central area of the country took the Ministry of Energy by surprise, which had scheduled the arrival of low temperatures only for the first week of June.
The “priority demand” (homes and businesses) is already on track to use almost 80 million cubic meters (m3) per day, when in May it usually demands 45 million.
That is why industries with high demand for gas, such as wood, ceramics and plastics, will suffer cuts applied by the secretariat led by Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo.
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The lack of gas already began to affect Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) service stations with interruptible contracts last week.
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In the sector they explain that if the gas was not cut off to these users due to a lack of product and a drop in the pressure of the gas pipelines, electricity cuts that use gas as an input would have to begin.
The emergency scenario was caused by temperatures much lower than expected for this time of year.
In Córdoba, the province where the official ceremony for May 25 will be held this weekend, an undetermined number of industries began to receive this Friday the order to interrupt the consumption of natural gas for their processes.
This was confirmed by a director of the Industrial Union of Córdoba (UIC), pointing out that the entity has already registered several cases of gas outages due to lack of fluid in the system.
