It is to supply the central-north of the country.
The company Energía Argentina S. A. (Enarsa) signed an agreement with Bolivia to ensure continuity of gas supply and to be able to supply the demand of seven provinces in the center-north of the country during the winter, in order to avoid new shortage problems as a result of the delayed completion of the Northern Gasduct Reversal.
The state company announced, in the last few hours, that it signed with Yacimientos Petrolófilos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) the ninth addendum to the contract that binds them in order to ensure the supply of natural gas for the demand of Northern Argentina for the months of August and September of this year.
From Enarsa they assured that “this supply will allow the central/northern area of the country to be supplied with up to 4 million cubic meters per day (MMm3/day) depending on the requirement of internal demand, while the Northern Gasduct Reversion project is completed. , currently underway.”
At the same time, they specified that “said TGN gas pipeline Reversal project is estimated to be in operation on September 15, allowing the northern provinces to be transported an additional 5 MMm3/day to the current ones and in a second stage another 4 MMm3/day. day”.
The supply contract between Argentina and Bolivia, which supplies gas to 7 provinces in the center and north of the country, had an expiration date of July 31, after decades of validity. With the new renewal, it is extended for two more months, with the objective that, once the extension period has expired, the Reversion of the Northern Gasduct is completed and the demand begins to be covered with resources from Vaca Muerta.
