Neither the regasification port that President Cristina Kirchner opened 20 days ago on Escobar could change history. For the eighth consecutive year, the big industries are suffering a winter without gas.
Over 300 companies were left without power since Saturday, or got to be let alone consume the equivalent of "technical minimum" that allows them not having to close its production plants. The stop order was passed on Friday by the distributors that operate in different regions of the "heavy users", with consumption of between 10,000 and 130,000 cubic meters of gas. The directive included, as in these cases, the threat of "penalties" for that industry that does not comply with the restriction.
The restriction, which was confirmed by sources of four distributors and several business associations, reaches not only to contracts for gas "interruptible" but also "firm", whereby companies pay a higher price.
"The industry of the country is restricted to the technical minimum. Residential consumption remains high and unrestricted. And the cold is expected to continue throughout the week and maintained this until Monday," said one of the distributors. Of the 300 affected industries, about half are located in the metropolitan area. Among them are from major automotive and food, to textiles and mining. The Mega separation plants, and Cerri Refinor already had been a few weeks at least without producing technical and basic supplies for the chemical industries.
Anibal Paradiso, manager of Institutional Relations of Litoral Gas, confirmed the same situation in the province of Santa Fe: "The gas supply is guaranteed for all families. It is for this reason that we restrict the service to 100 percent for large users from Friday, and this measure will continue until we define Enargas. "
According to former Energy Secretary Daniel Montamat, restrictions on industries and power plants to be replaced by liquid fuel consumption is equivalent to between 12 and 13 million cubic meters per day. "The potential demand at present is 160 million cubic meters, but as it has pressed the real demand must be in 140 million a day", he said. During the winter months, demand for residential consumption more than 80 million cubic meters per day.
Local production of gas is around 100 million cubic meters per day, which should add about 7 million are imported from Bolivia, another 8 million who enter the regasification vessel Bahia Blanca and 10 million more from Escobar. The latter two cases, the main government's commitment to alleviate the shortage, provide a gas at a cost 5 to 6 times higher than that paid to local producers, a fact that increases the benefits that come from the national budget.
Over 300 companies were left without power since Saturday, or got to be let alone consume the equivalent of "technical minimum" that allows them not having to close its production plants. The stop order was passed on Friday by the distributors that operate in different regions of the "heavy users", with consumption of between 10,000 and 130,000 cubic meters of gas. The directive included, as in these cases, the threat of "penalties" for that industry that does not comply with the restriction.
The restriction, which was confirmed by sources of four distributors and several business associations, reaches not only to contracts for gas "interruptible" but also "firm", whereby companies pay a higher price.
"The industry of the country is restricted to the technical minimum. Residential consumption remains high and unrestricted. And the cold is expected to continue throughout the week and maintained this until Monday," said one of the distributors. Of the 300 affected industries, about half are located in the metropolitan area. Among them are from major automotive and food, to textiles and mining. The Mega separation plants, and Cerri Refinor already had been a few weeks at least without producing technical and basic supplies for the chemical industries.
Anibal Paradiso, manager of Institutional Relations of Litoral Gas, confirmed the same situation in the province of Santa Fe: "The gas supply is guaranteed for all families. It is for this reason that we restrict the service to 100 percent for large users from Friday, and this measure will continue until we define Enargas. "
According to former Energy Secretary Daniel Montamat, restrictions on industries and power plants to be replaced by liquid fuel consumption is equivalent to between 12 and 13 million cubic meters per day. "The potential demand at present is 160 million cubic meters, but as it has pressed the real demand must be in 140 million a day", he said. During the winter months, demand for residential consumption more than 80 million cubic meters per day.
Local production of gas is around 100 million cubic meters per day, which should add about 7 million are imported from Bolivia, another 8 million who enter the regasification vessel Bahia Blanca and 10 million more from Escobar. The latter two cases, the main government's commitment to alleviate the shortage, provide a gas at a cost 5 to 6 times higher than that paid to local producers, a fact that increases the benefits that come from the national budget.
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"The situation is complicated and every one has adapted as he could," Alberto told Calsiano, Head of Infrastructure Department of the Union Industrial Argentina (UIA). Some have scheduled production shutdowns or ahead to the near certainty that this winter would be different from previous ones. Others, such as the carmakers, have installed storage tanks of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
Can you get to affect employment? "Today, no suspensions, but would not be unreasonable, if this continues, at some point occur," said Calsiano.
Among the hardest hit industries include sugar and citrus, with a strong presence in Tucumán, Salta and Jujuy, where production has a strong seasonal bias between May and July. "Every day cutoff equal to the loss of 2 to 3 days annual production to be seasonal agroindustrial perishable commodities," wrote a letter to President tucumanas major business associations. There you are asked to ensure supplies for its industries to avoid "enormous social and economic costs" generated by "industrial stoppage." All they need is to supply one million cubic meters daily.
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The president of the Industrial Union of Córdoba (UIC), Ercole Felippa said: "We are very concerned, because in cases where production processes can not cut you must use alternative fuels, adding to the loss of competitive activity" .
The question that no industrial incentives, through tariffs, to a more rational domestic consumption. "Moreover, this subsidy will not be the most disadvantaged, for those paying the gas bottle more expensive," he said.
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Million m3 gas consumption is estimated around the country during the winter months. About 100 million comes from local production and the rest is imported.? Destination: residential consumption has more than 80 million. The cuts to industries save between 12 and 13 million.
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Megawatts Saturday at 20.06 reached a record high electricity consumption for the day of the week.? Stable situation: until now, no power cuts to industries, although imports from Brazil began.
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