The Plan for Gas.RA, the former Minister of Production, said:
“While the plan was ready in July 2020, it quickly appeared, the critical voices from a sector of the regulators, who said that our proposal was uneconomic, with prices on volume of US$ 3.50 per million BTU, which are considered “expensive”. Go to paradox, which is considered an expensive price that was below the historical levels of the gas imported and for which it now pays around US$ 30 and you get to pay in the world at around US$ 48”, holds the former Minister of Production in its note of renunciation.
It was never the axis of debate the contractual and/or incentives to the production of gas. It should be remembered that the Plan to Gas is a creation of Kirchnerismo, and had its first legislation in the year 2008 in the framework of the Resolutions of Oil and Gas Plus. He then made the Round of the Plan to Gas the Resolution 1/2013.
The prices of the contest of the PlanGas.Ar does not reflect the costs of removal or have been established caps to express international values that were paid at that time $ 1.80 (Henry Hub – Jan/Jul 2020). The values of USD30/mmbtu and USD48/mmbtu express a world with the main supplier of gas to european war. For with the same judgment you could say that during 2020, while it was imported LNG to $ 2/mmbtu, the Argentine State was paying usd 3.50/mmbtu to the local production, leading to an embezzlement from the state treasury.
What was striking was the absence of the industrial sector, and productive in the round of PlanGas.Ar, promoted by the Ministry whose development he has the responsibility, allowing the prices for the sector are set by the Spot Market with the ups and downs and abuse that fixed the market.
With regard to investments in the energy sector, the ex-Minister of Production, said:
“The third challenge was to generate a regulatory framework and deploy strategies for the development of Vaca Muerta. It is not a minor issue: the energy sector is one of the keys to solving our problem of foreign constraint. We are talking about a potential exporter of more than US$ 30,000 million.”, he ended up holding the former minister.
This section does not deserve a lot of attention, because with the current regulatory framework for the years 2013, 2014 And 2015, investments have been made for $ 7.735 USD 8.828 AND $ 10.775 billion, respectively, that the day of today, no government has passed (in any of its 3 values). The regulations do not spur investment, development policies do.
With regard to the scheme of energy subsidies, the former Minister of Production, said:
“The second challenge was to get out of the deranged system of energy subsidies that existed in our country since two decades ago, which is a huge fiscal cost, it is socially unjust, centralist, anti-federal and pro-rich.”
With regard to the subsidies themselves are imports so that the highest incidence is in the energy system. On the one hand, the liquefied natural gas to the effects of the supply of the jump in the demand for gas in the homes during the winter period and on the other the gas oil to supply, also in the winter, the plants before the need to prioritize the available gas to homes, businesses and industries.
The web site of the ENARGAS has a host of tables and analysis in which you can check the following increments of demand average daily in households according to the region concerned, during the winter period:
It is more than clear that the imports of gas during the winter to supply the increasing demand of households and the gas oil to the plants, to the restriction in the availability of gas, has the objective to meet the gas demand of the households in Patagonia, Buenos Aires, the interior of Buenos Aires and the Central region.
THE RESIDENTIAL USER OF THE AUTONOMOUS CITY OF BUENOS AIRES DOES NOT MOVE TO THE REQUIREMENT OF THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS OF NATURAL GAS. The average profile of the user home of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires is probably the purchasing power above the average, but consumption level medium/low natural gas.
The statements of the former minister are of ignorance supine how empunta the demand for natural gas during the winter and in which geographical region they reside households actually receiving more subsidies. Unfortunately it is observed that while the Secretariat of Energy was a dependency under his orbit -until August of last year - as afterwards, never managed to understand how the energy system.
The former minister claims with respect to alleged delays in the start of the pipeline, Néstor Kirchner
The former minister says “Also, there were delays in the case at the start of the pipeline, Néstor Kirchner, who I hope to be able to start quickly because it represents a real chance of achieving the self-sufficiency gas and then go forward in the export-oriented strategy, but it has lost valuable time that costs us millions of dollars in imports.”
It should be noted that on the 12th day of August of 2021 was presented the project of a gas Pipeline President Néstor Kirchner with the NUD ready to be subscribed to. The NUD was finally passed on February 14, 2022.
The former minister holds with respect to the national component in the works to be carried out
The former minister maintains that “With regard to this topic, I acknowledge what has been said on Friday at the end of the ceremony anniversary for the 100 years of YPF in Technopolis: if something is reprocharse respect to the national content of the inputs of the pipeline, it must be attributed purely and exclusively to the characteristics of the tender made by the company IEASA, whose members, as well as the team of the Secretariat of Energy, respond politically to the Sr. Vice president. Were statements made on”.
Beyond the cowardice not to ratify the OFF, it is worth noting that the Directory of Energy Argentina also has among its members the Lic Diego Rozengardt whose designation was driven by the Minister Martín Guzmán and have within their scope of management to Cr. Hernan Herrera (whose designation was driven by Mr. Kulfas), who also joined the board, and that on the day of the date, he is actively involved in the policy and procedures of the Company.
BRIEF REVIEW ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FORMER MINISTER
It is myopic to say that energy imports threaten the reserves. Since we need to work on replacing them and also generate foreign exchange. All this points to the pipeline, as President Néstor Kirchner.
Argentina had 10 years ago, a commercial exchange of 200,000 million dollars a year, it was constantly energy and raw material prices were within the historical averages. However, the socio-economic situation was not the dramatic, which is the current.
Today, with prices to records of raw materials, Argentina has a trade-in that is less than half that record.
The result of their management can be measured in a family, and many were accompanied by their hope to reverse the severe socio-economic situation received in 2019, today will pay for the bread over $300/kg, the meat above $1,000/kg, the milk above 150 $/liter and there is a poverty of 40%.
His management said goodbye with a fall in average of 3.4% of consumer retail family in may. You should know that that average is made up of the consumer retail of families of different purchasing power, and lower purchasing power is falling by over 5%.
Not satisfied with the dismal results of the management, the committee is concerned by energy subsidies, which needless to say are to protect the purchasing power of families. What is also intended to? What households receive bills of 50,000 pesos of electricity and gas?
Perhaps the best shows of its management was what happened during 2021 in Santa Fe, on the Ground of Dow in San Lorenzo. While 1,500 families were asking for the intervention of his ministry to prevent the closure of the plant, you worked in retirement plans volunteers and transfer of human resources from San Lorenzo to Bahía Blanca, 800 miles, as if the workers and their families were a material object, regardless of the damage to the gross geographic product of the provincial nor the loss of direct and indirect employment. It was coincidentally the vice president, that you are attacking, who was at the forefront of the political struggle to reverse the closure of the Plant of Dow in San Lorenzo. Today the plant is operating normally and those families, who were to lose their income, they recovered his smile. Stories of officials who were not working.
