Energy Argentina carried out today the opening of envelopes with bids techniques, and history for the segments slopes of the Reversal of the Pipeline North, complementary work of the Pipeline, as President Néstor Kirchner which will carry gas from Vaca Muerta to the northwestern provinces of the country.
In the event, held at the headquarters of the company, we received 3 offers: BTU SA; the transient binding TECHINT-SACDE and PUMPCO INC. Were present Juan Carlos Doncel Jones, president of Energy Argentina, Rigoberto Mejia Aravena, vice president and Ximena Valle, director of Legal, in addition to representatives of the participating companies.
Section 1 is composed of 22 km of the gas Pipeline of Federal Integration of a 36-inch diameter that extends from Tío Pujio to la Carlota Córdoba, in addition to 62 km of a loop-laying parallel - Pipeline North in the same province.
The project is completed with the reversal of 4 compressor plants (two in Córdoba, one in Santiago del Estero and another in Salta) that will be bid on separately.
The Reversal of the Pipeline North will require an investment of 710 million, of which $ 540 million will be provided by a loan from the Development Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean -CAF - and will allow you to carry the gas from Cow.
Dead to the industries of Córdoba, Tucumán, La Rioja, Catamarca, Santiago del Estero, Salta and Jujuy, as well as the connection of households to the natural gas grid and the scale development of new industrial activities, especially the mining of lithium.
