Energy Argentina signed an agreement with the municipality of Reconquest that will allow the town to the north of Santa Fe to receive natural gas Pipeline from Northeastern Argentina (GNEA).
The city has two stations of regulation of pressure that were vandalized after the stoppage of the works between 2015 and 2019. Energy Argentina he carried out the repair and operation of all its components. The convention entered into, the transfers to the Public Services Cooperative of Reconquest, who will be in charge of the maintenance.
The firm was headed by the president of Energy Argentina, Augustine Gerez, and Enrique Vallejos, mayor of Reconquista. Participated also the National Director of Migration, Florencia Carignano, the deputy national Marcos Cleri, the director of the Bank of Investment and Foreign Trade (BICE), Maria de los Angeles Sacnun, who from the joint standing led and managed the firm today to become a reality, in addition to the deputy general manager of Energy Argentina, Gaston Leydet.
During the signing, Gerez stressed that “the transfer of these plants to regulatory pressure to the municipality of Reconquista has to do with the re-launch of a project for us was always strategic, which is the Pipeline of Northeastern Argentina” and explained that “the arrival of natural gas is going to encourage citizens, this input is critical for human development, and also to the productive systems of the area. We work to get all the public services to the greater amount of argentines, reclaiming and revaluing a project that is the backbone of the thinking that we carry forward in our political action.”
For his part, the mayor Enrique Vallejos said: “we Regret what happened between 2015 and 2019, when the work of the GNEA was abandoned by the previous management, following a speech that denostaba everything that had been done before. In Reconquista we work closely with the abandonment of these two plants tregs, which were then vandalized and became a no man's land. Today, in 2 and a half years and with the pandemic by the middle, we were able to recover these works, and move forward with the project to bring natural gas to all residents and develop an industrial park.”
The tasks, which demanded an investment of $39.543.008, included the realization of the system of regulating heater, pipes, fittings, electrical circuits and instrumentation, grounding, lighting, civil works, skilled labor plus materials, tools and equipment to take it forward. According to estimates, benefits more than 75 thousand people.
We also performed the replacement of transformers stolen and repair of lines of medium voltage feed energy both plants.
