Energy Argentina carried out today the opening of envelopes with bids for the change of direction 4 compressor plants, which form part of the works for the Reversal of the Pipeline North.
In this way, advances in the last tender of this project is essential to bring the gas from Vaca Muerta to the Argentine Northwest and replace the fluid that is imported from Bolivia, whose production is in decline.
Energy president of Argentina, Juan Carlos Doncel Jones, and the vice-president, Roberto Mejía Aravena, led the ceremony in which they met the economic proposals of the companies had previously submitted their technical background. Also participated Ximena Valle, director of Legal and Horacio Amartino, director of the Unit for the Implementation of the gas Pipeline, in addition to representatives of the construction companies.
In this regard, bids that are supported technically were ESUCO, CONTRERAS BROTHERS AND the VICTOR CONTRERAS.
The compressor plants to which they are going to change in the sense -that is to reverse the flow direction of gas - are Ferreyra and Deán Funes in Córdoba province, Lavalle, Santiago del Estero and Stars in Salta, located on the trace of the Pipeline North operated by TGN.
The project complements the construction of the Pipeline of Federal Integration between Tío Pujio and Charlotte of 122 km, as well as a loop-laying parallel - Pipeline North of 62 km, works that are currently in execution.
The Reversal of the Pipeline North, whose completion is scheduled for the end of the winter of the current year, it will bring the gas from Vaca Muerta to Córdoba, Tucumán, La Rioja, Catamarca, Santiago del Estero, Salta and Jujuy, for the generation of electrical energy, the supply of homes and industries, and the scale development of new activities, including the mining of lithium.
