Argentina will tender a new section of gas pipeline to supply gas to Brazil

Argentina will tender in the next 90 days the construction of the second section of trunk gas pipeline from Vaca Muerta, which will reach to the province of Santa Feand will make possible the exports of gas to neighboring BrazilEconomy Minister Sergio Massa said on Monday.

Argentina is already building the first stage of the gas pipeline, which will link the second unconventional gas reserve in the world, Vaca Muerta, in Neuquén province, with Buenos Aires. The objective is to extend it to the province of Santa Fe.

“We have the decision in the next 90 days after bidding for the second tranche to guarantee on the one hand the supply of Uruguaiana but on the other hand (…) to explore infrastructure development to supply Rio Grande do Sul“Massa explained in a speech with his Brazilian counterpart, Fernando Haddad.

“The challenge that we have to face together is that Vaca Muerta reaches Brazil so that Brazilians can access the volume of gas they need for the industrial development process and so that Argentines can have the opportunity to export part of what is ours. resource, our wealth in the subsoil, which today is somehow unexploited or underexploited due to lack of infrastructure,” he added.