Jorge Lapeña said that the “Néstor Kirchner” pipeline will not be finished in 2023 if internal struggles continue

Former Radical Energy Secretary Jorge Lapeña said that if the government continues with so many contradictions and internal struggles for the Néstor Kirchner gas pipeline “It will not be possible to respect the completion of the works next year”.

“To think that this pipeline can be built in a year and a half under these conditions sounds ridiculous. I would ask the government to do the accounts well and to inform the population well “, the specialist told Dato sobre Dato of Radio Milenium.

Furthermore, the company Energía Argentina (formerly ENARSA), which manages La Cámpora, “vHe’s already behind with the last pipeline he tried to build, which is the GENEA. That pipeline started in 2013 and hasn’t been completed yet ”.

Even “the episodes of theft of pipes they were extraordinary in Salta and other provinces and were all reported. There is an audit by SIGEN that talks about the organizational disasters that have occurred ”. He added.

Lapeña added to this critical energy landscape the fact that “YPF is weak economically and financially. You are in debt that is disproportionate to your wealth and equity. Its value is lower than at the time of purchase.

To make matters worse, “Argentina produces less oil and less gas than in 2011. With the modified YPF, it continues to produce less. In the case of gas, hydrocarbon reserves are 40% of those existing at the end of the 1990s, which were the same as in the 1980s “.

In recent years “practically no new conventional deposits have been discovered. Now there is a correct measure to explore the sea, which is an exercise of sovereignty and is still being questioned, ”she stressed.

“One of the big problems we have is that YPF has abandoned the historical role which it has maintained from its foundation until its privatization ”, he highlighted.

Regarding the shortage of diesel, he said that “if the chief of staff is sure, we will assume that there will be no shortage of diesel. The problem is that there is a long-term shortage of diesel starting in February and this speaks of a very bad execution of the energy policy of the Ministry of Energy and of the entire government ”.

Lapeña commented that “obviously having three months of diesel shortage, even in the province from which the chief of staff comes from, it is enough to read the declarations of the stationers who sell it”.

“Diesel is fuel. more important From an economic point of view. It is the fuel for transport, it is the fuel for exports to supply ships, it is the fuel with which agriculture does its business, ”he added.

Lapeña explained that “without diesel there is no economy and no dollars. That this happens and that it has not been duly explained by the Secretary of Energy raises many doubts about the government’s energy management “.