MIAMI, United States. – The Manufactured Gas Company announced this Friday that “cannot be postponed” maintenance work will be carried out at the ENERGAS Puerto Escondido plant, in order to guarantee the stability and quality of the gas destined for the capital and for electricity generation.
The work will begin at 9:00 pm this Friday and will continue until 2:00 am next Sunday.
According to the official note disseminated by official mediathe impact on the manufactured gas service will begin at 7:00 a.m. this Saturday, December 7, and the restoration will be gradual from 7:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 8.
Among the areas that will have total service interruptions are:
- Plaza (Vedado-Malecón Popular Council)
- Old Havana (Popular Councils Cathedral and Plaza Vieja)
- Havana Center (Columbus and Key West Popular Councils)
- October 10 (Acosta Popular Council)
Likewise, the company warned of the possibility of “partial effects in other municipalities of the capital.”
In addition, maintenance work will be carried out at the ENERGAS Refrigeration Plant until Friday, December 20. These tasks, according to the statement, will not cause interruptions, but could increase the smell of gas, which is why it urged the population to report any incident.
The shortage of liquefied gas
On October 31, the official media Havana Tribunein its digital version, published a note from the Liquefied Gas Company announcing that as of Monday, November 4, the supply of that fuel in the provinces of Havana, Artemisa and Mayabeque would be “affected.”
Almost a month after that announcement, the state portal Cubadebate reported on the reestablishment of the sale of liquefied gas in Cuba, after the arrival of a ship at the “Hermanos Díaz” Refinery in Santiago de Cuba.
The deputy director of the Cuba-Petroleum Union, Irenaldo Pérez Cardoso, said in a press conference that the ship would transport the liquefied gas to Havana at the beginning of December. It was also reported that, later, the ship would travel to Matanzas and Nuevitas, Camagüey, from where it would return to Santiago de Cuba to carry out a second unloading, before returning to the capital.
However, the manager acknowledged that “not all demand will be met,” since “there has been a bump in the delivery of fuel due to the arrival of the product”.
According to Pérez Cardoso, there must be liquefied gas coverage of 17 to 20 days on the Island. Almost half of the customers were not able to purchase the fuel in the previous shipment, he assured, so those affected would have priority in the current distribution.
