Next gas bill may increase by up to 35%.
The president of Naturgas, Luz Stella Murgas, reported that due to the 7% gas deficit in the country, The companies marketing this resource have had to hire month by month, which increases the price that users must pay as well as the risks.
“They are buying gas per month, that is, now we are buying an egg a day instead of being able to buy a complete basket, but the problem with that is that If an egg breaks then we won’t have a way to make breakfast.“Murgas said.
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The union leader maintained that the departments that will see the increase in the gas bill of up to 35% will be Huila, Cundinamarca, Casanare, Meta, Tolima, Nariño and Antioquia.
However, he mentioned that The deficit that the country has today could be covered with unconventional deposits, However, this gas can only be extracted with fracking, a technique that goes against the energy transition promoted by the National Government.
“They already have transportation infrastructure, meaning that if the possibility of drilling wells with this technique is enabled in at least a period of 10 months, we could start production from those areas and thereby reverse the deficit that We have to be able to cover only 100% of the shortage until Sirius in the Caribbean Sea comes into operation.“, highlighted the president of Naturgas.
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Despite the fact that at this moment the gas deficit is being covered with imports theinfrastructure that the Cartagena regasification plant currently has through which this process is carried out is insufficient.
”The natural gas import infrastructure that Colombia has today will not be enough to supply or fill these gaps in the coming years. new import infrastructure required with greater capacity to be able to cover the gaps,” he pointed out.
