The Secretary of Energy of the Nation, Flavia Royon, confirmed this Saturday that the company MEGA will invest in an expansion work at the Bahía Blanca Fractionation Plant which will increase its production capacity by 20%.
“It is very good news for the sector and for the country to know that companies decide to expand and continue betting on national production. I welcome the investment commitment of Compañía MEGA, because it reaffirms that we are on the right path of joint work between the State and the companies”, Royon highlighted after the meeting he had with the general manager of the firm, Andrés Scarone.
The expansion project consists in the construction of a new Fractionation train at the Bahía Blanca Fractionation Plant which will allow, by mid-2025, to increase the production capacity of propane, butane and natural gasoline by 20%, which is equivalent to adding 900 tons per day to current production, reported from the Ministry of Energy.
in the last four years Compañía Mega has made investments (approximately US$100 million) to expand its gas collection capacity with the construction of the Tratayen Loma La Lata Gas Pipeline, infrastructure works in its facilities, in order to eliminate bottlenecks both in the Neuquén and Bahía Blanca plants, in the south of Buenos Aires.
Compañía Mega will expand the production capacity of its plant in Bahía Blanca by 20%, from where it produces fuels (ethane – propane -butane – natural gasoline) for the internal and external markets. pic.twitter.com/IuAyzqinIS
— Flavia Royon (@FlaviaRoyon) December 16, 2022
Besides, They carried out technological updates to equipment and the loading dock, facilities and systems that allowed increasing production by around 15%.
In this way, they informed that in the future, after other works to be analyzed, the Company could increase production up to 50% over the current one, that is, from 4,700 tons per day to approximately 7,000 tons per day.
