2023-08-02 09:42:00
What began with a series of rejected import orders or delayed with no date in sight became the most important problem currently facing Vaca Muerta. is that the blockade of imports is almost total and while the service companies warn that they might have to start crippling teams, from Petroleros Privados attacked with the threat of a strike. With that scenario, The Nation will receive the parties this Wednesday to analyze the situation.
The meeting was called by the Undersecretary of Foreign Trade of the Nation, Germán Cervantesto the authorities of the Neuquén Federation of Energy Companies (Fecene)which brings together Ceipa, Capespe, Acipan and the Chamber of Construction.
Quote it will be this Wednesday, at which time the parties will discuss the problems in imports that They have been registering for a month in general, in line with the new restrictions for access to the official dollar for imports but ataffecting even the companies that wanted to pay with their own tickets.
“From the ministry we have received multiple requests from companies linked to Vaca Muerta because For a month the system that had more agile imports, the Green Channel of Vaca Muerta, stopped working, “said the Minister of Production and Industry of Neuquén, Facundo López Raggi.
And at the same time that he detailed that from the Province they have sought that the Nation enable importsexplained that “it is a general brake, because we have seen companies that wanted to pay for imports with their own dollars but they were rejected even companies that raised that it was paid from one of its headquarters abroad and those imports were not authorized either«.
He Dead Cow Green Channel It is a special regime that was one of the first measures that Sergio Massa adopted last year when he took office as Economy Minister. It consists of a more agile import approval system, designed precisely not to slow down the activity of Vaca Muerta and that It operated successfully during the construction period of the Néstor Kirchner Gas Pipeline.
The situation escalated yesterday when from the General Directorate of Customs (DGA) it was revealed that the only company that officially denounced the obstacles to imports, the international DLS Archer, was to be fined 233 million pesos for irregularities in an import carried out in 2014 for which he did not pay taxes for 3 million dollars.
From the signature was reported that the sanction is correct, that it was due to a mistake they made and that they will pay the fine. The company was the one that publicly denounced last week that as a result of the blockades on importsor they can put into operation the new drilling rig that they acquired and that would imply the creation of 50 jobs.
But in addition to the complaint by this company and those made by the business chambers that make up Fecene, the Private Oil Workers Union of Río Negro, Neuquén and La Pampa anticipated that If the brake on imports results in the suspension of any worker, they will launch a total strike in Vaca Muerta.
A brake on the growth of Vaca Muerta
Is that the lack of inputs and spare parts reached a critical point. Some companies have even gone to the point of disassemble two failing teams to form a working one due to the lack of spare parts, but this implies taking one of the equipment out of operation and with it, sources of work are cut off.
But also from the point of view of the development of Vaca Muerta and the commitment to multiply gas exports, the brake on the arrival of equipment that cannot be replaced in the country works as a stick in the wheel and it is the reason that explains what already begun to see: the drop in oil production that was recorded in June in relation to the previous month and that broke the record run that Vaca Muerta had been having.
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