2024-09-24 19:36:24
The decision of the National Government to increase gas imports in the country could lead to additional costs in this service for citizens, warned the Attorney General of the Nation, Margarita Cabello Blanco.
The head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office stressed that “this situation must be avoided, and we must insist that the environmental license for the Komodo -1 well be quickly extended and that the problems in Uchuva be solved.”
The Attorney General called on the National Government to “coordinate itself quickly and urgently, in order to increase exploration and reserves without obstacles, in order to avoid the problems that are occurring in the country.”
He stressed that the regulatory body agrees with the transition to clean energy, but “this leap cannot be made without an intermediate mechanism that helps us overcome this situation and meet the needs of the population.”
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The official said that the gas shortage is imminent, “it is no longer a warning, but a reality,” after Ecopetrol announced the suspension of contracts for the supply of gas in vehicles, in order to have it available for generators.
This monitoring entity, through the Delegate for Environmental, Mining, Energy and Agrarian Affairs, alerted the Mining and Energy Planning Unit (UPME), the Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission (CREG) and the Ministry of Energy about the urgent need to adopt measures related to the generation of electric energy, as a consequence of the levels of the aggregate reservoir of the National Interconnected System.
Finally, he asked the Ministry of Mines and Energy until when Ecopetrol will be forced to restrict the supply of natural gas to companies that signed contracts with conditional firmness, and how much is the imbalance between supply and demand of gas, which is the reason for the restriction on the sale of vehicular natural gas.
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