After the closure of the Pan-American highway, the companies that supply LPG in the department of Nariño they activated their contingency plans by the San Francisco-Mocoa tertiary route, although it does not allow the transit of tractor-trailers, only vehicles of up to 10 tons.
Therefore, the transit of tractor-trailers is taking place through a route in the north of Ecuador. However, the Colombian LPG Association (Gasnova) assured that these are not the most optimal solutions for guarantee continuity in the provision of services under usual conditions.
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Therefore, the union insisted on «the importance of resource management that allows cost overruns generated by the proposed alternatives are not transferred to usersrather they were assumed by the National Government through its different entities».
The governor of Nariño, Jhon Rojas Cabrera, assured that «the commitment of President Gustavo Petro during his visit to the municipality of Rosas, Cauca, was allocate resources to mitigate the contingency through the National Disaster Risk Management System».
For her part, Yeimy Báez, Ecopetrol’s Vice President of Low Emissions, assured that LPG does not have a certainty fund -like liquid fuels- to face this type of contingency and that there is an urgent need for the Nation to define the mechanism that allow to bear the costs to provide a solution in the Port of Tumaco.
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In addition, Gasnova states that it is necessary a definitive supply solutionwhich requires important state investments and the National Government to guarantee the commitment to provide the fuel gas public service continuously and uninterruptedly.
In this sense, the general manager of Montagas, El-Laythy Safa, has insisted in the last five years on fundamental and long-term solutions to the constant problems of shortage of fuel gas in this region.
Therefore, insist, once again, on the request to the Mining and Energy Planning Unit (Upme) for a study that allows the issuance of a Indicative Fuel Gas Supply Plan for Nariñoand that it is subsequently adopted by the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
