Regasificadora del Pacífico extended its deadline to receive offers

The Regasificadora del Pacífico is in its second round to be assigned. Although originally Bids were scheduled to be received at the end of February. a new addendum extended this deadline, which is now set for June 8.

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. In this way, the plan is that in July the person assigned to carry out the work will be known.
When the investor documents were first published, the call was declared void. This is why it was published for the second time in June last year.

However, after more than six months, the Mining and Energy Planning Unit (Upme) increased the term to receive the envelopes with the technical and economic proposal, for other months, cWith what would have been almost a year since the receipt of offers.

Christian Jaramillo, former director of Upme and who was in charge of the entity during the publication of the second call, pointed out that This is a crucial work to guarantee the reliability of the gas supply.

In fact, he explained that the time for its construction is getting shorter, taking into account that a gas deficit could be faced from 2027. For this reason, an import infrastructure would be necessary.

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The work proposed by the Unit will have the capacity to regasify 400 million cubic feet per day (Mpcd), that is, almost a third of the country’s production. adIn addition to this, a gas pipeline would be required to transport the fuel. Once assigned, it is estimated that its construction would take 58 months. In other words, almost five years, so if it were assigned in mid-2023, its construction could be finished in 2028, when the deficit could be greater.

Hence the need for it to be assignable. However, some sources confirmed that this process was extended since no proposals had arrived to build it.
However, the regasificadora del caribe, Spec, announced a market survey with the objective of determining how much appetite there was on the part of investors to expand its capacity. This would make it possible to manage the country’s deficit.

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José María Castro, manager of Spec, explained that they would be able to increase it to 450 Mpcd by the end of 2023 and at the end of 2026 it could even rise to 530 Mcfd according to the results of the survey that closed on February 20.

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