After the incident in the gas pipeline Cusiana, located in the department of Casanare, which implied the suspension of natural gas service for the central-eastern region of Colombia, the Minister of Mines and Energy, Diego Mesa, He reported that The repair works were completed in record time, which will allow the restoration of gas distribution from 6:00 am this Tuesday, August 31.
The official noted that His portfolio published the resolution that normalizes the attention of all gas demand for the center of the country.
In the morning hours of August 30, Minister Mejía had visited Casanare to find out the magnitude of the damage to the gas pipeline, after what he stated that he would issue “measures to guarantee gas service to 10.4 million households and merchants before the affectation by the winter wave of the Cusiana field gas pipeline, one of the main sources of gas supply in the country ”.
On the other hand, the Transportadora de Gas Internacional, TGI, issued a press release along with the minister’s statements, in which he stressed that the natural gas transportation for the departments of Cundinamarca, Boyacá, Santander and Bogotá.
“Committed to the supply that the country needs, it is expected that in the evening of August 30 they will recover the pressure conditions of the system, in order to normalize the service “TGI reported in the document it published on its website.
The emergency situation in the Cusiana gas pipeline occurred at the height of PK11 + 700, El Palmar village, municipality of Tauramena, department of Casanare, due to force majeure caused by a natural landslide.
In addition to the climatic phenomenon, TGI, together with experts from the MinMinas, attended to the rupture of a pipe that was the cause of the affectation of the service for the central-eastern region.
According to the company statement, this intervention work on the tube was with the “In order to recover the infrastructure in an integral way“, So it was possible to enable the gas flow through the trunk line of the Cusiana – El Porvenir gas pipeline.
With these announcements between parties a power supply crisis was averted that affected the departments of Boyacá, Santander, Cundinamarca and Antioquia for more than twelve hours.
Impact on homes, transport and commerce
In Santander, the impact put the supply for sectors such as residential, industrial and vehicular at risk. For this segment, there was a shortage for twenty service stations of the Vanti company that cover seven thousand drivers and transporters in Bucaramanga.
In Bogotá, the interruption in the service affected some sectors of the city but did not impact on TransMilenio, whose fleet consumes this type of energy input.
MinMinas was the entity that ordered to prioritize gas distribution for transportation systems in affected capitals in order not to restrict user mobility.
In Colombia, gas users are more 10 million 400 thousand Colombian families; The service has a great penetration in the SME sector that consume this energy due to its low costs.
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