Dujovne goes on tour in the United States in search of investment and dialogue with the IMF

In the company of the Secretary of Energy, Gustavo Lopetegui, the minister will arrive in the city of Houston, to visit the campus of ExxonMobil during a visit which includes meetings with representatives of Chevron, Shell, Total E & P Americas, Excelerate Energy, Spectrum of geoparksamong others, informed official sources.

Last Friday, the government convened the oil companies to express their interest in the eventual construction of a new gas pipeline for the Vaca Muerta field. This is a project that will require an investment of $ 2,000 million, of which $ 800 million will be financed by the ANSES Sustainability Guarantee Fund.

The main objective of this company is to increase the transport capacity of the gas produced in the Neuquén deposit and convert the country into a net exporter of gas after 2023, according to Secretariat sources at the company. energy.

Dujovne and Lopetegui will participate in CERAWeek 2019 in Houston on Tuesday, which will bring together businessmen, experts and the authorities of the hydrocarbons sector. An exhibition is planned this year by the Secretary of Energy.

Dujovne will travel to Washington on Wednesday to meet IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

The meeting will be held at a time when the IMF must badyze the disbursement of a new tranche of $ 10.7 billion of the loan "stand by" agreed last year.

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It is expected that Dujovne and Mnuchin Wednesday badyze the progress of the Argentine economy and trade relations between Argentina and the United States,

At the same time, the IMF's board of directors will badyze the report of Roberto Cardarelli, in charge of monitoring the Argentine loan, on the evolution of the economy.

For Thursday morning, Dujovne must hold a meeting with Lagarde to confirm the disbursement of the millionaire tranche of the loan "pending".

Before his return, the minister will meet Thursday with US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, David Malpbad, proposed by US President Donald Trump as president of the World Bank.

Last Friday, the representative of the IMF in the country Trevor Alleyne, estimated that the rise of the dollar was due to the fact that "Argentina is weaker than other emerging countries".

"Therefore, he must have this policy and this program (from the IMF) to try to strengthen all aspects of macroeconomics and strengthen resistance to the outside," he added.