The government has authorized Total Austral to export gas to Chile

The government officially granted this Monday Total austral oil nail authorization to export natural gas to Chile, interruptible, for a maximum volume of one million cubic meters per day.

As expected, the authorization will be valid until 06:00 the first May 2020, "or up to complete the maximum amount total equivalent to the daily export volume authorized for the number of days of validity of this authorization since its grant, whichever comes first ".

"The supplies provided for in this authorization may be interrupted to ensure security of supply of the Internal Market ", according to the official text.

The gas being exported comes from the exploitation concessions of the Aguada Pichana Este area, located in the Neuquén Basin, where Total is present.

The requested export authorization reaches a volume of up to one year. millions of cubic meters a day of natural gas of nine thousand three hundred kilocalories per cubic meter.

Energía said that the subsidiary Total Austral Sociedad Anónima Argentina had applied for an export license to the Republic of Chile, with destination in BG Chile Sociedad Anónimaas part of the offer to sell natural gas, whereby "it undertakes to deliver natural gas to BG Chile, in interruptible and short-term, that is to say without commitment of delivery and / or reception of the parties, all subject to obtaining all the corresponding permits, authorizations and consents ".

In addition, he specified that Total "said that the natural gas to be exported would come from a project included in Stimulus program investments in the development of natural gas production Unconventional tanks"