(Promigas, 2.Mar.2020) — Promigas has commissioned an infrastructure expansion project in order to transport natural gas from new deposits in the south of the Caribbean region. This expansion – as of today it is transporting 100 Mpcd – enables it to meet commitments taken on in 2019 to deliver a further 50 Mpcd to Barranquilla and another 50 Mpcd to Cartagena, the first phase of which was delivered last year.
Around 650,000 million pesos have been invested to date in two compression stations (Paiva and Filadelfia) and more than 200 kilometers of gas pipeline on the Atlantic coast; one notable feature of this latter is the 3.4-kilometer El Dique Canal Horizontal Crossing project, the longest such crossing in Latin America and the eighth longest in the world.
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This new transportation capacity represents 30% of current demand on the Caribbean coast and makes it possible to incorporate into the network new gas reserves from fields in Sucre and Córdoba, thereby expanding supplies to the main consumption centers and mitigating the effect of declining production from gas deposits in La Guajira. The works created a total of more than 3,500 direct jobs in some of the areas with the highest basic unsatisfied needs indices in the country.
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