(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 10.Mar.2017) – The entire population of the city El Alto will have access to domestic gas service in 2018.
Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) has invested an estimated $195 million in El Alto since 2006 and to-date has achieved an 80 percent completion rate for the project, reported the daily newspaper La Razón, citing Bolivia’s Vice President García Linera. YPFB plans to invest an additional $7.87 million in the project to reach its projected goal by 2018, reported the daily.
El Alto has an estimated 191,000 installed connections and this year the plan is to connect another 9,509 installations.
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