Arequipa Runs Out of Domestic Gas and Vehicular LPG (Sin Fronteras [Spanish] - 12/20/2022)

 Arequipa Runs Out of Domestic Gas and Vehicular LPG

This situation, which affects more than 250,000 families in the province, is due to the blockade of protesters on the Panamericana Sur highway, in the section of Chala, Caravelí, who do not allow the passage of private vehicles, tanks and trucks.


According to chemical engineer Antonio Gamero, at the height of Chala there are approximately 250 tankers that carried liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from the Melchorita (Pisco) plant to different southern regions (one of them is Arequipa) to be bottled. However, blockades have prevented their passage. Now, distributors such as Llamagás, Repsol and Pegsa Gas appear closed and with signs that say "No gas".

A similar situation occurs in businesses that sell gas at home. Zeta Gas, Guido Gas, Más Gas, Arequipa Gas, Apu Gas, Rappi Gas, Speedy Gas, New Gas, Tito Gas, Wayki Gas and other establishments stopped answering the phones.

Likewise, 9,000 users who use home natural gas have also been affected since last weekend. According to Gamero, these users also do not have gas because it is the same tankers that bring the LPG to be regasified at plants in the city and from there send it to the pipes that connect to homes.

VEHICULAR LPG

A similar scenario exists with the supply of vehicular LPG. Until the weekend they formed long queues around different service stations.

However, since Monday the vice president of the Arequipa Faucet Association, Magno Salas, indicated that LPG was 100% exhausted in the province. Salas said that this information was collected from the forty stations that supply LPG in the city.

He explained that reversing the shortage, even if the stoppage is lifted in the next few hours, will take an average of seven days.

Tags: #Arequipa #Protests #Blockadess #Shortages #LPG

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