Colombia activates plan to import gas from Venezuela: Government and PDVSA will repair missing pipe of the Antonio Ricaurte pipeline
The Colombian government has activated a roadmap with the Venezuelan state-owned company PDVSA to replace a section of pipe and advance the reactivation of the binational Antonio Ricaurte gas pipeline...
TL;DR
- Colombia and PDVSA will replace 5 km of missing pipeline on the Colombian side of the Antonio Ricaurte gas pipeline.
- This aims to reactivate the binational infrastructure for gas transport between Colombia and Venezuela.
- The environmental license, interrupted since 2019, needs to be reactivated for the project to proceed.
- PDVSA will provide the necessary materials for the pipe replacement, which are already in Venezuela.
- The Colombian government sees reactivating the pipeline as a way to strengthen the country's gas supply.
- The Antonio Ricaurte gas pipeline, built in 2007, was halted in 2019.