Protests in Peru: in which regions did the LPG end?

supply of liquefied gas in the south of the country was interrupted due to protests for him early election. This fuel is the second most consumed in Peru and is currently facing shortages and rising prices in regions such as Arequipa and tacna.
According to the leader of the departmental federation of taxi drivers, Mr. ArequipaAlexander Cornejo, there are 6,000 taxi drivers in this region who depend on LPG and now have to pay more since the protests began.

“Liquefied gas in Arequipa cost 7.91, 8.30 and 8.40, before yesterday 9.5, today 10, 11 and even 12 soles. A little mixers We are told that the tanks are stuck and that the police are cleaning up at one point, while the protesters are blocking another, which prevents them from transporting balloons freely. gasgas trucks,” he specified.

Tacna is also facing an LPG crisis

To enter Tacna, the demonstrators marched through several sections of the Panamericana Sur; in addition to the Costanera highway. These are the routes along which tankers move from gas; although the last days could not do this because of the blockades at the height of Chala – Arequipa and in Ilo (moquegua).

According to taxi drivers, the rise in prices in this region is still minimal, RPP Noticias said. On cranes, it increased from S / 8.19 to S / 8.39, some drivers switched to gasoline, while others retained their working tools.

Bottled gas bottles or household bottles are also in short supply and housewives are queuing up at service centers.

Millions of families are at risk

About 150 tankers from floors gas in Ica and stuck on the highways they generated loss of more than 15 million salts per day.

The situation could worsen next week, affecting more than a million families, according to Abel Kamaski, president of the Association of LPG Packaging Companies.

“We would be talking in the southern zone of practically over 1,200,000 families that would be affected, with the vehicle fleet we are talking about 15% of the units in the southern zone, we would be talking of almost 120,000 cars that would have run out of supplies”, exact .

Protests also endanger natural gas

The protests also jeopardized the supply of natural gas, a resource that produces 50% of Peru’s electricity, a service threatened by the seizure of a gas compressor plant at Quepacciato in Cusco and jeopardizing the supply. from gas in CHP in the south of the country.

“There was a failure in the operation of the TG compressor unit, gas conveyor, which led to a reduction in the volume of gas available to the market; that’s why he Ministry of Energy and Mines”s ordered to stop exports and distribute the gas available in the electricity market and in the industrial consumer market,” said Pablo Navarro, former director of Hydrocarbons – MINEM.

LPG distribution in the north of the country, this is ensured by the Talara plant, while Lima is supplied, in particular, by the Solgas or Petroperú terminals; but the National Union of Carriers asked for alternative routes to the south so as not to risk being transferred to these regions.