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Article: Argentina to discuss gas deals.(Latin America)
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- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- March 9, 2005
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After months of inactivity, the government of Argentina surprised a dozen utility companies Tuesday by setting a new date for public hearings to deal with natural gas contractual issues that have been delayed since the country's economic collapse in December 2001.
At the same time, neighboring Chile's gas distributor Metrogas said it was forced to cut natural gas supplies to industrial consumers due to shortages in imports from Argentina. A year ago, Argentina had to cut exports to Chile due to a severe domestic energy crisis (OD Jun.11,p5). The cuts subsided over the past year, but have resumed in the past weeks. Chile gets 90% of the gas it consumes from ...