This Monday, the instance of receiving and opening proposals for the expansion of section I of the Néstor Kirchner gas pipeline, renowned expert Moreno, in the Enarsa offices. There the only one presented was known, the offer for the construction of the works plus the provision of the operation and maintenance service belonging to TGS, the main carrier (60%) of the natural gas in the country.
According to the call for government tender, Milei does not want to compromise public funds in the work, and the extension will be 100% in charge of the winner. According to the Econojournal specialized environment, “the possibility of finance the works through the reservation of capacity or prepaid of transport contracts is contemplated.” Just a few days ago the government paid a 65% surchars to gas companies so that they do not cut the supply.
Through an alliance, Marcelo Mindlin (with Pampa Energía) and the Sielecki family, are the owners of TGS. The company presented the gas pipeline expansion project in mid -2024, which promises to add 14 mmm3/gives the capacity and will allow to replace imports with consequent fiscal savings.
The investment implies about US $ 700 million to be carried out in 2 years, which will be repaired with tariff surcharges to households, shops and industries.
In April of this year, TGS managed to significantly improve its situation after the approval of the “quinquenal tariff review” that established a gradual scheme of real rates settings aimed at facing the investment plan that must be executed in the period 2025-2029.
According to a complaint by the former interventor of the National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE), Walter Martello, the bidding process includes a review and redetermination clause of the transport based on the PPI index (producer Price Index) of the United States, which may collect the winner of the tender. This would be “incompatible with current legislation because it is a foreign index without express legal qualification and because the indexation in foreign currency is prohibited by economic public regulations” adds the elevated complaint to the Secretary of Energy.
Double celebration: concession until 2047
But this gas giant celebrated double, since last Thursday the Government decided to extend the granting of its provision of natural gas transport service that overcome in 2027, until 2047. Milei could not do this without the approval of the Law Bases in Congress, with the support of sectors of Peronism and the “dialogue opposition”. Before, Law 24,076 established the possibility of renewal for 10 years, with the new regulation the libertarian management managed to double the period.
Thus, with Decree 495/2025, TGS secured an early renewal for 20 more years, the first granted by the Government for a company regulated in the segment. The license was originally granted in 1992 after the privatization of gas from the State by menemism for a period of 35 years.
With Milei, last year the company multiplied by 7 (625% more) its profits in the country.
Patria Contractor Version Milei: The juicy businesses of friends friends
Marcelo Mindlin is a friend of Macri, during the management of Cambiemos, his company Pampa Energía went from being in the 103rd position in the ranking of the companies that most invoice in Argentina, in 2015, to position 10 according to Forbes magazine for 2017.
It began in 2004 with Transener, which has practically the monopoly of electricity transport throughout the country. In 2005, the majority of Edenor stayed that later sold to the Vila – Manzano group. It directs companies that monopolize the entire structure of the energy network: with shareholding participation in hydroelectric plants, thermal and thermoelectric plants; in transport it controls Transele and through it Transener, shared by the State. It also controls the aforementioned Gas del Sur conveyor (TGS), Pampa Petrolera and Loma La Lata. He also stayed with Loma Negra, the largest cement in Argentina.
The Sielecki family, on the other hand, lies in Punta del Este. His fortune comes from the pharmaceutical world, founder of Laboratories Elea – Phoenix. Currently, according to Forbes, the family weighs strong in the petrochemical industry: it is the main polypropylene manufacturer in the country.
The Sielecki would be the designated from Milei to make AYSA with the recently announced privatization. Through a society with Mekorot, the Israeli Aguas company, which includes a society with Filiberti, the “King of Chlorine”, who also shares a society with Vila and Manzano in Edenor.
The recent measures of the government for the benefit of TGS already had an impact on the stock exchanges and attracted the attention of JP Morgan that this Monday recommended it as one of the 3 companies to invest in the country. In the Merval de Buenos Aires it rose 7.5%, while on Wall Street jumped 7.8%. There, in the New York Stock Exchange, the company was serving 30 years last year, quoting to which she was invited to play the famous bell next to an event that invited economist Domingo Cavallo.
A democratic, economic and sustainable energy plan
It is necessary to end the negotiated of a small group of entrepreneurs linked to governments. Raising a service for the benefit of their profits, and not of the true social needs of the country.
As the left states, the integral nationalization of the entire energy industry under the management of their workers, professionals and experts from public universities, and communities affected in the different territories is necessary. It would be a first step to rationally plan a truly fair energy transition, from below, that invests the priorities of the profits of a few millionaires over the needs of the majorities.
This measure would allow democratically deciding which energy generation sources will be used. Centralized planning in a unique state company, and obtaining financing, not finishing public goods and companies, but through the non -payment of external debt, the removal of subsidies to oil – energy and the nationalization of the banking system, must be combined with the decentralized deliberation in each region. Thus, the convenience, in each case, to use different generation sources, taking advantage of the climatic conditions of each area, and rationally planning the use of common natural goods necessary for the use of intermittent renewable sources in its generation. As a whole, ending the waste and energy subsidies to the great capitalists, imposing energy efficiency measures in the industries, doing an economic and sustainable service.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
