Argentina is on track to widen exports of crude to Pacific markets as it increases shipments over a cross-border pipeline to Chile, Energy Secretary Flavia Royón said late Sept. 11. “After supplying Chile, we have possibilities to export crude to the rest of the world,” she said at the Argentina Oil & Gas Expo in Buenos Aires. The first step in this plan came with a revamp of the Transandean Pipeline, a $100 million project that came into operations in June. Argentina’s state-backed energy company YPF and its partner in the Transandean, Chile’s state-owned ENAP, started using the 115,000 b/d pipeline to move crude across the Andes in June, beginning with 40,000 b/d.
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