By Raul Quiroga
Companies appropriated all that potential energy we had in the early '90s, are showing signs of retreat. Surely, because of the limited useful life is seen in the most deposits of Argentina,
There are exceptions, they still have a reserve spot important. The cases of Cerro Dragon, in Chubut / Santa Cruz (petroleum), and Loma La Lata, Neuquén (gas), where the corruption long before government extended maturities and for over 25 years of concession contracts. But it is the few remaining active sites.
happens that the oil companies to whom we gave cipayaje ground for exploitation, have resulted in a permanent depletion of the reservoirs. And they did it as fast as it allowed the porous rocks where gold is deposited desired black.
Repsol is currently devoting all its profits to invest in Libya and some Middle East countries. Petrobras, for its part, is this backdate to invest in their own country, Brazil.
Corporations squandered our resources, assisted by a perverse system of wealth transfer, which currently allows them to obtain oil at a cost of U $ S 10 a barrel and then we buy a U $ S 45. On the other hand, are exported to international securities and unrestricted, despite the increasing shortage that our country has.
Since the privatization of YPF, the private companies were 4800 million barrels of oil from our fields, now amounting to more than 470 billion dollars. With gas, the looting is equivalent.
Despite this wealth extracted from our deposits, Argentines are much poorer, and the depleted oil reserves. The oil situation is more critical in a few years. Has already begun to manifest in the lack of provision of service stations and rising prices.
In 2007 there was a total of 37 million m3 (233 million barrels) of crude oil and more than 50 billion m3 of gas for domestic consumption.
We wonder: what will happen when we have to import that much oil seasonally values \u200b\u200bthat are in the order of U $ S 120 a barrel? Even without providing any growth, would mean about 28 billion dollars for oil ($ 120 per barrel) and at least 13 billion dollars for gas ($ 7 million BTU). Or is something like 41 billion dollars per year.
Not to mention the manufactured products are well above the prices that cost us so much today pay stations.
depletion of our sites, our distilleries with over 30 years without technological upgrading or no investment in the search for new deposits make the energy landscape is bleak
Like the safeguarding of water and food sovereignty, to discover hydrocarbon reserves must be defended from the violence of the corporations and the complicity of officials. And they must be defended by popular activism.
Because the foolishness of leadership on energy is really serious, should be the popular sectors to take the lead. With the single banner of national sovereignty and open letters over the ideological and closed, which only serve to hide the high degree of economic dependence in which we are sinking.
Because we are at the limit and the future begins tomorrow. Argentina
An independent, impetuous and American projection is possible. The choice is ours.
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