The company Energía Argentina received three offers this Friday in the opening of envelopes of the international tender, for the execution of the reversal works of the Northern Gasduct. At the event, which began at 11 a.m. at the company's headquarters in the city of Buenos Aires headed by its owner, Agustín Gerez, the proposals of the companies BTU, Pumpco and Techint-Sacde were presented. In this first instance, Envelope 1 was opened with the background of the companies, which will lead to a period of possible observations and challenges from the participants, in order to in the next few days open Envelope 2 with the proposals for each of the three tendered lines. At the opening of bids, the amounts of the maintenance guarantees of the three bidders were announced: BTU presented a policy for $713,882,957.73, Pumpco one for $713,882,957.79 and Techint-Sacde for $713,882. 960. The tender is made up of line 1, which covers the reversal of the four compressor plants, the loop and the construction of the final 22 kilometers of the Tío Pujio-la Carlota gas pipeline; Line 2 will cover kilometer 0 to 50 and line 3 from kilometer 50 to 100. Gerez highlighted that the work, once completed, will allow "to complete the supply with own energy to all regions of the country, and among the innumerable benefits it will allow the complete replacement of the gas that is imported from Bolivia year after year." The reversal "will enable fiscal savings of US$ 1,960 million on imports" It is expected to be completed in May 2024, at which point the country will stop importing gas from Bolivia, whose production has been declining in recent years. He also indicated that the reversal "will enable fiscal savings of US$ 1,960 million on imports, and accompanies a policy that has begun with the President Néstor Kirchner Gas Pipeline in Stage 1 that will allow us a saving of US$ 4,400 million in 2024." "We are, thus, in the order of US$ 6,000 million in savings between the two projects, on a path that the country is going to take to expand the energy system and increase the production of Vaca Muerta," said Gerez. In a more political tone, the official added that "the reversal of the Northern Gas Pipeline will be the first project that we inaugurate with Minister Sergio Massa as president of Argentina