PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY

ONE PRODUCT FOR EACH MARKET
From the industrialization of crude in the refineries of Petrolera Argentina S.A. a wide range of products is derived:

Production at Petrolera Argentina S.A will account for 7% of the total demand in Argentina. As a diversified Co. Petrolera Argentina is focused on both the local and the export markets.
The export efforts of Petrolera Argentina S.A. are mainly oriented towards the Brazilian and Chilean markets. Products developed for the local market are traded basically in the south of Mendoza, Neuquén, Río Negro, La Pampa, southern Buenos Aires, Chubut and Santa Cruz.
The company expands to offer additional services to its clients and mainly to the gas stations “Bandera Blanca” (White Flag) located in the region mentioned above.
In pace with these objectives, it joined Refino Plus a programme of incentive launched by the Federal Planning Ministry, which rules come from the National Energy Secretary.
Petrolera Argentina S.A. has recently engaged in an ambitious investment plan to enlarge its product offer. It has built a new gasoline plant that can produce 325,000m3 per year of high octane gasoline for automobiles of 93 to 100 ROM.

The contribution of the company in this segment is, once again, of key importance taking into account that an idle surplus product, such as raw gasoline –with no demand in the local market- is transformed into a fuel with concrete commercial value.
The gasoline production of the refinery will account for three times the total demand of the Neuquén, the province where the productive infrastructure of Petrolera Argentina S.A. is located. It also represents 70% of the gasoline demand in the area or 80% of the southern region demand.
In a lesser proportion, the refinery generates a volume of gas oil equivalent to 20% of the demand of Neuquén.

STORING,TRANSPORTATION AND MANAGEMENT

In order to keep up with its growing diversification of activities, Petrolera Argentina S.A. started the construction of infrastructure for the storage, transportation and management of the fuels it produces. Some of these developments are:
Construction of a new reclycling and isomerization plant
Construction of an aromatics plant and a new topping plant for heavy crude.
Assessment of a hydrogene plant project
Construction of the loading islands of gasolines
Construction of scales of INTI and Customs certification
Construction of gasoline and liquid gas storage tanks in the Bahía Blanca and Zárate ports.

THE FUTURE: LIQUID GAS AND ELECTRICITY GENERATION

One of the by-products Petrolera Argentina S.A. obtains from its refining process is liquid gas. It is a production of a substancial quantity of this fuel of growing demand in the region –about 7,200 tons per year of butane-propane- which represents 720,000 bottles of 10 kilograms per year. As mentioned earlier, this production is either aimed at the regional population or directly burned in the local industries.
Another product derived from production is fuel gas. A project for the construction of an electricity generation plant, with a generation capacity of 10MW.