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Bolivia: State-owned gas and oil company YPFB has commenced gas supply to Potosí via its Sucre-Potosí gas pipeline, which underwent a 32% capacity expansion to 4.15Mm³/day. Página Siete News has reported that the expansion cost US$5.8m. YPFB said that it can now increase gas allocations in accordance with customers' contracts.

Empresa Publica Productiva Cementos de Bolivia (ECEBOL) is scheduled to commission its upcoming 1.3Mt/yr Potosí cement plant in June 2023. YPFB holds a contract to supply 337,000m³/yr of natural gas to the plant. YPFB says that the expanded Sucre-Potosí pipeline will help to boost cement production in Bolivia, both to supply domestic demand and to establish an export market.

Bolivia: Empresa Publica Productiva Cementos de Bolivia (ECEBOL) has signed a contract for the supply of 337,000m³/yr of natural gas to its Potosí cement plant. The La Razón newspaper has reported that the supplier will be Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB). The cement producer will use a 8km pipeline to connect to the network. The value of the deal is US$4.06m.

General manager Fátima Pacheco said that the pipeline will realise "the dream of the Potosí people of becoming a benchmark for cement and clinker production in the south of the country."