Funding of Over R$ 100 Million Granted by BNDES Will Allow the Company to Accelerate Natural Gas Distribution Projects in Santa Catarina
Business involving the increase of natural gas supply throughout Brazil continues to happen. Now it was SCGás from Santa Catarina that announced it secured funding from BNDES of R$ 102.3 million. Click Petróleo e Gás had already warned: Natural Gas Supply Will Increase by Nearly 3 Times by 2030 and Pipeline Construction Will Have to Keep Pace.
The amount will be used by the company to continue and accelerate the projects for natural gas distribution in the interior of the state.
The loan modality is reimbursement, where funds are released after the presentation of documents that prove the investments made.
SCGás has already received the first installment (R$ 35 million) related to investments made from March 2016 to June 2018.
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The Works
Always aiming at market expansion, SCGás has a project already underway in the Serra Catarinense. The project started in 2012 with the installation of a network starting in Indaial and going to Lages, passing through 16 municipalities.
Aiming to serve new customers, industries, and CNG stations along BR-470, the gas pipeline reached the city of Rio do Sul in 2016, and installation works are also underway in the cities of Trombudo Central and Pouso Redondo.
The loan obtained by the company will also finance the project for new natural gas networks in the northern plateau, with the relocation of the network on the BR-470 and BR-280 highways, which are in the duplication phase.
SCGás has until April 2021 to repay the financing, and the amortization period is six years, ending in April 2027.

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