Gas integration in the Southern Cone represents a concrete opportunity to strengthen regional energy security, optimize existing infrastructure, and strategically support the transition toward cleaner energy sources. With a consolidated self-sufficiency base and expanding export potential, bilateral and multilateral cooperation in the field of natural gas becomes key to leveraging available resources with a long-term perspective.
In this context, natural gas is seen not only as a vector of competitiveness and physical integration, but also as a flexible backup for transforming electricity systems and as a platform for future decarbonization solutions. Its role as a transition fuel remains strategic, especially in subregions with high potential for renewable energy expansion, where it can contribute to a fair, orderly, and secure energy transition.
The Southern Cone's experience offers valuable lessons that can inspire similar processes in other regions of the continent, where the technical and geopolitical challenges of integration are taking on new dimensions.
This session will bring together authorities, companies, and technical and financial organizations to present progress on the Regional Gas Integration Project led by OLADE and CAF. The regulatory and governance challenges that condition the development of shared infrastructure will be addressed, and instruments for effective and sustainable integration will be explored.
