Argentine Industries Face Gas Shortages as Cold Spurs Demand

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Argentine industrial users such as Dow Chemical Co. are suffering gas shortages amid a record cold winter in the Latin American country where temperatures fell below those in the South Pole.

“We’ve been facing gas shortages for three or four years, but this year is worse, maybe because of the cold,” Soledad Echague, Dow’s public affairs director in Argentina, said today in a telephone interview from Buenos Aires.