Cuba explores gas deposits for electricity generation.

Amid a severe energy crisis resulting in endless blackouts, the Cuban regime began exploring several gas fields for electricity generation.

A report from the national television detailed that specialized brigades from the Oil Drilling and Extraction Company of the West concluded the construction of a platform where a drilling rig will be placed to locate gas volumes destined for electricity generation.

According to the information, the studies confirm the existence of gas structure and provide approximate calculations of the reserve.

The experts stated that there are three wells in Puerto Escondido, and to the west, there are two other gas wells in the so-called gas and oil development of the northern strip of Western Cuba.

The regime assures that the investment will contribute to energy sovereignty, based on increased use of national resources.

Pressured by the beginning of summer and the popular discontent caused by the power outages, the government is trying to gather the largest amount of oil to meet the demand in the coming weeks, which coincide with the school holidays.

On Tuesday, it was revealed that the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) has begun to use "invisible" tankers - which sail outside the radar - to supply Cuba, due to the decrease in the fleet of state-owned vessels that have historically covered this route.

This information was confirmed by documents and ship monitoring services accessed by the Reuters agency, which recalled that for more than a decade, Cuba and Venezuela had exclusively used their own ships to transport oil between the two countries.

Boats from Mexico have also arrived at the island.

Power outages, which used to be occasional in Cuba, have become routine due to limits on imported supply and logistical problems complicating the distribution of fuel to the country's aging power plants.

This translates into popular discontent and repression by the regime. Cuban energy officials have pointed out that workers are fine-tuning and providing maintenance to electricity-generating plants before the peak summer demand, in order to reduce discontent.