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The Manufactured Gas Company reported this Friday that production plant number 1 has already started and is in the process of restoring service in the municipalities of Plaza de la Revolución, Centro Habana, Habana Vieja, 10 de Octubre, and Cerro.
The company, a subsidiary of CUPET (Cuba Petroleum Union), clarified that the process will be gradual: "This process will be gradual as the distribution lines are empty."
The restoration is delayed compared to the original plan. The total service interruption was announced on Wednesday, June 3 as a scheduled shutdown of eight hours—from 9:00 PM on Thursday until dawn on Friday—to replace sections in two outgoing lines of the plant and install valves.
However, during the work, an unexpected issue arose. The company announced through its WhatsApp and Facebook channels: "During the scheduled work at Production Plant #1, an unforeseen situation related to a gas return occurred, which necessitated a controlled venting in order to proceed."
In addition to venting, the technicians had to install caps at one end of the pipe before they could resume the plant's startup.
The company specified that "the remaining cuts are already completed, as well as the main work at the plant," and that Plant #2 "is operating normally, distributing gas steadily to the Playa–Marianao network" throughout the entire process.
In light of the delay, the Gas Manufacturing Company apologized and noted that “in repair and maintenance processes, unforeseen situations may arise that affect the scheduled timelines.”
Service interruptions are frequent in the capital's network.
In 2025, at least four similar outages were recorded in the Havana network, all occurring at night and of short duration, highlighting the structural deterioration of an infrastructure that potentially serves only 16% of the capital's population.
Manufactured gas has become a critical service due to the severe shortage of liquefied gas in Cuba.
In April 2026, about 834,000 of the 1.7 million liquefied gas customers in the country were unable to obtain it during distributions, and in January the government indefinitely suspended the distribution of liquefied gas in the eastern part of the country due to a lack of supply.
The capital's manufactured gas network serves approximately 208,000 customers in eight municipalities of Havana.
The regime aims to connect 25,000 new customers to that network by 2026, although by the end of March, only 735 homes had been added to the expansion plan.
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